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I don't mean to be presumptuous but the only company out of Europe that's even comparable is Spotify and even then the majority of their employees are in the US.
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by from 3y ago
I remember seeing "Help: FBI criminally charged me with $6MM loss for hotlinking. I didn't do it" on HN earlier this year ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30589489 ). Was this person lying?
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by from 3y ago
Why not just buy carbon offsets?
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by from 3y ago
I am aware of "probiv" where on Runet forums people advertise services where they basically pay people who work at phone companies or government agencies for data on people. This is mostly an ex USSR thing from what I can tell.
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by from 3y ago
Ask HN is not a substitute for Google or reading the FAQ and finding out that Algolia indexes all HN posts and makes them incredibly easy to search.
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by from 3y ago
> Within weeks (of the meeting of al-Bashir with Putin), Russian geologists and mineralogists employed by Meroe Gold, a new Sudanese company, began to arrive in Sudan, according to commercial flight records obtained by the Dossier Center
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by from 3y ago
Yes, there are risks when using USDC that are not present when using the traditional banking system. My point is that the proposed digital dollar would not offer any benefits over the regular banking system to its users (except saving wire
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by from 3y ago
Why would anyone use a digital dollar over USDC when one is frictionless and works as long as the recipient isn't OFAC material and the other one is going to have requirements up the ass? Banks are probably being going to be intermedi
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by from 3y ago
Your analysis misses the enormous amount of activity including P2P trading that occurs within Binance.
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by from 3y ago
So they can basically use the result of an illegal search to justify it? That seems so wrong to me. Makes you wonder why they even require warrants at that point.
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by from 3y ago
I think that's being appealed and in that case all the IJ was asking for was for people who had their stuff seized to have their names removed from some government database. Basically anyone who asked for their money ended up getting
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by from 3y ago
That the message contents of every user of a service were indiscriminately read without doing any investigation to see which were criminals first? Imagine if the FBI just seized the Yahoo! mail database and started reading messages because
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by from 3y ago
Really interesting article. I get the impression the Sky ECC bust was bigger than all of the previous ones but maybe that's just cause there was more reporting on it. It's kind of confusing to me why the CEO is wanted in the US
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by from 3y ago
- People who've been slandered online or wrongly put into "compliance databases" ( https://www.vice.com/en/article/pak7wb/exclusive-secret-blac... https://www.newyorker.com/magaz
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by from 3y ago
Why is that a given? It ultimately results in our adversaries like China or Prigozhin who are willing to pay bribes getting the resources. Or even other European countries who barely enforce these laws. So American companies are forced t
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by from 3y ago
So the money should go to a local construction company to “build affordable houses” that will never get built or buy cheap computers with a 300% markup? Without systematically changing the culture in these countries corruption is never goi
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by from 3y ago
I don't think anyone is really disputing that there was an attempt, just saying that it's unlikely that $100000 in ad spend in an election with more than a billion in total spending made a difference. You can say "well 100 m
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by from 3y ago
I'm guessing here but it seems that the majority of the world pursues cybercrime investigations with foreign victims at the same rate as Russia, which is about 0 (unless for some reason we're all just never hearing about this grea
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by from 3y ago
Uhhhhhhh... real people live in those countries and might want to use his site? I'm not saying they are entitled to his service but the amount of irrational paranoia people have over port scans and SSH bruteforcing is truly phenomenal
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by from 3y ago
Europeans have to register their address at all times with the government, need a passport to buy a SIM card, are prohibited from cash transactions above trivial amounts but at least they can contact the mandatory "data protection offi
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by from 3y ago
Turkish guy accused of violating sanctions on Iran (no US bank account, only US nexus was that some of the banks he used had correspondent accounts with New York banks): https://www.paulhastings.com/insights/client-aler
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by from 3y ago
Yes assuming you pay taxes. Which funnily enough Zhong did.
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by from 3y ago
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/page/file/1252341/dow...
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by from 3y ago
Having unexplained assets is not a crime and won't be at least in the US because of the constitution, worst case they could be subject to civil forfeiture. Assuming you did everything else right (full disk encryption, Tor on public wi
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by from 3y ago
Plea hearing is fun reading: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.58... > So, Mr. Zhong, the statute of limitations for the crime you're charged with in the information is five years. Accor
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by from 3y ago
Going back to Bitcoin is unnecessary but possible. You go from Monero to cash, wire transfer, or gift cards through a variety of unlicensed conversion services that advertise themselves all over the Internet.
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by from 3y ago
It's a felony to use Tornado Cash now. And the government interprets sanctions law extraterritorially so you're not safe in other countries either.
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by from 3y ago
There is a reputation system on basically all p2p exchange sites, they wouldn't be able to scam for long. > running into a sting This was the basis of Operation Dark Gold. They had a ton of other evidence against the people they ro
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by from 3y ago
I assume people involved in this sort of activity would convert to Monero first (can be done without KYC in a 100 different places). Then they would go to localmonero or a site like it and select cash in the mail. They would round to the
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by from 3y ago
He curiously missed Al Jazeera, RFE/RL, and the dozens of media organizations that the NED subsidizes. I don't think there's a conspiracy or anything, I just think he has a grudge against a handful of media companies.

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