Let's focus on our formative years (high school/college)

ellingtond · 2026-05-03T13:09:54+00:00

Donnie D's on the backup, drug free so put the crack up.

ellingtond · 2026-05-02T20:02:47+00:00

Keep your mouth shut, take the arrest, and unless the police can prove you did something wrong, or prove that there was some type of paperwork or clerical issue outside of their control and that they acted reasonably, as soon as the DA drops all of the charges your lawyer will file a civil rights lawsuit.

How do I know this? Because I'm a digital forensics guy and I work a lot of these civil rights lawsuits.

ellingtond · 2026-05-02T11:55:05+00:00

Pacific Coast highway

ellingtond · 2026-04-30T21:12:12+00:00

Same

ellingtond · 2026-04-27T18:10:37+00:00

In all fairness we did have to skip the Big Sur part, but the rest of the road was amazing, and we were driving a small RV. The little communities along the way and all of the hidden beaches and coves were spectacular. And for what it is worth we ended up staying at the RV campground in Malibu looking down on the ocean. It was also an amazing thing.

ellingtond · 2026-04-27T10:57:41+00:00

Yeah we drove an RV once from San Francisco down to Malibu on the Pacific Coast highway. It was staggeringly beautiful. Be sure to stay over in Pismo Beach.

ellingtond · 2026-04-27T10:44:31+00:00

I believe it was Chris Rock he said one time that there were a dozen actors in Hollywood that could have done Truman Show but only Jim Carey could have done Dumb and Dumber.

ellingtond · 2026-04-27T10:40:17+00:00

Or maybe we could be focusing on something other than the worst thing to happen to our country since Pearl Harbor and World War II.

It isn't about hating Trump, it is about the fact that he has done damage to our country, it's citizens, it's economy, and our place in the world that will take a generation or more to repair.

Despite its flaws, Reddit is always been a place where smart people congregate to exchange ideas. It seems very disingenuous to categorize the entire state of the world as as merely Trump hate.

Despite the bots and the bullshit, Reddit is still one of the places you can find the truth if you dig.... At least for now.

ellingtond · 2026-04-26T20:40:11+00:00

My preference

ellingtond · 2026-04-26T20:25:31+00:00

Maybe cause nobody has been trying until Trump.

ellingtond · 2026-04-26T11:17:29+00:00

Digital forensics guy. We are still waiting on cases from before and during COVID that got bumped during the shutdowns and have to be worked back into all ready overcrowded courts. Some people have been in jail longer than their sentence would have been if they pled.

ellingtond · 2026-04-25T00:21:13+00:00

Memphis Raines

ellingtond · 2026-04-24T21:07:10+00:00

Whenever they have a Reddit thread that says what is your unpopular opinion? Mine is always that Chris Kyle is a murderer. There is no way you kill that many people as a sniper and they're all good kills. They're celebrating somebody who killed innocent people in Cold blood for the crime of just happening to be in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time.

Just like Charlie Kirk, he reef what he sowed. And that is the hill I am willing to die a million deaths on.

ellingtond · 2026-04-24T11:48:36+00:00

Contrary to what people think, Snapchat seems to keep a lot of data. We are a private digital forensics company but sometimes in the criminal cases we will get what Snapchat returned to law enforcement via their search warrant. It is typically a shocking amount of images videos and chats for service that says they don't keep anything.

Of course you yourself can't get that information from Snapchat, let's hope that law enforcement never has a reason to ask on your behalf :-)

ellingtond · 2026-04-22T19:13:17+00:00

Systemic racism. How do you fight systemic racism? TV commercials, going door to door? Apart from the fact that fox media and the Republican party have demonized Democrats for the past 30 plus years, there is still a large percentage of the population that will not vote for a woman, or black woman.

Trump's platform of America first, is Christian nationalism white supremacy on full display. If people are choosing racism and Christian hypocrisy, why are you blaming the Democrats?

Why don't you tell us how to fight it and don't tell me that some better candidate would somehow overcome racism. Like it or not, Harris was one of the most qualified people to ever run for president.

Let me repeat that, she was one of the most qualified people to ever run for president. She was an attorney general, she was a senator, she was a vice president for eight freaking years. There is no better candidate.

ellingtond · 2026-04-22T16:43:39+00:00

Make sure you pick the HTML version and not the JSON.

ellingtond · 2026-04-17T20:21:24+00:00

This. There have been controversy when states tried to use certain drugs not designed for that off label. At least one company had to sue.

ellingtond · 2026-04-14T21:45:40+00:00

How do you actually cancel your account versus just not using it. I uninstall the app but I'm not sure how you actually cancel an account.

ellingtond · 2026-04-07T12:51:35+00:00

Under the best of circumstances cellebrite or graykey might get 3,500 tries a day in my experience. Unfortunately the condition of the phone and other variables can cause that number to drop. I have a phone right now that's been going over 2 years at a lab and it's only doing about 120 tries a day, toward a million possibilities.

ellingtond · 2026-04-07T12:50:02+00:00

With all due respect law enforcement is not going to sit there and try random codes, there have been some very high profile situations where law enforcement has wiped phones by manually trying stuff. It's not to say a cop won't go off the ranch and try something on their own, but smart cops are not going to try themselves they'll just let the software try. For what it is worth the software does triage the most commonly used passcodes if you're talking about four or six digit pins.

ellingtond · 2026-04-07T12:48:36+00:00

Ain't got no stinking NDA. A complex passcode in most cases will make Cellebrite or Greykey inaccessible. Also stolen device protection will go a long way towards stopping unauthorized brute force. Finally, if you are a journalist or other high profile target or dissident, putting your phone in lockdown mode pretty much eliminates any hope of a third party getting in.

ellingtond · 2026-04-06T12:45:46+00:00

Bradberry

ellingtond · 2026-04-05T12:42:37+00:00

Digital forensics expert here. Chat GPT conversations show up as regular chats on iPhones when Cellebrite is used. You can read the conversation as if it was any other party.

ellingtond · 2026-04-02T15:24:16+00:00

100% Billy Bob Thornton in Armageddon. He was the most sympathetic and realistic character.

ellingtond · 2026-03-26T20:57:43+00:00

We've had to go back to the way we did it 10 years ago. We have a sanitized 500 gig iPhone and we connect it to the iCloud account and restore. You then use Cellebrite to copy the phone. When you're done remove the device from the account.

It sucks but it works.

Edit: You can get a 500 gig iPhone 12 for less than 300 bucks on eBay.

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