Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Police State

After proclaiming it would enable default full disk encryption in Android, Google changes mind.
"Last year, Google made headlines when it revealed that its next version of Android would require full-disk encryption on all new phones. Older versions of Android had supported optional disk encryption, but Android 5.0 Lollipop would make it a standard feature.
But we're starting to see new Lollipop phones from Google's partners, and they aren't encrypted by default, contradicting Google's previous statements. At some point between the original announcement in September of 2014 and the publication of the Android 5.0 hardware requirements in January of 2015, Google apparently decided to relax the requirement, pushing it off to some future version of Android."
You knew NSA wouldn't allow it.

Petraeus to plead guilty to misdemeanor mishandling of classified information. Everybody does what he did with no consequences. They hate this guy.

Body camera maker has ties to police chiefs.

Parents convicted of child neglect for allowing their ten and six year old children to walk together without supervision.

Supreme Court tacitly OKs warrantless collection of DNA.
"The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the conviction of a rapist whose prosecution rested on DNA swiped from the armrests of an interrogation-room chair."
That's pretty extreme.

I have no confidence in DOJ's rules forcing prosecutors to share information with defense lawyers.

Security bug government put into cell phones 25 years ago just discovered and it affects Apple and Google phones today.

Jihadi John condemned 9/11 and London attacks.

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