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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPressure cooker/google search story DEBUNKED. Was based on employer tip, not google search
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/01/employer-tipped-off-police-in-pressure-cookerbackpack-gate-not-google/After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subjects home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Departments Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature.
Any further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to the Suffolk County Police Department
Cali_Democrat
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)A professional touch.
Robb
(39,665 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)hard drives.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Worse is when people get pissed because others question the story.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)to advance conspiracy theory as fact than all other sources combined.
tridim
(45,358 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)Shouldn't they have turned this over to the FBI and/or Homeland security?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)leftstreet
(36,119 posts)...
Catalano did not respond to repeated inquiries via e-mail and Twitter for this story, and her husband did not respond to a message sent through LinkedIn. But Catalanos Twitter timeline indicates that her husband lost his job in May.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/pressure-cooker/
Sounds like an employment dispute possibly
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)in order to promote herself in a dishonest fashion.
liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)interesting to be their marriage counselor, I would think.
sagat
(241 posts)That fact alone should have been a red flag that this story was bullshit, but then again nu-DU does love giving right-wing hacks the benefit of the doubt.
sweetloukillbot
(11,163 posts)A fan-fiction story about John Kerry on Acid in Cambodia at Christmastime, and that she wrote for Pajamas Media. That told me all I needed to know about her credibility.
FSogol
(45,595 posts)Thank you.
...but I'm out of popcorn.
TYY
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
Robb
(39,665 posts)Clarification and update
We found out through the Suffolk Police Department that the searches involved also things my husband looked up at his old job. We were not made aware of this at the time of questioning and were led to believe it was solely from searches from within our house.
I did not lie or make it up. I wrote the piece with the information that was given. What was withheld from us obviously could not be a part of a story I wrote based on what happened yesterday.
The piece I wrote was the story as we knew it with the information we were told. None of it was fabricated. If you know me, you know I would never do that.
If it was misleading, just know that my intention was the truth. And that was what I knew as the truth until about ten minutes ago. That there were other circumstances involved was something we all were unaware of.
Thank you.
DERP She's just a typical Internet liar. Exposed forever now, she ruined her life.
Robb
(39,665 posts)Too funny.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)She wasn't there,he may have embellished.
tridim
(45,358 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,163 posts)She just lit up the Internet for 8 hours with her BS. Everyone that ran with her blog post just raked in a shit load in ad revenues.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)JI7
(89,289 posts)i get a feeling from some that they actually do wish the government was spying on them. it makes them feel special and their posting on DU to oppose it makes them feel like a hero fighting big govt.
Number23
(24,544 posts)and yet still feel the need to join in every thread so that they can "plonk" everyone in it but not before they've accused 2/3 of the participants of being "paid propagandists."
Their schtick has run so thin that even Skinner has had enough. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12592697
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1259&pid=2715
And considering the foolishness goes on around here on a daily basis, that's TRULY saying something.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Bullshit. She mafe assumptions. She made a fool of herself and her husband.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)It would have been terrifying if it had been as initially described.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)without some nosey somebody sticking their nosey nose into it and wondering why you're doing that instead of working!
Robb
(39,665 posts)Fucking Obama.
randome
(34,845 posts)Yet there is a sizable cadre of DUers who will believe anything they read on the Internet.
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msanthrope
(37,549 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)who will believe it, it's like an infection that is spreading,I call it "but I read it on the internet" sickness.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)I'm not even going to link to the media points (starting mostly with "The Guardian" who promulgated this nonsense this morning.
A Long Island woman and her husband were visited by the cops asking if they had bomb-making equipment.
She goes public asserting that recent Google searches relating to "pressure cookers" and "backpacks" must have been to blame. This was a ridiculous accusation along multiple vectors, but media all over the place picked up the silly "Evil Google" meme.
Now it turns out that ... surprise ... she had recently posted a photo of a batch of M-66 explosives (big, red firecrackers) on her public Facebook page. Oops! Think maybe that had something to do with the cops' visit, when some random person saw the photo and got over-concerned?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153008673760061&set=pb.500530060.-2207520000.1375381160.&type=3&theater
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)to amass in such a short time!!!
Logical
(22,457 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Seems to me things would have worked out better if the husband's employer had not been such a fearful meddler.
It seems to me that if you post something on Facebook, you should expect that at least some fearful meddlers will over-react. As happened in this case.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]
wandy
(3,539 posts)Oh I remember now.
If you see something say something!
randome
(34,845 posts)I'm sure the husband's former co-workers are shaking their heads at their employer now and wondering what kind of idiot they are working for.
Or maybe they already knew.
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Logical
(22,457 posts)investigating every person with a firecracker picture on their web page? LOL, start with me.....
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)just happens to have all these coincidences, and then claims something nefarious....I think this was a RW set up.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)You give up your constitutional rights when you are at work. With cell phone data connections, there is no need to ever get on the net at work for personal stuff.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Still hanging on, huh?
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)they'll be back with another faux outrage soon!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)of its own computers, just the same.
TriplD
(176 posts)There are 3 releases listed for 8/1, none of them is this one.
http://apps.suffolkcountyny.gov/police/morepress.htm
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)pnwmom
(109,025 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 2, 2013, 02:11 PM - Edit history (1)
Or The Guardian in the UK?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/02/suffolk-county-home-search-tipoff
Late on Thursday, Suffolk County police said its investigation was in fact prompted by a tipoff, and not covert monitoring. "Suffolk County criminal intelligence detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee," Suffolk County said in a statement.