• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    A strange turn of phrase in the headline. Consider… “A derailment due to interference by authorised persons”.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      It’s a relevant distinction.

      Interference by unauthorized person’s = outsider threat.

      Other possibilities could be intentional malicious actions by authorized people (insider threat), or a mistake by authorized people (human error, incompetence, negligence, …)

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Right on.

        It’s just that I’d have expected those synonyms to have been used in the headline.

        Though thinking about it some more: maybe the vagueness is actually more correct if it’s unknown if the interference was deliberate.

        I suppose it’s a small mercy that the headline wasn’t “unauthorised interference on Russian railway, you’ll never guess how many cars detailed”.

        • @Raxiel
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          31 year ago

          Unauthorized persons discover this one weird trick. Fat controllers hate them!