Posted on 02/10/2025 7:43:42 AM PST by delta7
The Washington Post reported Friday that the United Kingdom’s deep state has demanded that Apple create a back door for them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud—what would be an unprecedented erosion of online privacy and civil liberties.
This works because once the UK seizes your data, they can hand that to the Feds in the states, and your Constitutional rights are NOT violated because the US government did not illegally seize it without a warrant.
The American Revolution Was Over This Very Issue And Starmer’s Government is Doing What King George III Did I store NOTHING in the cloud – EVER!!!!! Why? Because the government can order them to turn over whatever they want without your knowledge. Since they merely store it, they turn it over without blinking an eye. They have NO CONSTITUTIONAL interest in whatever it might be.
When they then create laws like they have on child pornography that the mere possession is a crime and they do not need to prove that you actually obtained it or from where, if they claim you had it in the cloud, that would be it. You do not even get to pack your bags or bring a toothbrush.
Under no circumstances ever store ANYTHING in the cloud, for you have no constitutional rights, and they can claim whatever they desire. They can put stud=ff in your account and send you to prison, saying it is yours and no judge will listen to you – EVER! The Washington Post reported that the British government’s undisclosed order was issued last month. It requires Apple to give officials blanket capability to view fully encrypted material. This means that Apple MUST assist British authorities on command. The Post noted that the access sought by the UK “has no known precedent in major democracies.”
The LEFT only cares about themselves, and if you dare to resist, you must be guilty. The Starmer government is destroying civilization, crumbling the very basic foundation of liberty. They want something – how dare you say no!!!!!!!!!!!!! The LEFT is ruthless, and this is how they destroy everything. Biden, when he was president, targeted guns with the end goal of disarming America entirely. He has stated: “No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.” The fundamental objective is to compel everyone to register every gun so they can enter your house without a warrant to seize your weapons.
The Fourth Amendment declares,…..
Yes. Network Attached Storage. They usually connect into your router/switch, and have their own IP address.
Never ever. Bought another 500 GB USB stick Friday - backing up backups myself. That also helps minimize “packrat-itis” and keep stuff down to levels ones processor and memory can handle faster and more efficiently.
Pardon my ignorance, but is that device technically a server? If you store things on it, can you use it to host links to online sites?
Secondly, you have to leave beaucoup information with them in order to get the prices. Can you ballpark a range of what it costs for the various models, say, lowest to highest?
Newer Samsung smart phones, and Apple phones record everything that crosses your screen, and words said. Apple told the FBI and other agencies they held confidentiality seriously, they did until they built the new versions. Your phone knows everything about you, inflection, thoughts and tone of voice. AI makes it possible.
The link is in my post, but here it is again.
“I heard a rumor a while back that FR has been moved to the cloud. I don’t know if that is true or not.”
I don’t think it was just a rumor — more like openly stated (implied by vendor name). You don’t hear about John getting called in to do emergency hard drive replacements anymore, do you?
Thank you!
It is a fact. The FR is now stored by a third party on cloud computers in Europe.
Ehh... I hate to break it to you: it's not that simple.
If you have a smartphone of any kind, you have some sort of cloud presence. Android, iPhone, whatever, you must use that provider's app store which, in turn, requires an account, often your email, which is associated with a cloud account backed by some sort of storage, even if just a few dozen or hundred gigabytes. You could store absolutely nothing in that account for the duration of your ownership of that phone, but if the Feds, Interpol, MI6, CIA, NSA, whomever wanted to surreptitiously plant some kiddie p0rn or something incriminating therein, they could. You'd never know. Then you get a knock at your door, cuffs slapped on your wrist, and no jury will believe it wasn't yours.
If you have a public email provider such as Gmail, Hotmail, Live, Microsoft, Yahoo, even an email provided by your ISP, the same applies.
If you have a PC running Windows or a Mac connected to the Internet, the same applies.
If you have done anything transactional with an Internet-based provider in the last 25 - 30 years, there's a digital fingerprint of your activities that could be read, manipulated, and used against you. Unless you've been living under a rock since 1989, never had a bank account, never had a credit card, never had a mortgage, any loans, anything where your name, address, or relevant personal information was entered into a computerized system, then your existence could be manipulated by foreign and domestic enemies against you.
There needs to be a reckoning, folks. At some point our representatives need to take up a very complex, complicated, and honestly convoluted issue of digital privacy and pass one of the most sweeping and comprehensive pieces of digital privacy legislation in the world. It should start with this freaking insane concept of "opt out" for everything we do. We should not be forced to sign away our privacy to use a service. If businesses want to use us for marketing, advertising, and/or usage statistics, it should be an opt-in, pay-for-play system. There would be enough people interested in being compensated for their personal data that the companies wouldn't suffer financially while giving those of us who want to be left alone the peace of knowing we're not digital pawns.
What about a reliable means of long term storage?
Data storage on the computer is limited.
External drives are fine as long as they work, but I have had them suddenly and without warning become inaccessible to the extent that I could not find anyone--professional, amateur, geek--anyone--who could restore accessibility. The data was lost. Any ideas about that?
If you have an external drive, it's just a hard drive in an enclosure with a USB-to-X board where X is whatever interface is used for the drive (e.g., SATA). You can crack open the case, remove the hard drive, plug in the disk to an adapter like this, and it should be visible in whatever operating system you're using. If it doesn't show up, it's likely something on the disk controller is bad, which is not completely hopeless, but it makes things more complicated.
If it's an old school spinning disk hard drive, and you have bad sectors or the disk is dying, it's possible to use software like Piriform's Recuva to get as much data off the disk as possible before it completely fails.
Absolutely last ditch is a data recovery service which can be pricey, but most of them guarantee a pretty substantial recovery rate depending on the state of the disk itself. If it can be read, and/or the platters are intact, they can get the data off of it.
FWIW the gold standard for long term data storage is still spinning disk. Manufacturing quality is so well-baked that failures are almost unheard of. I have eight 4 TB disks in a NAS that has been running for over 10 years with not a single SMART alert on any of them. If you just want something that's going to store your data long term, get an external hard drive using spinning disk and disconnect it when you don't need it. Put it in a safe, and chances are really good you'll always have access to that data in the future.
Do you know an expert data recovery service?
SalvageData.com is a safe bet. I’ve not personally used them, but I’ve read good reviews.
Just stay away from places like Geek Squad. Look for agencies with special clearances for government and military contracts. They’re going to handle your data with more care than some college dropout with some over-the-counter software.
-PJ
Thanks! ~SB
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