Yes (with some help from hardware expansions).

I bet there’s still some FORTRAN in use at NASA/JPL.

Alternatively, I’m pretty sure key parts of Excel were written in x86 assembly. Dunno if that’s still true.

Methinks you have too much faith in those wielding the power to demand this. Examples abound of assholes - anyone from forum mods to police officers - abusing their power against those they look down upon. Yeah, it often comes back on them eventually, but not always, and in the meantime the lives of those they target can be made a living hell if they so choose.

“Questionable activity” is an easily abused term for power-tripping assholes. Especially with right-wing politics becoming so prevalent world-wide, it’s easy (for example) to imagine a scenario where a group of LGBTQ+ types are targeted for harassment - being forced to choose between losing their safe haven or outing themselves & putting themselves at risk of far worse.

“Evidence” being so vague and malleable a term that it’s insanely easy to abuse.

Thing is Discord will have no problems getting them to do it. By the time any legal proceedings against it work their way through the legal system, the damage will long since have been done. Discord will have made the money from the data they collected, the AI models will be done, and the need for more pictures will be non-existent.

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So… they banned social media for a whole 15 seconds?

That’s actually how I took it at first, seemed highly apropos.

Expulsion of an enema all over the camera would be tempting if it weren’t such a mess to clean up. Maybe in a rental…

Nowhere near an expert in this, but I know I’ve seen in the past that you could set your phone to turn on at a specific time (which means the RTC at a minimum is still running) - could a determined adversary not find a way to take advantage of that?

Your carrier HAS ratted on you. Under the incoming US administration, I’ve little doubt they will again.