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by costco 3y ago
Destitute people or a carrier employee is bribed to activate the SIM cards without registration. https://commsrisk.com/telco-corruption-fuels-simbox-frauds/
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by costco 3y ago
Plenty of civic minded people find services like these useful for registering Signal accounts not tied to their own number. Or for scraping sites like LinkedIn. There are companies like this run from other countries if you don’t trust Hon
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by costco 3y ago
The interesting thing is despite the rules governments in countries like India or Ghana with strict registration laws will routinely find 3000 SIM cards on raids on simbox operators.
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by costco 3y ago
https://smspva.com/ Immensely useful services like this without which for instance people would not be able to scrape social media services at scale.
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by costco 3y ago
Sites like smspva.com would have dozens of those devices, should they be illegal? I can think of uses of these devices, yes most of them are “grey market” but they don’t involve stealing from people. By “A2P fees” I’m referring to the fact
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by costco 3y ago
They propose a total ban that does not require fraudulent intent to criminalize possession, an unlimited fine, and ignore that most of the use is just bypassing rentseeking A2P SMS charges? Along with the fact that it’s unclear who is even
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by costco 3y ago
For celebrities maybe. For instance for nongeneric usernames on Instagram there are "claiming services" that involve some combination of paid off customer support and Media Partner Panel's that allow them to steal usernames.
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by costco 3y ago
Now a bunch of OGUsers kids can hijack Discord handles and make a bunch of money in the process. Why would any company willingly adopt the scarcity model of usernames today knowing all the problems it invites?
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UK proposal to criminalize possession of “SIM farms”(gov.uk)
34 points by costco 3y ago|1 comments
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by costco 3y ago
You can opt out of signing in during setup, problem is you need an account to download stuff off the app store. You can make an account, download Signal, then sign out. The coming sideloading feature could make this easier.
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by costco 3y ago
I'm not an expert I think the main barrier to Tor speeds now is # of nodes and concentration of nodes (should have more nodes outside of OVH, BuyVM, Flokinet and M247...). Worth noting too that 5G also makes triangulation substantiall
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by costco 3y ago
People who have used Tor who have been deanonymized in every single case that we are aware of made other mistakes ("altoid", "pimp_alex_91@hotmail.com", etc) or the vulnerability was in an outdated version of Tor Browser
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by costco 3y ago
A 2022 iPhone SE with an anonymous eSim like https://silent.link/ , an MDM profile that disables most of the things [here]( https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/restrictions-for-... ), a long a
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by costco 3y ago
> - all of the device‘s traffic is routed over tor → any authentication on a non-privacy service compromises your anonymity Wouldn't this would depend on if you had a stream isolation setup? Pretty sure Tails/Tor Browser do th
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by costco 3y ago
I'm surprised that from the discussion here it seems like there's no clientless bots in Runescape. Is it one of those games where they change the protocol up every week to prevent that kind of thing? Also if they used plain IP l
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When the Irish Ran New York(city-journal.org)
1 points by costco 3y ago|0 comments
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by costco 4y ago
I think this it. In Michigan public schools at least there are mandatory language courses for 2 years but these do not get most people anywhere close to fluency. Apparently I'm qualified enough to get a 4 on AP German but at my peak
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by costco 4y ago
Debian Stable with just a window manager (like cwm), xbindkeys, and maybe a shortcut to a program like rofi to open a run menu for programs not used frequently enough to justify a shortcut. You memorize all the keyboard shortcuts once and
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by costco 4y ago
Given that total FTC spending is only $400 million wouldn't it be pretty easy for a group of like minded businessmen to exhaust their litigation budget?
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by costco 4y ago
Interestingly L. Ron Hubbard was laughed at for saying tomatoes scream when [sliced]( https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/06/16/meet-your-veget... ). I don't know enough about this to know how imp
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by costco 4y ago
It's only $35k a month? I think we can all assume that basically any government has this now.
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by costco 4y ago
This already happens and its called LeadsOnline. When someone reports something stolen the serial number gets added to it. Pawn shops in most states are required to use it or something similar before they buy an item. eCommerce marketpla
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by costco 4y ago
The current scandals surrounding Ticketmaster, sneakers, and GPUs are all you need to know that price controls would not work today.
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by costco 4y ago
There's something called Math for America that offers a substantial stipend to math teachers in New York with an application that involves a written portion, observation reports, recommendations, Praxis test scores, and interviews. &gt
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by costco 4y ago
I have a Twilio app sending 3 texts per week to my parents containing my siblings grades scraped off some difficult to use portal and apparently I have to submit a bunch of documents now. How about targeting the accounts that have actual v
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by costco 4y ago
That feels like an overreaction given that DAI has only ever been 30-50% USDC and USDC lost 8% of reserves. Though there probably is a loss of trust which is harder to quantify.
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by costco 4y ago
> The ability to redeem LUSD for ETH at face value (i.e. 1 LUSD for $1 of ETH) and the minimum collateral ratio of 110% create a price floor and price ceiling (respectively) through arbitrage opportunities. We call these "hard peg m
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by costco 4y ago
I don't get why haven't they just hired more fraud investigators and people to recover proceeds then? It is laughable that the government only started to even remotely acknowledge the Medicare fraud issue in the 2000s. We are ta
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by costco 4y ago
> Is it fraud to blanket an area with signs saying "Cash for Diabetic Testing Strips" then go around door to door and sell (bill medicaid) testing strips to Medicaid recipients? I saw one of these and was sort of confused (if y
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by costco 4y ago
Where are the people offering to buy SVB claims for 60-70 cents on the dollar? This happened with FTX and traditional bank runs like in [It's a Wonderful Life]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPkJH6BT7dM&t=99s ).

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