How Immigrants and Protesters Are Being Caught in ICE’s AI Dragnet
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How Immigrants and Protesters Are Being Caught in ICE’s AI Dragnet
Federal agents are using AI, facial recognition, and drones to monitor protests and immigrants. But is its increasing use warranted?Jason Nelson (Decrypt)
Much discussion about “opsec” (a term I don’t love when talking about people exercising their rights, but whatever) at protests today, including about phones and Faraday containers.
A Faraday container is probably less useful here than you think it is, but if you do rely on one, make sure it actually works. Here’s a post I did a while back on the ins and outs of containing RF: mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/
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How Immigrants and Protesters Are Being Caught in ICE’s AI Dragnet – Decrypt
Federal agents are using AI, facial recognition, and drones to monitor protests and immigrants. But is its increasing use warranted? — Read on decrypt.co/325003/how-immigrants-and-protesters-are-being-caught-in-ices-ai-dragnet
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Collette and I spent an hour while on vacation to let our voices be heard.
I didn’t have permission to post photos, but I was thrilled to see at least 5 protesters with American flags! It’s our flag too!
The two are not the same at all.
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I am at callistagraves.bandcamp.com and all of my music is pay what you want.
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We can swap all native apps with e2ee ones so that even if our phones gotten robbed while unlocked, authority is still unable to retrieve any sensitive info.
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Managed to fall asleep at a quasi-reasonable time (3am) but woke up after 5 hours, despite having only 3 hours sleep the day before.
I decided I probably ought to take my armodafinil this morning, rather than skip it as usual, since I was up at 8am and sleep deprived, to try to get back on schedule. So I did. Then I fell asleep on armodafinil.
Severe sleep deprivation + melatonin + no stimulants -> lie awake all night.
Recent, nearly sufficient sleep + no melatonin + stimulants -> fall asleep in the daytime.
This is a pattern, not a one-off. The only conclusion I can draw is, my body does not like to sleep at night.
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 151. 6/13/25
… The ‘No Kings’ protests of Trump are gearing up around the country tomorrow as millions are expected to be a part of the largest demonstrations yet against the authoritarian MAGA movement.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"'We’re not able to just replace people as easily as, say, a big city, with very limited people to pull from. Then you would have to train them, and that takes sometimes years.' ...
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •In particular, a Faraday bag protects you from a very narrow and specific set of phone-related threats, at considerable usability and functionality cost. And they require a nuanced understanding of what they do and what your threat is to use effectively.
If you don’t know exactly what you need one for, you probably don’t.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •the goodie bag from shmoocon this year had one (and I think a vendor table has a different one). I didn't test it with a spectrometer or sdr but I do completely lose signal if I put my phone in there.
To your point, I have a hard time imagining an instance in which I would think it is actually useful. But I guess if you're turning off your phone or using airplane mode, it doesn't hurt to throw it in a bag after.
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in reply to Ben • • •Just realized I totally forgot to follow up to this.
Here they are. There were two different kinds from two different vendors.
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in reply to Ben • • •@jianmin Huh! Definitely didn't get either in my bag!
That's it, I'm boycotting Shmoocon in the future now!
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While we are at it: microwave ovens make poor Faraday cages too. I leave the explanation to the experts, but signal attenuation is rarely sufficient for security. For testing marginal link conditions, maybe.
(I know you know, @mattblaze, I don't pretend to teach you anything.)
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •I don’t know a ton about faraday bags. But if I’m in a situation where I want my phone to be inert and useless, is it enough to power it off?
I can’t imagine situations where a faraday bag is required, and I think I might pull it out of the bag for something. Seems to me I would just keep it in the bag the whole time, so I might as well turn it off.
Are there threats to powered off phones that are not in faraday bags? I am asking because I don’t know, not because I’m doubting or challenging.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Seems like a good reason to make consumer protection laws that define “powered off” and require it to be possible.
Thanks for the tip.
Jimmy
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