The Murder of John Lang: A Cautionary Tale on the Importance of Online Privacy

[lunarwanderer@discuss.tchncs.de]

maybe you missed the part where Fresno PD pulled up to his house with a vehicle mounted thermal imaging device (its in the photos and last video) to see through his walls to make sure he wasn't home.

[satanclaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Guess on my end. But one of his hands might have uh. Come off and not burned?

[scubus@sh.itjust.works]

Thats not how thermal works. It doesnt let you see through walls.

[grapho@lemmy.ml]

It's not a fucking Superman x ray vision, but that doesn't mean it's not able to tell you if the house is currently occupied or vacant.

[scubus@sh.itjust.works]

Or if the houses central heating is on

[rbesfe@lemmy.ca]

What a moronic conspiracy theory

[lunarwanderer@discuss.tchncs.de]

That makes sense, I reviewed the footage and it doesn't look like a thermal camera. I read this one of the YouTube comments:

"Professional photographer here. That was not a thermal imaging camera. That was a canon 1DX camera. A popular photography and video camera. The big thing around it was a camera stabilizer gimbal, most likely a Movi M5. That set up is used for filming high-end videos and commercials, sometimes TV shows. A police department would not have a set up like that. I use set ups like this to film car commercials. That was not a thermal imaging camera."

[slax@sh.itjust.works]

Any other resources?

[shepherdpie@midwest.social]

Yeah I'm inclined to believe it based on the actions of numerous other police departments, but I'm also highly skeptical of it because of things like his message about if they find him dead naming not only the Fresno Sheriff but also his neighbor and a coworker. If I came across this on Facebook I for sure would write this guy off.

I do find it odd they ruled his death a suicide but then stated that he had three separate stab wounds to the chest. I have a hard time believing that someone could do that to themselves a second or third time, but who knows.

[townhousegloryhole@lemmy.world]

Thermal imaging can't even see through glass. It can't 'see' through anything. Not sure how it could be used to confirm occupancy.

[townhousegloryhole@lemmy.world]

Thermal imaging can't even see through glass. It can't 'see' through anything. Not sure how it could be used to confirm occupancy.

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

Thank you for this story, but anyway, "we have nothing to hide"

P.S. Is it American police or American mafia?

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

I had bad experience with Tor in the last time, I would not recommend

[gwilikers@lemmy.ml]

From my understanding, dental records are not actually as full-proof as they come of as in the media and there was a great deal of pseudoscience in their popularisation as a tool for identifying people. So perhaps, if the fingerprints are still identifiable, forensics went with them since they are more reliable.