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> forced her finger on Touch ID per the warrant
She was not forced, and the warrant does not state that she could be forced. The warrant, almost certainly deliberately, uses far milder language.
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#12It seems unfortunate that enhanced protection against physically attached devices requires enabling a mode that is much broader, and sounds like it has a noticeable impact on device functionality.
I never attach my iPhone to anything that's not a power source. I would totally enable an "enhanced protection for external accessories" mode. But I'm not going to enable a general "Lockdown mode" that Apple tells me means my "device won’t function like it typically does"
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`hnrayst` seems to be another AI (?) bot account created in 2022 with only two comments, both being in this very thread we're in today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hnrayst
Something weird is going on at Hacker News recently. I've been noticing these more and more.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you disagree with the facts of the article? Or is it propaganda simply because the facts doesn't support your narrative and ideological inclinations?
Selective amplification of true events as well as selective reporting are bread and butter of modern propaganda. It works a lot better than saying outright falsehoods, which - in the long-term - cause people to lose faith in everything you have to say. And there's always someone jumping to your defense - after all you did not outright lie...
That is again a claim with no backing that can be applied to anything without actual data to back it up.
For example. I can just as equally state with the same data to back me up (ie: none as it stands right now) that you are a US government plant posting propaganda to encourage people to not use safer technologies and as a result make their data easier to spy on.
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#15Samsung phones have the Secure Folder which can have a different, more secure password and be encrypted when the phone is on.
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> forced her finger on Touch ID per the warrant She was not forced, and the warrant does not state that she could be forced. The warrant, almost certainly deliberately, uses far milder language.
What do you think warrants are? You think they get a warrant and they say, "Can you put your finger on the device?" You say, "No," and that's it? If all they wanted to do was ask you, they would just ask you without the warrant.
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> (forced her finger on Touch ID per the warrant)
Can anyone link a source for this? I’ve been seeing conflicting claims about this part.
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#18> Natanson said she does not use biometrics for her devices, but after investigators told her to try, “when she applied her index finger to the fingerprint reader, the laptop unlocked.” Curious.
Probably enabled it at some point and forgot. Perhaps even during setup when the computer was new.
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Does anyone know if iOS in lockdown mode stops syncing mail, imessage, call history etc to your other apple devices? I am wondering if reporter's stuff was all synced to the non lockdown MacBook from the iPhone
I can't imagine it would. The accounts don't flow through the phone you're just logged in to them on both devices.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> forced her finger on Touch ID per the warrant She was not forced, and the warrant does not state that she could be forced. The warrant, almost certainly deliberately, uses far milder language.
What do you think warrants are? You think they get a warrant and they say, "Can you put your finger on the device?" You say, "No," and that's it? If all they wanted to do was ask you, they would just ask you without the warrant.
I think you should simply try to read the warrant in question.