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About the writer
The person to blame for this descent into bad writing is, amazingly enough, not a professional writer, but an unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Agent currently working for a little-known agency in the Business Investigations Unit and specializing in electronic commerce. He is still waiting patiently for delivery of his Government Issue Wife, Quantity 1 ea, shipping date unavailable - possibly discontinued.
You may know him as Data Line from the old issues of Phrack, back when computers were driven by mighty 6502 processors and whistling a happy (2600 Hz) tune actually did something to the old crossbar phone exchange.
Why would an agent also become a part time street cop where there is no pay or benefits? Challenge, friendship, and, as corny as it sounds, a sense of duty. Agents are well paid, typically work 7 to 5 with weekends off, and have decent local budgets, yet they rely on local police and sheriffs for leads and preliminary investigations for the simple reason that police are usually first to arrive at the crime scenes and are often familiar with the suspects. Rather than being grateful, some Federal Law Enforcement Agencies treat local deputies and officers like errand boys. Willingness to walk a mile in someone elses' shoes opens the lines of communication. Besides, you have the other guy's shoes and are a mile away from him.
Why this site? There are some anti-police sites masquerading as public service "Let's-publicize-all-of-these-bad-cops" pages. Fine. Freedom of the Press does indeed belong to the owner of that press. Here's another side of the story from someone with a different perspective.
The two-edged sword of the internet is that the distribution channel is the same for all content. If a guy in a leisure suit and aluminum foil baseball cap sold an investment tip newsletter on a street corner, you'd probably treat read that publication with a different mindset than if it was published by the Wall Street Journal and sold through a brokerage. That same street corner hawker, with a web editor and some spare time, could produce an investment web site that even educated people may not realize was, shall we say, "reality challenged", until they lost money or read the link where the webmaster professed his undying love for Jodie Foster. Remember that some sites are not the neutral, detached observers they would have you believe. It's an obvious concept, but the idea of a new medium tends to make people gullible.
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