Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit

• frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They have a battery attached to flat wires. When you give a couple millimeters of room from the plug, they insert the flat wires and the computer will be powered from the battery.

  If the computer is logged in, they have a USB device that mimics a mouse. It makes the mouse pointer move back and forth to prevent it from going to sleep or the screen saver.

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They use forensic tools to clone the RAM before moving it. Probably depends on exploits so whether it will work may depend on your OS, but they have access to the hardware so there are a lot of possibilities.

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  • SirHaxalot@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is this actually practically achievable or mostly theoretical in a lab? Is it confirmed that the cops have actually managed to do this?

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For password guessing they make clones of the computer so they can make countless instances of it to endlessly guess the password at the speed of dickheads to get around the systems cutting the guesser off after a number of attempts.

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    • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can do this for servers. Desktops would be no problem

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  • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At least in Germany, I would be surprised if the cops could point to the RAM inside a computer. They will not open it before they take it with them.

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    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Careful. There are levels to it, and from stories that I heard, those levels don’t always communicate with each other. If you get the regular “normal cops”, then no, they won’t know anything more than the average joe about computers.

      If get in deep enough shit, you might get a visit from the specialised cops, either the state or federal variety, and those guys know what they are doing.

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      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s definitely the case in the Netherlands. I wouldn’t trust the average cop to find the power button. But that doesn’t mean the specialized teams don’t have some really good ones.

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    • brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If a cop acts as if they don’t have a clue, you have to be extra careful. They might be trying to lull you into a false sense of security. They’ve been working with a lot of criminals before you, and most of those criminals have had computers and smartphones for 20 years now. They know what they are doing, nowadays.

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