I Think It Is Time We Got Involved.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Well, if the cops are going to pull this shit during routine traffic stops, they're going to get reined in by the courts quick enough.

Wasington Post: Can the cops search your phone without a warrant? The Supreme Court intends to weigh in.

[slang]

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

TW - Did you know that you can own a 155mm howitzer legally in the US?

Could I carry a 155mm howitzer concealed in your state? Or is that open carry?

Must be nearly impossible to find a good comfortable rig for that.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

TW - Did you know that you can own a 155mm howitzer legally in the US? ...

With a concealed carry permit you should be able to haul it behind your deuce as long as you stay one masking terrain feature away.

[tw]

Originally Posted by sexobon

With a concealed carry permit you should be able to haul it behind your deuce ...

Is that a 155 mm in your pocket or are you just ...

[Elspode]

Until I am allowed to carry a personal tactical nuclear weapon on my person without being hassled, the Second Amendment is a joke.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Until I am allowed to carry a personal tactical nuclear weapon on my person without being hassled, the Second Amendment is a joke.

So why is nobody laughing? Some people need that, 155 mm howizters and assault rifles for personal protection. No joke.

[Big Sarge]

You can possess mortars, cannons, etc with a Destructive Device License. Machineguns only require a Class 3 permit

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Well, if the cops are going to pull this shit during routine traffic stops, they're going to get reined in by the courts quick enough.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Wasington Post: Can the cops search your phone without a warrant? The Supreme Court intends to weigh in.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0F01R320140625

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that police officers usually need a warrant before they can search an arrested suspect's cellphone, a major decision in favor of privacy rights at a time of increasing concern over government encroachment in digital communications.

In an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court said that the right of police to search an arrested suspect at the scene without a warrant does not extend in most circumstances to data held on a cellphone. There are some emergency situations in which a warrantless search would be permitted, the court noted.

The unanimous 9-0 ruling goes against law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, which wanted more latitude to search without having to obtain a warrant.

9-0.

[Undertoad]

Apple expands data encryption under iOS 8, making handover to cops moot

"On devices running iOS 8, your personal data such as photos, messages (including attachments), email, contacts, call history, iTunes content, notes, and reminders is placed under the protection of your passcode," the company wrote on its website Wednesday evening. "Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8."

[glatt]

Is that new iOS 8 encryption an effective defense against the so-called "ISMI catcher" surveillance that's been in the news lately now that a new phone has been released that detects such snooping?

The article linked above said that in only 2 days of driving around DC recently, the following locations appeared to have surveillance devices trying to trick cellphones into thinking they were connecting to their carrier when in fact they were connecting to a device that was collecting their data.

[Undertoad]

It would not be a defense... after data leaves your phone, your phone's encryption won't matter.

[glatt]

That sucks.
I always assumed in a fatalistic sort of a way that nothing on my phone is safe, because, you know, the NSA. But part of me never wanted to fully believe it, and I just use my phone as if it is my phone and nobody else can read it.

But apparently, it's constantly being read. I work inside one of those red dots.

Fuckers.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I can see recording the phones passing by with these IMSI 'check points' for lack of a better description. With the ISMIs hooked together, individual phones could be tracked, even in real time if they were watching a particular phone/person. But to listen to snatches of phone conversations hoping to catch something juicy seems a waste to me.

Well Senator, we've logged eleventy seven gigs of grocery lists, half that much of spousal excuses/apologies, and several gigs of heavy breathing.

[glatt]

I'm a little surprised my employer hasn't shut down all our phones. We have a lot of highly confidential client business information that's sent around by company emails and all that can be read by these things.

I imagine Wall Steet is loaded with these devices, but owned by private parties. It's like in the old days when people were using unscrambled wireless office phones when they were new and you could just listen in on conversations and get insider trading information.