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by aj3 5y ago
So what? Say you have an account X which holds funds from criminal operations (e.g. ransomware payments). If you cash it out directly there's no doubt you're a criminal. But if you use that money to pay yourself for an NFT, now yo
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by aj3 5y ago
So in other words NFTs are scams just like designer clothes, luxury watches and fancy cars.
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by aj3 5y ago
Well, you're wrong. Seller declares income and pays taxes, but they don't have a duty to track down buyers real identity and check their income sources. Thus you could easily be both buyer and seller but only declare seller part.
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I Track My Tasks in Obsidian(medium.com)
1 points by aj3 5y ago|0 comments
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But, Mr. Zuckerberg, How Do You Play Basketball Against a Hologram?(vice.com)
7 points by aj3 5y ago|0 comments
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by aj3 5y ago
Sporadic CJD is diagnosis of exclusion. That it happens spontaneously is a hypothesis, there might be root cause(s) that we simply don't know yet.
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by aj3 5y ago
Having more options to share medical records would be helpful as well (with patients consent obviously). Legacy attitude stating that all medical information should be kept super private is irrational and to me looks like a cargo cult.
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by aj3 5y ago
No, association with CJD is simply due to it being the most mysterious neurodegenerative disease and the last one to be tested (also pryons are hard to detect without knowing which protein exactly to examine).
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Conti announcement about REvil server takedown by US Government(pastebin.com)
2 points by aj3 5y ago|0 comments
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by aj3 5y ago
Pardon my French, but you're either a coward or bootlicker. There won't be any criminal prosecution for raising legitimate issues internally & putting those in writing, no matter what company lawyers tell you. And if the most
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by aj3 5y ago
I'm not the company I work for. If they're doing unethical stuff, fuck them. Never understood, why others are so keen to protect employer given company will throw under the bus any of us in a blink of an eye.
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by aj3 5y ago
Reddit comment explains that the software that handles app sideloading gets preinstalled by carriers: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/q4nltn/comment/...
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Ads are now able to bypass Google Play to install apps WITHOUT user consent(reddit.com)
55 points by aj3 5y ago|15 comments
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Installing apps on a single touch (bypassing the app store)(digitalturbine.com)
3 points by aj3 5y ago|0 comments
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NASA Says Blue Origin 'Gambled' Its Chance to Build a Lunar Lander Away(interestingengineering.com)
35 points by aj3 5y ago|3 comments
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by aj3 5y ago
I guess they want to prevent someone from intercepting and tampering with a phone while it's being shipped to the customer, you know the supply chain attacks NSA ( https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/52532
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by aj3 5y ago
Just to make it clear that this isn't a purely theoretical concern, it's how Windows Hello got bypassed this summer: https://www.wired.com/story/windows-hello-facial-recognition...
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by aj3 5y ago
Well duh. They have to comply with anti-money laundering regulation.
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BitLocker Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability(msrc.microsoft.com)
3 points by aj3 5y ago|0 comments
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iOS on QEMU(github.com)
1 points by aj3 5y ago|0 comments
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by aj3 5y ago
Generally you don't. Just be prepared to scale resources and handle everyone.
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by aj3 5y ago
Thankfully these attackers haven't heard about Layer 7 attacks yet.
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by aj3 5y ago
This attack was 20m requests per second, not 100k.
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by aj3 5y ago
Education is societal problem and can be solved by technological means. Developing free, lightweight and portable browser is one of the solutions necessary to make knowledge more available, therefore this tech addresses social problem.
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Scientists Just Ruled Out an Explanation of a 16-Day Signal(vice.com)
5 points by aj3 5y ago|0 comments
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by aj3 5y ago
Isn't that just symbiotic relationship though? Article does not explain what monkeys get from this relationship with wolves and whether any species is changing another's behavior.
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by aj3 5y ago
And of course client side certificates. It's a pity they are rarely available as an option on public websites.
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by aj3 5y ago
PH was blocked by payment processors (Visa and Mastercard): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/10/pornhub-mast... Parent is making distinction between credit cards and banks.
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by aj3 5y ago
Honestly, I’m starting to think that this is deliberate attack by opponents of e2ee that want to prevent iCloud going dark (right now Apple holds the keys just like every other cloud storage provider but after implementing these CSAM featur
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by aj3 5y ago
There are two different CSAM related features. One scans photos before they get uploaded to iCloud, other looks for indications of nudity and only works on minors' phones if their parents enabled this detection.

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