I'm pretty sure the point parent was trying to make is that you can't get other people to leave their phones at home and there is very little recourse if a private citizen decides to record you without your consent from their phone in a public space. There's of course a difference in the powers involved, but people have had their lives ruined because somebody captured a video of them out of context or in their worst moment.
It wouldn't be weird to call an iPhone app an app for mobile phones. If I make an IntelliJ-only plugin, that's still an IDE plugin even if it doesn't work for all the IDEs in existence.
It does, we actually use Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to treat Major Depressive Disorder and a few other things. Precisely because electromagnetic waves can alter our perceptions and behavior.
Your use of "is" here is problematic (and that's what triggered the other responses).
I guess you mean "like". That would be accurate: TMS is disrupting normal brain activity a little like ECT does. It alters consciousness because it causes a partial reboot - an altered state. Drugs (and sleep and love and anger and meditation) also cause altered states. (Not to imply that any of these altered states are the same!)
The “is” I meant is that it induces an electric current in the brain. I’m sure there’s some subtlety (in the temporal and spatial patterns) but whether current is flowing between electrodes or is induced from a changing magnetic field, it’s still current, the effects of which are what we’re seeing.
Crucially, there is no special magnetic interaction with the brain beyond Faraday’s law, as people seem to be implying.
A changing magnetic field induces an electric field; this is how asynchronous motors work.
Having been in the room with a patient undergoing TMS a couple dozen times, I can assure you that the electromagnet will induce a muscle twitch from the electric field it creates. What it doesn't do is cause a seizure, which is the typical desired result of ECT.
This is just 100% false. To say that TMS is electric shock therapy because it changed electrical signals in the brain is totally misleading, if not, totally misunderstanding the science of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
The fact that both electricity and magnetism can affect neurotransmission does not mean that TMS and ECT are the same thing. When they give people ECT they’re giving them controlled seizures. In TMS this is not the case at all.
Right?! Did nobody there think to actually disable the accounts? These are the people who are harping about "security" being the reason for the ham-fisted takeover of the source repos, but they didn't secure the production infrastructure?
Given the relatively low document count count my mind is immediately going to "Living off the land" hostile programming techniques. What inadvertent triggers already exist in the data?
Criminals makes the smaller percentage of people on the internet. And in the real world it's usually the case that a warrant or other order backed by investigation and evidence to justify the information collection.
In fairness, even offline they don’t have warrants. They just say, “reasonable suspicion”. I don’t know what the solution is, but trying to hide behind legal niceties is not going to get us very far. At least it hasn’t gotten US citizens very far in the past.
That said, if it makes you feel better, Palantir already likely has, or can infer/calculate, your geolocation in any case. So this isn’t necessarily giving anything new away. All it does is highlight the creeping trampling of our privacy rights.
Only in limited circumstances. The strongest legal defense is to attack the procedures and legal bullet points in the process. Didn't get that form proving chain of custody between these two parts? Oh, too bad, out the window that evidence goes. It might be possible to harass someone without warrants and paperwork, but securing a conviction at least for the moment still requires evidence gathered according to the law, or parallel construction to obscure the origin of the evidence.
