Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone

Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by x3n0ph3n3 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:17AM (#24046885)

> This makes absolutely no sense. If it is a matter of fact, it should be independently provable not require courts to decide.

It makes plenty of sense once you realize that it's a fact that if a court decides something is illegal, the government may use its monopoly of force to enforce it. Don't confuse scientific fact with legal fact. Also don't confuse legal fact with a court's opinion as to whether the law was actually violated.

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Re:Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:09AM (#24047153)

Supreme Court decisions come with majority and minority opinions because these things are clearly not facts. The government arbitrarily uses it's monopoly on force to entrench itself, leaving these "facts" to differ over time or by case.

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