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The UK's hostility to privacy is legendary.

Used to live there now I don't even want to visit.

haha sorry, I didn't mean to be harsh it looks like a cool product. But yeah theres just a lot out there right now thats biting the same style.

lol I had the same thought... embarrasing

Once again its not as simple as oh its easy now. It's highly dependent on how much time has passed, who you are, what your worried about... etc... making it out like everyone is on the same plane makes the threat assessment worthless.

"Access" is not what you think it means. This is marketing hype directly from their site. I have first hand experience using their extractors and its not as robust as they make it sound. They extract metadata outside of the encrypted volumes. It all depends on what your worried about.

Actual hardware 0-days are highly coveted, extremely expensive, military classified tools that TSA does not have access too and never will.

Edit: CBP not TSA (thanks good callout)

This is true for literally everything encrypted. Security is always a function of time and effort. The name of the game is being not worth the effort.

Thats not at all accurate. When you say "resisting" you are glossing over really important distinctions. The lastest versions of iOS are perfectly capable of being locked down in a such a way that they are not able to be penetrated by Cellebrite.

The info extracted is the nuance your missing here. Cellebrite doesnt break encryption, it brute forces weak PINs and passwords and collects metadata thats outside of the protected volume.

Your online activity likely exposes much much more about you than the data extracted by Cellebrite. These distinctions matter as its really easy to misunderstand and sensitionalize their tools.

Have not heard this, whats your source? I don't see how they could determine that because "its a new phone" is hard to dispute.

best case scenario is that a higher court overturns this but not holding my breath.

Not really. Cellebrite isn't magic. If you have an up to date OS and a strong password not pin, encryption functions as it should. The best thing to do is simply have a travel phone.

terrible idea...

but im sure it will popular with 60 year olds watermarking their pictures of sunsets.

"The evidence from human studies is based on observational data (which cannot prove that the link with cancer is causal). But experimental studies in animals point in the same direction."

in mice strikes again

Anna's Archive is a gift to humanity

lol this is a really good idea.

Parents certainly care about all the things I mentioned, it even impacts their kids. This approach to safeguard kids online is completely impractical and utterly unenforceable and seems like a total waste of time.

There is no way to enforce any of these types of laws without an iron curtain that clearly violates the first amendment. If you have free speech infront of children in public I don't see how having infinite scroll on your website or app is any different. Parents should parent their children instead of the state. Its crazy how avoident California is of solving actually important problems like homelessness, mental health resources, housing crisis, yet infinite scrolling somehow is a priority.

buying a new car gets less attractive every year.

That is hilarious and an amazing find.

Excellent, I wonder how this might impact things like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467712

Good idea for sure

There are very few ways to fight stuff like this and 100% agree this is a good one. I predict we are gonna need so much more of this type of obfuscation to just live our lives normally.

This is essentially a wiretap.

It's illegal in most states to place a listening device in public that captures private conversations, this is basically no different.

Thats a good explination. It does seem extremely noisy and not at all practical for fingerprinting a user compared to other methods. If you have javascript enabled assume you can be fingerprinted.

The crash lawsuit writes itself

This was my thought as well, a good excuse for a slush fund.

Both systems can be bad for different reasons. I'm not making any comparisons.

Personally I enjoy the basic human rights of privacy and freedom of speech which are deeply lacking in the UK system.

another feature of UK dystopia

All i'm saying is its very very difficult to maintain over time as email is largely monopolized. If you send a lot of emails to a lot of different addresses its notoriously difficult to maintain a good server reputation.

- anti-social behaviour orders (ASBO)

- Public Order Act 1986

- John William Gott / Blasphemy Laws

- Public Order Offences: Using "threatening, abusive or insulting" words in public

- Lèse-majesté laws / Seditious Libel

The list is very very long.

The UK gets more absurd by the day.

Unfortunately this is a well established part of their history to criminalize speech they find distasteful.