That’s the question, what are they actually providing to warrants. You don’t need to provide a name to be able to identify someone. Do they provide logs or data that could be uniquely identifying before the police pull a tower dump? Who knows…

Okay I looked over their stuff, a couple thoughts:

I want them to be more clear in their privacy policy about what exactly they can and would reveal for a court order, what their screening process is for those orders, under what conditions they would fight one and if they will reveal anything outside the context of a full court order.

Reason: this is one of your biggest areas of vulnerability when signing up for a phone plan.

The lexipol leaks showed that many police departments use phone information requests so much that they include a set of request forms (typically one for each carrier) in the appendix of their operations manuals. Frequently the forms are the only data request tool in that appendix.

If you happened to have a call with someone who then did something Cool™ and got picked up, expect the detective to have your name and address on a post-it on their desk by the next morning. If you talked to them on some online chat platform they’ll send a court order to that platform for your IP then do the same to your carrier to unmask your identity.

Yes, if you were also sufficiently Cool™ they’ll start doing more invasive things like directly tracking your phone via tower dumps, but that’s a significant escalation in time and effort. If things got Cool™ enough that this is a concern though, it may buy you time to get a new phone if you live in an area dense enough for that to not be immediately identifying.

Also: I suspect the zip code is completely unverifiable so put whatever you want in there, basically pick your favorite sales tax rate.

Points 2 and 3 and just innate to the project, not something that can be fixed in a custom ROM. Point 1 is not something any of those projects choose to fix, you need to either root or use a particular ROM to get around that because of how baked into the network stack those limitations are.

We really need an open source mobile operating system that isn’t controlled by tech megacorps.

Android is far too compromised by corporate profit motives.

• it helps network operators identify tether traffic and prevents it from being hidden by the systems VPN.

• it facilitates vendor pre installed adware, bloat ware, and malware that can’t be uninstalled

• it facilitates carrier locking to prevent users from switching carriers

That is in fact the reference

Hello fellow criminals, anyone get up to any good crime lately?

Problem: children are depressed, have nobody to talk to, and want to kill themselves

Solution: pervasive surveillance to make sure they learn that they cannot express themselves in any way, shape, or form, fully preparing them for the digital hellscape we’ve created

Like sure, the chat bots shouldn’t be encouraging people to kill themselves or be used in the first place but this is 100% the worst possible response.

But did you hear? The media dickheads want us all to vote for him because he’s… totally not just another useless establishment Dem.

It negates the need for updates because it’s much less likely that BFU attacks are discovered that could compromise the phone.

Set a reboot timer. It’ll shut down and dump the keys out of RAM putting it in the more difficult BFU state. That way if you phone is taken and not unlocked successfully by you within a day or so it’ll render itself much harder to crack.

Harsh truth, the entire bandwidth of all the HF bands combined, not just the ham allocations, fully DC to ~30MHz, is smaller than a single mediocre home internet connection (per Shannon Hartley theorem). If even 0.1% of the world started using ham radios to do so much as send the bare minimum of ultra compact text messages to each other the entire spectrum would be clogged to the point of uselessness.

HF is great for very localized communications disruptions, but a nationwide or worldwide internet failure would not remotely be helped via HF.

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I think most people who have it figure this out pretty quickly. NT normies feel like they accept the world completely at face value by comparison and it can cause a lot of friction

Some enterprising individuals in the US figured out you could print out your Venmo QR and stick it to parking signs to get people to just send you money

What are the other loopholes?

You generally have to pass a background check. You can buy guns in some states without one from a private seller but this is rarely how they’re acquired for school shootings, most of the population lives in states where this is not legal. Typically they either just didn’t have anything concerning in their background and were able to pass the background check (other than a ton of shit everyone around them ignored) or they had access to someone else’s gun which should have been secured better. There have been a few cases of parents buying their children guns which they then used in shootings though.

Most of the populous states are rolling various forms of safe storage requirements (you have to store guns in a safe your children don’t have access to), red flag laws (this person keeps tweeting about wanting to kill people don’t give them guns), waiting periods (so if you’re planning something dumb you have a few days to calm down), and raising age limits to 21 (so people in still in school can’t obtain them).

There’s conflicting info on if these work, it’ll take time for them to have an effect as compliance is complicated. The safe storage one in particular would probably stop a lot of shootings if it had widespread compliance.

The mag bans/ASW bans don’t seem to do much as the vast majority of shootings are a few rounds using common handguns.

This article makes no fucking sense. In a normal system, nothing you could reasonably call “zoning” should change flash read speeds. WTF are they talking about.

To be clear, the flipper is just a Girl Tech IM-me with an NFC chip. If it lets people do a thing, that thing has been possible for decades. Just wait until someone makes a popular device based on a cheap fully featured wideband SDR like the AD9363 or LMS7002. Shit is gonna get fucking wild.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mechanic+found+tracker

I don’t think anyone’s been keeping stats but it’s been a thing ever since GPS was widely available and cheap-ish. It seems to divide up between stalking and scummy car dealerships with a few people under fed surveillance thrown in.