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1. Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 02:46:47 JST Rusty Crab
   Hypothetically let's say you have an encrypted drive and there is actually nothing of interest on there. Just boring work files and whatnot. If law enforcement tells you to open it, should you do it?
   
   I don't mean "fuck you government I know my rights" I mean is there a way they can fuck you over to fulfill some quota if you willingly let them in.
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   • Pour one out for Grumb (rocc@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 02:46:47 JST Pour one out for Grumb

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     @RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co
     
     "yeah man just let the cops in"
     
     they do a little trolling and put 90gb of wild and zany chorn on your boring reports usb

   • Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 02:47:47 JST Rusty Crab

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     • loopy pedestrian✍🏿
     @prop I think the FBI is desperate to fill quotas and boring white guys are really easy targets. No political fallout.
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   • loopy pedestrian✍🏿 (prop@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 02:47:48 JST loopy pedestrian✍🏿

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     @RustyCrab depends on the country, but the rule of thumb is the reason they're searching your drive in the first place is because you're a person of interest. if you're just a boring guy with a boring programming job they're not interested in you at all let alone actually actively monitor your internet. most of the paranoia privacy freaks have is redundant unless they're a terrorist (actual terrorists have worse opsec than them most of the times). law enforcement can bend the laws in amazing ways to fuck you over if they're really determined so you probably already know the answer.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 02:50:44 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @RustyCrab Probably depends on the level of interest and animosity combined with how high profile you are. If they have a lot of scrutiny they could just ruin you by pretending whatever you have on your drive is insanely illegal.

     Got schematics/blueprints/cads for guns? Well that’s just ITAR-controlled terrorist info you stole from uncle sam (big worry for the guys who dl’d the M4 TDP’s for a while, guys were losing sleep over it being dramatic)

     A couple gigs of anime girls? Eh, they’ll write a press release about how it’s child porn even if all you had was a terabyte of H-cup tiggy women.

     Fun, you have a library of survival epubs you got from a friend? Oops, “secret” gov docs and apothecarial info means that’s actually illicit drug manufacturing info!!!

   • Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 03:23:44 JST Pawlicker

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @RustyCrab or the classic "you have weed and guns" shit that ended up fucking over FPS Kyle.
     It's a lot easier to plant weed than cp.
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