28 Feb
2013
28 Feb
'13
10:22 a.m.
It would be worth our while for someone to draft a short statement that
can be posted on the Workshop Weekend website or as a Sudo Room blog
post. I'd be willing to help if someone did a first draft. So lame of
Jean Quan to not even look into it.
In sum, I think there are two major elements to committing a crime - the
act itself and the intent. In order to have both, you need knowledge.
There's nothing in here about the socially positive reasons why you'd
want to teach that. Take the common experience everyone can relate to of
locking yourself out of your house, car, office, etc.. People need to
know how to pick locks most certainly in circumstances that are
authorized and often in the case of an emergency. We may want to clarify
that in regards to intent - we have the opposite motivation to teach
people these skills. It will go a long way to explicitly say that we by
no means condone the use of those skills for criminal purposes.
We should post it and send it directly to the authors of the articles
before the end of the day, so that a further story can be written about
it. May also want to notify Susan Mernit @ Oakland Local to get a little
more fair and balanced reporting.
On 2/27/13 11:20 PM, J.D. Zamfirescu wrote:
more:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22683660/oakland-mayor-jean-q…
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com
<mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com>> wrote:
It's awesome, free press!
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:40 PM, rusty lindgren
<rustylindgren(a)gmail.com <mailto:rustylindgren@gmail.com>> wrote:
Oh dear gawd. This is possibly the most moronic piece of
"journalism" I have ever seen.
Are they unaware of the fact that you can go to a lock-picking
school(actually it teaches you way more), and that this is
just a cheaper version of that? (see:
http://www.lock411.com/training.html).
Also, virtually no crime in Oakland involves skilled
lock-picking, because it's a waste of time.
Don't worry though, you can train in deadly martial arts, go
to the shooting range, and buy ninja swords just about
anywhere in Oakland, but picking a Masterlock is "appalling".
-Rusty
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Anca Mosoiu
<anca(a)techliminal.com <mailto:anca@techliminal.com>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Heads up. Looks like some folks aren't too happy that
people are learning how to pick locks this weekend.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9010047
Here is Oakland Local's response:
http://m.oaklandlocal.com/article/oaklands-mayor-quan-apologizes-mentioning…
Anca
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