Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do? Seriously Sci-Hub is more of a public good than a serious threat to the US.
FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
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#172I assume that when the FBI sends a request to a tech company about a user, they probably also contact lots of other tech companies too about the same user... Which raises the question: Where is the Google notification about the FBI request... How about the Facebook notification? The VK or OK notification? How about the Twitter notification? Did these tech companies hand over data without notice, even though the order…
Legal requests need at least one unique identifier to make a request. First and last name is rarely enough; there are too many people with the same name and the proper response to that kind of request is "we can't identify a unique subscriber with that information". Email addresses, user IDs, phone numbers, profile urls, screen names, etc. are the kinds of unique identifiers for specific service providers. Not every online service records phone number or email address though, so identifiers are generally chosen specifically for each service when making a legal request.
https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/ if you pick the drop-down for Account shows about a 60% success rate; in the other 40% of cases there's nothing to alert a user about because no data was produced, for a few possible reasons. The legal team comes up with a review process for requests and how to respond to each kind under different circumstances. Presumably Google and Facebook have similar transparency reports.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
[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.
I see! I misread
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What information to whom?
Treasury: Manafort associate passed 'sensitive' campaign data to Russian intelligence [1] The government finally connects the line from Trump’s campaign to Russian intelligence [2] [1] https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/548447-treasury... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/15/governmen...
Thanks. Manafort seems to be a dirty player and I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in some shady businesses with people you shouldn't associate with, however that report is based on one line taken from a press release from the Treasure Department providing zero evidence for that claim. I will keep my skepticism on until more evidence is shown.
Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald discusses this on the Grayzone
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Statutory or case law citation requested.
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Can you provide a source on that claim of polling data to Russian intelligence?
I googled "polling data to Russian intelligence" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-paul-manafort-russia...
Thanks. Answered this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27156995
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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.
Well it's a good thing this has already been settled in a court of law then. No sense in arguing it online if our wonderful nation has already made an official ruling.
Yes, it went to full trial in the senate. Where he was ultimately not found guilty. The legal process played out.
But not before the prosecuting team was found to have been doctoring evidence against him. By adding a blue checkmark to tweets, they were then using to try and convict him. Its what happens when people try to use the ends justifies the means thinking.
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It is technically impossible to end-to-end encrypt email.
PGP begs to differ.
Anyone who's worked on the PGP project would be the first to tell you that PGP does not and cannot encrypt the email's metadata (to/from, subject, timestamps, etc).
All PGP does is encrypt the inner message body. All of the metadata that TLAs love to analyze is sent in the clear (at best inside a TLS connection, although the SMTP protocol unfortunately makes it incredibly easy for well-positioned network attackers to downgrade these connections to in the clear)
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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.
United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. 259 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that Fourth Amendment protections do not apply to searches and seizures by United States agents of property owned by a nonresident alien in a foreign country.
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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.
E2EE only applies to data in transit, not data at rest. Talking via E2EE chat client means only that third parties in between cannot read what you write. It doesn't imply the messages cannot be recovered from your device, or your conversation partner's device, and it definitely does not imply said partner can't just leak them, whether accidentally or on purpose. I'm not sure how E2EE came to be interpreted as to mean…
I think it's the colloquial meaning of "end", as in "be all end all". I'd think something like "full in-transit encryption" or even "phone to phone" would be clearer.