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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.

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  1. Re:That's what happened at Hitler's inauguration by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anne Frank's diary was written long after the end of WWII, using a ballpoint pen (which wasn't invented until after WWII)

    That is holocaust denialist BS that has been debunked:

    Anne wrote the body of her diary with a fountain pen. The only things written in ballpoint pen ink are two loose notes written by someone else and put with the papers later and some page numbers written on the sheets during the compilation process.

    There is a long history of neo-Nazis trying to discredit Anne's diaries, so in 1963 her defenders tracked down the arresting officer that led the raid on their hideout. He corroborated nearly everything that Anne's father had said.

  2. Re:That's what happened at Hitler's inauguration by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Informative

    Neo-Nazi B.S. de-bunked by an actual ex-Nazi!

    Actually, most Neo-Nazi BS is best debunked by actual Nazis. "The Holocaust never happened" is thoroughly debunked by Nazi testimony at Nuremberg. The defenses fell in one of two categories:

    1. Yes, I killed people, but I was just following orders, so I am not responsible.
    2. Yes, I gave orders, but I didn't actually kill anyone myself, so I am not responsible.

    But NONE of them use the defense, or ever claimed, that the killings didn't happen, or that the death camps didn't exist. No one claimed that until many years later.