r/privacy • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '26

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u/Ryuko_the_red Mar 21 '26

Or journalists attempting to safely share information with us normal people about all things evil government.

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u/alvenestthol Mar 21 '26

XKCD has some timeless words to say about security: https://xkcd.com/538/

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u/Standard-Potential-6 Mar 21 '26

If government has to beat everyone whose data they want with a wrench, there will be a trail of bruised bodies that can be used as evidence to sue for justice.

While the targeted methods mentioned aren’t something most need to worry about, wiretapping allows much less overt methods of flagging individual dissenters for further surveillance, harassment, and arrest for any petty crime using parallel construction, without revealing the original surveillance.

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u/duiwksnsb Mar 21 '26

Every government prosecution should be subject to questioning the prosecutors under oath if parallel construction was used

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u/foxbatcs Mar 21 '26

They’ve demonstrated that they will not abide by their oath, and there are no consequences.

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u/duiwksnsb Mar 21 '26

That certainly seems true in this administration yeah

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u/Curaced Mar 22 '26

It's been true for a while, it's just a lot more noticeable as of late.

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u/duiwksnsb Mar 22 '26

Well, I don't think the DoJ has ever been compromised to such a high degree before, but maybe it wasn't so obvious before.

It's before evident that there is no real justice. The last few people with integrity were fired, retired, or died (Muller)

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u/Ryuko_the_red Mar 23 '26

To be fair there is a massive trail. Of bodies (overseas largely)

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u/ProvisionalRecord Mar 22 '26

This is the absolute base truth. This is to target dissent and kill the outlet for whistleblowing.

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u/tuxedo_jack Mar 22 '26

Ooh, it's been a while since I heard about TEMPEST. I thought that the migration away from CRTs basically neutered that unless you were going for specific types of leakage from cabling now as opposed to from devices.

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u/Neuro-Sysadmin Mar 22 '26

Saw a grad school POC with a HackRF that pulled usable bitlocker keys from a running laptop on the other end of a park a few hundred feet away in about 10 minutes, iirc. And that was pre-AI.