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on Wednesday August 26 2015, @09:48PM
from the mental-image-from-headline-far-more-salacious-than-actual-situation dept.
from the mental-image-from-headline-far-more-salacious-than-actual-situation dept.
He's a bloodhound for the digital age. Much the way other dogs can pick up the scent of a fugitive or a cache of cocaine, Bear the labrador can smell the components of electronic media, even a micro-card as small as a fingernail that a suspect could easily hide.
From the article:
The 2-year-old rescue pooch nosed out a thumb drive that humans had failed to find during a search of Fogle's Indiana house in July, several weeks before he agreed to plead guilty to having X-rated images of minors and paying to have sex with teenage girls.
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by e_armadillo on Wednesday August 26 2015, @11:25PM
how did this become a conversation about citizen journalists in syria?
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2015, @11:34PM
> how did this become a conversation about citizen journalists in syria?
By you saying that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about.
(Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:17AM
Exactly, and secondly, the way privacy is eroded is to find a disgusting defendant with whom almost everyone cannot identify. The primary magic spell over rationality employed by authoritarians, is to find someone really horrid, and say: "do you support what he did? You must if you care about privacy."
In this case, I doubt there is anything outside the pale -- surely the search occurred in the context of a warrant. But something to be aware of is how easily the police-state can win ever more power just by picking gross defendants, and using them as a test cases for the expansion of abusive power.
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Thursday August 27 2015, @05:24AM
Actually, that is NOT what I said. I said, as a law abiding citizen, you could place it wherever you want, instead of hiding it in the hopes that nobody finds it. If you want to protect your privacy, or are worried about abuses of power, don't pin your hopes on a "maybe" like a decoy, i.e. "maybe they will think thats it and go away." Place your faith in a known solution like strongly encrypting your data and "forgetting" your password if asked for it, and it really doesn't hurt to keep your nose clean . . .
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @07:27AM
> that is NOT what I said. I said, as a law abiding citizen, you could place it wherever you want
Potato Potato.
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:51PM
Oh yes, because saying there is a better way to deal with your concerns is saying you have no concerns . . .
Tomato . . . Orange
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:27PM
> Oh yes, because saying there is a better way to deal with your concerns is saying you have no concerns . . .
Go back and read your post again. The only "better way" you proposed is "don't do the shit he did, or anything like it."
Once the intellectual bankruptcy of that statement was shoved in your face, you started grasping at straws about encryption.
Don't be a coward, own what you said or admit you made an error. But pretending you said something that wasn't even remotely like what you said is just ego preservation for someone whose ego is too weak to accept responsibility for their own words. What you wrote is clear for anyone to read, denial is just stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @07:35AM
Disagree. Every time I read about people getting arrested on a weak suspicion, and having all their hardware confiscated, I think about that I should have an off-site backup. Oh sure, I'd probably get my stuff back in a couple of years when they finally admit I'm innocent, but by then it will all be outdated anyway, and unless I want to go off-grid, I'd have to buy a new computer for the time in between.
At least with an off-site backup, I'd be able to restore everything, like I would when buying a new PC, rather than needing to start my digital life over from scratch. Oh, there may be a few sites that still use the password I remember, but most are using unique passwords, so without my password manager, I wouldn't be able to access most stuff, including my e-mail (including password reset mails).
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Thursday August 27 2015, @06:53PM
You may be surprised, but I completely agree with your solution.
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"