Post #1197695
2025-03-20 21:58 UTC
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@RoyBrander@urbanists.social 2025-03-20 22:43
@teledyn @Paulatics @dkmackinnon If you grab everything, the copy runs faster, that might be simplest. It barely rises to the level of "AI" to write a program that looks at folder names, email-titles, searches every byte of text for keywords or word-combinations; using a database of 10,000 confiscated phones to know every trick every drug dealer ever tried, and of course every smuggler. Tries top 1000 passwords. Their every rule-of-thumb encoded in the program. While U wait!
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca 2025-03-20 22:57
@RoyBrander #Panopticon seems a far more likely culprit. Positive ID in the crowd, and so targeted not for merely seeming 'lefty' but as was said before, because they already had a dossier. @Paulatics @dkmackinnon
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@RoyBrander@urbanists.social 2025-03-20 22:57
@teledyn @Paulatics @dkmackinnon I'm your basic IT engineer who happens to know a bunch of the "OpenBSD" security guys, but not a security professional. You might read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/18/phone-data-privacy-customs/ ...they keep the phone image in a database for 15 years. I was giving the technical time-needed, but Newsweek says they take 30 minutes in practice. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/what-if-u-s-border-agents-ask-your-cellphone-n742511 ..article notes how rare it is, bringing us back to my post that it may become more common now, because it's getting easier.