Andre607

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by Andre607 8y ago
> But when you're a lone reporter, 12 or not, the legal costs related to defending yourself against even a bogus charge can be considerable. Well, yes. This is true not just for independent journalists but for all people.
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by Andre607 8y ago
> he is correct that giving false information to an officer who asks you where you are going -- even if they don't have a good reason for asking and if it would be within your rights to refuse to answer -- can be a crime. Twice in t
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by Andre607 8y ago
> But Hilde Lysiak, the editor of the Orange Street News, is the real deal. In 2016, when she was just nine years old, she broke the story of a homicide in her hometown of Selinsgrove, Arizona This is incorrect. Lysiak's hometown is
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by Andre607 8y ago
Please re-read my first comment, as I feel like we are talking past each other. You are talking about generalized surveillance; I presented a specific example of how this particular technology can be used in my first post. The obvious truis
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by Andre607 8y ago
I interpreted your reply to be that this camera is intended for entertainment, not surveillance purposes. My response was to point out that entertainment-purposed equipment can and has been repurposed to be surveillance equipment, effective
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by Andre607 8y ago
> these aren’t a surveillance tool if the airlines wanted to have security cameras they would’ve installed them already The fact that it may be designed as an entertainment system and not as a surveillance system has no bearing on the fa
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by Andre607 8y ago
> American Airlines spokesperson Ross Feinstein confirmed to BuzzFeed News that cameras are present on some of the airlines’ in-flight entertainment systems, but said “they have never been activated, and American is not considering using
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by Andre607 8y ago
Thank you for taking the time to respond; this is insightful and informative.
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by Andre607 8y ago
I know we have lots of FB employees at HN. I would be genuinely curious to hear, via throwaway accounts if need be, about how FB staff rationalise things like this happening. Do you shrug it off as not a big deal in the long run? As FB stil
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by Andre607 8y ago
David Orr has been flinging the same mud at Bukowski and Bukowski's posthumous publications for years now. He's been using the same exact jabs and barbs for more than a dozen years. An example, in this 2019 review he writes: >
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by Andre607 8y ago
Reminds me of how when due to the Allied embargo Coca-Cola couldn't be made in Nazi-era Germany, so Coca-Cola GmbH developed Fanta: https://www.thelocal.de/20170523/fanta-how-the-nazi-era-drin...
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by Andre607 8y ago
Does anyone else find these kinds of Twitter threads incredibly hard to follow? It's very difficult to contextualize and adapt to reading these short incremental bursts of text or 'Twitter threads'. It always feels like impor
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by Andre607 8y ago
Surprised the article (or the comments here), don't mention earlier efforts to tear down court paywalls, such as Aaron Swartz's scraping of 2.7 million documents from PACER: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy&#x2F
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by Andre607 8y ago
> I wonder what motivated the article's author to redact the scammer's email address. This is good practice to prevent the possibility of revictimization in case the actual motive of the phishing attack was not phishing but to
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In Soviet Russia Smart Card Hacks You(media.ccc.de)
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by Andre607 8y ago
> Vice's view of politics is always like a naive high school kid who hasn't ever had a real job or read a single book on economics. Which probably accurately describes their (largely freelance) 'journalists' or more a
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by Andre607 8y ago
> We need u2f U2F is not immune to phishing attacks, at least not if backup codes are being used: https://youtu.be/rPTI9e-9tBE?t=936
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by Andre607 8y ago
> One interesting side note relates to the person driving these attacks, or at the least the author of the Facebook landing page - they linked it to their actual Facebook account, which is where the victim will land should they fall for
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Program allows ordinary digital camera to see round corners(theguardian.com)
4 points by Andre607 8y ago|0 comments
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Digital Safety: Using security keys to secure accounts against phishing(cpj.org)
1 points by Andre607 8y ago|0 comments
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by Andre607 8y ago
> I’ve created a set of three simple statements (with supporting references) that represent the fundamental arguments that brought me to veganism: >It’s unnecessary for humans to consume animal products, i.e. we can thrive on a vegan
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by Andre607 8y ago
The article mentions that there are "even mixed color boards", does anyone have a photo of any? I did a cursory search and didn't see any, but am interested in how these looked.
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by Andre607 8y ago
What's striking is that nearly every one (with only a couple possible exceptions) of these photos show children and family occupants. Did single people (without kids) not live in these tenement blocks, or were in the overwhelmingly min
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by Andre607 8y ago
> It didn't though, the "Mme" part stands for mademoiselle, indicating it is a woman. Therefore they weren't pretending to be a man for the purpose of getting a paper published. The specific claim I was addressing is
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by Andre607 8y ago
> It's not insulting. It is unfortunate that you do not consider such blatant, ham-fisted patriarchy as insulting.
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by Andre607 8y ago
They said it wasn't an example of it, but then presented a historical account which only seemingly reinforces the original claim they were claiming it was not.
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by Andre607 8y ago
Your comment only seems to reinforce the point that > This probably shows how difficult it was even then to get something published under your own name as a woman Or are you suggesting that it was not difficult for a woman to publish und
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by Andre607 8y ago
From that series of articles, during Le Roux's court hearing: > Le Roux admitted that he had created the encryption software E4M but denied that he had developed TrueCrypt, its famous progeny. Also: > Hafner and his SecurStar col
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by Andre607 8y ago
The names of the members of Bourbaki are now known, as per the Wikipedia link, so they are not an example of persistent anonymity.
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by Andre607 8y ago
The maintainers of the VeraCrypt fork are not anonymous [1]; whereas most of the team behind TrueCrypt is. [1] https://www.idrix.fr/Root/mos/Contact_Us/task,view/contact_i...

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