What's up, everybody? Welcome to this week's episode of Hidden Forces with me, Dmitri Kaffinus.

In today's episode, I share part of my recent conversation with Bruce Schneier, a renowned American cryptographer,

computer security professional, and privacy specialist on the subject of cybersecurity and the NSA.

I also share with you part of my video interview with Lehman Baird, the inventor of Hashcraft,

which will be made available in full on the Hidden Forces YouTube

channel, as well as through our website at hidden forcespod.com later this week.

But I want to start the show today talking about privacy, specifically about a landmark case

before the Supreme Court that could have huge effects on our expectations of privacy

for generations to come, and something that was mentioned in my recent interview with Jeffrey

Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center, on the future of privacy, personhood,

and freedom in the digital age.

The case under consideration is Carpenter versus the United States, and it involves

Timothy Carpenter, unarmed robber whose movements in public were tracked for 127 days

by permission of a subpoena issued by the government for the geolocational records from his cell

phones that made it possible to see which cell towers he was near

over that period and used this data to conclude that he had indeed committed a series of

burglaries, allowing them to indict and convict him of armed robbery.

He and his lawyers objected that the search was invalid because the subpoena that was issued

under a federal law called the Stored Communications Act wasn't issued according to the standards

required by a valid judicial warrant.

And as a result, he claimed that the search violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment,

which states that, quote, the right of the people to be

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