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

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Post by spankyspangler »

Paradigma11 wrote: post #77
spankyspangler wrote: post #28

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Not just a presidential candidate, but a president. Did you know that after all those years of investigations, all those years of the house intelligence committee chairman and others insisting that there was "ample evidence" that Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election... in the end, The Mueller report admitted that no evidence was ever found to substantiate Trump or his associates or campaign ever working wit…

Trumps campaign manager Manafort worked for some shady ukrain/russian oligarchs. Trumps future NSA worked for the turks the whole campaign. Trumps son arranged a meeting between the campaign and representatives of the criminal russian influence campaign. It really seems like they were not able to establish an effective cooperation but would you not want the FBI to investigate such cicumstances?

The Muller investigation was able to produce no evidence of a criminal conspiracy or collusion. Doesn't it strike you that the response was a bit overblown then, in that case, knowing now that the whole time it was all going on, nobody had any actual evidence?

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Post by ric2b »

ibigb wrote: post #238
solaarphunk wrote: post #211

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It’s worth noting that if you use iMessage for MacOS, all of your messages are stored unencrypted, in plain text, on your computer HD.

I'd guess most macos systems (laptops) have encrypted hard drives.

That protects you in the case of physical theft but not from any other program you run exfiltrating the data.

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Post by aeontech »

CRConrad wrote: post #296
aeontech wrote: post #26

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You can certainly use E2E encryption (ie, S/MIME) for your email, whether it's using Apple Mail or not. I'm not sure what you suggest Apple can do about it if you don't use PGP/GPG on your side though (and yes, you can use S/MIME for email both with iOS and macOS). How Apple CloudKit security works is documented [0] and what Apple can provide to the law enforcement is pretty easily googleable [1], and has been subjec…

> You can certainly use E2E encryption (ie, S/MIME) for your email, whether it's using Apple Mail or not. I'm not sure what you suggest Apple can do about it if you don't use PGP/GPG on your side though (and yes, you can use S/MIME for email both with iOS and macOS). What Apple could do seems fairly obvious: Build it into their mail client and enable it by default, no?

> Build it into their mail client and enable it by default, no?

Support for S/MIME _is_ built into the client. The user has to configure their certificate keypairs, that part is not under the OS’s control (unless I’m missing something)

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Post by avh02 »

MathYouF wrote: post #310
avh02 wrote: post #297

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personally, i listen to mostly informational podcasts (darknet diaries, select episodes of freakonomics, selfhosted, etc) - even if there's a story setup to it, it's not really what i'm there for - i'm not a genius or anything but usually don't need an artificial pause and consideration time - if i really need it i'll pause it myself or rewind briefly to listen to something again. I tend to listen to podcasts when i…

It's interesting you view those as informational because I see them as narrative stories. Also you might think you don't need the time to ponder but you don't know what you've missed by not taking the time the show makers decided to put in there for pause. Also changing the speed changes their voice and therefore some subte things about the delivery. Pure information media is like Strangs Linear Algebra course or som…

haven't listened to radiolab in a while so can't remember off the top of my head what speed i'd put it at - but i think the difficulty there with speeding it up is how much they intersperse and cut things in to each other.

I mean, yeah, these are narratives - sometimes i like that and sometimes i just want the juice. If i can't keep up with it i obviously slow it down. If i find my mind has wandered i'll pause/rewind - if that keeps happening i'll stop and come back to it another time cos i'm obviously not giving it enough attention.

I'm not pretending to be a genius but English is native to me and I have tangential knowledge of what they're talking about already often enough so it's rare I have to hang on every word and ponder every implication.

I tend to adjust speed depending on 1) what i'm doing and 2) how noisy it is around me/how well i can focus/hear what they're saying. If i'm not keeping up or it's way too much effort, i slow down. That said, I'm never past 1.5x cos i just don't enjoy straining.

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Post by curryst »

dane-pgp wrote: post #245
daperor630 wrote: post #179

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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.

If a country's constitution has the possibility of being interpreted in such a way that non-citizens outside its borders are entitled to zero protections, then that option should be rejected under a generalised version of what has been called "the Auschwitz rule of interpretation": "in case there are two plausible interpretations of the text of a human rights treaty, one should favour that interpretation under which…

I disagree with using "the Auschwitz rule of interpretation". The first reason is that it's the rhetorical equivalent of comparing someone to a Nazi. It immediately escalates the discussion to a comparison with one of the worst things humanity has done.

The second is that it is either pointless, or creates a mess of international affairs. It disregards national sovereignty, so either we're going to do something about it every time another nation encroaches on what we consider natural rights (probably meaning war), or we're not going to do anything about it in which case it was a pointless exercise.

Your text actually says "treaty" though, which implies an international context. It makes more sense in that context because national sovereignty still exists.

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Post by freebuju »

koheripbal wrote: post #316
freebuju wrote: post #293

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Why not slim down the number of podcasts?

Why not learn less? Why would I do that?

Unless you are some anomaly with super memory abilities, speeding through 10 different podcasts won't make the day any shorter (or longer).

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Post by CRConrad »

aeontech wrote: post #313
CRConrad wrote: post #296

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> You can certainly use E2E encryption (ie, S/MIME) for your email, whether it's using Apple Mail or not. I'm not sure what you suggest Apple can do about it if you don't use PGP/GPG on your side though (and yes, you can use S/MIME for email both with iOS and macOS). What Apple could do seems fairly obvious: Build it into their mail client and enable it by default, no?

> Build it into their mail client and enable it by default, no? Support for S/MIME _is_ built into the client. The user has to configure their certificate keypairs, that part is not under the OS’s control (unless I’m missing something)

So, enable it by default and make setting up keys part of the mail client setup?

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Post by xtat »

mc32 wrote: post #8

Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…

I was skeptical that apple was doing it for positive privacy publicity in the SB case and it continues to be the case. Many well meaning people think they have their back as a result. The illusion of security is worse than no security, etc etc

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Post by chaosharmonic »

spankyspangler wrote: post #309
chaosharmonic wrote: post #199

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It's also new for a presidential candidate to literally ask for their assistance on live TV.

This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kxG8uJUsWU Clearly a joke at the expense of the ineptitude of his opponent's campaign. The fact people point to this as their "evidence" is pretty clearly desperation and self-delusion. There was no evidence. You were lied to.

Right, because it's not like he's lied about this specific event in campaign speeches[0], or specifically asked a foreign power to assist in digging up dirt on an opponent on live TV more than once[1] or anything...

[0] https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1310009283401187330

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Q67tAUiMg

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