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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.
You think the US Constitution of the United States* of America restricts what the US can do to non-citizens who aren't in the US at all? What possible reason could you have for that thought? Precedent is that protections like that are created by treaties like the Geneva Convention.
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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.
What is this based on? How do you know their capabilities?
Per published reports, they (and others) have exploits for many things, including many cryptography implementations.
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Ok, then: the US constitution only applies on US soil.
Also false. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/constitution-check-do-in... (Please try ... at least a little harder, people.)
You're being misleadingly pedantic.
This article is about people who are US citizens abroad, or foreigners who came to USA or who are under the jurisdiction (imprisonment) of territory controlled by the USA government.
Non-resident non-citizen non-present people violating US national security (rightly or wrongly, that's per the government's judgment) don't have Constitutional rights.
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Are we sure this actually happened? The only source I'm finding on this is Giuliani himself.
The government disclosed that they did this to Rudy's lawyer after the fact. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-feds-got-rudy-iclou... Rudy made a video detailing the FBI breach of his iCloud account. [Starts at the 18:30 minute mark] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcjaaBcmUVg
The "government" didn't make any such statement. A lawyer who was a longtime friend of Rudy came out and made a claim that was never corroborated or even acknowledged by the government, by the looks of it.
Remember, it'll be fine in the end. The RNC's push to eliminate domestic encryption ensures a future where everyone has access to Giuliani's iCloud!
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#155Google security in the face of a LE request: We'll need you to get a warrant, but here's a list of friendly judges with extremely efficient rubber stamps. We're here to serve you!!
Apple security in the face of a LE request: We'll need you to get a warrant.
The security we actually need and LE actually deserves: We'll need you to get a warrant, and then you can have access to that specific customer's E2E encrypted shitblob. Good luck.
Maybe that sort of security wouldn't be needed or deserved if our government was well intentioned and we had good laws and a functioning judicial system. But no...we have the world's top security agency that would rather hoard zero days than protect its citizens, law enforcement that will never respect constitutionally-protected rights, and judges that play along for political points and appointment nominations.
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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…
I have long since switched to only doing local encrypted backups, but for some reason it never clicked that of course all of my messages are included in other people's backups. Frustrating that its E2E with a bunch of caveats.
It's also how data collection still works if you personally 'block' it but communicate with others who don't.
Your messages, phone book, pictures you share with others etc. are still 'readable' on the remote end and thus still get collected. And if you connect the dots when you have a large collections your personal data can be reconstructed from that.
If you have persons A, B, C and D in your phone book, but your phone book is 'secret', it doesn't prevent someone from knowing that you know A to D if those still have you listed.
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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.
Soviet republics are gone, they are independent from the Soviet empire. Warsaw Pact does not exist, most of the old membership countries are part of EU now. All that military power is mostly gone.
Soviet was expansionist to spread communism around the world.
Russia interfere in countries that has a large Russian minority, like Crimea or Georgia. Not really the same as how the Soviet Union worked.
Russians can now travel freely. Orthodox Church is no longer forbidden.
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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.
If Rudy Guilliani is defending the democratically elected president of the United States, he should be beholden to the interests of the people. If our government has the legal ability to attain this data, this is a textbook example of how and why to use it.
This is mostly nonsense. The only legal duty of lawyer is to defend his client. No lawyer has the burden to be "beholden to the interests of the people" whatever double speak that means.
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#159Who have vested interests in stopping something like sci-hub?
I'm fairly certain that it's not the authors of the papers. Hiding away research behind paywalls and subscriptions is extremely weird and counter productive to free and open research.
If you know that a paper exists, you can just email the authors and ask if they'll send you a pdf. My guess is that most will just send it to you, along with instructions on how to correctly cite them.
Years ago I had a Danish university lawyer look at me weird and ask if I was serious, when I asked what right a public funded university had to sell a patent to a US company. My logic was, and still is, that Danish companies already paid for the research and the patent via their taxes, so they should be legally allowed to use it for free. Apparently it's crazy talk to assume that something paid for by the tax payers should actually belong to those tax payers.
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If the FBI can use the Russia thing on a presidential candidate, they can use it on anybody.
Let’s be real. There was a trump Russia thing. It’s beyond sketchy to have your campaign manager and his aid literally provide internal polling data to Russian intelligence. And Russia was undeniably trying to help trump win, and trump was undeniably pleased that was happening. I don’t get why people deny this happened.
Can you provide a source on that claim of polling data to Russian intelligence?