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by goatsi 5y ago
One of the warrants they were using to legally collect the information ran out today.
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by goatsi 5y ago
Your comment makes it sound like stock markets were manipulated by hacking the companies that issued the stock. In one of your stories brokerage accounts were compromised and used to pump penny stocks. In the other someone hacked a few comp
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by goatsi 5y ago
To quote someone on Reddit [0]: "Van Riper famously used "motorcycle couriers" to get around the destruction of his C2 network. The problem was that this was handled as simple handwaving, with him saying that he would use mot
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by goatsi 5y ago
That's only for one of the isomers of ketamine (rather than the mixture of two used in ketamine clinics), and only for using a nasal spray. That is because the drug company has a patent for using that specific isomer in a nasal spray.
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by goatsi 5y ago
In the celebratory Facebook post right after the shooting they claimed it was a military transport. In the intercepted cell phone call by a militant to a commander from the crash site they find out it's a civilian plane because they fi
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by goatsi 5y ago
The Israeli government has a specialized unit specifically for reporting posts on social networks: https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/10292 If it has been given the "trusted reporter" status tha
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by goatsi 5y ago
Sounds like an issue with what is being surfaced in your social/news bubble. If you go to their site you can certainly find deep dives into many other areas: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/04/01&#x2
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by goatsi 5y ago
With a state as large as California, some part of it is almost always on fire: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/4/5/springs-fire/
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by goatsi 6y ago
>This is literally the first time ive heard about that. I had hoped it was common knowledge that alcohol withdrawal could lead to fatal seizures. People should be aware that going cold turkey (abruptly stopping heavy drinking) can put th
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by goatsi 6y ago
>brain zaps that alcohol dont bring Alcohol brings seizures, which are considerably worse (and potentially fatal). >That doesnt mean i support the american war on drugs or jailing people for 3g of cannabis. How do you intend to enforc
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by goatsi 6y ago
The last time this came up on HN it got quite a negative review from someone who had tried it on several sites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19152145 It apparently attracted automated scanners and the signal to nois
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by goatsi 6y ago
They have to disclose the source of information to be able to use it in criminal cases. >Surely disclosing that will just have driven the same users to other apps and they’ll have to start from scratch From the sounds of it this app had
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by goatsi 6y ago
Because that wasn't a data selling scandal? Cambridge Analytica didn't buy data on millions of people from Facebook, they harvested it for free due to lax permissions.
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by goatsi 6y ago
Using phone numbers as identifiers for encrypted messages is the core feature of Signal. It was marketed from day one as a drop in SMS replacement. Initially it even used SMS as the transport for encrypted messages. It was literally called
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by goatsi 6y ago
Security =/= Anonymity.
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by goatsi 6y ago
So? Signal is just a messaging client. The goal of Signal is to get it widely used by as many people as possible, so that it's a totally normal thing to have on your phone. If a country has gotten to the point that you would be targete
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by goatsi 6y ago
Using phone numbers as identifiers for encrypted messages is the core feature of Signal. It was marketed from day one as a drop in SMS replacement. Initially it even used SMS as the transport for encrypted messages. It was literally called
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by goatsi 6y ago
That's because (secure) messaging using phone numbers as identifiers is literally the core feature of the product. Signal was marketed from day one as a drop in SMS replacement. Initially it even used SMS as the transport for encrypted
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by goatsi 6y ago
Indeed, and Signal has been marketed from day one as a drop in SMS replacement. Initially it even used SMS as the transport for encrypted messages. it was literally called "TextSecure". This is why I have always found the attacks
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by goatsi 6y ago
>are there many other places in the (first) world where people of a minority race are singled out for harassment by law enforcement, to the point where police are routinely murdering people of that race with little to no consequences? I
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by goatsi 6y ago
They didn't just whine, they sued Facebook in Israeli court (and won). Facebook was forced to reinstate their accounts: https://www.cyberscoop.com/facebook-nso-group-accounts-reins...
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by goatsi 6y ago
> Assuming the culture you are in has the means to reach those temperatures. A silver coin may be no more than a shiny trinket to those cultures that do not have that (level of) technology. Silver has a slightly lower melting point than
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by goatsi 6y ago
There's absolutely nothing linking neurotoxicity to the negative "comedown" feelings that many people experience, so I'm not sure why you think these studies are relevant to your initial claim.
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by goatsi 6y ago
For quite a few people, memory and remembering things isn't a simple issue that can be solved by "effort" or "actually caring".
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by goatsi 6y ago
It appears to be this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455921/
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by goatsi 6y ago
The incentives for running an exit node keep getting better: https://medium.com/@nusenu/how-malicious-tor-relays-are-expl...
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by goatsi 6y ago
>The "we're protecting people from themselves" argument seems spurious. Because it isn't the argument at all? The goal is to protect your reputation from having malware and ad laced versions of your latest hardware fl
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by goatsi 6y ago
My favourite bit is when it starts replaying (with full volume) after I've scrolled halfway down into the comments.
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by goatsi 6y ago
>Is it even sure your close friend had MDMA, instead of something similar, but different, like it is common on the black market? That isn't the case recently if you look at the data. The discovery of new precursors a few years ago d
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by goatsi 6y ago
There was some discussion the last time it came up on HN [0]. The thought is it might also help prevent air bubbles. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079488

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