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Garda Ombudsman offices bugged

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  • #32
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    What does 'government level technology' mean when it comes to the Irish government? :D


  • #33
    tomwaterford
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    What does 'government level technology' mean when it comes to the Irish government? :D

    e-voting machines....or ipads

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/government-spends-16000-on-shiny-new-ipads-26782473.html


  • #34
    Crann na Beatha
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  • #35
    My name is URL
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    Phoenix wrote: »
    Surprised no one has accused the Russians/Putin/FSB:rolleyes:

    Why, did they find a dash-cam too?


  • #36
    Crann na Beatha
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  • #37
    Peregrine
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    What does 'government level technology' mean when it comes to the Irish government? :D

    2 paper cups and a string.


  • #38
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    2 paper cups and a string.

    Ah now, don't be ridiculous.

    They have moved onto tin cans and string.


  • #39
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Have any Irish news agencies bothered to report on this?

    RTE has a story about a giraffe in Copenhagen been put down, and some flappy bird game been removed from the android app store as some of its main headlines.. but no mention at all about this :rolleyes:


  • #40
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Next time people complain about the Ombudsman either not getting anything done, or being blocked by the courts / gardai / government, I hope they remember this.
    If nothing else, it just shows what they're up against. Some people in this country simply don't want anyone in authority to be held accountable or subject to their own rules, simple as that. :mad:


  • #41
    janvankul
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    This sounds like pure nonsense to me. Why would anyone want to listen in on the guards in Ireland???

    Let's say there wifi was hacked. Password was probably guard123.

    Fecking idiots


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  • #42
    Nodin
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    What does 'government level technology' mean when it comes to the Irish government? :D

    I presume they meant "state level"....as in its the kind of gear difficult to come across for the private individual.


  • #43
    who_ru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭who_ru


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Have any Irish news agencies bothered to report on this?

    RTE has a story about a giraffe in Copenhagen been put down, and some flappy bird game been removed from the android app store as some of its main headlines.. but no mention at all about this :rolleyes:
    RTE won't report this story until they've been told what to say by Govt/Police.


  • #44
    rolliepoley
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    Cops being bugged by cops, bent and nothing but bent.


  • #45
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,765 ✭✭✭flutered


    why would anyone go to the expense and trouble to earwig on, what is virtually a toothless organisation.


  • #46
    My name is URL
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    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Next time people complain about the Ombudsman either not getting anything done, or being blocked by the courts / gardai / government, I hope they remember this.
    If nothing else, it just shows what they're up against. Some people in this country simply don't want anyone in authority to be held accountable or subject to their own rules, simple as that. :mad:

    Yep.. just look at this story from yesterday as a prime example of that.
    Garda commissioner vetoed complaint against his own office

    A complaint against Commissioner Martin Callinan’s intentions to promote a senior officer who was under investigation was made in January 2012 through the confidential recipient system in place. The complaint was handed to the commissioner to deal with and he quickly responded that the complaint had no basis.

    There is no mechanism within the system for an outside agent to adjudicate on a complaint against the commissioner.


    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/garda-commissioner-vetoed-complaint-against-his-own-office-258141.html


  • #47
    KyussBishop
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    Why would foreign agents give toss about the Garda Ombudsman? That's a ridiculous suggestion.

    Probably the most blindingly obvious suspects here, would be members of the Gardaí themselves, for flushing out whistleblowers and discovering members of the public trying to expose corruption (so they can be targeted and harassed, to shut them up).


  • #48
    Steppenwolfe
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    I'm wondering why they were suspicious of being bugged. Also, the article states the espionage was uncovered last year. Why are we only hearing about it now and through a newspaper article. There's not a word about it yet on the RTE news site either.


  • #49
    RustyNut
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    flutered wrote: »
    why would anyone go to the expense and trouble to earwig on, what is virtually a toothless organisation.

    Thats the right question. Who would have something to gain from the information gained by bugging them.


  • #50
    Steppenwolfe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Steppenwolfe


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Thats the right question. Who would have something to gain from the information gained by bugging them.

    Maybe an organisation they will be investigating shortly? An organisation who's whistle blowers were silenced publically and called disgusting by the head of that organisation. The same head who threatened legal action if the whistleblowers had the temerity to give evidence to a public committe. That alone is a scandal imo, and speaks volumes of the mindsets of the powers involved. This has the potential to be dynamite.


  • #51
    tomwaterford
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    janvankul wrote: »
    This sounds like pure nonsense to me. Why would anyone want to listen in on the guards in Ireland???

    Let's say there wifi was hacked. Password was probably guard123.

    Fecking idiots
    rolliepoley wrote: »
    Cops being bugged by cops, bent and nothing but bent.



    thing is ombudsman is independent of the gaurds...and investigates complaints against the gaurds......now who I wonder would want to bug the meeting room of the ombudsman office:rolleyes:


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  • #52
    J K
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    Sender Gleiwitz


  • #53
    diograis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    this is some scandal if true!


  • #54
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Does this happen in other departments? I mean does the dept of agriculture bug the dept of welfare?


  • #55
    numorouno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭numorouno


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Does this happen in other departments? I mean does the dept of agriculture bug the dept of welfare?

    no they just mildly irritate each other


  • #56
    bockeys jollocks
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    tomwaterford wrote: »
    thing is ombudsman is independent of the gaurds...and investigates complaints against the gaurds......now who I wonder would want to bug the meeting room of the ombudsman office:rolleyes:

    Is say it's G2 on behalf of the Gardaí, they would look a bit stupid bugging the ombudsman themselves, then getting caught.


  • #57
    wicklowstevo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 919 ✭✭✭wicklowstevo


    knowing gsoc it ll turn out the cable was for the sky box or something. its been known a year and nothings happened apart from a newspaper article ? not seem a bit strange to anyone ?


  • #58
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    the fact that RTE are not reporting this is a feckin disgrace !!!

    i just fired this off to the news room - looking forward to their response.

    Dear Sir/Madam

    It appears that you have failed to include this news (http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/article1373695.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_02_08 ) from the 6 one news and your website,
    It must just be an over site i am sure , as to purposely not include this on your news would come across as RTE once again coming across as puppets of the state , and not real journalists but lackeys , and im sure that is not the case.

    Looking forward to seeing , hearing and reading all about this on your , sorry MY news service very soon.

    A person that pays your wages


  • #59
    rustedtrumpet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I genuinely thought this was going to be about creepy crawleys.

    Haha


  • #60
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    The ombudsman needs a lot more power. Specifically the power to go in and make arrests.


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  • #61
    wicklowstevo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 919 ✭✭✭wicklowstevo


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    The ombudsman needs a lot more power. Specifically the power to go in and make arrests.

    they already have that ,as well as the power to search lockers and stations and gardas houses etc what they lack is compidence


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