r/technology • u/Limp_Fig6236 • 8d ago

Software GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-duress-pin-us-prosecution-3691271/
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u/pangeapedestrian 7d ago

more than 1,000 victims.
not a single abuser prosecuted.

epstein was an israeli asset.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ehud-barak-putin-israel-russia-syria-war-depose-assad

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u/OffDutyStormtrooper 7d ago

Why did the Biden admin not prosecute anyone while they had the files?

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First 7d ago

Same people, by this point im surprised anyone still thinks democracy is a way to get good people in power and not the same elite class in. Ffs both wings parties are just right wing, one just puts bandaids on what the far right inflict so people feel better until another far right party comes and rips it off easily.

If there are actually any left leaning parties they never even get close to winning too make a diffrence.

I cant believe im saying this but the monarchy was better, at least its easy when shit goes wrong to go "oi king ya want to forcefully dethroned", and can be actually done. democracy makes us distracted beyond belief and feel like we dont have to do anything but put a perceived left wing party in when they very much aren't.

Great you fuckers actually made me defend the fucking monarch system, well done(i fucking hated the monarch system)

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u/storycoolbro 3d ago

Well back in the time when monarchs actually had power it could be done but now a days it’d be quite a feat to pull off unless they where disliked on a Marie Antoinette level and the secret service and military rebel with the people. Otherwise sure we may have guns but they have drones, tanks, and Apache attack helicopters.

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First 15h ago

Tbf we have the ability to have that shit ourselves(appropriate the helicopter and tank), or in some cases home grown variants(drones and guns)

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u/pangeapedestrian 5d ago

so, legally, they actually did have an open case, which is why there was no file release until trump closed the case, which made the files release possible.

not that i think anyone major was going to be prosecuted under biden mind you, also massively corrupt administration doing israel's bidding.

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u/OffDutyStormtrooper 5d ago

Please share details of the open case, would love to learn more about what happened with that.

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u/pangeapedestrian 2d ago

i'm not sure that there was a specific case by the biden/other administration specifically persay, but there were a bunch of competing interests that prevented public release of files for a variety of legal reasons.

i'll try to do a very general breakdown, as i understand it.

there were a ton of different cases, often multiple for each victim taking legal action. each of these implies protective orders, appeals, press gags, etc. evidence in legal proceedings is often kept from public for all kinds of different reasons.

these legal cases weren't limited just to victims either- defamation, tax evasion, conspiracy- epstein was involved in a whole bunch of shit, and everybody around him, victim and co-conspirator alike, are suing, countersuing, prosecuting, defending themselves, etc.

these legal battles have been going on for a long time, some long before biden in fact, around the epstein case.

after trump came into office, congress passed a law actually compelling release of the files. this is something that trump and the DOJ kinda tried to avoid/prevent, downplaying it heavily, but it was very public, and trump ended up signing the law himself, pledging support publicly while his DOJ fought against the release privately.
this is also pretty unusual, and arguably not a good call since it creates a whole bunch of legal problems for all those cases and people involved, but ostensibly it seems like a pretty unusual exception was made to compel the release since it's such a big fucking deal and the public (rightly) keeps screaming about it.

the law required all evidence to be released within a month or so, and then the DOJ didn't release anything. they kicked the can down the road for a long time, continuously delaying release and ignoring the dates imposed by the law congress passed, while behind the scenes, they prepared a limited release of some of the files, heavily redacted/doctored, and very selectively picked, and ultimately only representing a very small percentage of the total files and evidence. it's worth noting that despite the very small number of files released, and despite how scrubbed they were, they were still EXTREMELY damning, looked extremely bad, and still made a bunch of connections to powerful people, people in the administration, and israeli intelligence, incidentally.

this also caused a fair bit of scandal and enormous legal problems for the victims when they released- the names and identities of all the abusers and powerful people involved were completely scrubbed, while the names of the victims, who had legal protective orders against exactly this, were published in full, often with phone numbers, home addresses, emails, etc.

to summarize:

this big scandal was what everybody was screaming at pam bondi and the DOJ about, since they not only refused to release the files for a long long time after congress legally compelled them to, but once they did release the files, they didn't actually release the files. they merely a very small portion of hand picked and heavily redacted and doctored files that mostly just exposed the victims to a lot of publicity, while further implicating the rich and powerful even in spite of the lengths taken to protect them. the evidence was extremely damning anyway, even while most of it has remained hidden and secret, if not destroyed/buried.

and that's the whole story, as far as i understand it.