Enough about Nazis, what about erection pill vendors?
If Nazis can sue you for reporting them, how about loan refinance services? How about erection pill vendors? How about human traffickers? How about Nigerian Princes?
See, the Nazis are only a recent addition to the game.
Facial recognition software can still analyze partial faces, such as the eyes. Mask and opaque glasses will hide your face even better, and there are shirts and accessories with patterns that confuse face-finding routines.
Also facial recognition image capture depends sometimes on non-visible light (infrared?) and some hackers have used this as a means to project another face on their own, which fools some facial recognition software.
...something tells me this massive facial recognition array is accessible to China, Russia, private black hats and anyone else who wants to find out who cut them off on the freeway.
I wonder if CBP's own employees are in that database.
While I can't speak for all law enforcement (and no law enforcement outside the US), most police departments have a maximum length of time you can be detained (around 72 hours) before they either have to charge you with a crime or let you go.
In the case of a phone they can't open, they can keep the phone and make it hell getting it back. If it's not shut down, they should easily be able to crack it with handy cracking software.
Some departments will hold you indefinitely whether or not there's a law. ICE routinely puts American citizens into situations where they cannot prove their citizenship, only to deport them right into war zones or prisons in other nations, so they might threaten to make your life difficult if you don't cooperate and unlock a phone. Essentially, if someone in ICE wants to ruin your life, you're screwed.
Then there are some circumstances in which a court may require the unlocking of a phone or block of encrypted data (I believe this is called the foregone conclusion exception) where they allegedly already know what the data is. I personally don't get it, as IANAL but if the nature of the data is known well enough to prosecute, then the court doesn't need the data to be unlocked. But they might want it anyway, or for some reason need to see the data to prosecute. It sounds to me like legal shenanigans but again, IANAL.
In these rare cases, someone can be held for contempt of court, and held indefinitely until they unlock the data. Since the longest detention for contempt was fourteen years, that's the upper limit so far. More precisely, it's until a lawyer convinces a judge that you're not motivated to unlock your phone by promising release from jail when you do. It may take years.
This is why you want to keep your secrets in a data block with two compartments, one filled with gothy furry porn for the court to enjoy. That way you can follow their orders, open it and let the prosecution deal with disappointment.
Apparently, to block law enforcement, school administrators, industrial spies and hackers from using the available cracking software to unlock your phone, you have to turn off the phone before surrendering it.
Incidentally, not returning your electronic device has become routine by law enforcement. You may have to fight the precinct in court to get your phone back.
Curiously, ICE is defying orders from the White House, and Biden doesn't appear to be too concerned about it or about atrocities that continue to be committed by ICE.
Terraria and Subnautica are staples here, both single player. Though Terraria can do both co-op and PVP and has some elements for football / CTF, which I've never tried.
Yeah, I live on single player with some rare exceptions.
I had to spend my time in front of other people's computers until I was fourteen, at which point my dad got me an Apple II+, but otherwise yeah, I did that thing.
Though college I volunteered at the Computer Resource Center as tech help, because I couldn't yet afford to upgrade my own stuff for a while.
It's predatory in that it capitalizes on the same human compulsions that gambling does (and now, after complaints from the industry we didn't know it for certain, we have actual studies showing that human responses between gambling stimuli and microtransaction stimuli align.)
And the gaming ratings committees refuse to adjust ratings for microtransactions in games, because they like kids emptying their parent's bank accounts trying to get a favorite footballer by lootbox purchases.
So yeah, it's totally predatory, and the industry goes to lengths to make sure accidental purchases are easy, but safeguarding against accidental purchases is difficult.
It would be grand if commands to turn off bodycams, and mass failures were also interpreted the same way, that the police are, from that moment forward, acting in bad faith, and that a recording of those events would be incriminating for the officers on the scene.
If our counties took police violence and police misconduct seriously, our courts wouldn't be giving them the benefit of the doubt when they are not being observed, especially considering how often official police recording devices fail.
The moment you kill someone for offending your Trumpian sensibilities, you will demonstrate the toxicity of the MAGA narrative and show that Trump supporters are getting radicalized exactly like Islamist terrorists.
And you will justify institutions being formed with the purpose of detecting the MAGA movement, monitoring them, thwarting their efforts and if necessary, bringing to justice both the radicals and the operatives who incited them, much the way Nazis have been hunted down to (nearly) the last.
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Enough about Nazis, what about erection pill vendors?
If Nazis can sue you for reporting them, how about loan refinance services? How about erection pill vendors? How about human traffickers? How about Nigerian Princes?
See, the Nazis are only a recent addition to the game.
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"when everyone is wearing a mask"
Less well.
Facial recognition software can still analyze partial faces, such as the eyes. Mask and opaque glasses will hide your face even better, and there are shirts and accessories with patterns that confuse face-finding routines.
Also facial recognition image capture depends sometimes on non-visible light (infrared?) and some hackers have used this as a means to project another face on their own, which fools some facial recognition software.
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Considering the US' security aptitude lately...
...something tells me this massive facial recognition array is accessible to China, Russia, private black hats and anyone else who wants to find out who cut them off on the freeway.
I wonder if CBP's own employees are in that database.
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Detention for refusing to unlock
While I can't speak for all law enforcement (and no law enforcement outside the US), most police departments have a maximum length of time you can be detained (around 72 hours) before they either have to charge you with a crime or let you go.
In the case of a phone they can't open, they can keep the phone and make it hell getting it back. If it's not shut down, they should easily be able to crack it with handy cracking software.
Some departments will hold you indefinitely whether or not there's a law. ICE routinely puts American citizens into situations where they cannot prove their citizenship, only to deport them right into war zones or prisons in other nations, so they might threaten to make your life difficult if you don't cooperate and unlock a phone. Essentially, if someone in ICE wants to ruin your life, you're screwed.
Then there are some circumstances in which a court may require the unlocking of a phone or block of encrypted data (I believe this is called the foregone conclusion exception) where they allegedly already know what the data is. I personally don't get it, as IANAL but if the nature of the data is known well enough to prosecute, then the court doesn't need the data to be unlocked. But they might want it anyway, or for some reason need to see the data to prosecute. It sounds to me like legal shenanigans but again, IANAL.
In these rare cases, someone can be held for contempt of court, and held indefinitely until they unlock the data. Since the longest detention for contempt was fourteen years, that's the upper limit so far. More precisely, it's until a lawyer convinces a judge that you're not motivated to unlock your phone by promising release from jail when you do. It may take years.
This is why you want to keep your secrets in a data block with two compartments, one filled with gothy furry porn for the court to enjoy. That way you can follow their orders, open it and let the prosecution deal with disappointment.
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Unlocking your phone
Apparently, to block law enforcement, school administrators, industrial spies and hackers from using the available cracking software to unlock your phone, you have to turn off the phone before surrendering it.
Incidentally, not returning your electronic device has become routine by law enforcement. You may have to fight the precinct in court to get your phone back.
Curiously, ICE is defying orders from the White House, and Biden doesn't appear to be too concerned about it or about atrocities that continue to be committed by ICE.
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Trolling vs. Opinions
Having an opposing opinion isn't trolling.
Saying no, you're wrong with no follow up is on the edge of the trolling threshold.
Adding insults to that pushes it well into trolling.
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"If you were the least bit intelligent"
Josh sounds drunk.
Don't be like Josh.
On the post: New York Times Decides Kids Are Playing Too Many Video Games During The Pandemic
Single Player games
Terraria and Subnautica are staples here, both single player. Though Terraria can do both co-op and PVP and has some elements for football / CTF, which I've never tried.
Yeah, I live on single player with some rare exceptions.
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In front of a computer as a kid.
I had to spend my time in front of other people's computers until I was fourteen, at which point my dad got me an Apple II+, but otherwise yeah, I did that thing.
Though college I volunteered at the Computer Resource Center as tech help, because I couldn't yet afford to upgrade my own stuff for a while.
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"I wouldn't say predatory."
It's predatory in that it capitalizes on the same human compulsions that gambling does (and now, after complaints from the industry we didn't know it for certain, we have actual studies showing that human responses between gambling stimuli and microtransaction stimuli align.)
And the gaming ratings committees refuse to adjust ratings for microtransactions in games, because they like kids emptying their parent's bank accounts trying to get a favorite footballer by lootbox purchases.
So yeah, it's totally predatory, and the industry goes to lengths to make sure accidental purchases are easy, but safeguarding against accidental purchases is difficult.
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Challenges for hackers
...though I'd sooner be tempted to create a virus that locks instances of Zoom to cat-filter after a randomized fuse-time.
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It's just too tempting.
Essentially every hacker on the planet whose personal motivations for hacking is mischief has just received a new challenge...
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Performance and licensing fees
Also interesting to watch is how the artists feel about their work being used to dissuade accountability (and further authoritarianism and brutality).
I remember objections not only to use by cruel politicians but also in sonic attacks during sieges, military shock-and-awe raids. Oh and torture.
Typically they are not amused and have lawyers.
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Copyright infringement, the easiest crime
And now that you know how it's done, don't do it.
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Not subject to those laws
I am eager to hear how a loud public performance of copyrighted content is necessary or even utilitarian in the performance of law-enforcement duties.
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"Doing something that they don't want recorded"
It would be grand if commands to turn off bodycams, and mass failures were also interpreted the same way, that the police are, from that moment forward, acting in bad faith, and that a recording of those events would be incriminating for the officers on the scene.
If our counties took police violence and police misconduct seriously, our courts wouldn't be giving them the benefit of the doubt when they are not being observed, especially considering how often official police recording devices fail.
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CNN
The Great Prophet Trump mentioned CNN by name. I mention Reuters or Associated Press and they're not sure what to do.
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Here on CNN
You're on CNN? And they believe everything?
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"Delete my comments"
The internet remembers.
On the post: President Trump Is So Upset About This Ad Showing His Failed Handling Of COVID-19 That He's Demanding It Be Taken Down
"I'll find you."
The moment you kill someone for offending your Trumpian sensibilities, you will demonstrate the toxicity of the MAGA narrative and show that Trump supporters are getting radicalized exactly like Islamist terrorists.
And you will justify institutions being formed with the purpose of detecting the MAGA movement, monitoring them, thwarting their efforts and if necessary, bringing to justice both the radicals and the operatives who incited them, much the way Nazis have been hunted down to (nearly) the last.
Is that what you want?
If not, maybe post like an adult?
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