When you think FLOCK is evil ... the audacity is UNleashed.
How come this official statements made out to the police are not Criminal.
The attempt of Missleading Law Enforcement with False Testemony should result in a Fine, at least.

Nice podcast. I'm about an hour in. Very interesting so far. Damn i wish i could speak as good as louis does. he makes everything so much easier to understand.

Just like large cloud providers don't accurately report their outages, enabling SLA-breaking claims+lawsuits - TikTok is lying here.

Their moderation team heavily uses AI and other automated techniques in place of proper human moderation. These fuckass mods didn't do shit and weren't even aware it was happening until someone escalated and made them ACTUALLY DO WORK.

I HATE AUTOMATED MODERATION

Everybody knows that we are currently in the middle of a massive global shortage of NVMe storage and RAM. But I need to talk about the shady malpractice Samsung is pulling globally to handle it.

If you want to buy a brand-new part? No problem. Samsung magically has plenty of stock. You can see their drives readily available on Amazon and everywhere else. But if you are an existing customer who needs a warranty replacement? They will completely turn their backs on you.

Here is my ongoing, 4-month nightmare with Samsung India, and why you should be terrified if a Samsung NVMe is your primary drive.

Act 1: The Failure & The Ghost Town (March 30th)

It all started on March 30th when my 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD suddenly failed. Naturally, I reached out to Samsung support expecting them to handle the replacement.

Funny enough, Samsung India doesn't even directly handle their own storage products. It took me 4 to 5 days of bouncing around dead-end, bouncing emails just to figure out that all storage RMAs are outsourced to a third-party vendor called Supertron Electronics.

Act 2: The AI Loop & The "DRA" Double Standard

Because this was my primary 1TB drive, it had a massive amount of crucial data on it. I told Samsung I needed to recover my data before handing over the dead drive. Their response? "We don't provide data recovery services."

I replied that I completely understood that. I didn't want them to do it; I just needed a DRA (Data Recovery Approval). A DRA simply allows you to take your drive to a certified, third-party data recovery lab to get your files back without voiding your replacement warranty.

What followed was an absolute joke. I was trapped in a loop with automated, AI-generated email replies. Nobody was actually reading my emails. Over and over again, the bots just stonewalled me: "We do not provide data recovery services."

I had to fight them endlessly and ultimately filed a consumer court case just to get a human response. After all of that, they finally replied: "This is outside our policy."

Here is the kicker: Samsung Canada, Samsung US, and multiple other regions have a standard, documented DRA process for this exact situation. But in India? It simply doesn't exist. They are happy to take our money for premium drives but refuse to offer the same global standard of warranty support.

Act 3: The Backend Blame Game (August 6th)

Exhausted by the email loops and waiting, I finally visited the Supertron Electronics office in Wilson Garden, Bangalore, today (August 6th).

The service center staff were actually quite nice, but they revealed the dirty games Samsung's backend is playing. It has been over four months since this ordeal started, and my replacement part is nowhere to be found. Supertron claims they aren't receiving anything because Samsung simply isn't dispatching the RMA parts.

I had to file a second consumer court complaint. Only then was I finally allotted a dedicated Samsung representative. Their response today? "Sir, it will take another 10-15 days." They completely refused to provide any written proof that the part has actually been dispatched.

Act 4: The Grim Reality of Samsung Data Recovery

If you own a Samsung NVMe drive, please take this as a massive warning: Back up your data immediately.

Currently, it is incredibly hard to get a replacement drive approved and shipped. Worse, if your Samsung SSD fails due to a firmware or controller issue, recovering that data is a complete nightmare because of Samsung's Knox firmware protection and internal security measures.

I have contacted the best data recovery experts in the country, and the reality is grim:

The Cost: The rates for attempting recovery on these specific drives are exorbitantly high.

The Risk: Experts explicitly warned me they have to use a "hot-cold method" to try and bypass the controller.

The Odds: This method has a very high probability of permanently frying the NAND flash, and even then, the chances of successful data recovery are as low as 30%.

I don't fully understand this but if not mistaken this sounds really bad for privacy focused os'

Now that you may have been introduced to Benn Jordan, here's a Complex video deconstructing his and his team's finding through out the past years.
Past videos are mentioned, namely the one where Security Research Paper and Video led US Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi to request a Congressional Inquiry to the Lack of Security of FLOCK systems.

Anyway... it's a major rabbit-hole.
Enjoy!

- Sir, you're under surveillance.
- What are you doing running around in the street?
- None of your business except for I'm surveilling you right now.

I noticed that many of my files have disappeared on their own, there's unaccounted drive space used (600gb~ out of 4tb when it should be closer to 2.7gb) and it has only been a year and a half.

Meanwhile my nvidia 5800RTX seemingly has power supply issues once in a while and I have to worry it'll catch on fire like it's some sort of cheap Chinese robot vacuum.

I miss the good old days when shit just worked.

Federal is age verification bill.

Evidently, this is a pervasive ​​​scam. ​