Florida police raided home of Rebekah Jones, former health employee who said she was fired for refusing to manipulate COVID-19 data

FWIW…
She’s gonna be on TV at 9:40p ET tonight, in case anyone’s interested in hearing what she’s got to say.

That’s in about 20 minutes at the time of this writing…

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I hope she has off-site backup for her files.

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Yeah and that the creds aren’t on the computers which were seized.

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Ms. Jones refused to come to the door for 20 minutes and hung-up on agents.

There can be NO POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATION for that hyphen.

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Guffaw. Well, well done.

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LEO’s, executing a Judge certifiable Warrant, have every right to point firearms at anyone, They are in constant fear their (the LEO’s) lives are in danger. Naturally and following SOP training, pointing firearms at their fears (regardless if children or elderly) in the line of duty, is acceptable.

LEO’s live in constant fear, that’s why they need armored trucks, body armor and sonic weapons. Cause they live in fear of their lives while doing their job. Executing a search warrant on a person they know is not a threat. BUT THE LEO’s LIVES ARE IN DANGER!!!

FFS. /s

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Always have at least one more computer than they know about.

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Bastards

::Soundtrack::

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ICYMI… in her interview with Chris Cuomo, she mentioned that the police took her phone, which had her contacts and her comms exchanges (SMS, etc.) with her sources etc.

She might.

But.

The thing the state [I am guessing] wants to know is how (and who) she knows, and probably not so much of what she knows.

The state is [I am guessing] wanting to stop the leaks of information.

The Florida police were plumbers:

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FUCK EVERY PART OF THIS.

DeSantis- you are a fucking Gestapo piece of shit!

Pointing guns at unarmed people for NO REASON.

Hey white people- this is why so many people hate the fucking police!!

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I know you are sarcastic. But I think it’s also true. A society where every other moron has a gun is a society where the law enforcement has every reason to be shit scared all the time.

Which is probably one of the reasons your police seems so fucked up. Obviously not the only reason, but a reason non the less.

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Where is that quote from? It’s a great quote!

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Green Mars.

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I had that moment too. I think there’s a common journalistic style and format that goes with crackpot claims, and journalists are going to need to learn to be clear about where they stand from the start to avoid it.

Wow. If what they are trying to imply were really the case, they would have quietly rescinded access and patched the holes, and not broadcast to the world that everyone working with their data can also create a statewide alert.

I am guessing this really means all they know is their computers are networked and she used her login to get the latest covid data. Maybe the state legislature should hold hearings on their loosey goosey security.

Also guessing that access is properly containerized and the network team have read this release and thought, “well, that’s BS.”

Edit:

Ugh. It looks like her lawyers could potentially mop the floor with them.

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Yeah, this made the rounds on Tumblr this morning and I was waiting for confirmation, to be cautious. And it checks out.

It’s much worse, from the Talahassee Democrat:

“Once they are no longer associated with ESF-8 they are no longer authorized to access the multi-user group,” the FDLE affidavit said. All authorized users use the same user name and password.

The FDLE investigator claims he determined through his “investigative resources” that an Internet Protocol, or IP, address associated with Jones’s Comcast account was the source of the ESF-8 text message.

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This is the actual agenda of the right.

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

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