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Coward university siding with fascists.
Because fascists are known to be good for centers of education.
Universities will always side with whoever has more money. They will act like students matter, but students and faculty are just annoying inconveniences. Their administration must grow to justify itself.
It’s weird how different systems all over the US sound suspiciously familiar, right? Almost as if corruption is just the means of doing business now. The world wonders how Trump can be allowed to continue and it is because the powerful in government, in finance, in business, in the media, and now in education do nothing if not for the almighty dollar and the goal of profit and personal enrichment. The empire is collapsing under their dancing feet.
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Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. -Winston Churchill
I wonder if he was thinking of Chamberlain when he said that. Prior to Churchill taking power, both Britain and France refused to ally with the USSR, hoping that Nazi anti-communist aggression would lead Germany to attack the Soviets first. Instead, Stalin outmaneuvered all of them and formed a non-aggression pact with Germany, leading Hitler to his conquest of Western Europe. And in the meantime, the USSR built up their war industry so that when the inevitable happened, they were able to weather the Nazi onslaught and win the war.
If Britain and France had allied with the USSR in the first place, I wonder how much more quickly the Nazis would have been defeated.
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For those who aren't involved in university politics, it looks from the article like this happened:
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The department and its chair/head, the people who would work with him, were fine with him as a colleague.
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The university president did a heavy-handed top-down move to ban him
Almost any time you see "University Does X" in a headline, replace "university" with the name of the president. College presidents and their provosts, various VPs, Deans, etc. are incredibly Trumpy in behavior. They think of themselves as liberals because they were often faculty working in liberal departments. However, once they put on the suit and start throwing around business jargon they almost all begin doing exactly the things to their universities that MAGA does to the nation, often in the same ways.
Apparently the president is the 8th president since 2021 there. Not sure what that's about but I'm going to assume something has to be afoot. 7 people don't walk away from ~$900,000/year in less than a year.
While my university was arresting pro-Palestine protesters the president was gone fucking around at Harlan Crow's house
For state schools, the President is frequently placed there by politicians. There's been a big push by Conservative legislatures to replace the leadership in universities.
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Remember folks, have your wipe pin be close enough to audibly sound like your unlock pin, refuse to write it down. And freak out when it gets wiped.
I was thinking.
You could put the wipe pin on the back of your phone "because you often forget your pin".
If it's entered without your consent... Well it was without your consent 🤷♂️
Would the LEO that wiped your phone go to jail for destroying evidence
You do realize that you will be explaining this to a judge/jury after spending tons of money on lawyers or, more likely, they will Aaron Swartz you and you will take a plea deal to only serve some time in jail? Or do you think the TSA will just let you go?
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That's just another fantasy scenario which will in no way protect you from being charged. It may or may not save you from jail but you will still lose time, money and job offers.
The only way to do in a situation like this is to fully comply. So:
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if you only have to protect your data store it in the cloud and simply uninstall cloud client before going through security
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if you have to protect chats, contacts, browsing history etc. split your communications between two phones. Make sure the dummy phone is actually used (has apps, calls history, chat history, browsing history, pictures). Keep all sensitive communication on one phone and never take it through security
Unlock and show your phone. Let them scan it. Make sure it looks legit but has no sensitive info. All other games will get you in trouble.
Nah, I've worked enough cases, the pluasbile deniability is through the roof with this barring you actually having super shady shit on your phone they can prove through parallel channel.
Its like you are telling OJ. yeah sure I guess if the glove doesn't fit or something but that's a fantasy
You do realize the guy from the article already lost a job offer, right? How is plausible deniability working out for him? Seeing how he already lost a job offer? Is the jury going to give him this job back? Will they pay for his lawyers?
I literally don't know what you are saying. I think you might be mixing like... 2-3 arguments together and responding to that?
I'm good, they can put me in jail and take over my $750,000/yr dialysis bill.
if what ICE does is any indication, they'll just put you in jail, not deal with any medical issues, and you die
That's exactly it. Wiping 'evidence' in front of law enforcement means instant jail. In certain areas of the world it's far worse punishment. I have a feeling a lot of people here have never visited Russia, even in the most 'friendly' of times.
like they're not gonna just plant evidence
ICE shot a guy in the middle of the street while being filmed from 5 different angles and no one was even charged. If they are targeting you specifically you're fucked and no amount of fake PINs and acting will save you. If they are not targeting you the best thing you can do is not to draw attention.
then if theyre gonna do whatever they please i should just... wipe my phone so they dont get access to my info and contacts and shit?
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What of instead you finger print erased it? Your pin is the real unlock. And it always asks for the fingprint first but you have to press elsewhere to switch to pin mode.
Also it takes three fingerprint attempts, which look like they fail, to read, and on the third one the wipe happens.
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There is talk about having the option for the dures pin lead to a separate image.
The current correct way to set up those profiles is to have a default one that looks lived in but contains nothing you wouldn't mind explaining.
Then you create a burner profile that you simply delete if the water is too hot. This is the profile you use 90% of the time.
This way your phone looks normal when seized because the default profile still has your stuff in it (banking apps, dating apps, a few games, whatever).
I just have a couple apps that can be deleted if I'm flying and then redownload when safe. This one included.
I'm just going to use a flip phone that can hotspot.
I’m trying to decide which numbers sound alike. I guess you can get around that with alphabetical passcodes and just “mix up” an M and N
Sixty/sixteen, ninety/ninteen perhaps.
Ah good idea
Easy, "I said 'two fives', as in '55', not 'two five'".
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"nine" and "five" could be easy to mix up.
As someone who recently finished college, the thing I learned the most is how much of a fucking disaster US universities are
Fuck Georgia State and fuck state of Georgia, too.
Who cares about the Fourth Amendment, I guess?
Is that the unreasonable search one? Foreigner asking
Yes. Full text:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[2]
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Somehow through many administrations CBP has been allowed to consider airports and up to 200 miles from a border as Constitution free zones. This includes most people in the USA. This needs to change like 20 years ago.
Yes, I seem to remember a company I was at warning those that were traveling, especially if it was out of country, and as that related to company laptops.
He didn't wipe shit. The officer was dumb enough to wipe it for him.
That officer thought he found gold lmao. I imagine his face when it rebooted and wiped.
While I appreciate how universities have made some limited embrace of foss in the advent of open coursework, it doesn't change that there's a lot wrong with them. They have too much of a conflict of interest in their own profits to support a system of truly free postsecondary education. It's also shitty how the system is designed to basically funnel every student into one corporate industry or another, basically a training regiment to bolster the status quo. Usually.
I've felt for a long time that what we need is educational programs that are foss from the ground up, federated, and actively seeking reform for free public university education for all.
Cause let's be real, Harvard ain't ever gonna do that.
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