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letme_ftfy268 karma

Playing the X card is usually what I noticed at mine and my families'. As soon as they learn that something is taboo, they start to go there when they feel frustrated. I remember we probably did the same things, but for our generation it was probably sex that was taboo, but now they will catch on and play the victim a lot more than say a previous generation of nieces was doing...

letme_ftfy257 karma

European here, pretty ignorant of that part of the world, TBH. If you exclude what he wrote in [] (might be his biased opinions), is he wrong in the before/after bits?

letme_ftfy228 karma

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/6l9eho/livestreaming_site_for_internet_controlled_robots/

What the actual fuck!!! Thanks for the link, holly fuck this is good. It's like a real-life episode of black mirror. Faith in humanity... uncertain.

letme_ftfy29 karma

I was recently following a case related to an encrypted HDD. I'm posting from memory, so I might miss some facts, but the gist of it was this:

The authorities find an encrypted HDD in defendant's home/office. They believe it to be her work computer, so they ask a judge to compel her to provide the decryption password. (they made an argument towards them knowing the computer to have these incriminating documents, but I don't remember how they came to know this)

A legal battle ensues, 5'th is invoked, and at the end the judge comes up with a pretty weird (in my opinion) "middle ground":

The defendant should provide the decryption password, but the fact that she did provide the password should not mean she takes ownership of the files on said HDD. As far as I know she still hasn't relented the password and she is being held in contempt.

I find the ruling extremely weird and counter-intuitive, but I'm not a law professor, so what do I know...

letme_ftfy28 karma

There is no point, IMHO, as long as the baseband is closed source, has memory access and everything is dependant on it to function. And I really doubt we'll ever see an opensource baseband.