@futurebird

Okay, I can see that much.

I still don't understand why a hard drive has to be erased to replace it?

I don't have much experience with surveillances systems, per se, but I've replaced a LOT of hard drives over the years.

And this was never a thing -- except that you'd erase a drive with secure info to dispose of it. Is that what they meant? Because it seems like, particularly after the incident, you'd hang onto that data.

Unless you were intentionally destroying evidence, of course.

So was this document essentially a lie to try to make an intentional deletion look like some kind of technical limitation?

@futurebird

This says that replacing the hard drives would delete all prior video..?

Why?

Normally, I would expect that you'd read the drives on another machine to recover the video data?

Did they throw away the old drives? Because it's possible to recover data even from a damaged hard drive -- it's an expensive and time consuming process for *me*, but not really for the FBI.

The only reason that I can think of for this is some kind of built-in security measure, but surely even if so, that could be defeated?

Is the data really gone? Or just sitting on a defunct HDD in storage..?

And if the data was lost, what was that weird fix-up they published..?

@evedazzle

So, with the left hand, they push to make people use a passport to vote, and with the right, they make it harder to get a passport.

Yep. That checks.

The truth is that vampires are the warm fuzzy myth we made up to cope with the far more terrifying reality of unaccountable rich and powerful people.

@Taweret
For a long time, I couldn't find "UFO" (1971?), so I began to wonder if it was a confabulation. But I did catch up with it again in the 2000s.

@jwildeboer

I generally assume that what that means is that it's an unpaid developer donating their time, and not always paying attention to their project.

Surely that is unfortunate, but unless this is a big, funded operation, then yes, I think it's a bit harsh. They are probably also laboring without much outside acknowledgement.

Of course, it may also be a sign that the project is effectively dead.

@Natasha_Jay

Took me a minute, because I was trying to figure out what CLNDN was supposed to mean...