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Internet cred applies to pen cred surprisingly. If you go down for hacking and do not become an informant, you will find job offers inside the pen for teaching other criminals comsec so they can run their outside drug operations. If they ca
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There was only a small core group of people inside Lulzsec. They were all arrested except Virus. He's not stupid enough to get caught either in fact he called Sabu being a CI the day he came back online after being busted and started offeri
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14y ago
The noble cause was the lulz. It was a 1990s style infiltration and defacing spree that didn't take itself super serial like all those moralist Anon hackers who don't realize that back in 2003 Anon was an inside joke. They were crowd sourci
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14y ago
I thought this was about GNU Hurd and was disappointed it's just some schlocky rewards fluff. If you want to reward your loyal customers make your punted junk cheaper nobody cares about points
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14y ago
Jacking everybody else's internet subculture for your mainstream, bland and toned down for-profit site is nothing new. I remember ebaumsworld stamping everything on earth with their logo that they didn't create, same with I Can Haz Cheesebu
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14y ago
wait.. what? Lulzsec died when Sabu turned snitch years ago. Who is this Australian and why is the article confusing the real "Lulzsec" with this random Australian guys antics.
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14y ago
I dont think Satoshi owns a single bitcoin. Never did he write anywhere that Bitcoins should be hoarded as a shady get rich scheme and all his writings clearly are for Bitcoin to be used for pseudo anon payments. He also gave thousands of t
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14y ago
Sending money via SMS doesn't sound very secure. Lending to a phone you can just throwaway, steal or clone doesn't sound very secure either. When do Kenyan hackers fraud this service out of existence
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14y ago
With a Nexus banded phone you can build your own Rom from source if you wanted.
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14y ago
No surprise. Android isn't Gnu compliant either so according to the FSF we should be using nothing.
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14y ago
Because the Canadian government actually said they lifted the idea from the Americans who's similar program has been stalled in congress for years due to infighting about immigration.
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14y ago
Only if you don't trust the encryption on your cold wallet backup where you generated the keys. Personally I'd keep both, encrypted drive and printed keys then if say the bank is robbed or burns to the ground you can still transfer the coin
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14y ago
Edit.. [Apr-1 10:30 CET] Bitcoin-Central and Paytunia update: Our customer's bitcoins and euros are safe and will not be affected by the security breach. We have taken the websites off-line for proper investigation. The address 1LrPYjto3hsL
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14y ago
UH OH Says it was sent FROM cold storage that's not a good sign.
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14y ago
Yes Electrum is good but remember you're relying on somebody else's blockchain instead of your own. Though I generally trust the Electrum blockchain servers you never know. Your online store key, you should be using some sort of script to g
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14y ago
If you hold a lot of coins you simply print out the keys and keep them in a safety deposit box in a bank. Problem solved Or use the Armory offline wallet to store them on an encrypted non-networked storage, print the keys, do the above.
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14y ago
Pro sports teams employ sleep doctors. They recommend 8-9hrs of sleep per night uninterrupted. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/sleep-doctor-ha...
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14y ago
Instawallet has always only been meant to keep spare change for quick transactions. For the longest time you could type into google site:instawallet.org/w and get a list of URLs with money in them, it's not secure. Neither is Strongcoin who
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14y ago
Read about namecoin here: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page It works perfectly as an open DNS p2p system, a decentralized p2p magnet tracker (think pirate bay but impossible to shut down), secure online voting, plenty of other possible uses. T
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Canada lifted this idea from the US. Americans have had this scheme sitting idle for about 3 years now because congress is totally useless and has been blocking everything. The academic requirement is only 1yr post secondary but doesn't say
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14y ago
I bought 30,000 bitcoins when they were worth less than a penny and sold them all when the value went up to $0.80. Lol, oops. If you don't want to miss out again, buy Litecoins and Namecoins. Litecoin will never be worth as much as BTC (bec
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14y ago
Bitcoin will never be a government backed cryptocurrency they will make their own like Canada is doing. Governments want to track all money, and be able to print trillions to fight illegal wars bitcoin/gold standard prevent that behaviour.
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Use a throwaway account when dealing on Alibaba your email is either sold or leaked and you will receive a thousand scam offers per second after sending an inquiry to a vendor. I did manage to do a test run of 100 custom cellphones there th
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14y ago
It's not just about fees, Paypal has banned half the world from using their services (India, China) and dictates what you're allowed to sell, arbitrarily seizes money for months on end, and can be easily frauded with no protection for merch
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14y ago
I toured with noname punk and electro bands all over europe. They def make more money on tour than anything else and all of them have a network of free places to crash run by local artists, they borrow local gear so you dont have to pay for
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14y ago
Musicians never make money from record sales unless they have multiple releases like JT. The studio eats almost all the revenue of the first couple of albums and the vast majority of artist income has always been merch, advertising and live
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14y ago
Go on localbitcoins.com and type in 'Tehran'. There's also a very popular mailing list/forums for trading in Farsi I have to dig up the link when I leave my office. Argentina has also embraced bitcoins en masse considering it's now illegal
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Bitcoin is also the savior for Iranians right now. Students who live abroad can't receive or send money home, so they're now buying bitcoins with cash locally, and their family is cashing it out 10 minutes later in the streets of Tehran usi
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Definitely would be a lawsuit except she plastered who she worked for all over her twitter account, that means they can fire you for the slightest infractions as you are now acting as their PR dept. If it were a private account with no noti
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Surprised they don't already have DDoS protection should be standard for this kind of service. Whenever I put up a new service/site, the first thing I think about is my competitors attacking me with DDoS, disgruntled ex employees or crazy c
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