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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by mapt on Monday July 27, 2026 @08:35AM (#49068784)
As one does. Why, six of the eleven times I've had my car stolen, it was a carjacking with myself or my family member in it.
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by ryan_j_naughton on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:13AM (#49069244)
Six of the eleven times...

Crazy.

What city was this, if you don't mind me asking?

Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by yeahforsureman on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:37AM (#49069550)
Jesus, what country?
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by hyperbovine on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:04AM (#49069887)
Also what decade.
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by ngc248 on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:44AM (#49070443)
probably South Africa?
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by u8080 on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:33PM (#49077049)
San Andreas?
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by UltraSane on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:37AM (#49069554)
That is insane. Where do you live?
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by FinnKuhn on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:02AM (#49069866)
Must be Gotham City
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by dbetteridge on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:58AM (#49070636)
Joburg?
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by mapt on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @07:31AM (#49082299)
This was joking about GP, if that was not clear. A society simply cannot function with the cartoon levels of crime seen in Batman or Grand Theft Auto; People leave for abroad. Planning what you should do after you're kidnapped is a function reserved for if your life is too much of an apocalyptic disaster to plan not to be kidnapped, and even South Africa and El Salvador at their worst levels of unrest were not really at that level.
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by lentil_soup on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:26PM (#49090825)
I don't think you really know what you're talking about and I'm struggling to answer to your dumb "joke". I was sharing a rough anecdote as an example of how technology fails when designed in isolation and your answer was ... Lol, Batman.

I invite you to read about daily life in latinamerica. Kidnappings were very common in the early 2000s and millions of people indeed leave leading to some of the biggest human refugee crises in the world ... Lol, GTA

Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by mapt on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:02AM (#49210583)
People who get carjacked often enough to have an informed opinion about countermeasures don't exist in real life. Instead, refugees exist, and people trying to make first-principles opinions about carjacking-in-theory exist.
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by lentil_soup on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:40AM (#49284511)
I've read this comment many times and still don't understand your point, there's no experts in kidnapping countermeasures? first hand experience doesn't count? kidnappings are not real? something about refugees for whatever reason?

I think you should sit this one out since you clearly don't know what you're talking about