The hubris to think you don’t need to know about how your dishwasher works… I too was once blind, this man showed me the light. Praise be.

No idea. My guess is part of a Stargate activation sequence.

þis one

Holy shit did that character break my brain for a second.

I don’t think I’ve ever been even remotely disappointed in Valve hardware. Steam link, steam controllers, and steam deck are all used regularly.

Are they making a play at laptops?

outside of mucking about.

The best use case of all.

Good to see Gargamel following his dreams.

My wall of shelves loaded with board games says otherwise…

Would you mind sharing where you read that?

The reason it being turned off matters is because LE has a significantly more difficult time extracting data from that state. And again, a proper faraday bag prevents signal leak.

You guys are welcome to do what you want, I’m just explaining the best way to stay safe if you don’t want to leave your phone at home. There are plenty of legitimate reasons someone may want one as a lifeline just in case.

Unless your device is already compromised, that information isnt being logged when the device is powered off so it’s kind of moot.

I’m talking about an actual faraday bag, not a foil bag. That, combined with a powered off device keeps you fairly protected. They aren’t going to get into your phone if it’s powered off.

it also provides an alibi. “see, my phone was here all day long.”

There’s going to be a deviation in usage regardless, it’s not providing an alibi. A gap of time when you’re not using your device that you normally would be is a marker they look for. They key is keeping them locked out (again, power them off).

Having a small faraday bag around is useful too, that’s what I do.

Who the fuck is bullying this guy? I will round up a goddamn posse, Alec is a treasure.

And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads

I like that I get music too. I honestly don’t mind my Premium subscription, I get decent value out of it for the amount of content I view. I just wish creators saw more of that money.

but nobody wants or needs the 500 photos of my cat

You only have 500 photos of your cat? Is your camera broken? Got the cat yesterday?

The fourth amendment implications are on point here, but this tool isn’t “hallucinating” evidence. It’s a shitty LLM that lazy investigtors can use to find links between different device artifacts mostly.

Cellebrite is dumping money into this because its the industry buzz right now. They just want more of that sweet government contract money. It’s usefulness (and even invasiveness in some cases) is pretty overstated.