That's the question, what are they actually providing to warrants. You don't need to provide a name to be able to identify someone. Do they provide logs or data that could be uniquely identifying before the police pull a tower dump? Who knows...
The LLMs are just somewhere between an averaging and a lossy compression of everything on GitHub. There's nothing about the current paradigm of "AI" that is going to somehow do better than just rehashing that training set but with the inclusion of various classes of errors.
I think it's better to view it as spicy search rather than any form of intelligence.
Okay I looked over their stuff, a couple thoughts:
I want them to be more clear in their privacy policy about what exactly they can and would reveal for a court order, what their screening process is for those orders, under what conditions they would fight one and if they will reveal anything outside the context of a full court order.
Reason: this is one of your biggest areas of vulnerability when signing up for a phone plan.
The lexipol leaks showed that many police departments use phone information requests so much that they include a set of request forms (typically one for each carrier) in the appendix of their operations manuals. Frequently the forms are the only data request tool in that appendix.
If you happened to have a call with someone who then did something Cool™ and got picked up, expect the detective to have your name and address on a post-it on their desk by the next morning. If you talked to them on some online chat platform they'll send a court order to that platform for your IP then do the same to your carrier to unmask your identity.
Yes, if you were also sufficiently Cool™ they'll start doing more invasive things like directly tracking your phone via tower dumps, but that's a significant escalation in time and effort. If things got Cool™ enough that this is a concern though, it may buy you time to get a new phone if you live in an area dense enough for that to not be immediately identifying.
Also: I suspect the zip code is completely unverifiable so put whatever you want in there, basically pick your favorite sales tax rate.
Okay Canadian assembly techs: you have an opportunity to do something extremely funny
We really need an open source mobile operating system that isn't controlled by tech megacorps.
Android is far too compromised by corporate profit motives.
it helps network operators identify tether traffic and prevents it from being hidden by the systems VPN.
it facilitates vendor pre installed adware, bloat ware, and malware that can't be uninstalled
it facilitates carrier locking to prevent users from switching carriers
Hello fellow criminals, anyone get up to any good crime lately?
This doesn't do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts. You can still track them, the N number/ICAO ID is what people are using
In his circles apparently HGH is viewed, erroneously, as a life extension drug. It wouldn't surprise me for an instant if he was mainlining it out of a fear of dying like a common peasant.
If you absolutely have to hand over your phone, turn it off completely, like hold the power button and then tap the off icon. That will dump any keys out of RAM, which is why it always requires the full password to unlock when you turn it back on. Both in terms of how your phone works and the leaks we've seen, the cracking tools the police have are overall significantly less likely to be successful when used on a phone that's been turned off and not unlocked since.
Also, IIRC iphones have a feature where they will dump at least some of the system keys from RAM if you push the lock button five times. I'd still trust fully off more but that's easier to do covertly.
I'm adjacent to the industry. This is dumb but I understand the reasoning. We're getting left behind in the electronics world. Nobody is creating hardware startups because every few months there's a viral blog post with a "hardware is hard" title on HN and none of the VC assholes want to fund anything but web based surveillance capitalism ad tech because it's a surefire way to make money. Even if you do get funded and you're US based you're absolutely doing all your manufacturing in China if you're remotely consumer facing (b2big-b has different rules). That means Chinese companies get all the benefits of all the labor from your highly trained engineers when they get the design files. If you try to build anything at volume in the US you have strikingly few options for boards and parts. Everything is whole number multiples of fucking PCBway and half the time it's lower quality unless you're paying aero-defense prices which is the only business anyone wants.
Yeah, a surprising number of people don't want these hyper complex cars with thousands of microchips and millions of lines of code operating them. Give me an electric 2012 Honda fit/Toyota matrix equivalent that just fucking works and costs $20k or less new.
Yeah, I do believe it's a good tool for search, just with the caveat that if it can't find an answer it makes one up or otherwise kinda just fills in little missing details with noise.