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Scary....device used by police can scan your cellphone

I hope our Vibrants aren't one of the 3000 that can be scanned by this!
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3458.asp

After briefly searching the manufacturers website it does look like our phone is on the list..... However, looks like the only way they can suck out the data (pictures, SMS, sim contents, browser cache, etc) is via a cable. (not wirelessly like some other phones)
http://www.cellebrite.com/
Their brochure even says they can retrieve deleted information and geo stats of where you have been!

We don't do this in my city or in any of my neighboring cities.
It is a violation of the 4th admendment.

What would be the point of this?
I fail to see how they would benefit. Especially when it may not hold up in court.

singlebyte said:
After briefly searching the manufacturers website it does look like our phone is on the list..... However, looks like the only way they can suck out the data (pictures, SMS, sim contents, browser cache, etc) is via a cable. (not wirelessly like some other phones)
http://www.cellebrite.com/
Their brochure even says they can retrieve deleted information and geo stats of where you have been!
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Some of these claims sound a bit like "marketing speak".
Not all the things it claims to do will work on all devices. I reckon that one device might support the dumping of GPS stuff (iPhone perhaps given the recent news headlines? ) (btw I'm joking about the iPhone).

all phones sold after ~2002 must be able to do it in compliance with the freedom of information act introduced in 2001
I wouldnt get my hopes up

s15274n said:
What would be the point of this?
I fail to see how they would benefit. Especially when it may not hold up in court.
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If you willingly give up your phone to be scanned, even if you got nothing to hide, you've waivered your 4th Amendment Rights. Any and all information can and will be used against you as I have yet to meet a cop who didn't treat the average citizen as guilty till proven guilty. Accessing your phone data is like data mining your facebook page and more looking for anything suspicious about your character which could give them "probable cause" for other things. Got pics of you and your friends partying? Now they have a reason to administer the drunk driver test and/or a breathalizer. Got pics of you and your dad hunting? Now they're going to detain you and search you car for guns (they'd do that here in NJ). Your gps data shows you doing 5 or 10mph over the speed limit? Instant speeding ticket. Time stamps on your SMS messages coincide while you where driving (even if you had a passanger using your phone its still your phone) instant moving violation.
That's the whole point to this, to find probable cause in order to convict people of crimes. There is only two ways to thwart this: do not consent to a warrentless search and keep your data encrypted to protect yourself from a forced warrentless search.
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Ron Overdrive said:
If you willingly give up your phone to be scanned, even if you got nothing to hide, you've waivered your 4th Amendment Rights. Any and all information can and will be used against you as I have yet to meet a cop who didn't treat the average citizen as guilty till proven guilty. Accessing your phone data is like data mining your facebook page and more looking for anything suspicious about your character which could give them "probable cause" for other things. Got pics of you and your friends partying? Now they have a reason to administer the drunk driver test and/or a breathalizer. Got pics of you and your dad hunting? Now they're going to detain you and search you car for guns (they'd do that here in NJ). Your gps data shows you doing 5 or 10mph over the speed limit? Instant speeding ticket. Time stamps on your SMS messages coincide while you where driving (even if you had a passanger using your phone its still your phone) instant moving violation.
That's the whole point to this, to find probable cause in order to convict people of crimes. There is only two ways to thwart this: do not consent to a warrentless search and keep your data encrypted to protect yourself from a forced warrentless search.
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One word for you: Paranoid...
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One word for you: Paranoid...
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Not really. (at least in New Jersey) if you have that point of view there is good reason for it. In some of the quieter counties (Sussex, Warren ect) the cops actually have been known to do this kind of stuff. In Hudson county (where I live) it's less likely but not unheard of.
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One word for you: Paranoid...
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one word , oh , two words : ignorant fool
by the way , ur rite theres nothing to be afraid of if you spend all ur life watching sitcoms and drinking beer

I feel sorry for our friends across the pond. The police state of America is becoming less like the land of the free and more like an Orwellian novel with every day that passes.
Ben Franklin wrote, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

I'm not originally from the US but based on what I'm seeing today, policemen here are way better than my previous home. In my previous country it's all about money, when you have a violation about traffic they'll get money from you and put it directly to their pockets.
If you don't give them money they'll found a way to get you arrested, the worst thing that they can do is secretly put prohibited drugs inside your car without you knowing it then accuse you with that. A very sad thing but it is true, good thing is I now live in the US.
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simple answer
get anything in your phone that can transmit wireless and zap it with a tazer
so thats most likely the CPU and it would be about the same effect as melting your phone. but cooler

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loooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
i think it'd do better job placed on the other end of the phone , so they cant plug it in

What apps would you take if you traveled to the 1400's

So you go back in time to 1400, hopefully you are not burned as a heretic. You have a solar charger for power, no WIFI. What apps would you take?
I can think of the 8gb wiki + aard. Google star map. Navdroyd with topo maps. Some calculators like Handy Calc and Addi.
What else? Assuming your willing to disrupt the time line.

A completely archived and offline version of Wikipedia.

qq751873862 said:
USB Host mode driver for Nexus S
etc..
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Stop hijacking threads.

You wouldn't have phone service.
Was there any gambling going on? I'd take a sports almanac.
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vetvito said:
sports almanac.
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Ha, good thinking.

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USB Host mode driver for Nexus S
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That would be useless. No one else has phones let alone usb ports.
Hmm, Im in Australia so a Australian bush survival guide and a local aboriginal language dictionary/translator. Also some chemistry, geology, boat building and mechanics books would not go amiss. Hell Ill just say offline wikipedia too.

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I thought it was to on topic for off topic seeing as its a "best apps" thread.

Nope. That time photography wasn't invented sorry... But if you find a portal for the mid 1800 we can talk about it
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I'd teach the Queen how to play Mrs. Pac Man and Jewel Mine on my HTC Touch.
She'd be so thrilled that she'd make me her King.
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The only thing i know i would take with me is the worlds biggest battery. Good luck finding a socket!

He said with a solar panel charger silly
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Ahhh, of course

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I'd take a camera xD
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i'd just take my photography apps... and a printer with infinite ink

Tesla LED flashlight
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Google maps to tell me how to get my a** back to civilization lol
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XDA. Then I'll start the very first off-topic thread.
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Talking Tom - for scare the natives!

Oh my:
first i'd pack many, many sd cards to fill with data like music, the offline wikis, maps, any history apps I could find, sports almanac and survival guides.
If there's an app for home cures for common diseases, I'd take it.
I would also have an sd card for a variety of technologies, like the steam engine, the coal engine, the internal combustion engine, electrical schematics and so forth copied to my phone in the form of png and jpeg files that I could use to recreate them in the past. If I'm going that far back, then so is 1800s-1900s technology. That'd help everyone in the future because technology would end up hundreds of years in the future.
voice to text translator app, if there is one, or at least a translator app period.
To screw with the old time people, I would grab an assortment of flashy light and sound apps, like a lightsaber app and hide it in my sleeve so when my arm moved, it made the epic "voooom vooooom" noise so people would think i were some powerful wizard. The flashing lights apps i'd use in the dark to make people believe I could conjure up lights at my command, furthering the "powerful warlock" deal. Then use my new influence to get slaves to build the technology I'd be very much missing at that point.
Probably a huge assortment of other things I'd have to wrack my brain to figure out. I'd spend days planning before leaving so, off the top of my head, that's what i'd take.

Zombiebooth
Fatbooth
Agingbooth
....I will be feared as a voodoo master!!! lol
As for utilities: translate, and flashlight also
Oh and the Android 4.0 source code stored in my mass storage so Id get the credit of inventing it
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Google/Android already listening? And can it be stopped?

I have been amazed before by the intuitive predictions Google search comes up with and I have even been grateful at times. I have accepted that they read my email (anonymously of course?) In order to help me with ads I might like... But today a friend was telling me about a book on a table at a friend of mines house, that the title was "the land of Seagull and cat" she thought. Anyway, for ****s and giggles I started to search for it but it predicted the whole term after I hit the "a" in sea. No other suggestions, just that. No text messages, email etc. with that term in it... There has got to be something processing my audio conversations and there has to be a way to stop it?
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They are spying on you dude
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Words fail me.... :what:
Tin foil hats on everybody....
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conantroutman said:
Words fail me.... :what:
Tin foil hats on everybody....
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
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I might have some left if you want one

sleepijs_ said:
I might have some left if you want one
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Thanks but I have a thousand year supply stashed away in my bunker.
****... Now they know about the bunker....
*stop thinking.... Stop thinking..... stop thinking.... Stop thinking..... stop thinking.... Stop thinking....
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....

O.-

Actually, now that I think about it....
If you replace all the letters in the word Google, with all the letters from the word Skynet, in the same order.... It spells.... Skynet...
Coincidence? I think not.
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@OP - No.
@The rest of you - shame on you!

Yeah yeah yeah, it's all fun and games until they bust you for midget tossing videos! Lol, OK, its a little paranoid sounding but they do have the patent for it, supposedly aren't using it but when they do I don't want to be a part of it, I'm just saying. It could end up just another tool for "The Man"
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stinkeye22 said:
Yeah yeah yeah, it's all fun and games until they bust you for midget tossing videos! Lol, OK, its a little paranoid sounding but they do have the patent for it, supposedly aren't using it but when they do I don't want to be a part of it, I'm just saying. It could end up just another tool for "The Man"
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On my laptop I can talk to google. Has a lil microphone in the search box. Click and I'm golden.
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I've also signed up for a program where it uses my past speaking as a tool to help it figure out what I'm saying. It collects data and uses it for me to help in searches, crawls through my accounts on the web and gathers data.
I'm more scared of the government than google. I know, I know, they can turn over info to the government. But none of that stuff is open. I use proxies and every few minutes I'm somewhere else in the world. My torrents may run slow, I might be slow on irc, but you know what, I'm not taking chances with certain info. I've been in the game for too long to slip up on something stupid.

I'm more scared of the government than google. I know, I know, they can turn over info to the government. But none of that stuff is open. I use proxies and every few minutes I'm somewhere else in the world. My torrents may run slow, I might be slow on irc, but you know what, I'm not taking chances with certain info. I've been in the game for too long to slip up on something stupid.[/QUOTE]
Yep, I apparently left my utorrent running too long last month and they sent me a nice cease and desist email about having "game of thrones". Whoops, havent started it back up since.. pulled off all my music and movies and buried them in a portable hardrive in my sock drawer. I'd gladly accept suggestions on inexpensive IP security too lol
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I'm more scared of the government than google. I know, I know, they can turn over info to the government. But none of that stuff is open. I use proxies and every few minutes I'm somewhere else in the world. My torrents may run slow, I might be slow on irc, but you know what, I'm not taking chances with certain info. I've been in the game for too long to slip up on something stupid.
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Yep, I apparently left my utorrent running too long last month and they sent me a nice cease and desist email about having "game of thrones". Whoops, havent started it back up since.. pulled off all my music and movies and buried them in a portable hardrive in my sock drawer. I'd gladly accept suggestions on inexpensive IP security too lol
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http://torrentfreak.com/judge-an-ip-address-doesnt-identify-a-person-120503/
Just read a lil.

Should there be a maximum age for driving?

Maybe require them to take an annual driver-certification test of some kind after a certain age?
See http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...hits-9-children-while-backing-up-his-car.html

Yes, definitely. Here (in norway) people that are 70+ years old must have a "medical certificate" from their doctor, and they have to see their doctor once a year. If their doctor says that they're not fit to drive then that'll be it. Doesn't eliminate the dangers, but it's a start.

Look up driving and accident statistics anywhere in the state of Florida and you'll have a definitive answer. There is something truly frightening about seeing a 90 year old person behind the wheel of a Suburban or Excursion. Especially when they are so hunched over from arthritis that their only line of sight is looking under the steering wheel and over the dash. We called them Q-Tip drivers, since the only thing you could see was a puff of white hair. If you've seen Ferris Bueller you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
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I think drivers should have to retake the entire driving test every time or two they renew their license. That way it doesn't discriminate any group of people, and will eliminate everyone who doesn't know how to drive, not just the older people.
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How about a mandatory retake of drivers ed courses for people who get in more than two accidents in five years?

It sounds good in principle, but I have literally seen DMV employees guiding elderly people through the vision test. I think people here regard driving as a right, not as a privilege and responsibility.
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Neontc said:
I think drivers should have to retake the entire driving test every time or two they renew their license. That way it doesn't discriminate any group of people, and will eliminate everyone who doesn't know how to drive, not just the older people.
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Cost a lot of money, and the lines will be astronomical. To take the drivers road test here in Nevada, I had to schedule it 7 weeks in advance.

well any age that can drive while holding a can of beer in the other seems good to me,

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I think people here regard driving as a right, not as a privilege and responsibility.
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+1. Then, there are the cases of old people driving their cars through buildings (they mistake the accelerator for the brake, in a parking lot, when they start their car). I guess when people get old, everything looks the same.
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Yes I live in Florida as well. I lost my driver side mirror because some old ass guy decided he didn't like the lane he was in. To bad I was right next to him and he just starts moving over. Luckily I quick enough to act and he only took out my mirror. I see waaay to many old fools that should not be driving.
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This is what I thought of when I saw this thread.
I dont think there should be no questions asked cut off age, not everybody ages equally. But for sure tests should be administered after a certain age, if you cant pass the test you shouldn't drive..

I think having to get a doctor's release to drive after a certain age makes the most sense. It's not about age, really, but the mental and physical competency that degrades with age.

Maybe not a max age but they def need to get better at screening with age. I mean, WTF, they are so mean there to everyone at the DMV so why are they being " nice" and letting our old folks get renewed when they shouldn't lol
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Definitely should be or least re-test after a certain age

Every summer, Southern California sees a temporary influx of old retirees from Arizona. They drive at very slow speeds on the fast lane of our freeways. We just love them for that :^)
Some Californians call this phenomenon "The invasion of the Zonies".

i just had to bring this up
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Oh god yes. Please. Senior drives are as dangerous as, if not more so than, junior drivers.
Going 50 and overtaking!!! on the bloody Autobahn, are you f*cking kidding me... Or just randomly slamming on the breaks in the middle of a corner. Or crossing the intersection without even so much as noticing all the oncoming traffic!
67. (pension-age) After that, every 5 years a re-exam. If you fail, get used to taking a cab.

I think so...
Seen this discussion on a lot of car forums.
I'm a bit neutral as far as opinion.
Some drivers are inherently incapable all thru their driving years then some are careful responsible till the end.
Now that I'm closing in on 60 I'm way more intolerant of others.
In the past I was a very angry aggressive driver...I never got anywhere faster than anybody else.
Haven't really slowed down, I just do my best to be safe and sane with constant self checks when driving.

Warn Thread

Give people warnings as in something not to do because of personal experience. Like an example would be "Don't touch hot things" and people will know not to do it because 1 other person has done it and it wasn't pleasant. Well in short words. Learn from other's errors.
@Moderators: Looked through a few pages and did a search. And found nothing. If there is another thread like such, don't kill me please.
I'll start:
@eBay users: If it comes from China there will be a huge chance it'll be a ripped off cheap version of what you where expecting.
Why?: Copyright laws in china.
P.S.: No wonder their economy is good
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@Windows Users: Delete the System32 file. It's full of garbage. A clever dog told me to and I've never looked back.
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@iPhone users -

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@Windows Users: Delete the System32 file. It's full of garbage. A clever dog told me to and I've never looked back.
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Thats a great idea!
Android>iOS... Android FTW!

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@Windows Users: Delete the System32 file. It's full of garbage. A clever dog told me to and I've never looked back.
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Just did this. My computer is much MUCH faster now. Thanks!
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And everyone knows that alt+f4 toggles the swagger mode in windows
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And everyone knows that alt+f4 toggles the swagger mode in windows
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Ctrl + W works great too!
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Don't consume cyanide.

Never buy a brand new apple product
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063_XOBX said:
@Windows Users: Delete the System32 file. It's full of garbage. A clever dog told me to and I've never looked back.
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Wait.. you're not kidding?!
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Jimlarck said:
Wait.. you're not kidding?!
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It's true. Trust me. I repair computers for a living.
Also, Don't repair external camera flashes without discharging the capacitor and being properly grounded, unless you like getting shocked by 1000V of electricity and getting knocked back 2 metres and having your heart stopped for 2 seconds.

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Tha shocker!!!!!!!
MARBLE WHITE GALAXY SIII
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I've warned many people here about this. Your life will continue to suck if you don't listen to Steel Panther.
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jaszek said:
It's true. Trust me. I repair computers for a living.
Also, Don't repair external camera flashes without discharging the capacitor and being properly grounded, unless you like getting shocked by 1000V of electricity and getting knocked back 2 metres and having your heart stopped for 2 seconds.
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First two pages in the thread and I learned something new. I thought people would start posting useless wanna-be-funny posts.
Sent from a satellite in space.

Sent from a satellite in space.

Yes!! It made my PC so much faster! It worked. I deleted the system 32 and it worked!!!
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jaszek said:
It's true. Trust me. I repair computers for a living.
Also, Don't repair external camera flashes without discharging the capacitor and being properly grounded, unless you like getting shocked by 1000V of electricity and getting knocked back 2 metres and having your heart stopped for 2 seconds.
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+1 camera flashes are no joke. Always discharge first.
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