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dobbsbob
13y ago
Buy an anti-fatigue floor mat. It's what letter carriers who stand sorting mail and factory workers use http://www.officedepot.com/a/browse/antifatigue-floor-mats/N...
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13y ago
It's totally just a prop they use as an interrogation trick, much like the fake phone in Stasi detention centers that the interrogator would pretend to receive timely intel on whoever they were interrogating, or use it to make pretend
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13y ago
This is the system Bill Gates' foundation is currently trying to peddle to the US government for school reform.
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13y ago
according to this it does https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/143 However, like the majority of network-enabled Android applications, RedPhone relies on the existence of APIs provided by the Pla
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13y ago
Does textsecure req Google framework apk like Redphone? I don't trust Google to not silently install spyware on journalists phones whenever US feds want to identify sources or commit easy political blackmail
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13y ago
They've been trying to subvert these tools worldwide especially after the Arab spring. Just google 'Smartphone kill switch' every government is lobbying handset manufacturers for one in order to prevent theft of devices so th
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13y ago
Bruce Schneier already posted last week on how the NSA 'slipped up' thousands of times every year since 2008 leaking this wholesale vacuumed data all over the place. He advocates for corporations to fight the NSA instead of bendin
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13y ago
Or they would force even more backdoors into proprietary hardware than they do already. For all we know Intel and AMD could have microcode to sabotage RNG and they can already decrypt anything with ease using a skeleton key to predict the r
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13y ago
One could easily argue that Catholic extremism led to WWII fascism. It's not so far away in the past as you think. There's plenty of rampaging christians in Nigeria up to their necks in sectarian bloodshed as well. Same with Leban
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13y ago
Indeed, also Palestine is full of money transfer places too not like there isn't a moneygram or WU branch everywhere. Russians cash out Bitcoins to banks there as well through Anelik, Contact sys ect
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13y ago
Something with at least hardware documentation. Pi is a bunch of binary blobs so might as well just make Android webservers, at least it will be a pocket sized bunch of sealed patents
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13y ago
Namecoin does a better job of jailbreaking the internet away from government controlled TLDs. There's already plenty of open source twitter and fb clones but one that runs over Gnunet would be interesting. The not-so pocket sized serve
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13y ago
The "Syrian Electronic Army" is just rented Iranian hackers. They also have a large propaganda chorus you'll see in newspaper article comments just like Gaddafi did to give the illusion of popular support. They also steal cit
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13y ago
Considering the so-called advanced APT1 Chinese state sponsored hacker team was decloaked through facebook cookies I'd say yes. DPR may not be caught through his online gloating or political rhetoric, but they may use it against him in
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13y ago
hmm indeed, although that could be predictable and not as random as Jstylo/Anonymouth.
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13y ago
From all the online busts I've seen since Shadowcrew busts and countless other illegal forums and markets after it the #1 downfall was letting federal agents become co-administrators and worm their way into the fold. From there they ca
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13y ago
The original DPR was pretty naive, he was selling on his own site with his girlfriend and didn't make any bones about people knowing. He had to hire a lot of help in the early days when the site took off because he didn't know wha
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13y ago
I like how in the example the student "takes a picture of the textbook page" which is probably prohibited by copyright.
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13y ago
Nothing stopping media tycoons from making their own classifieds site. Village Voice did with Backpages
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13y ago
I would start by examining where all the major Tor exit nodes are, since that's likely where you would hide your heavy trafficked Tor hidden service, right beside a giant exit node to blend in with the other traffic. Feds already know
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13y ago
>I think it's because you're flaunting yourself, you're daring them to do something, and they hate that even more. Exactly. Everytime DPR gives an interview, it kicks the DEA in the balls and announces to the entire US thr
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13y ago
There is: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~pv42/thebiz/ and JStylo https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth
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13y ago
This was interesting too, since I always assumed one of the big vendors on the site bought him out but clearly not thanks to his helpful talking. I bet he raised the money through a group loan, fund or he runs a coin mixing service/min
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13y ago
We know he found a wallet bug so that immediately gives away what level of competency/expertise to look for on the bitcoin forums which he undoubtedly posts there too. How he discovered the site is relevant and will give away how long
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13y ago
The name Dread Pirate Roberts should've given away the fact the site is supposed to be handed down to different operators if you read/watched Princess Bride. This guy is making a fatal mistake of talking to the press. History show
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13y ago
Any country that has that enhanced 911 law passed so they could quickly find emergency callers, so almost every country. Germany, US, Canada, UK ect. EFF reported German LE used silent sms over 400,000 times in 2010 to track suspects, activ
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13y ago
Every SIM sold in my country has an app for tracking you that responds silently to type 0 SMS spamming which law enforcement uses
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13y ago
I use the feudal security of blockchain.info wallets w/2FA on android since phones tend to get lost, stolen or fubard
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13y ago
Split up the containers and use Bittorent Sync (:
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13y ago
Problem is the mobile end device is incredibly insecure. You'd have to custom build an o/s to NSA fishbowl specs and then drop in Silent Circe, but even that wouldn't guarantee privacy since all of us have SIM cards with unkn
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