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FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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I can atleast still voice against Israeli genocide there. I am good for now.

How many people do you think see those tweets, how many minds do you think you have changed, and at what mental cost to yourself?

What's the point of these questions? Seems like, "what's the point of dissent if the cards are stacked against you?"

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password. https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20 The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.

Allowed to require - very mildly constructed sentence, which could include torture or force abuse...

https://xkcd.com/538/

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Even if his total contribution is positive, his current contribution is quite bad. And most of that bad has been tied directly to x.

I can atleast still voice against Israeli genocide there. I am good for now.

He was begging to go party with someone that spent time in prison for child exploitation.

That in itself should make you hate the dude.

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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I can atleast still voice against Israeli genocide there. I am good for now.

He was begging to go party with someone that spent time in prison for child exploitation. That in itself should make you hate the dude.

Yup. Hate him as person. But he is still net positive with his scientific/engineering contributions, is he not?

Wasn't Edison an asshole?

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password. https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20 The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.

As if the government is not above breaking the law and using rubber hose decryption. The current administration’s justice department has been caught lying left and right

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Maybe. I don't think we yet have a good understanding of how many deaths he will have caused as a result of DOGE so abruptly cutting off assistance to so many vulnerable people around the world, but I've heard estimates hover around 600,000. Assuming that number turns out to be close to reality, how do you weigh so many unnecessary deaths against VTL rockets and the electric cars? Perhaps a practitioner of Effective…

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Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password. https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20 The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.

They can hold you in contempt for 18 months for not giving your password, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-... .

That's a very unusual and narrow exception involving "foregone conclusion doctrine", an important fact missed by Ars Technica but elaborated on by AP: https://apnews.com/general-news-49da3a1e71f74e1c98012611aedc...

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Sad, neither of those works on Android. Pressing the power button activates the emergency call screen with a countdown to call emergency services, and power + volume either just takes a screenshot or enables vibrations/haptics depending on which volume button you press.

On Pixel phones, Power + Volume Up retrieves a menu where you can select "Lockdown".

Not on my Pixel phone, that just sets it to vibrate instead of ring. Holding down the power button retrieves a menu where you can select "Lockdown".

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Oh wow, just going into the "should I shutdown" menu also goes into pre-boot lock state? I didn't know that.

It doesn't reenter a BFU state, but it requires a passcode for the next unlock.

It's close enough, because (most of) the encryption keys are wiped from memory every time the device is locked, and this action makes the secure enclave require PIN authentication to release them again.

Re: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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Reminder that you can press the iPhone power button five times to require passcode for the next unlock.

In case anyone is wondering: In newer versions of MacOS, the user must log out to require a password. Locking screen no longer requires password if Touch ID is enabled.

Settings -> lock screen -> “Require password after screen saver begins or display is turned off”
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