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Feds: We're Pulling Data From 100 Phones Seized During Trump Inauguration (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In new filings, prosecutors told a court in Washington, DC that within the coming weeks, they expect to extract all data from the seized cellphones of more than 100 allegedly violent protesters arrested during the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Prosecutors also said that this search is validated by recently issued warrants. The court filing, which was first reported Wednesday by BuzzFeed News, states that approximately half of the protestors prosecuted with rioting or inciting a riot had their phones taken by authorities. Prosecutors hope to uncover any evidence relevant to the case. Under normal judicial procedures, the feds have vowed to share such data with defense attorneys and to delete all irrelevant data. "All of the Rioter Cell Phones were locked, which requires more time-sensitive efforts to try to obtain the data," Jennifer Kerkhoff, an assistant United States attorney, wrote. Such phone extraction is common by law enforcement nationwide using hardware and software created by Cellebrite and other similar firms. Pulling data off phones is likely more difficult under fully updated iPhones and Android devices.
They confiscated all of their diaries. One of them didn't get confiscated though, and became a best seller.
...if you're going to a protest, bring a burner phone. Bonus points if you set the wallpaper to goatse.
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became violent protestors during his inauguration? WTF did the man even say?
yes, only applied to the women in the office. But still. I read it online, so you know damn well it's TRUE!
Look bad? Nah. This is the new normal.
But at least for one, Putin is not somehow DIRECTLY involved.
Feds gain access to cell phones which may provide evidence of Trump's link to Russian election hacking
-CNN
First poost! So, just what is a Rioter Cell Phone (in caps in OP for some reason), and does it run a special version software?
Fully updated iPhones more secure.
All of the Rioter Cell Phones were locked, which requires more time-sensitive efforts to try to obtain the data," Jennifer Kerkhoff, an assistant United States attorney, wrote.
Every last one of the seized phones were locked? That seems hardly representative of the general population, although I suppose "violent protesters" may indeed be more security conscious.
Jennifer Kerkhoff. J. Kerkhoff. I mean, no surprise in her career selection of prosecuting attorney after what must've been some pretty tough early years in school.
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Or better yet, just don't violently riot because your candidate fairly lost an election.
Time and time again we've seen recent leftist-organized protests turn violent. This inauguration rioting is just one case. Another notable case is that of the Ferguson rioting that occurred near St. Louis several years ago.
The Ferguson case is particularly absurd, because there was absolutely no basis for the protests to begin with. A thug violently attacked a police officer who was investigating a violent robbery perpetrated by that thug. The police officer did the only reasonable thing given the circumstances and the violence of the attack, and defended himself using deadly force. Leftists threw an unjustified shit fit over this justifiable act of self defense, they rioted, and serious property damage resulted.
Another case involved the riots in Baltimore during 2015.
If leftists chose to practice peaceful, civilized protesting, then they wouldn't devolve into riots so often. If they didn't devolve into riots so often, then these leftists wouldn't find themselves being arrested and their phones confiscated.
It's right there in the summary, you don't even have to click through.
approximately half of the protestors prosecuted with rioting or inciting a riot had their phones taken by authorities
... so we need to find something we can charge them with and also suck up all their contacts so we can watch them too.
Can we say RICO?
If they can establish the violence was planned and coordinated, how many years is that?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
The one saying she would get on her knees if you voted the way she wanted was not Trump
Side note: Liberals are so stupid Snopes had to actually cover this item to explain it was not a real offer....
Snopes is going soft though; no coverage of the veracity on her level of eye contact or swallowing.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Setting fires to cars and smashing windows is not a "protest".
You would think criminals would already know to use burner phones...
But then how would these gangsters be able to adequately send a selfie to Instagram in front of a smashed up store or burning vehicle? The cameras on burner phones suck, not to mention it would't have your Starbucks card loaded.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
DC Police have been going though all the available tape, identifying the protesters that broke the law then pressing felony charges.
My guess is they are going to grab all the pictures and video off their phones to see if they can ID a few more folks to charge and amass more evidence for the cases they have already charged..
My advice is.... If you intend to go protest, don't break the law.... If you choose to ignore my advice, I suggest you not take photos and videos of the proceedings and leave your electronic devices (Cell phones, tablets, cameras...) at home. Remember, if you get arrested and they think they have probable cause, they are going to be given a warrant to search your stuff and there won't be much you can do about it.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
At first I thought this is some real progress! Wow, faith in my country restored! Then I continued reading and found out the phones were seized from protesters and not the trump administration.
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Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
I don't know what 'violently protesting' means, but if they didn't assault another person, if they didn't cause property damage to an individual, then there is no crime.
From what i remember, the only 'violence' at trumps inauguration was a single limousine being set ablaze. Whoever did that should of course be found and jailed for arson. But I sincerely doubt this crime is what the prosecutor is going after.
Hunt them all down. Disappear them. Turn them into lab rats for mind control experiments / chemically induced character reformation or just anything that would normally be considered unethical. Black Bloc / socialists ARE Maoists, communists, fascists, mass-murderers-in-waiting. Where do you THINK histories real genocidal / politicidal mass-murderers are drawn from ? It's always Social Engineering Uptopians with a hunger for violence, jacked up on self righteousness, fueled by a Manichean view of reality, thinking in absolutes.
Why should we wait until leftist-genocide repeats itself? We recognize it's footprints. We've seen what it did in the Soviet Union, in Communist China, in Cambodia in Nazi Germany. Collectivist Uptopians are a disease, are literally infected with a disease which will spread and, once again, kill hundreds of millions or perhaps billions this time.
Stop it dead. Take the gloves off. Nothing is out of bounds.
Do it.
You didn't really think they'd just stop at cracking the phones of terrerists / lone gunmen shooters and child pornographers, did you?
There are companies that make "plain" cell phones that do nothing but send and receive calls.
They are mostly marketed to people who want "a land line in their pocket." One even advertises "it has dial tone!" (oooh, ahhh, shiney!).
If the feds seize a phone like this, all they will get is the electronic serial number an, consequently, your phone number and whatever they can get with that information. They won't get anything else useful of the phone itself.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Cellebrite was hacked, their data and methods exposed. Why would anyone trust them again?
From:
Friday, January 20, 2017 The Metropolitan Police Department announced an arrest has been made in a Conspiracy to Commit an Assault offense that occurred in the 500 block of 14th Street, Northwest. After a thorough investigation, it was determined that several individuals made plans to disrupt inauguration activities in an unlawful way. On Thursday, January 19, 2017, pursuant to a DC Superior Court arrest warrant, 34-year-old Scott Ryan Charney of Northwest, DC, was arrested in the area of 14th and Newton Streets, Northwest, and charged with Conspiracy to Commit an Assault. This investigation is ongoing. There are other individuals involved in the conspiracy, and they are still outstanding.
This was in connection with the extremist group DisruptJ20, who were caught on tape and exposed plotting to chain DC metro trains and disrupt Trump's inaugural party. Seems like there is a good chance that evidence of this conspiracy will be searched for on these confiscated phones.
The people arrested didn't seem to be the deluge of selfie taking people. The recommendation should be to simply not be violent at a protest so that you are not arrested, which results in the confiscation of your phone (and generally a good chuck of cash, and perhaps anal virginity).
I'm probably one of the most pro Free Speech people you will ever meet. Free Speech does not include any form of violence. See the Non Aggression Principle
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
See my subject: Who got BITCHSLAPPED & BANNED from the whitehouse by our great President Trump? CNN (arstechnica), lmao...
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(The VERY FAKE news!)
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Obviously an organized protest. Should be interesting.
republicans wanted to impeach because he lied.
republican don't give a shit that the donald lies every time he opens his mouth - republicans don't care that he loves, yes LOVES, putin - republicans lie to cover for trump and all this.
Facts surrounding "the Holocaust" must be true, why else would half of Europe be locking people up for bringing the topic up for discussion?
TRUTH fears no investigation.
Berkley riots, 0 arrests. The amount of people arrested for rioting in DC was tiny compared to the amount of people committing violent acts. The same can be said for virtually all of the leftist rioters, where politicians told law enforcement to stand down at all costs. Plenty of videos from all of those selfie grabbers prove my point and disprove your claim of corrupt law enforcers wading through crowds making false claims.
You are being intellectually and factually dishonest. Will you next start claiming "hands up don't shoot" was real and chanting BLM chants? Trayvon Martin was just an 8 year old like the pictures they put on the news, and Zimmerman was a mean white guy? Fucktard...
Maybe not.
Your time gets wasted a lot as well answering questions.
As an (old) example Steve Jackson Games employees had a lot of trouble over the "GURPS Cyberpunk" game rules after a Secret Service raid despite it being extremely obvious fantasy/SF (1990, so the computer you are using today would have been wild SF let alone cyberpunk stuff).
http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
Your obvious fabrication, selectively quoted, could end up resulting in serious prison time for you if it looks like somebody can get a promotion for catching conspiritators.
Thinking about it as if you are going to be dealing with an ideal justice system is probably a very bad idea. I'd say expect less comic book more Kafka (or similar eastern european writer describing a corrupt justice system).
You mean there were at least 100 people there. With phones? You mean there are at least 100 Trump supporters who can walk, chew gum, and operate a phone?
I admit I'm actually surprised.
They had cameras everywhere, and they saw all of it happen, but all they can do is claim that these people allegedly might have been violent?
I smell bullshit.
What a complete waste of money, waste of time. Are they gonna spend another 11 million or whatever dollars on hacking these iPhones?
But that's quite different than just crying "We've been lied too! It never happened!". If you have serious doubts, that's fine. State the doubts, state which specific claims you find doubtful, state, how to investigate the claims and which result would you convince that the claims are actually true. Everything else is just denial, as Henri Poincaré rightfully said: "To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
Facts surrounding "the Holocaust" must be true, why else would half of Europe be locking people up for bringing the topic up for discussion?
TRUTH fears no investigation.
Because "progressive" Europhiles always claim fascism is descending on the US.
But it always seems to land in Europe.
They are a bunch of welfare leeching Leftist scumbags who think that the way to prove they are right is by physically attacking anybody who disagrees with them, and that's exactly what is happening now on a weekly basis in the U.S., where anybody who goes to a pro Trump rally/public meeting is at risk of being physically assaulted by the new brownshirts. It proves they are wrong. Anybody who has to silence people who disagree with them is openly admitting that they know they are wrong, and can't even debate their own position. Anybody who uses the word "racist" is the same.
I doubt there were that many at Trump's inauguration.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
The locking up claim is a hoax designed to create sympathy for holocaust deniers.
If this is truly the "perspective of conservatives", then from the perspective of this moderate Independent, you're all fucking insane, truly living in a fiction of your own creation. Let's examine:
"mountains of snark, arrogance, and sarcasm"? Seriously?
"labelled any opponent of his policies a racist" Fucking seriously? What fucking planet are you living on and where do they keep your meds?
This comment is my opinion and does not represent an official position of Donald Trump or others I do not work for
You don't need to unlock or even have a SIM card inserted at all to call emergency on a mobile/cell phone. As long as it it powered on and can pickup any network it should work.
Even if there is no network it will keep trying.
Educating everybody including kids about this is important.