My students @maxzks and Tushar Jois spent most of the summer going through every piece of public documentation, forensics report, and legal document we could find to figure out how police were “breaking phone encryption”. 1/
ACLU is suing the FBI over its efforts to break into encrypted devices. https://t.co/TN8X0Slmnf
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) December 22, 2020
Authorities don’t need to break phone encryption in most cases, because modern phone encryption sort of sucks. 3/
So if they can’t crack the passcode, how is law enforcement still breaking into iPhones (because they definitely are)? 6/
When you turn your phone on and enter the passcode in the morning, you switch your phone from BFU->AFU. 8/
All of the other keys stay in memory. 10/
(This is all well-known so far BTW.) 11/
So it seems that Apple is actually protecting *less* data now than in 2012. Yikes. 16/
Mail (which probably already exists on a server that police can subpoena, so who cares.)
App launch data (🤷♂️)
That’s not great. 18/
Photos
Texts
Notes
Possibly some location data
Most of what cops want. 19/
Why is so little of this data encrypted when your phone is AFU and locked? And the answer to that is probably obvious to anyone who develops software, but it still sucks. 22/
When you protect files using the strongest protection class and the phone locks, the app can’t do this stuff. It gets an error. 23/
But for the most part it’s annoying for software devs, so they lower protections. And if Apple *isn’t* using strong protection for its in-house apps, who will? 24/
Maybe Apple’s lawyers prefer it this way, but it’s courting disaster. 25/
This will be on a pretty website soon. Thanks for not blocking me after this thread. // fin
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Hate Crime Indictment
Jason DeSimas
Jason Stanley
Randy Smith
Daniel Delbert Dorson
-aiding & abetting
-punched & kicked a Black man -derogatory comments about his actual & perceived race
-assaulting 2 other men who intervened to protect the
What’s a bit amazing is this hate crime took place in December of 2018 and the 4 defendants were indicted nearly two year on the nose. Because the Defendants were indicted for a hate crime.
That’s a force multiplier or at a minimum an enhancement of 10 years (addition to)
At first glance you wouldn’t think this had anything to do with White Supremacy -read page 4-
Dorson falsely claimed that he had not planned to attend a white supremacist’s “Martyr’s Day” observance in the state of WA
he had not owned a “flight jacket“
https://t.co/yU8t1DkyZA
Doc # 16 Detention Motion by USA
https://t.co/sxaBEqDLWr
“DeSimas admitted that he was a member of Crew 38,
a support club of Hammerskin Nation, a white supremacists organization...DeSimas lied to the FBI, denying that neither he nor anyone else had used the “N” word...”
always read those footnotes
3 other co-defendants are in custody
-Daniel Delbert Dorson ordered detained & will be
transferred to this District
-Randy Smith is detained in the District of OR, on an unrelated federal case
-Jason Stanley is detained at the ID DOC an unrelated case
Once one party allows the pardon power to become a tool of criminal enterprise, its danger to democracy outweighs its utility as an instrument of justice.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 24, 2020
It\u2019s time to remove the pardon power from the Constitution.
In part because the Congress of which he is a part has established no functioning second-look mechanisms for shortening sentences or expunging convictions, commutations and pardons are the only mechanisms for correcting injustices in the federal system. /2
And it's not as if those injustices are rare. Go to any federal correctional facility, and take time to learn who is there and about their cases, and you find literally thousands of people whose sentences were grossly excessive given their offenses. /3
Those people need commutations as a corrective because there is no parole or other second look in place to address that. Some have tried to use compassionate release under the First Step Act, but DOJ tries to block those efforts at every turn and it's a limited option. /4
Presidential commutations are thus the only avenue for these folks. And under President Obama, more than 1,700 regular people (not his cronies) received relief. It was woefully inadequate for the need, but it shows the value of the power. /5
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Time for a 🧵 to learn the above from @iManasArora
What qualifies for an extended move?
30-40% move in just 5-6 days is one example of extended move
How Manas used this info to book
The stock exploded & went up as much as 63% from my price.
— Manas Arora (@iManasArora) June 22, 2020
Closed my position entirely today!#BroTip pic.twitter.com/CRbQh3kvMM
Post that the plight of the
What an extended (away from averages) move looks like!!
— Manas Arora (@iManasArora) June 24, 2020
If you don't learn to sell into strength, be ready to give away the majority of your gains.#GLENMARK pic.twitter.com/5DsRTUaGO2
Example 2: Booking profits when the stock is extended from 10WMA
10WMA =
#HIKAL
— Manas Arora (@iManasArora) July 2, 2021
Closed remaining at 560
Reason: It is 40+% from 10wma. Super extended
Total revenue: 11R * 0.25 (size) = 2.75% on portfolio
Trade closed pic.twitter.com/YDDvhz8swT
Another hack to identify extended move in a stock:
Too many green days!
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When you see 15 green weeks in a row, that's the end of the move. *Extended*
— Manas Arora (@iManasArora) August 26, 2019
Simple price action analysis.#Seamecltd https://t.co/gR9xzgeb9K