Even State Department-funded Human Rights Watch admits that authorities combine legal and illegal methods to obtain convictions: https://text.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases

Combining dragnet surveillance with device hacking is intended in the design of both tools. Hence, State Department-funded Signal dupes you into handing over your identity as part of the population-centric mapping. In custody, your phone will be hacked when it is taken away if it’s important.

https://xcancel.com/hannahcrileyy/status/2034273723667161480#m

  • village604English
    1·
    23 days ago

    But they didn’t. They said it depends on the context.

      • village604English
        1·
        23 days ago

        Their second scenario is literally what the trial is about.

        • Feyd@programming.dev
          1·
          23 days ago

          In an earlier post the same poster said

          The prosecution used the presence of the first aid kit they carried during their armed assault, along with actual messages (not metadata) from a Signal chat to make the case that the attackers planned on using violence.

          Then in the one you’re looking at it says

          I disagree that bringing a first aid kit along with explosives and assault weapons to a planned confrontation is evidence someone was attending a peaceful protest.

          The second one is not relevant to the first.

          • village604English
            1·
            23 days ago

            They are about the same event, just worded differently to give more context.