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by Ansil849 6y ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (includes a Firefox extension as well)
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by Ansil849 6y ago
My armchair theory is that there is a bit of hubris involved: in-house developers are hesitant to admit they've been 'bested' by a stranger on the internet, and so downplay or even just have blinders on against recognizing in
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by Ansil849 6y ago
Whenever I read an independent disclosure in an area I'm unfamiliar with such as this, involving the failure of the vendor to engage with the security researcher , I'm always presented with a parsing dilemma: is the vendor justifi
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by Ansil849 6y ago
Anonymity ≠ privacy We're having a discussion about an unknown account - which may or may not be an individual person - moving specific amounts of money around anonymously, not privately.
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by Ansil849 6y ago
In this case, it seems to be exactly how it works. Someone is opting to 'never speak or leave the house', and can afford to do so.
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by Ansil849 6y ago
For all of the talk about how Bitcoin is not truly anonymous, this wallet demonstrates otherwise, with the apparent 'anonymity proviso' being that you don't do too much with it, and just let the coins sit.
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by Ansil849 6y ago
> Am I in the minority in thinking that if someone wants to go out into the wilderness with little or no preparation for months at a time, that it's no one else's business? The quote in the GP explicitly mentions why it is some
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by Ansil849 6y ago
Just musing aloud, but do we hold electronics companies to different standards than other companies? For example, imagine that the latest Slack update made all desktop clients crash, and that Slack support simply said to try restarting the
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by Ansil849 6y ago
What I am confused about is why does no one who is in the area follow (at a safe distance) some of these unidentified agents to see where they go after they are done with their patrol?
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Zuckerberg – Trump’s post “has no history of being read as a dog whistle”(vox.com)
5 points by Ansil849 6y ago|0 comments
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by Ansil849 6y ago
Some tips to maximise user privacy while deploying this tool: 1) The code, for now, runs locally. This is good. To avoid the possibility of the code being tampered with at a later day (for example, it could be modified to send copies of the
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When Your Office Scanner Is Framed for Phishing(code.firstlook.media)
1 points by Ansil849 6y ago|0 comments
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by Ansil849 6y ago
Wow, this is incredibly sad news. One of my fondest memories with the TI was a chemistry instructor saying that we were completely free to use any programs we wanted on examinations -- as long as we coded the programs ourselves. This inspir
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by Ansil849 6y ago
The way the Signal PIN feature implementation has been handled by the Signal team is extremely disappointing. The blog post completely fails to explain why this feature is mandatory, and why users are now locked out of being able to view th
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How to Pick a Video Conferencing Platform(code.firstlook.media)
1 points by Ansil849 7y ago|0 comments
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Large-Scale BGP Hijack(twitter.com)
161 points by Ansil849 7y ago|50 comments
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by Ansil849 7y ago
Submitting this old piece to highlight the fact that the revelations about Crypto AG being an intelligence front were already known more than 20 years ago, and are only now coming back into the public consciousness after the recent WaPo sto
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Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? (1998)(mediafilter.org)
27 points by Ansil849 7y ago|3 comments
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by Ansil849 7y ago
> Every article I'm seeing in the past week refers to documents released in 2015. That's correct. The documents were reported on by the BBC in 2015 [1], directly linking to the declassified NSA memos [2][3]. [1] https:/&#
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by Ansil849 7y ago
It's not that "I knew it all along", it's that this was a well-covered story that was already news in the '90s, based on documents as well, e.g. from the Baltimore Sun: > For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG
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by Ansil849 7y ago
The fact that Crypto AG was an intelligence front has been publicly known since at least the 1990s [1]. Why did the Washington Post rehash this story recently and pass it off as news? I'm glad that they did, because it spreads awarenes
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by Ansil849 7y ago
It is nice to see OSINT receive more tooling, but I shudder at the 'most complete' hyperbole. For starters, this appears to be almost exclusively centered on web domain OSINT. But what about reverse image searches? Government reco
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by Ansil849 7y ago
The current frontpage Anatomy of a Scam Pitch Deck [1] post reminded me of this. Though the two are very different kinds of scams, it is nice to see more 'anatomies' being done. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by Ansil849 7y ago
The recent documentary Fantastic Fungi [1] covers psilocybin patients as well (alongside other fun fungi facts), worth a watch, IMHO. [1] https://fantasticfungi.com/
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Anatomy of a Facebook-Hosted Phishing Attack(tech.firstlook.media)
8 points by Ansil849 7y ago|1 comments
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Well, for that matter why bother purchasing it from this third party? Ostensibly for the same reason as not doing it in AV.
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From further in the article: > Microsoft declined to comment on the specifics of why it purchased products from Jumpshot, but said that it doesn't have a current relationship with the company. Which seems to indicate that Microsoft
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by Ansil849 7y ago
> For me the main reason is that Microsoft actually benefits from a virus free system because it improves Windows as a platform. From the article: > Some past, present, and potential clients include Google, Yelp, Microsoft, McKinsey,
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Anatomy of a Facebook-Hosted Phishing Attack(code.firstlook.media)
6 points by Ansil849 7y ago|0 comments
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by Ansil849 7y ago
> Letters, phone calls, and, where appropriate, surgery appointments are perfectly adequate for people who genuinely need my help The insinuation that just because someone may not want to use a particular communication channel (or conver

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