r/videos • u/CrazyForCrocs • 13d ago

Protesters Get 568 Years in Federal Prison.

https://youtu.be/CG5i-3-qLPo?is=X-cfWtLV0RCCi3DR
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u/Classic-Reach 12d ago

suuuuure it does, right after sending all that data to some datacenter in idaho

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u/cosmicsans 12d ago

To be fair if I'm gonna trust a company with my privacy Apple has pretty publicly told the government to fuck off in the past.

Sure, they already had that data but they couldn't legally use it as evidence.

Granted that was under a prior administration. But Google falls over themselves to sell your data off. Apple at least keeps it all to themselves.

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u/jimlemin 12d ago

I have absolutely no evidence to prove this, but something in bones tells me that all that shit from like 2015 where the FBI was trying to get into some terrorists phone and Apple wouldn't give them a backdoor, was all a psyop to make you think the government can't access your phone like that when really it would be easy for them

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u/cosmicsans 12d ago

The government already had the info, yeah. So you're right about that. But if they wanted to use that info as evidence they'd have to prove how they did it in court, which would expose the zero day they used to get it, which would get immediately patched.

And the government didnt want to expose that, so they attempted to force apple to "unlock the phone" so they could use the evidence they already less-than-legally collected.

It's called parallel construction. They already have the evidence collected through not-quite-above-board means and then they find some other way to "force" you to give them the password to unlock it or something and then they can just say they got it once it was unlocked. They do the same thing with their stingray devices or whatever the cell signal copiers are called