Feds: We're Pulling Data From 100 Phones Seized During Trump Inauguration (arstechnica.com) 233
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In new filings, prosecutors told a court in Washington, DC that within the coming weeks, they expect to extract all data from the seized cellphones of more than 100 allegedly violent protesters arrested during the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Prosecutors also said that this search is validated by recently issued warrants. The court filing, which was first reported Wednesday by BuzzFeed News, states that approximately half of the protestors prosecuted with rioting or inciting a riot had their phones taken by authorities. Prosecutors hope to uncover any evidence relevant to the case. Under normal judicial procedures, the feds have vowed to share such data with defense attorneys and to delete all irrelevant data. "All of the Rioter Cell Phones were locked, which requires more time-sensitive efforts to try to obtain the data," Jennifer Kerkhoff, an assistant United States attorney, wrote. Such phone extraction is common by law enforcement nationwide using hardware and software created by Cellebrite and other similar firms. Pulling data off phones is likely more difficult under fully updated iPhones and Android devices.
That's what happened at Hitler's inauguration (Score:1, Funny)
They confiscated all of their diaries. One of them didn't get confiscated though, and became a best seller.
RICO (Score:3, Insightful)
Can we say RICO?
If they can establish the violence was planned and coordinated, how many years is that?
Re: RICO (Score:2, Insightful)
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If some of these protesters are being paid to do this, and if they have done it before (within the last 10 years), and if there is a common plaintiff then yes, there could be RICO charges.
That being said, its a super long shot and there would have to be a huge investigation into who was funding this kind of activity. This would not be like the Italian mob where their presence was known and their ability to avoid prosecution was a thorn in the side of law enforcement. This would be the discovery of a whole
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That was due to a single problem that was skirted around by such complicated things as odd new laws. Hoover.
The dirty little secret about why the IRS took down Capone is because they were the agency he did not bribe.
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" He came to power by forging a sword made of hate, fear, innuendo, lies, manipulation, false allegations, bigotry, and misogyny."
Clinton tried to come to power by forging a sword made of hate, fear, innuendo, lies, manipulation...
...and false allegations OF bigotry, and misogyny.
It was quite efficient too. She didn't win, but you DID believe her lies.
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Problem is, RICO has long been abused. A law designed to stop the Mafia and similar criminal organizations has been used to smear political opponents, prosecute anti-abortion activists, and attack corporations over alleged collusion over 'climate change'.
It's also a favorite tool to employ when a prosecutor or law-enforcement agency wants to grab assets, under criminal AND civil forfeiture. . .
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Can we say RICO?
No.
No we can't. [popehat.com]
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You scum don't even bother to try and avoid invoking Godwin on the first post, eh?
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Godwin rule waved when SJWs show up and start denouncing everyone they politically disagree as {agreed-upon boogey man of the times}.
Because, yeah, that IS what Nazis did
Re:That's what happened at Hitler's inauguration (Score:5, Informative)
Anne Frank's diary was written long after the end of WWII, using a ballpoint pen (which wasn't invented until after WWII)
That is holocaust denialist BS that has been debunked [hdot.org]:
Anne wrote the body of her diary with a fountain pen. The only things written in ballpoint pen ink are two loose notes written by someone else and put with the papers later and some page numbers written on the sheets during the compilation process.
There is a long history of neo-Nazis trying to discredit Anne's diaries, so in 1963 her defenders tracked down the arresting officer [wikipedia.org] that led the raid on their hideout. He corroborated nearly everything that Anne's father had said.
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Awesome!
Neo-Nazi B.S. de-bunked by an actual ex-Nazi!
+1 Awesome Informative points.
Re:That's what happened at Hitler's inauguration (Score:5, Informative)
Neo-Nazi B.S. de-bunked by an actual ex-Nazi!
Actually, most Neo-Nazi BS is best debunked by actual Nazis. "The Holocaust never happened" is thoroughly debunked by Nazi testimony at Nuremberg. The defenses fell in one of two categories:
1. Yes, I killed people, but I was just following orders, so I am not responsible.
2. Yes, I gave orders, but I didn't actually kill anyone myself, so I am not responsible.
But NONE of them use the defense, or ever claimed, that the killings didn't happen, or that the death camps didn't exist. No one claimed that until many years later.
Re:That's what happened at Hitler's inauguration (Score:5, Informative)
So the original claim that she was not only at his Innauguration, but also had her diary with her, is at least two kinds of bullshit itself.
Except that nobody claimed that. The famous diary writer at Hitler's inauguration was Joseph Goebbels. His diary [wikipedia.org] is fascinating to read, and provides a huge amount of insight into the inner workings of Nazi Germany, unlike Anne's which is just the musing of a girl locked in a room.
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But that's quite different than just crying "We've been lied too! It never happened!". If you have serious doubts, that's fine. State the doubts, state which specific claims you find doubtful, state, how to investigate the claims and which result would you convince that the claims are actually true. Everything else is just denial, as Henri Poincaré [wikiquote.org] rightfully said: "To doubt everything or
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Bepto Bishmol
Re: That's what happened at Hitler's inauguration (Score:2)
So, the gist of it is... (Score:4, Insightful)
...if you're going to a protest, bring a burner phone. Bonus points if you set the wallpaper to goatse.
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or don't bring one at all..
Re:So, the gist of it is... (Score:5, Insightful)
But the entire point of going to the protest is to put selfies of it up on social media to impress your friends and piss off that one uncle.
Missing operant term (Score:5, Insightful)
The people arrested didn't seem to be the deluge of selfie taking people. The recommendation should be to simply not be violent at a protest so that you are not arrested, which results in the confiscation of your phone (and generally a good chuck of cash, and perhaps anal virginity).
I'm probably one of the most pro Free Speech people you will ever meet. Free Speech does not include any form of violence. See the Non Aggression Principle
Re: Missing operant term (Score:2)
Pffft
One well placed undercover officer or paid nobody can turn a peaceful demonstration into a violent one in a hurry.
Even IF you're following all the rules, if someone in charge decides they're tired of your cute little protest, they'll put the undercover in play to " justify " the use of force to remove you.
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Re:So, the gist of it is... (Score:5, Insightful)
or don't bring one at all..
Then how are you going to coordinate the riot?
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Some way that doesn't leave an electronic trail that will make conspiracy charges easy peasy?
This couldn't happen to a bigger group of assholes, so good.
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I'm good with this leading where it goes. We'll see who laughs last.
I'll bet you're wrong about who was paying the rioters bills. These were the usual black block suspects.
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I'm good with this leading where it goes. We'll see who laughs last.
I'll bet you're wrong about who was paying the rioters bills. These were the usual black block suspects.
You might be surprised to learn that you don't have to pay people to protest Trump.
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Bold assertion. Where do those chanting morons get their pot money? Many individuals have been filmed in many cities, there is clearly a roaming cluster fuck of fuckwits.
Now that the cops have all these phones, we'll see how far down the rabbit hole actually goes. Good news...
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Bold assertion. Where do those chanting morons get their pot money? Many individuals have been filmed in many cities, there is clearly a roaming cluster fuck of fuckwits.
Now that the cops have all these phones, we'll see how far down the rabbit hole actually goes. Good news...
It is MUCH more bold to claim you have to pay people to protest Trump than to claim you don't have to pay them. Still waiting for my paycheck.
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Many have been filmed at protest after protest, around the nation. Like gromit deadheads.
Been happening for years, but Obama's justice department had no interest, so they got overconfident. As I said in another post, conspiracy laws are a bitch, the crime spreads like herpes.
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Many have been filmed at protest after protest, around the nation. Like gromit deadheads.
Been happening for years, but Obama's justice department had no interest, so they got overconfident. As I said in another post, conspiracy laws are a bitch, the crime spreads like herpes.
Yes, many have been filmed protesting. But no one has been filmed getting paid. That is just a right-wing nutjob conspiracy.
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Protesting is not a crime, even if it's a hobby or a job.
Affray or rioting is a different matter and professional protesters not only stay well away from that but won't associate with anyone suspected of being involved.
I've seen protesters truss up vandals and hand them over to the cops. It all depends on the level of tolerance and how well organised the violent sorts are, but the best advice I've ever seen given is "if people start that shit, don't hang around to watch"
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We shall see. The rioters phones are now being examined.
Who can afford to travel the nation just to 'protest'? If they were being supported, and they rioted someone not used to jail is in line for big trouble.
People on political payrolls (Hillary's) have already been filmed at multiple 'protests' in multiple cities, appearing to coordinate the violent ones.
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If it's 'a job' and they cross the line to riot, than their employer has potential liability. They had better have watched their words _very_ carefully.
Conspiracy laws are a bitch. Soros could have been careful, or he could have been overconfident that his side would continue to own the justice department.
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Who can afford to travel the nation just to 'protest'?
A lot of people, especially local people. A lot more people apparently can afford to travel to DC to protest than can afford to travel to attend Trump's inauguration.
People on political payrolls ... appearing to coordinate the violent ones.
Bullshit. Link to non-RW media video or STFU.
Re: So, the gist of it is... (Score:1, Troll)
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With all of the liberals and Jewish dudes calling in bomb threats to synagogues and knocking over Jewish headstones, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a false flag operation as well. Fucking crazy humans, the lot of you.
Manipulation of the public is way too easy, and by that I mean manipulation of individuals on a large scale. If you want to generate sympathy for your side and hatred of the other all you have to do is secretly attack your own side in a very public way that makes it easy for people to vi
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was a false flag operation as well.
I once thought the same thing about the "birther" movement. It was so stupid and inane, that I figured it was secretly pushed by liberals to make Republicans look like shrill dysfunctional idiots. But now the leading birther is in the oval office, so I guess I was wrong.
I think you are wrong too. Republicans think that people on the Left are disorderly self-entitled rule breaking jerks, and these rioters confirmed all those perceptions, which was stupid and counterproductive. But there are a lot of stup
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The leading Birther was Hillary, during the 2008 primary. But don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.
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All that protocols of the elders of Zion shit you are spouting isn't likely to be anywhere near as true now as it was in the 1920s. False flag stuff? WTF is wrong with your head? Is reality really so boring that you have to project conspiracies about how the weakest in society are co
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Woah dude! What have you been smoking? I am talking about the actual news. Take a look:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03... [dailycaller.com]
http://abcnews.go.com/US/suspe... [go.com]
And here is the definition of false flag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Two people responsible for the hundreds of threats against Jewish community centers, synagogues, and cemeteries as well as destruction of property, etc. The second link reveals this Jewish guy is responsible for threats all over the world, not just in the US. The media pushed har
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Look it up and you'll see why people think you are full of shit, because this "the weakings will take over the world" crap you were spouting has been done before. Even Henry Ford was pushing that turd, that's how high profile it was. You would have heard about it in school without even having to take history but you've forgotten. It's an extremely apt thing to remind yourself of now with all the "fake news" stuff floating about, since it was an incredi
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So far the prosecutors record is 3/6 (for felonies). Two weren't the brightest bulbs, the third got real unlucky. That's not counting people I met subsequent to their involvement with courts. Couldn't begin to calculate my 'got away with it total', depends on how you count the counts.
It would be fair to say: I don't have an excessive respect for the law. Also mild case of explosive pyromania as a teen (nothing bigger than two kilos of explosive). I know I've dodged some bullets, once spotted 'shiney shoe
Re:So, the gist of it is... (Score:4, Interesting)
or don't bring one at all..
Then how are you going to coordinate the riot?
I should ask my mom how they coordinated these protests in the black pre mobile phone ages http://www.lubin82.pl/fotograf... [lubin82.pl] I was (9) at those, still have the smell of tear gas show up once in a while when I smell certain chemicals.
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Very few people had phones in Poland at that time. Usually it was a few people meeting at someones house and then passing the info along as it spread though the city through small get togethers.
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Phone booth cameras.
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Re: Or just don't violently riot. (Score:1, Insightful)
The Ferguson case is particularly absurd, because there was absolutely no basis for the protests to begin with. A thug violently attacked a police officer who was investigating a violent robbery perpetrated by that thug.
Actually, what has recently been revealed is that no violent robbery occurred, and the police released an edited video just to perpetuate their lies.
What we did learn, however, is that the Department of Justice was able to present a copious report showing the level of abuses inflicted upon the citizens of Ferguson due to a city government that was not accountable to the people, and a police department that actually induced riots by its hardline stance of oppression.
Another case involved the riots in Baltimore during 2015.
You mean after the murder of Freddie Gray
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But but but those people are poor peons so we don't give a fuck about them.
It's like the big heroin epidemic. All the rich white people didn't give a shit, because it was an inner city poor black people problem. Until their rich spoiled children starting driving to inner cities to buy heroin. Now it's an "epidemic". No one called it an epidemic when it was black people dying or getting high. They called it natural selection.
We have a senator in PA who was a hard ass on all drug offenses. A no nonsense approach. His son recently OD'd and died. Now all of a sudden he wants to fund rehab centers and try to solve this "epidemic". Now he wants to help because it's a white people problem now and it affected his household.
Fucking hypocrites.
Just so you see how ridiculous your rants look:
But but but those people are poor white peons so we don't give a fuck about them.
It's like the big drug epidemic. All the black people didn't give a shit, because it was an Appalachian poor white people problem. Until their spoiled children starting driving to inner cities to buy crack. Now it's an "epidemic". No one called it an epidemic when it was white people dying or getting high. They called it natural selection.
We have a Mayor in DC who was a hard ass
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... as you don't care about anybody's life. Your only purpose was ridicule and disdain.
I have great disdain for the decline of the middle class since I have kids and feel, backed up by many statistics, that their world will be much worse than mine. I have I have great disdain for special privileges for anyone - me included. I certainly would disagree that I don't care about anybody's life. Parents rarely don't care about the world their kids will inherit, though you could make a case that the baby boomers are close. If you want to point out that I ridicule BLM you would be correct. That
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What we learned was that he probably wasn't actually stealing from the store, but rather had come back in after earlier conducting an illegal Drug Transaction, and the clerk let him walk out with a pack of cigars without paying for them. (Cutting open a cigar and rolling a joint with it is called making a "blunt", just FYI, and is most likely what he wanted them for.)
Umm. No, that's not what happened. The only time he left the store with the cigars, he strong armed the clerk on the way out the door.
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That is the textbook definition of robbery.
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Let em stew. The more disconnected from reality they become the better.
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You're a moron. Trump won the election and was elected to the office of President of the United States of America by the electors.
Please present any evidence to the contrary.
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You have the worst case of Trump Derangement Syndrome of anyone on /., just so you know. For your own mental health, become less emotionally involved in all this before you have a breakdown.
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No, Trump won. You're just butt-hurt because California doesn't get to decide who the president is for the rest of the United States. You seem to forget that the US is really 50 countries that decided to form a union. The Electoral College was set up to make sure one state can't exert undue influence over the rest of the US. While Clinton got more in the popular vote due to rabid idiots in a few blue states, the majority of the US did not want her ass in office.
Gary Johnson didn't win but you don't see
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Re:So, the gist of it is... (Score:5, Interesting)
More than a burner, they should coordinate their burners. Load them up with tantalizing information that wastes a ton of investigation time, but being careful not to have any actual prosecutor conspiracies.
Use burners with known weaknesses or backdoors and set them up with passcodes or weak encryption so they look legitimate but are easily broken with diagnostic software.
Emails about stuff supposedly buried in parks, or sunk in lakes at specific GPS coordinates. Treasure-map fantasies. Rent a storage space and decorate it with Independence Day decorations, but make it sound like it's full of anarchist equipment.
Bonus points if you can capture video streams of the Feds digging up a park or walking into a storage locker filled with decorations.
If you did it right, they might get tired of grabbing phones with the idea that they won't know which ones have real solid info and which ones will leave them chasing their tails.
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That would require intelligence. Remember who we're talking about.
Losers throwing emotional hissy fits aren't known for well thought out plans.
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Republic, not democracy.
But don't let anything interfere with your delusions. That's a sure path to good mental health. Just double down.
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Republic, not democracy.
Those terms are not mutually exclusive. The US is a federal presidential constitutional republic, but that does not mean it isn't also a democracy - i.e. a government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
There are precious few direct democracies in the world, Switzerland perhaps counts since they do tend to have nation-wide votes on issues more often than other countries, but most western countries- including the US - are representative democracies. Apart from that the
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I hope your kids date black people and have little mixed babies...
If only everyone would do the same, we wouldn't have a race problem in this country any more. Racist fucks like you would be the same "race" as everyone else.
Maybe we could hate people for being ignorant and hateful instead of skin color. Would be great to see you up against the wall first.
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According to the latest vault 7 https://sputniknews.com/world/... [sputniknews.com] (I simply could not resist using that particular news resource), grabbing phones is not about getting stuff off the phone, it is about getting stuff on the phone. You take someone's phone and then hand them back, 'your', phone because they do not own it any more, it just spies on them from there in on.
Once they take your digital gear, just accept it as lost for ever, buy an new replacement (it has to be new) and sell the old, pretty guarant
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Been through customs with you phone and you lost sight of it for a couple of minutes, well, sucker you should have dumped it right away because the chances that phone that someone else now owns has been spying on you since then.
So I will just take a nandroid before I fly and then restore it on the plane, easy peasy. It takes more than a couple of minutes to make a new backup. And if I actually use encryption then I get a password which they would have to know in order to fake my backup.
Maybe not (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe not.
Your time gets wasted a lot as well answering questions.
As an (old) example Steve Jackson Games employees had a lot of trouble over the "GURPS Cyberpunk" game rules after a Secret Service raid despite it being extremely obvious fantasy/SF (1990, so the computer you are using today would have been wild SF let alone cyberpunk stuff).
http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
Your obvious fabrication, selectively quoted, could end up resulting in serious prison time for you if it looks like somebody can get a promotion for catching conspiritators.
Thinking about it as if you are going to be dealing with an ideal justice system is probably a very bad idea. I'd say expect less comic book more Kafka (or similar eastern european writer describing a corrupt justice system).
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Well, if you start with the premise that you're engaging in an unsanctioned protest with violent elements you're already risking a lot of legal exposure. You can be charged in Federal court with felony riot, so if you want to avoid exposure to non-ideal justice then maybe the best advice is stay home and rant on social media.
Obviously coordinating a disinformation campaign targeted at undermining and misleading Federal police agencies is dicey business to put it mildly. That being said, planting useless i
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Things are a bit different to the movies here kiddies. It's time to pay attention to policing lessons from the third world because those rights you thought you had vanish in dark places.
Define "protest" (Score:5, Insightful)
Setting fires to cars and smashing windows is not a "protest".
You would think criminals would already know to use burner phones...
But then how would these gangsters be able to adequately send a selfie to Instagram in front of a smashed up store or burning vehicle? The cameras on burner phones suck, not to mention it would't have your Starbucks card loaded.
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They think they are smart and everybody else is stupid, their * studies profs told them. Overconfidence will get them every time.
Conspiracy laws are a bitch. The 'crime' spreads like herpes.
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we need to make them really work, to the point of being overloaded.
imagine if 10,000 people showed up and were 'violent enough' (not that I even believe this crap) to get their phones stolen. yes, stolen, not 'seized'. and they put nothing but encrypted random bytes on it.
the so-called authorities would spend man-years trying to get nothing.
imagine if it was 100k or 1M people.
the ultimate DOS of the feds that no longer work for us, but seem to be a rogue arm of the government.
it would bring a big smile to
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> magine if 10,000 people showed up and were 'violent enough' (not
> that I even believe this crap) to get their phones stolen. yes, stolen,
> not 'seized'. and they put nothing but encrypted random bytes on it.
> the so-called authorities would spend man-years trying to get nothing.
> imagine if it was 100k or 1M people.
Or you may be in a similar situation, and if you're in a situation like
That, there's only one thing you can do:
Walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in, say, "Shrink,
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Why will that help you? If you get arrested for firebombing a bank and they find a burner phone on you and crack it, it's still evidence.
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...if you're going to a protest, bring a burner phone. Bonus points if you set the wallpaper to goatse.
But that would be evidence that you planned ahead.
All 100 attendees (Score:5, Funny)
became violent protestors during his inauguration? WTF did the man even say?
Finally (Score:1)
Feds gain access to cell phones which may provide evidence of Trump's link to Russian election hacking
-CNN
Two things: (Score:5, Funny)
All of the Rioter Cell Phones were locked, which requires more time-sensitive efforts to try to obtain the data," Jennifer Kerkhoff, an assistant United States attorney, wrote.
Every last one of the seized phones were locked? That seems hardly representative of the general population, although I suppose "violent protesters" may indeed be more security conscious.
Jennifer Kerkhoff. J. Kerkhoff. I mean, no surprise in her career selection of prosecuting attorney after what must've been some pretty tough early years in school.
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Hilary's thug wranglers told them to do that when they were hired
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Hilary's thug wranglers told them to do that when they were hired
Impossible. Every body knows Trumps Russian assassins killed all of Hillery's thug wranglers right after they killed those three million Mass. residents that illegally voted in New Hampshire. That was Putin's "congratulations" present to all the Trumpanzees.
Now, for a serious question; Is there anyone at all that really thinks this? Because wow man, you dudes are supposed to be way too unhip to trip.
Please come back to Planet Consensus reality
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I would wager that the number of unlocked phones at a violent protests is about the same as the number of flip phones. Very low, but non-zero. Will you see one in a sample of 100? M
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Well I've tried unsuccessfully several times now to take a picture of my phone with my phone. I just can't seem to move it fast enough. But if I succeeded you would have been able to increment the number of phones you'd seen without a lock by one.
My wallet is in one back pocket, phone in another. Neither has a lock, I'd be a lot more concerned if somebody stole my wallet. You can buy things with what's inside, with my phone you can call folks like the plumber, see pictures of my dog or the house I'm rem
Well ain't that nice... (Score:2)
DC Police have been going though all the available tape, identifying the protesters that broke the law then pressing felony charges.
My guess is they are going to grab all the pictures and video off their phones to see if they can ID a few more folks to charge and amass more evidence for the cases they have already charged..
My advice is.... If you intend to go protest, don't break the law.... If you choose to ignore my advice, I suggest you not take photos and videos of the proceedings and leave your elec
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If you want to believe that's secure, power to you... I don't think I'd count on them not being able to get the necessary data off your device, but it's your risk to take.
What a letdown... (Score:1)
Re:What a letdown... (Score:5, Insightful)
I really do not see that much of an issue with this.
The government got a warrant to search the electronic devices. These devices were seized at the time of arrest. Rather than require the owners to unlock the phones - potentially violating our protected right against self-incrimination - they are using third-party software to hack the devices. The government intends - admittedly, as legally required - to share all gathered information with the defense lawyers - and are pledging to delete any information not relevant to the case.
You can make the argument that some of the people arrested during the riots are innocent. That may be true, but irrelevant to the issue at hand: that the government is searching these devices. You might argue that the government may use the information gleaned from the devices in ways that are not covered by the warrant, and that is a legitimate worry but there is no evidence that is happening. But given that these people were arrested, we should expect the prosecutors to use all available legal means to build a case against the defendants. That they are searching the phones is as much a story if the police had gotten a warrant to seize the defendants diaries (which is to say, not much of a story) .
The fact is, there were apparently riots [cbsnews.com] during the inauguration. I am no supporter of Trump but that's just shameful; there's nothing wrong with assembly and protest but some people went beyond that. People were arrested and honestly I would expect the government to try them for their actions. There is a lot I find worrisome about Trump's government, but this is not one of them; this is a case where everything seems to be done legitimately and by-the-book.
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If you think that it wasn't being torn in half well before Trump, think more.
Sure, it was. Only gradually. This is all-at-once. It's not necessary to rip off the bandage. You soak it a little, and then it comes right off.
The bottom line is that there is a lot of bipartisan support for policies that screw us all
Trump is substantively different, and if you can't see that, I have to wonder if you're spending your free time ironing your brown shirt.
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You can't take the sky from him?
Shirt, not coat. Big difference.
In other "protest" news... (Score:1)
The "March for Science" is floundering [statnews.com] as various grievance groups push their diversity agendas into the fore. The event's "official diversity policy" is now on its forth revision amid the resignations of organization committee members.
Some are concerned the event will — much like the vaunted Women's March — have conspicuously white optics. Others are concerned the March for Science is losing focus as sundry aggrieved interests try to attach themselves to the imprimatur of "science." In all
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Nah, I don't think the Republicans will show up, they don't believe in Science.
G-d visits Mitch McConnell in the Garden of Eden
G-d: Mitch, how come my apple is still on the Tree of Knowledge?
Mitch: No Republican wants to be like Einstein, we heard he’s not like us.
G-d: What? Jewish?
Mitch: No, a scientist.
Use a POTS-simulating phone at riots (Score:1)
There are companies that make "plain" cell phones that do nothing but send and receive calls.
They are mostly marketed to people who want "a land line in their pocket." One even advertises "it has dial tone!" (oooh, ahhh, shiney!).
If the feds seize a phone like this, all they will get is the electronic serial number an, consequently, your phone number and whatever they can get with that information. They won't get anything else useful of the phone itself.
George Soros on speed dial? (Score:3)
Obviously an organized protest. Should be interesting.
100 people? (Score:2)
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Didn't Motorola make one with that name?
You are thinking of someone else (Score:3)
The one saying she would get on her knees if you voted the way she wanted was not Trump [snopes.com]
Side note: Liberals are so stupid Snopes had to actually cover this item to explain it was not a real offer....
Snopes is going soft though; no coverage of the veracity on her level of eye contact or swallowing.
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I don't know what 'violently protesting' means
I don't either. The thing is our mutual ignorance of the meaning of that bit of media speak isn't terribly relevant. The rioters have actually been charged with crimes; Felony Rioting, specifically. Here is the actual statute: https://beta.code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-1322.html [dccouncil.us].
And perhaps the most relevant part of that is:
If in the course and as a result of a riot a person suffers serious bodily harm or there is property damage in excess of $5,000, every person who willfully incited or urged others to engage in the riot shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than the amount set forth in 22-3571.01, or both.
So any riotous trustafarian that texted any of their follows in a manner than that appears to incite or urge is a felon. Just yelling or holding a sign can get you
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I wonder why that is all you remember?
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At very least, it will bankrupt their parents. At best it will roll-up the puppet masters. You know the little shits will stampede to the snitch deals, just like Sharpton did back in the day.
It doesn't take much to connect someone to a conspiracy.
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Anarchist fall on all points of the political left-right scale. The protestors in question were anarcho-communists (as indicated by their flag) and are in fact far left on the political spectrum.
While a handful did show up to protest Obama (because they didn't consider him far left enough) it was a drop in the bucket compared to the numbers who showed up for the Trump protest.