If you were cuffed during Trump's inauguration, cops are trying to crack your smartphone The inauguration of President Donald Trump in the US capital was marked by protests, with cops collaring more than 200 people on the day. Now court documents reveal the US government's efforts to crack the arrestees' locked phones and slurp their contents. The filings [PDF] – submitted to the Washington DC Superior Court – …
These self-described anarchists were charged with felony rioting. They broke windows, vandalized an ambulance, attacked police, tried to break into a bank. They set fire to a limousine. Some were charged with assaulting police officers.
They threw rocks and bricks at police, buildings, bystanders. Some bystanders ended up in the hospital. There was over $100,000 in damage. The average age of the protesters were 27 years old. On arrest, many already had expensive lawyers ready to come to their aid.
This was in DC on inauguration day. This is not a day to mess with police!
These were not peaceful protesters. These were people whose sole intention was violence. By law, you lose certain rights when arrested, especially if your intention was violence, violence, and more violence.
This organization is highly organized and this was not their first riot. The police have the right to uncover how they are organized so they can keep innocent people safe by preventing similar riots from these same people.
@redpawn: See the below link:
NBC News: More Than 100 Inauguration Day Protesters Indicted on Rioting Charges
Take a look at the video. "Protesters were armed with bricks and hammers...several police officers were attacked."
if they all had iphones (recant ones) and did not fess up the finger for more then 24 hours phone becomes pin locked only
but really if your Rioting they get what they deserve
in the UK once the first building was set on fire the Army should of come in and shot them with plastic bullets, Zip tied them up and in back of a van, taking 3 days to round up enough police officers was very poor
@leexgx
"in the UK once the first building was set on fire the Army should of come in and shot them with plastic bullets, Zip tied them up and in back of a van, taking 3 days to round up enough police officers was very poor"
Yeah, like that tactic worked a treat in Belfast and Derry in the early '70s, showed them who was boss and put them right back in their place
The hell with cell phones when your brain cells can spill their juicy thoughts.
Bill O'rights be damned. Unreasonable search and seizure, privacy, equal protection. Constitution. Flimsy pieces of paper.
"To Free the Oppressed"
For far too long, power has been concentrated in the hands of "root" and this "wheel" oligarchy.
They have attempted at instituting a dictatorship of the users through Digital Rights abuses.
All system administration functions will be handled by the People's Committee for Democratically Organizing the System (PC-DOS).
No longer will it be permissible for files and processes to be "owned" by users, thereby overflowing and "owning" it's users. All files and processes will own themselves, and decided how (or whether) to respond to requests from users.
The X Window System will henceforth be known as the NC-17 Window System.
And finally, UNIX itself will be renamed "PC" - for Pro-creatively Challenged.
UNIX(tm) is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories. Any similarity of names or attitudes to that of any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Re: Don't count on it...
The argument is not just about Cryptography and passwords, the argument is about "Code Purity" and Computer "Security" as people call it, when you understand that, then you understand the C Language and understand it can be weaponed as a virus ie: "Pthreads!"
Cops nowadays have specially shielded bags to put evidence phones into, to prevent remote access and wiping. Then the search/download is usually done inside a protective faraday cage room/case/bag to prevent the phone from receiving external wipe commands.
And how are you going to send the wipe command stripped of all your possessions and clothes, stuck in an unelasticated tyvex coverall and thrown into a holding cell?
. . . or just use a burner phone ??? If you're going to go where your phone is likely to get hacked, legally or not, you get a burner with minimal information on it.
Anyone who's ever been to DEFCON or Black Hat knows that, otherwise you're likely to end up on the Wall of Sheep . . . .
That's the great mystery...with "pay as you go" phones so easily acquired, why would anyone take their own phone with them? That was the weak point, as far as I'm concerned, with their much-hyped need to "break" the phones of people who died in murder sprees..."there might be evidence". Hello...if there was any, that phone was sent to the accomplice, and the criminal took a pay-go phone just to distract the cops, since having NO phone would make them suspicious.
if its a iphone turning the phone off is normal enough nowadays or don't give your finger for 24 or is it 48 hours then you have to use code
if its android you can encrypt the phone as well its best make sure you turn off the phone (if about to be arrested power off phone or restart or keep thinger on power button after 10 seconds the phone will power off or reboot) so they can't just break into the phone when its at the lock screen as quite easy to bypass screen lock on android when you got 3-6 letters in your name (if it's encrypted they need the code when the phone is booting up) neat trick is setting your phone to auto shutdown at set times (like 2am) so to prevent them from been able to accessing the data (unless they do it the moment they get there hands on the phone but i doubt they are that efficient
if you're under 18 you should teach your kids to never unlock your phone to police or school request unless you have a lawyer present as some of them are just out to catch you out on a technicality just for the sake of it (USA has some poor laws where between 15-18 where you're treated as a adult but not a adult at the same time, you can get yourself in trouble by having pictures of yourself on your own phone)
Yeah, I've heard about Serval Mesh and others like Bluetooth Chat, those are Open Source app's if I am not mistaken available from F-Droid and the guardian project too bad you have to pwn the phone with Linux first if you want to remove things like Java & Search and GAPP's and use real Linux on it with the BSD hardened "malloc" array.
Another worthwhile application is CHIPSEC! It allows you to flash information into the Microcode on microchip's, you can insert what-ever you like, including your own backdoor.c!
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