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by costco 4y ago
Why didn’t they just use https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_Deposit_Accou... ? I haven’t used it I just read about it in a Taleb book but it seems like it would be much easier than creating all the accounts
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by costco 4y ago
Bridges including "private" ones are trivially enumerated: https://github.com/scriptzteam/Tor-Bridges-Collector I would not rely on bridges if you ever need to deny that you used Tor at a certain point in tim
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by costco 4y ago
They usually refuse to target all ex-USSR or CIS countries.
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by costco 4y ago
I’m an undergraduate doing CS at a ~T25 school and this article is 100% true. I think outsiders have almost no idea the extent to which cheating is rampant especially in engineering classes. We are talking about Copilot, taking exams with
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by costco 4y ago
These are his from a long time ago: https://camas.unddit.com/#{%22author%22:%22uhx%22,%22resultS... https://camas.unddit.com/#{%22author%22:%22uhxuhxuhx%22,%22r... A bunch of IRC logs too: https:/&#x2
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by costco 4y ago
That was him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846051 . He's been posting under various alts since, see the stylometry.net link below. Reading his comment history, unless he was just lying for HN e-cred it seems
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by costco 4y ago
Not saying these are necessarily all yours but the cluster of accounts O__________O, billme, saycheese, wonderous, endlessly, nxzero, v2hle0thslzrav2 are all in each others top 5 or so which is usually a sign of a good match and unless you
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by costco 4y ago
I'd rather a $500,000 fine that actually gets collected than the ridiculous approach we take to spam calls where we fine people [9 figures]( https://commsrisk.com/more-enormous-fines-proposed-for-roboc... ) and make no a
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Tor Snowflake and Private Bridges Enumeration Attack(lists.torproject.org)
1 points by costco 4y ago|0 comments
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by costco 4y ago
But it also says: > It could in some cases criminalise those who did not suspect the articles would be used for serious crime. The justification for criminalising such people, who lack actual suspicion, is that the articles named in legi
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by costco 4y ago
> A second, more pernicious possibility, is to make illegal stuff that is highly correlated with actual crimes, such that law enforcement can now arrest people for innocuous as a substitute for punishing them for the real thing. Think Al
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by costco 4y ago
Here is an example they give: >The case relates to an alleged conspiracy to transfer cash in excess of £10m out of the UK. >A number of defendants were charged with conspiracy to remove criminal property from England and Wales contrar
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by costco 4y ago
The US put the operator of a service called PhantomSecure in jail after he expressed willingness to sell phones to an undercover pretending to represent a drug cartel. A Canadian who started a similar service after PhantomSecure was shut d
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by costco 4y ago
You would think so but most of them have terrible security: https://threatpost.com/europol-arrests-cracked-sky-ecc/16474... https://www.wired.com/story/encrochat-phone-police-hacking-e... https:&
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by costco 4y ago
From what I have read [no1bc]( https://no1bc.com ) has been one of the more popular devices after the Sky ECC takedown, and it's basically just an iPhone with their special messaging app installed and an MDM setup to disable
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UK proposal to criminalize “sophisticated encrypted communication devices”(assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)
234 points by costco 4y ago|170 comments
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by costco 4y ago
Isn't it specifically whether they could impose a small but significant non-transitory price increase?
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by costco 4y ago
I love simple bootstrap sites. If you want to monetize it make all of the sportsbook names into affiliate links. Some books are offering really good terms (20-30% revshare + fixed amount per signup). See https://www.bestfighto
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by costco 4y ago
There was Liberty Reserve, Webmoney, e-gold. Even now there's a bunch of sketchy EMIs in Belize and Lithuania like Advcash and Perfect Money. Ransomware before just wasn't highly targeted because "installs" were a lot
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by costco 4y ago
Why is legal reporting in Europe so ambiguous? There are always articles with a summary but it seems like you can never read any deeper unless it reaches the ECJ or ECHR. In America we have PACER and anyone with a few dollars can read eve
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by costco 4y ago
They may be cooperative but they may also take 3 months to respond especially if it is a request from another country. At which point you're SOL.
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by costco 4y ago
Is it still reversible when the money is sent to Turkey or Kazakhstan and tracing and investigating the ultimate destination of where it went (likely to a bunch of bank accounts set up by nominees or stolen identities and ultimately to Bina
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by costco 4y ago
I have a few not particularly popular sites and like 60% of the nginx log entries are presumably botnets (unless someone legit is scanning from residential IPs in Colombia) doing automated vulnerability scans. I still don't get why pe
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by costco 4y ago
It might have if I had used an algorithm that wasn’t the easiest to implement on stylometry.net. Unless you are varying your writing style across accounts a more sophisticated algorithm could very likely figure out your alts given enough c
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by costco 4y ago
If you've ever used Alibaba you'd know that many sellers do accept it there.
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by costco 4y ago
Turns out that there may have been some glitches in the way I was filtering lines beginning with >. For explanation of bolding see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755466 . I didn't attempt to filter anything
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by costco 4y ago
Apologies for the downtime. It is up again and I'm looking into why uwsgi crashed.
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by costco 4y ago
Apologies for the downtime. It is up again and I'm looking into why uwsgi crashed.
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by costco 4y ago
Site seems to have been down when you commented this. If you want to try again it is up again :)
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by costco 4y ago
Apologies for the downtime. Something crashed while I was asleep, should be working now. Not really sure how because the log indicates that uwsgi "gracefully exited," but I'm looking into it.

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