It was the same with Kuro5hin --- i read for a while but eventually some form of right-wing pestilence took hold and that was it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The first step towards a Berry Amendment for semiconductors. Chips are a much bigger national security issue than socks.

and i wanna stay at home, where things get done efficiently

Is the WhatFreeWords software available anywhere?

incidentally, those are the same countries that spell it "armour" and assume that cops are the only people to have been in the military

Why are you posting as AC? Because, actual coward? Or just lazy? Have you read the actual EO?

They were on their porch, which is very much part of their house and not "accessible to the public"
There was no curfew violation.

For the lazy:

https://mn.gov/governor/assets...

For these reasons, I order as follows:
1. Nighttime Curfew. A curfew is imposed in all public places within the City of
Minneapolis and the City of Saint Paul during the following times:

And

b. For the purposes of this Executive Order, a “public place” is any place,
whether on privately or publicly owned property, accessible to the general
public, including but not limited to public streets and roads, alleys, highways,
driveways, sidewalks, parks, vacant lots, and unsupervised property.

You are flat-out WRONG. A porch is not a public space. It is part of the house. Not "accessible to the general public"

It is not a public space and is not subject to the curfew. Cite an actual source to the contrary if you can.

You are right about the FAQ though -- it's just a FAQ. The authorative source is the Executive Order. Which is not a law.

https://mn.gov/governor/assets...

For these reasons, I order as follows:
1. Nighttime Curfew. A curfew is imposed in all public places within the City of
Minneapolis and the City of Saint Paul during the following times:

And

b. For the purposes of this Executive Order, a “public place” is any place,
whether on privately or publicly owned property, accessible to the general
public, including but not limited to public streets and roads, alleys, highways,
driveways, sidewalks, parks, vacant lots, and unsupervised property.

They're NOT trained like soldiers, and that's a problem.

Infantry in Iraq and Afghanistan had better compliance with ROE and also have an established process for fair review of incidents. Soldiers are held accountable for their illegal actions. Police generally are not.

I agree. All of the current protesters should be open-carry their weapon of choice.

An armed society is a polite society

You're making good points, but why are you so fixated on the cellphone?

It's pretty obvious that any airgap room is not going to allow cell phones (or windows for that matter) but getting audio out is a far easier task than data.

The first step of getting it out of the computer is the hardest, and converting it to an airgapped format that's discounted because the relevant audio hardware is deleted --- it's a good idea. In this academic proof of concept, the task of reading and exfil the audio is left for the student. It's a much more mature field as you pointed out.

The software is the hard part, as anyone airgapping will (i hope) be far more attentive to the software than minor invisible hardware changes. It should very much be read-only for the OS/boot partition with checksums at every boot and in memory periodically. Booting from DVD-R is slow but it absolutely prevents unauthorized changes to the system.

A simpler attack against an unsophisticated target is via the powerline, reading the data directly on the building wiring.

A decently paranoid setup will use a motor-generator set (or similar) to isolate the power.

Wasn't it an Israeli commercial company that unlocked the "unbreakable" iPhone for the FBI.

National-level agencies and well-funded commercial / non-government actors are already more capable than this. Is it a threat to the everyday company/user? Hell naw. Is it practical? Nope. Is it possible with the right motivation? I think so.

Is it (or similar) already in practice? Probably.