CubitOom

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

If you want to buy anything, don't get one that has an app associated with it.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Happy cellular peptide cake day

CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Please give cash donations to local food and clothing banks if you can.

CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Yes

CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

They also seem to care a lot about "supremacy".

CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

I am not a lawyer, but I think it is because the USA is governed by a fascist regime.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

PHILADELPHIA (CN) — The Department of Justice sued the city of Philadelphia and multiple city officials Thursday over a municipal ordinance banning law enforcement at all levels from using face coverings and unmarked vehicles to conceal their identities.
Describing the law as “blatantly unconstitutional,” the federal government accused Philadelphia, Mayor Cherelle Parker, District Attorney Larry Krasner and City Solicitor Renee Garcia of “undermining] the principles of federalism that underlie our entire constitutional order” by limiting federal law enforcement from properly conducting its duties.
“For centuries, the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that states have no authority whatsoever to regulate the federal government’s operations,” the federal government wrote in its complaint.
“Despite that well-established precedent, Philadelphia — the very city where the principles of federal sovereignty and supremacy were first established — recently enacted a bill that purports to do exactly what constitutional law says it cannot: subject federal officers and agencies to criminal and civil liability, respectively, through laws that seek to regulate how those officers carry out their federal duties,” the government added.
The ordinance targeted in the suit — passed by Philadelphia City Council on April 23 and adopted on May 8 as part of a larger “ICE Out” legislative package — prohibits all local, state and federal law enforcement operating in Philadelphia from wearing a mask, facial covering or other garment that obscures their identity, except in limited circumstances.
Additionally, the ordinance prevents the intentional concealment of officer badges, tags and labels; bans the use of unidentified vehicles in the course of official duties; and requires law enforcement to identify themselves to a subject of arrest, holding or detention.
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Under the ordinance, failure to comply would constitute criminal concealment, punishable by law. It is currently set to take effect on July 7, 60 days after its adoption.
“We will arrest you,” Krasner said in fiery support of the ordinance in January. “We will put handcuffs on you. We will close those cuffs. We will put you in a cell. We will do everything in our power to convict you, and we will make sure you serve your entire sentence because Donald Trump has no power whatsoever to pardon you.”
In its complaint, the federal government accused the city’s bill of violating the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, which allows federal law to take precedence over conflicting state and municipal laws.
The government’s argument is not new — it made similar claims when challenging bans on masked federal agents in California and New Jersey.
While a final ruling has not yet been made in either case, a Ninth Circuit appeals panel issued an injunction in April prohibiting California from enforcing its ban pending appeal, finding that the Trump administration was likely to prevail on its supremacy clause claim.

CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

I own one but I haven't put a sim card in it to test the actuall phone aspect yet.

My initial criticisms are:

because each app is in its own jail, there is no way yet to set a global DNS setting like one can do on android
there is no native mullvad VPN app
all android apps are in the same sandbox, there is no out of the box way to have an android app isolated from others
there is no work profile
the gesture based ui is weird and id rather have more navigation options.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

I agree it's too much money. But for the record it's not a dumb phone, it is a smartphone running sailfish which can run android apps in a sandbox

However for less money, the Sony Xperia 10 III with Sailfish OS (Xperia 10 mk3) is a better buy.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees while continuing to pay people they hold $1 per day for “voluntary work,” under relaxed detention standards released Monday.
ICE said the standards, which apply to for-profit contractors and jails that hold detainees, were revised with input from partners to “reduce the burden on our detention operators.” Experts said the changes would help contractors limit legal liability, reduce costs and get more operational flexibility while doing little, if anything, to improve conditions for roughly 60,000 people currently detained.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

The reality is that ICE has a long track record of abusing detainees. A 2022 survey of 85 clinicians found that of the roughly 1,300 patients they had treated, all of them had experienced adverse health conditions related to their time in detention. This includes patients “with vaccine-preventable conditions acquired in detention,” “whose medication was taken away or denied access to” and “with chronic conditions that worsened during detention.”
A 2024 report on preventable deaths in immigration detention centers similarly found that 95 percent of deaths reported by ICE between 2017 and 2021 would have been preventable if adequate medical care had been provided.
Ultimately, Homeland Security must be held responsible for its treatment of detainees. Policies requiring ICE to report on deaths, including those occurring after detainees are released, are crucial for ensuring transparency and accountability.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Daphy Michel wasn't born in America either.

CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled the manner a homicide, “indicating the death was caused by the actions of another individual” and should not be interpreted as a declaration of criminal guilt, the office said in a statement. The office released its findings Friday.
Michel was a native of Haiti who was seeking asylum in the U.S. after arriving at the southern border in 2022, said Joseph Patrick Murphy, her family’s attorney. She was granted humanitarian parole based on urgent humanitarian need, but she did not live to see a hearing scheduled for two weeks after she died, he said.
The medical examiner’s office said Michel was a vulnerable adult “suffering from untreated severe mental health issues and a significant language barrier” at the time of her release on Feb. 27, the office said.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Work on a hobby at home