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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by foooorsyth on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:01PM (#37195664)
>A nice side effect of this process is it selects for humility, openness, and conscientiousness.

Or perhaps it selects for submissive, controllable automata that will go along with anything, with no limit on absurdity. Your rationalization of this stupidity is embarrassing.

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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by jvanderbot on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:20PM (#37195782)
You're entitled to that opinion, and I don't think it's a great system, but I think it's not the lunacy you're implying. Military life, for example, involves a lot of bullshit routines, which have ancillary benefits of creating discipline and coherent mindset. I don't mind disagreeing about how good or bad this is.

But I do want to dispell the idea that people are less intelligent, less capable, or somehow mindless just because they disagree with you about this (Or OP), and choose to be part of it.

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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by iosystem on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:05AM (#37197118)
Being skilled != being intelligent
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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by jvanderbot on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:11AM (#37199315)
Not sure what you're implying or responding to, but that _is_ why I listed capable and intelligent separately.
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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by flextheruler on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:44PM (#37195909)
I don’t believe that’s an accurate representation of the situation on either side
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