The audience for a news headline is a layperson who may have no knowledge of or context to infer past factoids about brain regions or evolutionary biology.

There’s a balance between being informative to the audience and satisfying for pedants.

I live in New York, which is heavy handed with salt. Paints and alloys are better, but there’s basically a 250k and about 10 year lifespan for a car that lives upstate.

The frame, exhaust and suspension generally get corroded and start to fail. You see a lot of 200k Civics and Accords, but few 250k.

You really notice it when traveling to California. Last time I was in SFO with my son, he counted 78 Porsche 911s and about 100 “old” (80s or older) cars on the roads.

It’s not laziness, it’s hyper focus on compliance. CJIS is the policy maintained by the FBI that handles information security, which is derived from standards built around paper.

Adding more weirdness, the details get worked out by each state.

My guess is they encrypted whatever is criminal justice information (license plate hotlists, etc) or protected by local laws (DMV data) and left the rest to make it easier to deploy and service. Remember pictures of you or your car taken in public are not protected or in scope.

Police tech is garbage and usually driven by federal grant spending. So it’s going to be interesting to see how Flock and Axon grow the business as it turns into a service model.

They really got their shit together from like 2005-2017 or so. Then all garbage.

It’s so bad, the windows engineers in my company are on MacBooks and work in jump boxes.

The other companies are stealing people's work for headlines and sabotaging each other. Google is offering a whole bunch of Gemini APIs that do real shit, with the same terms and contracts and the existing products for most of them.

That’s the key.

These companies respond with this, “Oh my goodness, how could this have happened” bullshit.

The stuff happens because instead of having actual controls, which require actual engineering, actual thought and deliberate action, we have “guardrails”.

Guardrails are the equivalent of telling a toddler to behave themselves.

The drive to move fast and start up style controls are a menace. I used to work for an entity with a lot of compliance requirements. Startups are always a shit show with security and controls. My guess is the AI people are worse because they’re both bad at doing it, and are likely mining their customers interactions to build their own business.

Sensitive or Customer data shouldn’t be anywhere near these companies offerings. Everything needs to be segmented and proxied at a minimum.

This type of thing always strikes me. I remember as a kid thinking that it was weird in Star Wars that people are living in the desert with draft animals and primitive conditions, while there are literal interstellar spaceships.

But… at the end of the day tech is just tooling. Your crypto money laundering information could well be in a building that once housed a donkey with some sort of keeper checking the blinking lights.

There are exceptions usually for extraordinary events.

In New York there’s a concept of doing various things “in the furtherance of justice”. Judges have broad discretion to dismiss or reduce tickets.

Often it so happens that those reductions increase the city/towns share of the revenue.

In those cases, the judge may find that circumstances would make a traffic ticket unjust. But the standard of guilt is strict and clear cut.

I think reality is that “lowercase p” politics just lowered the heat on Bin Laden from an attention point of view.

They did a reorg, and Richard Clarke, who was the terrorism and Bin Laden “guy” was in effect demoted and lost access to the president.

The timing was bad for the US. Clinton was deeply personally engaged in this stuff. Bush was an arms length guy who delegated. Personally, I think Bin Laden and his cronies had a really good read or an instinct in this dynamic.

I’m having your post read out loud and am listening with my Apple Hifi.