...What? Are cops frequently scanning people’s entire phones as a first move now? I had heard that this occasionally happened at borders or with serious crimes, but I had no idea it was this widespread.
...What? Are cops frequently scanning people’s entire phones as a first move now? I had heard that this occasionally happened at borders or with serious crimes, but I had no idea it was this widespread.
Some people I know who were arrested during the series of Portland protests last year, whether or not they were even active participants... (you may have heard of some people being snatched from the streets into vans, for example)
...mentioned that their phones were missing their MicroSD cards when they got their items back.
Let that sink in.
Give a general a jet plane, and he will sooner or later bomb some people with it.
Give a politician the power to classify information, and sooner or later he will use it to cover up some shady stuff he did.
Give a cop the power to scan a phone, and sooner or later he will scan every phone he encounters.
This is exactly why the government should not get a "backdoor" into E2E encrypted chat: today it will be used to prevent a terrorist attack, tomorrow to send your mom to a gulag for thoughtcrime.
A turned off iPhone is completely unusable for most of their intentions, still will be taken and only given back after x months.
This works surprisingly effectively even with a family, purely by running a voip client on my desktop, and ensuring my mobile forwards to my voip line, meaning I can still receive calls as necessary from schools, daycares, etc.
It's an experiment I intend to only push further and further. Clearly also pull back, but a fun one.
Cops do whatever they want
> I had heard that this occasionally happened at borders or with serious crimes, but I had no idea it was this widespread.
See the first point