The Textalyzer - New Tool to Infringe on our Civil Liberties

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But what happens when they change the program so it downloads all your personal information?

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That's the real reason.

If you have a front seat passenger there's no probative value to the timestamp on a text. Plus you can plug phones into newer cars and have speech to text (although that would likely have syntax/spelling errors).

Horrific.

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It's a device that plugs into your phone that can create a log of your actions. So if police could use this during a traffic stop, they could download your phone log and see everything you've done. 

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I can see at least one scenario causing an issue. Let's say a car has a driver and passenger. The passenger picks up drivers phone and answers or texts some one. The car for whatever reason gets pulled over and a cop uses that tool on drivers phone. If texting gets treated like dui or open container laws, then there will be some innocent people getting burned.

I don't understand how this would work unless the phone software specifically supports getting probed by the textalyzer device. At the very least, if the textalyzer is simply probing some logs that already exist on the device, it would be trivial for phone manufacturers to modify their software to break the textalyzer from working.

It seems to me that if we are going to go down this route, we would have to introduce law requiring phone manufacturers comply with a protocol that gives up their customers' actions. That would be outrageous and I don't think many in the tech world would stand for it.

They can write whatever they want to. It's up to the governor or the courts to stop them.

And if this software is actually utilized, the next week there would be a variety of apps that would scramble the time stamps on texts.

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If you think phone manufacturers aren't taking input from the CIA, then you're naive.

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As someone certified in cybersecurity, I'd say the CIA doesn't need to give input to the phone manufacturers. They have a massive budget to research and hoard vulnerabilities themselves.

Even if the CIA had input to the phone manufacturers, the CIA also doesn't want those vulnerabilities to be known to police at the local level. That would give away their vulnerabilities if they were used on that wide of a scale. The CIA works under secrecy from the rest of the government.

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Twice this month I've had someone drift over in my lane because they weren't paying attention.

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Oh, well, frick the Constitution then.

State and federal courts are loaded with authoritarian judges who are themselves former cops or prosecutors. The 4th Amendment no longer exists, as the exceptions now swallow the rule.

I always laugh when I read court opinions that use language such as "ever evolving police needs and concerns" or "we must weigh the the rights violated with society's right to feel safe."

The Founders didn't have to take into account law enforcement's desires and they didn't have to weigh anything when drafting the 4th Amendment and passing the Bill of Rights.

The American judiciary is a bigger threat to individual liberty than either other branch of government in this country.