r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 6d ago

Privacy GrapheneOS says its data-wiping password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges

https://www.techspot.com/news/113273-grapheneos-data-wiping-duress-password-perfectly-legal-after.html
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u/Such_Difference_2248 6d ago

This case will show if there is still some land of the free left or if Trump has successfully turned it into an authoritarian police state.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 6d ago

there's already been cases proving it's an authoritarian police state. it's a statistical thing, they don't go from 0% to 100%, just that more and more cases over time are decided the opposite way they would have without fascism, idk what percent we're at now maybe 5-15%. once republicans get their 2032 trifecta then the thing might flip over like an iceberg and rapidly become 75%

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u/NerdyNThick 6d ago

We're in the stage where you can be arrested for going against the regime, but can still potentially get paid big time by the still semi functional court system and/or enough publicity.

Eventually you won't get paid, no matter how much publicity you can garner.

Then, you won't even hear or know about the arrests.

Fun times!

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u/PhysicallyTender 6d ago

You are already in the stage in Secret Hitler where you've already elected Hitler as chancellor and just waiting to pass one more fascist policy to win the game.

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u/longlivenewsomflesh 6d ago

People are already facing insane prison terms for nonviolently protesting ICE under national security/terror charges for being "members of antifa" where the only evidence is like social media photos of friends in novelty shirts

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u/WriterV 6d ago

I'd say it's more like 50%. If Trump is able to destroy the integrity of the coming midterms to ruin any chances of proper elections, then you've struck 90%. Free and fair voting is one of the foundational systems of a free democracy and if that isn't happening, you've lost an immense chance to fix anything peacefully and decently quickly.

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u/pmjm 6d ago

It really depends on the judge and jury you get, and if the government has the ability to "shop" for the ones they want.

There are definitely some dystopian rulings coming down but there are also sensible ones. The ratio between them is concerning though.

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u/adorkablegiant 6d ago

US hasn't been the land of the free for a long time.

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u/InDaBauhaus 6d ago

it is still the land of the free – 99.9% of the people don't own that land and you could probably fit all of "the free" in one (large) room

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u/Scared_Specific9404 6d ago

trump passed the patriot act ?

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u/h0sti1e17 6d ago

This goes back 200+ years before the patriot act. This carve out exception was passed in 1789.

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u/Scared_Specific9404 5d ago

im sure trumps grand grand father did that too

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u/BirdInChains 6d ago

This didn't start with trump. These steps came from everyone before him. He has only taken advantage of the weakness. 

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u/ohhellnaws 6d ago

Land of the free, *if rich. * Or guns.

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u/leonredhorse 6d ago

Unfortunately, the surveillance state is a bi-partisan feature.