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.

Well here near me is this famous school called Cranbrook. When I first moved to Michigan from a few states away my friend took me on a tour past the place. It was like a secret village in the woods with rolling hills and fancy stone fences for a few miles. The facility looked like something out of Harry Potter with little lofts and various little village like features everywhere. The view from the street in one specific spot showed a huge Greek column with fountains and statues near a marble staircase. We all marveled at how cool it must be to go there.

I looked it up later and the place is like $50K+ a semester for tuition. I later was talking about it to some folks at work and one of my developers (son of a CFO) said he went there all nonchalant like it was nothing. But he grew up in a $2 million dollar house and both parents were lawyers. I was born to parents making $3/hr in an apartment so umm yeah...

As a self taught self made dropout, these people look like fools to me. He sucked as a developer too.

He didn't wipe it, he was in custody. He was handcuffed and prevented from accessing it. Any data provided *could* and *was* used to defend him, including providing orders to his digital attorney.

Bingo.

What? Knowingly destroying data? He is in their custody. How could he do anything?

Do you mean he setup a device to honor him against illegal searches and it functioned as intended? He set that up before he knew about the illegal search so he hasn't done anything since except provide some speech which *can* and *will* be used to defend him.

Where does this end? Not being allowed to have a password? Not being allowed to say "$AGENT lock my phone" when you see police walking up? Not being allowed to store data unencrypted but in ways someone can't understand? They got their search. It was empty. Sorry, the Princess is in another castle. He was smarter than you. Move on.

Sounds like they werent as tough as they thought. Everytime the DMV dicks around a citizen, I always wonder who among the crowd "possess certain skills" and get tired of it. I'm glad someone got a point back for their side.

Darn, read it wrong. I first skimmed the title on the front page and thought we had our first super*conducting* material at room temperature which I feel would have been far more interesting for society.

But this is koo tho too

I will never daily drive an automatic. I have driven stick since 16 and even with a family I keep my personal car a stick shift and always will.

If you want inspiration get into Eurorack.

You accidentally pasted the same sentence twice in a row. Trolls in my day at least could copy paste.

The company also disputed the classification of Water being wet. Later the company disputed the claim of what goes up, must come down. Tomorrow they are expected to file a brief claiming the classification of having trillions upon trillions of dollars, operating the #1 closed source product, and having captive lock in capability is just a way to "provide jobs".

Likely this. I feel the same when it comes to deep C++code I write. These models arent even close.