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It's not destruction of evidence though because without a warrant the information on the phone isn't evidence, it's just stuff on a phone. Stuff which is your stuff and you have every right to delete it whenever you want.

They would actually have to arrest you and acquire a warrant, try it to getting you to unlock the phone for it to be "evidence".

The police would have a very hard time in court saying that there was evidence on the phone when they can't produce any documentation to indicate they had any reason to believe this to be the case. Think about the exchange with the judge.

"Your honor this individual wiped their phone, thus destroying evidence"

"Very well, may I see the warrant?"

"Yeah... Er... Well about that..."

It doesn't matter what the police may think you have done, if they don't go via the process the case will be dismissed on a technicality. They hate doing that but they don't really have a choice.

Inactivity reboot.

The phrase "as a member of the intelligence community" is not the same "as as a mother".

Assuming it is true, always a caveat on the internet, It would actually give them a unique perspective into the situation rather than just using it as a catch-all excuse for Karen's to be an uninformed twit.

One of the things they teach in cyber security is to assume that no matter how much you bang on about secure passwords the client is still going to have Password1234!. So you build around that.

Though people were a lot more blasé about security in general in the cold war. Computers were considered to be quasi magical boxes and it was sort of believed that they wouldn't act against you.

It's ironic because the hippies were the ones saying this in the past and now they're the ones in charge.

Gives me hope that pretty soon I will be old enough to reap the benefits and damn the consequences. Really looking forward to it.

What indie developer would deliberately sign up with take two?

In the song that's what they send every single day two French hens every single day are sent so yeah at the end they do send a lot of French hens.

It just means that it is a representation of some other wealth. Gold isn't fiat because gold itself is the thing that has value, currency is fiat because it is a representation of value not in and of itself valuable.

All currency is by definition fiat because all currency is a representation of value. And the crypto Bros keep telling us that bitcoin and similar are currency so they are therefore fiat.

Yes I appreciate that but what I'm saying is that there isn't really a reason to hack Earth 2 accounts.

Ostensively it is an upcoming game, It isn't it's just a crypto scam, that people have registered interest in but I don't believe there's anything they can actually do on the accounts yet. It's essentially just pre-registration.

So really all that anyone has got out of this is a list of email addresses they could use for phishing. It's not like they'll get any new passwords out of it to hack on other services such as email providers or bank accounts

Every single time anyone mentions crypto always some idiot comes out of the woodwork and starts to have an argument about the definition of fiat.

So let's just say this right now and then move on shall we, If it's currency it's fiat, therefore crypto is also fiat

You are correct that people commonly reuse passwords. People are stupid after all. But in this case passwords weren't taken because they were encrypted, so all they've got is user names and email addresses.

From the sounds of it, the database was actually pretty secure the problem was the interface between the database and the website wasn't. Good news is because the database was secure not a lot of sensitive information has been leaked.

Only usernames and email addresses were taken so nothing particularly valuable although if you're subscribed to Earth 2 you're probably a bit gullible, so maybe it is worth having a list of known idiots email addresses.