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As usual, the sensationalist headline implies something very different from what is actually the case.
by hugh3 15y ago
As usual, the sensationalist headline implies something very different from what is actually the case.
- knowtheory 15y agoSo, oddly, the incorrect use of "peaked" instead of "piqued" made me dig up who on earth was copy editing TheBlaze. Discovering that it's a website founded and funded by Glenn Beck made all the furor over dude with lots of guns make more sense. Not all phone searches or arrests are a bad thing. That or use a non-smart phone. That's what i do :P (though i don't have any assault weapons to hide either)
- tptacek 15y agoYou might be better off with the smart phone, if any of the phone numbers in your call history are relevant to the police.
- knowtheory 15y agoDepends on who's looking for me. I basically assume that anything i'm doing w/ a telco is going to end up in the hands of law enforcement officials if they ask for it :P The question is really one of what agency they belong to and what their clearance is going to be.
- shabble 15y agoThere's a lot more info on a smart-phone than the telco necessarily stores. They'll have call records, ip allocations, and maybe some low-res traffic logs. Probably cell/subcell location info for a while too. I doubt they'd be intercepting or snooping actual internet wire traffic though, and I can't imagine how they could keep it for any length of time, just by sheer volume (secret NSA junction-boxes notwithstanding). And any secure traffic over your data connection is pretty much safe, except for whatever traces it leaves on the phone itself (caches, browser history, downloads, etc)
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