They’ll reverse the decision when those teens start saying “Stop Genocide” on social media.

100% guaranteed.

I mean with physical access.

People living with you.

Or when you want to travel (domestically).

Someone who doesn’t need much experience can access the hard drive / SSD and replace the bootloader.

I know it probably doesn’t happen often, but this is more of a personal fear thing, I have trust issues with people.

Living alone is too expensive and thus I either have to stick with family, or split rent with random strangers as roommates, not to mention, some landlords can be creepy and do weird things. I don’t have trusted friends who can like live with me as a roomate and split the rent.

So anyways, I’m with parents, and I want evil-maid protections for peace of mind, since I can’t afford to live alone. (I mean like they are not dangerous criminals or anything like that, they’re just fucking nosey and I don’t like to find out how much do they want to spy on my online activities).

For phones, its already too locked-down and hard to modify so I’ll just trust the verified boot to do it’s job.

For computers, its too easy to edit the bootloader on the disk. So I think putting the botloader on such an encrypted USB and put it in read-only mode would protect against tampering with the bootloader.

I probably sound paranoid af right?

Basically, my threat model prioritizes preventing weirdos fucking with my electronics more than anyone else.

I was thinking more of like a Tamper-Resistant Boot Drive with a computer being Full Disk Encrypted, And I basically phisically carve my signature into the Hardware-Encrypted drive and always check to make sure its mine and that it hasn’t been replaced, then I unlock it in Read-Only mode, then I plug into a computer to select the bootloader on the USB drive to turn on the computer.

Basically its a Evil-Maid-Resistant setup.

Of course, someone with actual NSA or FSB skills are gonna get in, but its just so the average script-kiddie can’t just download some tampered bootloader online and easily replace the bootloader.

And also I can store like a Linux Distro and Windows installation media on there and know its its much more difficult to tamper with.

Does this work against the threat?

Nice try, glowie

I wouldn’t use that term, it has a… problematic history:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

Etymology

From glow +‎ -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that “CIA [N-Slur] glow in the dark”, implying that they are conspicuous. The term “glowie” would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.

Not sure if a mobile device have that type of processing power lol

USA never even gave their court the power to strike laws down, its just a precedent, and precedents aren’t the constitution.

Besides, all it takes is 50 senators, and the senstors on the side that supports fascism represents people than their opposition. California has the same population as like 20+ republican states, but the those 20+ states have 20 times more senators.

The court is biased and favors the far-right.

The lesson is not “all constitutions are bad”, its “The Framers of the US Constitution sucked at their job or didn’t want a real fair constitution at all”

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That’s for next week’s episode when I have to go out in the field to do the investigation.

(Investigating the donut shop near the crime scene, that is 🍩)

In the c/Privacy community, people say e/OS isn’t as secure as Graphene OS. Although e/OS has better privacy compared to googled android, but apparantly worse security (late security patches).

Looks like somebody doesn’t understand sarcasm

Oh well… 🤷‍♂️

Collect at your local FBI office, of course.

Don’t worry its very safe, there are some very skilled agents right at the lobby to protect the the money… from the bad guys of course. All you have to do is just walk to the receptionist and ask for it. Looking forward to meeting you! 😉

Idk how to calculate that stuff, I just use the bureau’s Black Card and write it off as required expenses. What do I need GTA V for FBI work? Its not a Video Game, its a field operation simulator.

(But seriously tho: I’ve never paid for a movie ticket so I’m just randomly googling and doing a rough estimate)

I’m glad these exists, but remember that these only work as long as device manufacturers don’t lock the bootloaders.

Your country’s government could pass a law that requires bootloaders to be locked for “national security” reasons, and there’d probably not be much resistance since most people don’t even use custom roms. (Looking at you, USA and the autocratization)

Outdated image, these days we just remote into the FBI office, no FBI jacket needed.

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After examining the phone, the BBC confirmed that the censorship mechanisms were deeply embedded in its software.

Remember, this could happen in your country.

Its always “It Can’t Happen Here” until it does.

I think for books its easier to attribute credit to one person compared to like dozens of actors and extra crew to make a city scene in the movie look populated, or like multiple members of a band. Books are just one person responsible for all of it. If the author is good you support them. Where as, sometimes a movie is good, but then one of those producers/script-writers/actors turns out rotten with bad politics (like bigotry) then your support is kinda of goes towards their royalties and fame. With one person, its much easier to research their politics to support them, and simultaneouly easier to organize a boycott writers for their bigotry.

Nah fuck it. I yaRrr’ed the pirates of the caribbean movies, fuck the mouse.

Participating in this community is practically admission already.

There are millions of us in the US, tens of millions of us worldwide. Are they gonna sue/jail us all?

The question is up to interpetation.

The $5000 estimate is if the law catched up to me right now after the fact. For me personally, if piracy weren’t a thing, I probably wouldn’t have spend much on entertainment and would’ve just been reading wikis for the story, and only pay to watch something if the story is really good and has good reviews. 90% of the stuff I watched now would probably never would’ve watched in that other timeline.

As for video games, I would’ve only been play free-to-play games and watching youtube playthroughs.

Probably wouldn’t understand a lot of memes. But then again, if piracy werent a thing, many other people also wouldn’t understand those memes.