The General Technology Thread

[Hop]

What if if you truly don’t know the password? If a judge makes you sit in jail until you “cooperate” and give them the password you truly don’t know, you are being unfairly punished.

And be it does happen. I have an external hard drive that I encrypted with bitlocker. I legit forgot what password I set. I couldn’t unlock it if my life depended on it. If my home were raided tomorrow and cops found that drive ant it was lawful. For a judge to do that to me, he would be punishing an innocent (for that count at least) man.

Do you think the .gov can't crack bitlocker? It's a Microsoft product.

 

[HoughMade]

I don't understand is why the reasoning is different for a phone then it is for a physical safe in your house or something. You expect that they'd have to get a warrant to search your safe why would they have to get a warrant to search your phone?

They do.

This case had a warrant.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Tesla's 'Bioweapon Defense Mode' is proving invaluable to owners affected by CA wildfires - Bioweapon Defense Mode has become a welcome blessing, allowing them and their passengers to breathe clean air despite the worsening air quality outside.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Whoooooa Denuvo DRM has been cracked

CEO on suicide watch

 

[foszoe]

???

I thought it had been cracked before at the game level. Do you mean its cracked at the mega game level?

Whoooooa Denuvo DRM has been cracked

CEO on suicide watch

 

[jkaetz]

'Anonymous' browsing data can be easily exposed, researchers reveal

Companies often defend data collection with "oh you're just a tag in millions of users, nobody can single you out." Turns out that's wrong. Ever visit your Twitter analytics page? Now they have your username

I thought google could do this years ago. I'm sure there are many other ways to identify us, keystroke patterns, mouse movements, scroll habits, etc... There is enough computing power available now to identify lots of things previously though unidentifiable. Anonymity has gone away, laws won't bring it back. The real question is will this make our lives better or not. Only time will tell as plenty of scenarios on both sides are easily identifiable.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Ooo interesting. Where do you stand on this one? Seems they should have assured they had total control of the device before letting her go.

Police: Woman remotely wipes phone in evidence after shooting

 

[T.Lex]

That's a good charge of tampering with evidence IMHO.

And an example for police agencies everywhere on how to control remote access to cellphones.

 

[jkaetz]

Oh that's fun. But can they prove that it was her who initiated the wipe? What if it was just set to self destruct after so many hours without a successful login? Not likely I know, but could be done.

 

[foszoe]

Often considered doing g this in any situation where I expect contact with police

 

[Caleb]

Oh that's fun. But can they prove that it was her who initiated the wipe? What if it was just set to self destruct after so many hours without a successful login? Not likely I know, but could be done.

Android has an option to automatically do a factory reset if you enter the password incorrectly so many times.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Do you think the .gov can't crack bitlocker? It's a Microsoft product.

Maybe*. But that isnt the point, Debbie. Please play along for the sake of the overall argument.

Android has an option to automatically do a factory reset if you enter the password incorrectly so many times.

Same with iDevices. The magic number for the fruity ones is 10.

*But is my case big enough to warrant them letting the cat out of the bag that it isnt really effective encryption and risk bad actors stop using it?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says you shouldn't obsess over your follower count

Says he wants to hide follower count... which is just another awful idea. One example is publishers seeking authors with high followings.

 

[actaeon277]

About time for someone to create some alternatives, and people to flock to them.

How about an alternative that can replace them all with ONE place.

 

[foszoe]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says you shouldn't obsess over your follower count

Says he wants to hide follower count... which is just another awful idea. One example is publishers seeking authors with high followings.

I think the option to do so would be fine and a good addition. It's like people here who when they want to hide their online have the choice to do so.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

About time for someone to create some alternatives, and people to flock to them.

How about an alternative that can replace them all with ONE place.

Impossible.

The ones in-power would never allow that to happen.

Once a new one goes up... get some people to post racist **** on it... then you get your tech blogger friends to talk about how that "new website is a haven for racist alt-right bigots", etc. Lather rinse repeat.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Bow to your corporate overlords.

UK firms ready to microchip hundreds of thousands of employees

 

[churchmouse]

Ooo interesting. Where do you stand on this one? Seems they should have assured they had total control of the device before letting her go.

Police: Woman remotely wipes phone in evidence after shooting

Can they prove it was her....????

 

[KLB]

Bow to your corporate overlords.

UK firms ready to microchip hundreds of thousands of employees

Oh hell no.

Seems there were companies that have done that over here already

 

[actaeon277]

Oh hell no.

Seems there were companies that have done that over here already

Problem would go away if people stopped working for those companies.
Problem is, too many people won't care, till it is too late.