Ban duress, as a software architect I can go all day long with you fucks. Ok we will just have a scrolling list of millions of usernames then. Login and logout will have forced device-level timers such that only one account and be logged into or out of per 12 hour window. Root level partition encrypted, each user folder a separate container encrypted. Each home folder holds a 50mb random blob of data too.

There we go. You want to search? Ok then here's millions of little boxes for you to search. Have fun!

No its more like that skit where the guy is in cuffs and the cop has the baggie right before the guy flushes it and the guy tells the cop, "every time I flush this it comes right back in my hand, can't believe it". Cop doesn't believe him. They go back and forth. Eventually the cop to prove him wrong, throws the baggie in the toilet and flushes it. Then he tells the guy "See no drugs in your hands". And the guy responds, right, so why are you trying to arrest me?

Clever gag. This is that. The dude tricked the cop into deleting the phone.

How did he do that while in their control? Wasn't he handcuffed? How did he get over to the phone to delete stuff? Sounds like he tricked someone else into doing something. That person really shouldn't have tampered with evidence like that. Lets charge the cop.

Tiktok is the sound of a time ticking, time when the internet is moving on while you are left behind.

MSI Spark. Thank me later.

To think, I used to be jealous of domains. Windows 2000 era domains were just serious and interesting. As a linux nerd there wasn't really anything as simple to manage a ton of computers. Setting policy on a ton of various things in a central place with roaming and local profiles. LDAP on unix was still not as fun even if more powerful.

Then here I am today in 2026 thinking they are throwing away the last thing they were good at. Pissing off the enterprise customers is going to make a lot of people unhappy. Now windows management is split between multiple places, different tools, migration utilities, powershell, WSL, etc. It's a joke. I am look at it and just shake my head. It does nothing better these days. Clock is ticking.

Well written, props

Another democracy safeguard dismantled

2000 Insight 5spd. Still going strong, averaged 65mpg today on an hour drive with the AC on.

Mark my words, the banning is for preventing you from running something they havent pre-hacked with a national security letter. Currently one can just set up the edge of a network such that different countries devices that hate each other wall off the perimeter with the assumption that each likely contains a built-in back door, but the operators of each back door will not be able to bypass the next device in the series if by a hated country.

These bans really just prevent THAT.

Still upset over removal of 3rd party clients. Screw you Steve.

Looks like he wants their face⦠off.

Those memes are still great.

Mantrapping laws have zero relevance here. Boobytraps hurt innocent people, duress passcodes dont.

Did you coin this? I googled and found zilch.

Was he NOT in custody? How could he have done this? Like if he was in custody then using his voice can't be illegal. If he told the officer to go shred the incriminating evidence and they did would he be liable then?

This is on some borders that have not been well defined. For one suspects are seized and forced to supposedly compel speech. It is literally a compelled speech under duress which means anything setup on his device to detect that which was done prior to the encounter simply falls under the guise of organizing one's effects in ways not easily understood (encryption) along with an officer believing that entering the suspects compelled speech into it would only have the device perform certain "allowed" actions (which haven't been defined) rather than "undesired actions" which it DID when it detected the duress.

This is about the same as having a secret converted into binary, then expressing that as quarters sitting on my counter where heads is 1, tails is a 0. If my quarters are discovered by the police and they ask my method of organizing them... am I in violation if I say that swiping them all on the floor at the same time will produce the hidden message if the officer then *does that* and it destroys the remaining hidden meaning?

Their search was not blocked. They got to see the encrypted data (the quarters), they got to lock me up and prevent *me myself* from touching the scene or evidence. If my compelled instructions resulted in an officer wiping the data and not me, am I liable?

This raises all sorts of questions the police actually don't have power to raise. Power grabs at every turn.