No. Lockdown is not the same as BFU. Lockdown just turns off biometric unlocking.

The latter is true. Phone needs to be in BFU to work against cellbrite, I figure. Lockdown only turns off biometrics and makes the phone unlockable with a pin or password instead, iirc.

When you reboot the phone, it is in the BFU state where everything is still encrypted until the user unlocks the phone, as I understand it. https://blogs.dsu.edu/digforce/2023/08/23/bfu-and-afu-lock-states/

From the GOS forums, it looks like as long as you keep your phone up-to-date, block USB data in the locked state, and the phone is in the before-first-unlock state, cellbrite still can’t break into it

I opt out by never connecting it to the internet.

Platforms run by “free speech absolutists” tend to go that way

Call it what you will, but all signs seem to indicate that generative AI is simply not as profitable as the evangelists want it to be.

Physical keys and what looks like a headphone jack? Seems like an upgrade

Everything’s computer!

What these CEOs don’t understand is that even an error rate as low as 1% for LLMs is unacceptable at scale. Fully automating without humans somewhere in the loop will lead to major legal liabilities down the line, esp if mistakes can’t be fixed fast.

Can’t wait to see what silliness ensues when “sovereign citizens” start using AI avatars to represent themselves too