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FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by mint2 »

tored wrote: post #63
mc32 wrote: post #36

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The sad thing about this is I understand many people disliked Trump and were pleased by this, but, unfortunately that sword is double edged and all candidates have to dance to their tune, meaning they have to let them go beyond their purview or mission and maintain inertial agendas —which should not be the case. They are supposed to look at interstate crime among some other things.

Yes, remember that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders also got smeared with Russian interference, so it is not something only used on Trump or Trump supporters. In my country, Sweden, alleging connections to Russia or Putin is often used in the political discourse to silence individuals or groups, without any sort of proof. It has happened both on the right and the left. We have to remember that many journalists i…

Fox News and conservatives supporting sources smeared sanders that way. Part of it was likely to muddy the waters since Trump had an actual Russia thing, and part was to play up the gops age old boogie man, socialism.

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dukeofdoom wrote: post #95
caspper69 wrote: post #49

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> They can do it to anyone. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I fully expect that any American, involved in half the shit that drunk found his way into, would also be under double top secret surveillance. That's reality Jack.

That's a very low standard you are setting for your democratic government. Political prosecutions and spying on counsel is something that the Communists and Nazis did. But even they tried to follow their own laws.

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Post by gowld »

teclordphrack2 wrote: post #128
temp8964 wrote: post #35

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But the Mueller team was good at covering their own ass. At Least 27 Phones from Special Counsel’s Office Were Wiped before DOJ Inspector General Could Review Them https://news.yahoo.com/least-27-phones-special-counsel-21293...

And? Standard IT practice.

No, it's not standard IT practice for dozens of people (>10% of the team?) to suddenly spam incorrect passwords into their phones at approximately the same time.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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upofadown wrote: post #112
kodah wrote: post #101

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Common misconception. The three letter agencies do not really need to know the contents of your email body. They're much more interested in to/from, timestamps, and subject. Establishing that you communicate with a person and then getting their emails is much easier than playing with your encrypted email body.

I think this is a common misconception of its own. The three letter agencies would love to be able to see the content of messages. But the code makers have run so far ahead of the code breakers that this is effectively impossible. So they settle for only meta information and tell the people that are funding them that this is now sufficient for them to continue to do their job.

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Post by dredmorbius »

daperor630 wrote: post #108
dredmorbius wrote: post #96

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Regarding: The US Constitution only applies to American citizens. False. In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the term “person” under the Fifth Amendment applied to aliens living in the U.S. In Fong Yue Ting v. U.S.,the court held that Chinese laborers, “like all other aliens residing in the United States,” are entitled to protection of the laws. "There's no dispute at the absolute…

Does this case establish precedent that the fifth amendment applies to people in Kazakhstan?

Onus of precedent would have to be that it does not.

If you're able to find any such, I might have further interest in this line of questioning. Though I doubt even that.

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Post by notafraudster »

conradev wrote: post #116
bumbledraven wrote: post #37

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modeless wrote here in Feb, 2021 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778758 ) : > It's also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, and the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the "end-to-end" encryption in iMessage is defeated. Apple and by extension the FBI can read your messages. This is documented by Apple here: https://support.a…

[EDIT: I misread] > Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple. That last bit is not true. From Apple’s security PDF: > When Messages in iCloud is enabled, iMessage, Business Chat, text (SMS), and MMS messages are removed from the user’s existing iCloud Backup and are instead stored in an end-to-end encrypted CloudKit contain…

The quoted parent says that if Adam sends a message to Bob, and Adam has backups off, but Bob has backups on, that Bob's copy of the message Adam sent is accessible to authorities.

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Post by gowld »

tored wrote: post #107
merpnderp wrote: post #94

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That smear against Bernie was pretty easy when there are like a dozen videos of Bernie praising communism, being sad that Reagan was so popular in Russia in the 80's, thinking Castro was a really great guy, or generally publicly sucking up to the USSR or USSR clients.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is not the same entity as the Russian Federation, two totally different political entities with not that much in common (except maybe KGB/FSB). Usually socialist in the west, that supported the USSR, are anti-Russia today because the perceive Russia as nationalistic and conservative. It is okay to criticize Sanders past political praise of USSR, but mixing that up with Russia today…

USSR was a Communist expansionist, militaristic authoritarian tyranny. Russian Federation is a oligopoly market-based, expansionist, militaristic authoritarian tyranny composed of largely the same people.

The current President of Russia (and now dictator for life) dislikes communism because it was an economic failure that didn't sustain his dictatorship.

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bumbledraven wrote: post #37
shockeychap wrote: post #19

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Apple has always bragged about iMessage content being end-to-end encrypted, and thus inaccessible even to Apple. Why aren't they doing the same with email and other files, like other providers? (ProtonMail, to name one example)

modeless wrote here in Feb, 2021 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778758 ) : > It's also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, and the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the "end-to-end" encryption in iMessage is defeated. Apple and by extension the FBI can read your messages. This is documented by Apple here: https://support.a…

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Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by smoldesu »

thunkshift1 wrote: post #137

Why is fbi interested? Can anyone explain

Likely private interests. With college-running mafiosos breathing down their neck, I'm sure the US government has no trouble justifying the seizure of someone's personal information.
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