Pretty sure the owner would have to doxx themselves in order to fight this in court, not sure if they’re prepared to do that or just shut it down. Either way many other instances will stay running all over the world and this game of Whack-a-Mole (Streisand Edition) will continue ad infinitum.

Pretty sure money is the reason. With a side dish of possible backdoor.

There’s nothing interesting there

Yet people can’t stop talking about it, positive or negative. Something is interesting.

How does a duress pin prevent them from taking the device into custody?

And if you forgot you had a duress pin, hence weren’t “knowingly” damaging anything, would that be a useful defense?

Isn’t that kind of a huge change

Sortof… but almost nobody is actually using data=journal, as the default is ordered.

I do think it’s important to keep it as an option though, so I disagree with removing it entirely. I suppose it could be forked into a separate module by someone who wants to maintain the journal support. I wonder if ext3’s journaling will still be supported?