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"It's easy to just leave an encrypted copy of all your phone's data online, reset your phone to factory settings, travel, and then restore your data to your pho
by jjuhl 8y ago
"It's easy to just leave an encrypted copy of all your phone's data online, reset your phone to factory settings, travel, and then restore your data to your phone" - Easy indeed, but having to do so shouldn't be needed.
- nothrabannosir 8y agoGP is talking about The Bad Guys. Point being: if you're a Bad Guy, you're gonna encrypt your data. It's easy, and obvious. The likelihood of catching any Bad Guys with this is, therefore, very slim. Far outweighed by the price paid by the Good Guys, who don't go through that rigmarole, and just get their privacy violated. That's the argument, in essence (which I mostly agree with, the childish tone notwithstanding).
- pmiller2 8y agoYou will catch some Bad Guys with this approach, but only the ones who are also dumb. That’s not an insignificant portion of them, but it means the smarter ones, who are more dangerous, might get away.
- ilikehurdles 8y agoyeah but this way some middle-manager bureaucrat type gets to pad their numbers and request 15% more budget next year. Catching 15 nobodies a month looks better than catching 1 actual big fish a year.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoNot to mention that if you're only catching dumb ones there's plenty of other ways to catch dumb ones without violating people's rights.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoI don't think the Bad Guys will even be doing that. Anything elict is going to go through a $20 dollar burner if The Bad Guys are the least bit competent, because carrying anything incrimitating on your person 24/7 is just generally a stupid thing to do
- mirimir 8y agoIndeed. As DPR learned, to his chagrin :(