Police to begin regular, warrant-free searches of homes for child abuse material
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Fear not though you now have the right to repair your phone but you still don't have the right to actually own your phone and to dictate what it does in your life.
To be precise, the wedge is that if you oppose it, it's easy to make it look like you're doing it because you're secretly a child abuser. It's an adolescent tactic that all teenagers learn about early on, and it keeps working throughout adulthood.
In addition if this works out well we might be able to detect many other crimes as well, maybe even before they are committed. We could for example do some data analysis to find out which household items criminals are likely to own and we could correlate owning those items with potential criminals.
May I request a write up on the benefits of a national psychosis?
I'm confused... What exactly do you think satire is???
Let me start by using an analogy: In physics, and science in general, if you want to understand a system, you have to explore its limits. How does it operate when we vary the cursor of the variables (e.g. temperature, etc.).
Thankfully, for the {communications, cryptography, warrantless access} system, we've already seen some pretty advanced extremes on the two ends.
I grew up in a country where 20 years ago, ALL communications by post were examined thoroughly, and ANYTHING remotely against the regime had you summoned and probably imprisoned. As you can imagine, this is easily weaponisable by the regime.
I've seen and read about the extremes of how "think about the terrorists/pedos" can vary quickly drift a whole fucking country into a situation similar to Minority Report (2002).
We ALREADY have the means to police our communities and societies. There's a reasons why the folks agreed to seperations of power. That reason is documented in history. Assuming you're american, I'll just hint to your constitution and its 4th amendment. The executive powers DO NOT have business deciding whether to search your home (nor your data by extension), if the judiciary does NOT give them the authority to do so.
You cannot tell me that an independant judge will not issue a warrant given solid proof that someone has pedophilic tendencies.
But telling me that we should search everyone who refuses to be searched because they're the most probable ones to be pedophiles is EXACTLY the most Nazi way of doing things.
All in all, your point of view is not very reasonable. We already have means in place to prosecute and hold pedophiles accountable. But unwarranted search and seizure is not the way to go about it.
EDIT: Sorry read before you added the second paragparh, was not aware it was sarcasm ...
This betrays a very naive understanding of how changes like this come about.
The first few paragraphs of this post should be shared with anyone who isn’t part of “the screeching minority!”
That's a pretty good point. We have no idea that the algorithm on the device is even doing what is claimed, and reverse engineering it is ridiculously difficult.
> that authorized officers may enter your home at any time and quietly conduct their business without disturbing your day.
That feels too much like satire to be reality now. If yes, then damn, it seems like we are speeding down a very dark path.
But knowing that would require reading the article, something many people on HN never do.
The author is difficult to work with, constantly produces inflammation. To the extent that they left HN due to constant criticism and got banned from lobste.rs for their behavior.