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Sheesh, the US is sure getting scary. Well, it's a good thing it would be impossible to trace Signal to someone via metadata like a phone number, right? (thelemmy.club)

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Even State Department-funded Human Rights Watch admits that authorities combine legal and illegal methods to obtain convictions: https://text.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases

Combining dragnet surveillance with device hacking is intended in the design of both tools. Hence, State Department-funded Signal dupes you into handing over your identity as part of the population-centric mapping. In custody, your phone will be hacked when it is taken away if it's important.

https://xcancel.com/hannahcrileyy/status/2034273723667161480#m

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 52 points 19 hours ago

it was taking part in an armed assault on an immigration facility where a dozen people set off fireworks and shot a police officer with an AR-15.

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[-] better_world@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 hours ago

John Brown approves

[-] astraeus@lemmy.ml 22 points 18 hours ago

Whoever they think did it They didn’t do it we were bowling together at that time

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

It's true, I was the bowling pin

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