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Go learn about the harmless error rule. You are incredibly naive. DAs and cops break the rules ALL THE TIME because once there's a conviction the burden of proof shifts and a defendant, now convicted, in prison has the burden of proving (somehow, while behind bars) that in a theoretical other version of reality they wouldn't have been convicted had the error not been made.

It's a nearly impossible standard to meet, especially difficult after conviction, and the remedy is not even necessarily release, merely a new trial.

Not only that, even if a judge and DA and cops violate a defendant's rights OVER AND OVER they still almost always apply the harmless error rule. Even if the trial is essentially infected with bias and procedural corruption (what could be deemed structural error), courts do not care.

Many decisions the court makes are just denials without opinions also, so it's not like the court always even justifies why they ignore a convicted person's request. In other words, the appellate cases you're reading as a law student showing one defendant got released over an error is a cherry picked case chosen by the court either to create the illusion of a fair functioning system or chosen because the situation is so egregious (that means terrible) that courts will look bad if they don't overturn it.

But no, there's nothing functional here.You're privy to nothing if you don't understand that things haven't really been functioning for a long time, primarily because the harmless error rule allows corrupt DAs cops and judges to do almost anything.

First of all, you're doing important work and I wish you well in your studies and career, for everyone's sake.

Thanks for the insight. Definitely some positives there. When ICE have added an innocent person's data to be absorbed into (eg) Palantir's database, how confident can we be that it is actually removed again?

Federal judges still do threaten and issue contempt of court penalties and disciplinary referrals to officials who blatantly disobey court orders.

I guess this is my main point of concern right now, as an outsider. I know that the courts are still ruling against Trump and the Republicans fairly regularly, but then I hear about situations where they're simply ignoring the courts' rulings and little seems to actually happen as a result.

What do those "disciplinary referrals" actually do? Do people actually get fired, or is it just something else for the Republicans to ignore?

Yup.

This is why it is critical to have the numbers and contact info of as many of one's family committed to memory, not the Contact list, as possible. Cops can't get at what's in one's head (for the most part)..

you cant make a bank vault out of doors.

Most of these exploits involve side channel attacks which are much closer to the hardware. Graphene definitely does a lot more to make that difficult, but typically devices are getting pwned within a few months even with graphene.

Having graphene on relatively new hardware is a really good practice, but it obviously isn't a complete security posture on its own. Not having sensitive, compromising or incriminating stuff on your daily carry phone is much more important.

I remember one cybersec company got hit with an internal communications leak that suggested they could get into any GrapheneOS device before the Pixel 9, AFU or BFU. They were still having trouble with BFU Pixel 9. But this was a year or two ago.

Device wipe before capture/seizure seems to be the highest guarantee.