Uh, can we do this experiment on someone else’s balls? Asking for a friend.

I felt like a 90 year old grandma reading this.

Yeah I think So, bots.

I never really understood the appeal of discord over something like ventrilo or team speak. Is it basically so your friend group has a little message board or community website in THEIR voice server?

I joined because I got banned from Reddit. Unjustly I claim.

Think of your phone as a safe, and your fingerprint as the key.

With a warrant the police cannot force you to divulge the location of the key to your safe, but they can absolutely open your safe if they find it. (Yes they can pick the safe or cut it open but that’s irrelevant to this analogy) If your safe uses a code to unlock they cannot force you to give them the code. (Again yes they’ll get into the safe eventually, somehow, but irrelevant).

It then follows that with a warrant the police cannot force you to divulge if you use facial recognition or which finger you use, but they can just try things until it works. And again they cannot force you to give them a pin or passcode to your phone.

Key concept here is don’t use fingerprints or facial recognition to secure your phone.

Companies whose profits are taken sue Apple for not only lost revenue but also punitive damages.

Now can we have a poll from Dr. Thunder about what we went our Cola to taste like?

Idk if there are newer laws, I think there is, but a 1998 law makes it illegal to break a digital lock, very broadly defined, to protect cd’s but applied to all electronics.

Sounds like one of those laws that’s never applied by itself, but instead is always sprinkled in on top of another more well defined and detectable crime. In the case or CDs it would have been against piracy groups who not only cracked CDs, but also distributed.

Without the distribution, that law would have never seen enforcement.

We could also argue that cracking software protections isn’t reprogramming, it’s a precursor to do so and isnt always necessary to reprogram a device. Someone could absolutely pop the computer out of a Samsung smart refrigerator and replace it with a Arduino and reprogram the device, which for personal use is legally bulletproof.

Tell that to every farmer in the US

Every farmer in the U.S. has the right to repair and reprogram their vehicles. They do not however have the right to force John Deer to provide access to their proprietary software.

Not being able to reprogram something, and it being a literal crime, are absolutely different things.

Read some Right to Repair U.S. law. There’s absolutely nothing illegal about reprogramming any device for personal use.

The bigger are you, the juicier the squeeze.

It’s a federal felony now to alter the programming on an electronic you bought as well.

I can’t find any evidence for this; it would also be a nearly unenforceable law if it was actually a thing. What’s going to happen, the device calls home and says help help I’ve been reprogrammed!

Now altering the programming only for re-saling might have some legal issues.