Wired Pig's Lifestream

Microsoft, in 2008, published a document detailing the various privacy policies of Microsoft services and the ways that Microsoft can expose user data to law enforcement, among other things. This document, below, was the subject of a DMCA request by Microsoft to force the operator of Cryptome to remove the document on Feb 24th as they claimed it was their intellectual property and the website hosting company, Network Solutions, agreed. Microsoft “improper[ly] use[d] of copyright to conceal [...] violations of trust toward its customers,” according to an interview with Geekosystem. “Copyright law is not intended for confidentiality purposes,” he continued(1)  . As of today, Microsoft has reversed its decision(2) and said that Network Solutions has been told to reinstate Cryptome. The document is an interesting read. Microsoft Spy

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Five years ago I turned in all my gear, went to a going away party, packed my car and drove out of Colorado.

It was January 28th, 2005 and I was no longer a cop waiting for my next shift to begin. I was me, heading out to Oregon, my wife and family and the rest of my life – life after a great time in my 13+ years in law enforcement and the rest of my life as whatever I chose to be. What I left behind were great friends and three daughters from my first marriage. I have been back to see friends, and mostly my girls over the intervening years. It’s always good to go for a visit, but it’s no longer home. I have grown a lot in the last few years and been through numerous personal trials. All of it has made me a far better man now than I was before. What got me thinking about this was the sudden realization that today was five years… Be safe.

I was originally going to have a bit of a history lesson here. Being the 10th Anniversary I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who is/was going to do one. So, instead I’ll tell you my perspective and what I was doing. I’m not sure what to say. Its been 10 years since two teens killed twelve members of their student body and a teacher. Its been 10 years and school violence is only going up. Violence in the workplace is going up. I was at work the day this happened. I was assigned to an overtime position working the law library in the jail. When I head the news I asked one of the sergeants if I could head down there to at least relieve the patrol guys who were blocking intersections. I was denied. The sergeant deemed the inmates access to the library more important. Aside from my taking an after action tour and debrief of the school as part of the agencies crisis management procedure, I didn’t have any direct action with it. Plenty of my friends and coworkers did. They were involved in the incident from the start (SRO Gardner), the assault (Deputy Whitus), securing the scene (Deputy Savage), watching the scene for days after (Deputies Rodriguez and Nevile), and incident commanders and command staff (Captain Walcher and Lt. Manwaring) . Like everyone else assigned to the SO, I felt the stress. I was lucky enough to have able to take a scheduled vacation partway through the week it happened. Now, 1500 miles away, I was watching my boss make an ass out of himself on national Tv. I was never more ashamed of a sheriff, my sheriff at that. I am proud to have served with the officers that responded to the school shooting. I am most pleased to have worked for the SO during this time and having witnessed how we were truly a team. Since the shooting we, as a law enforcement community, have learned quite a bit. We have taken the ‘off chance’ of facing an active shooter situation and replaced it with a ‘when we face it’. We have changed our tactics and developed the RAID system, or Rapid and Immediate Deployment.

This audio was recorded on 042009 as I drove in to work. It was originally posted here at AudioBoo.fm Today I take the time to remember the lives lost and changed forever. Today I ask that you remember those who lost their lives and to celebrate those lives and to work toward a day when these types of acts are found only in history books. I pray and hope that we may we never face another tragedy like this again. Am I overly optimistic that it will never happen again? No.

I was originally going to have a bit of a history lesson here. Being the 10th Anniversary I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who is/was going to do one. So, instead I’ll tell you my perspective and what I was doing. I’m not sure what to say. Its been 10 years since two teens killed twelve members of their student body and a teacher. Its been 10 years and school violence is only going up. Violence in the workplace is going up. I was at work the day this happened. I was assigned to an overtime position working the law library in the jail. When I head the news I asked one of the sergeants if I could head down there to at least relieve the patrol guys who were blocking intersections. I was denied. The sergeant deemed the inmates access to the library more important. Aside from my taking an after action tour and debrief of the school as part of the agencies crisis management procedure, I didn’t have any direct action with it. Plenty of my friends and coworkers did. They were involved in the incident from the start (SRO Gardner), the assault (Deputy Whitus), securing the scene (Deputy Savage), watching the scene for days after (Deputies Rodriguez and Nevile), and incident commanders and command staff (Captain Walcher and Lt. Manwaring) . Like everyone else assigned to the SO, I felt the stress. I was lucky enough to have able to take a scheduled vacation partway through the week it happened. Now, 1500 miles away, I was watching my boss make an ass out of himself on national Tv. I was never more ashamed of a sheriff, my sheriff at that. I am proud to have served with the officers that responded to the school shooting. I am most pleased to have worked for the SO during this time and having witnessed how we were truly a team. Since the shooting we, as a law enforcement community, have learned quite a bit. We have taken the ‘off chance’ of facing an active shooter situation and replaced it with a ‘when we face it’. We have changed our tactics and developed the RAID system, or Rapid and Immediate Deployment.

This audio was recorded on 042009 as I drove in to work. It was originally posted here at AudioBoo.fm Today I take the time to remember the lives lost and changed forever. Today I ask that you remember those who lost their lives and to celebrate those lives and to work toward a day when these types of acts are found only in history books. I pray and hope that we may we never face another tragedy like this again. Am I overly optimistic that it will never happen again? No.

This is so friggin funny I could not pass on posting it.

Which hand holds the gun? I sure hope that this is from a training exercise and not an actual situation.

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