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by krn 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering > Money laundering is the illegal process of concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commerc
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by krn 7y ago
The last paragraph: > FSB representatives served on the board of at least one of banks that wired billions out of Russia as did Igor Putin, Putin’s cousin. He was a manager and executive board member in the Russian Land Bank. This bank w
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by krn 7y ago
https://www.occrp.org/en/laundromat/the-russian-laundromat-e...
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Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)(thedailybeast.com)
244 points by krn 7y ago|90 comments
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by krn 7y ago
Yet, with an exception of Iran, the countries with most aggressive foreign policies (Russia, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey) seem to currently support the election of Republican nominees.
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by krn 7y ago
https://fortune.com/2015/05/29/hola-luminati-vpn/
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by krn 7y ago
> I'm curious, do you mind explaining, what a top 10 university is (e.g. ranked by students, number of published papers etc.)? If the comment was made by a professor in the U.S., it could have meant "top 10 <in the field>
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Russia is winning the electronic warfare fight against Ukraine – and the U.S.(nbcnews.com)
11 points by krn 7y ago|0 comments
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by krn 7y ago
> Do you know anything about how or if Mullvad cooperates with domestic and foreign entities? I am not aware of this, but unlike the majority of VPN providers, Mullvad at least does not require any personally identifiable information, su
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Volvo to impose 112mph speed limit on all new cars from 2020(theguardian.com)
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by krn 7y ago
> Operator anonymity can mitigate some threats, from social engineering to physical threats, pressure, legal and otherwise, from a range of parties. And yet, Mullvad (Sweden), which seems to be one of the most trusted VPN providers witho
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by krn 7y ago
> All servers are purchased from Digital Ocean only at the moment. Are there any legal or technical reasons to prefer DigitalOcean over OVH and Hetzner? They seem to be both, much more cost-efficient, and much more privacy-oriented. >
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How Daniel Wellington Made a $200M Business Out of Cheap Watches (2015)(bloomberg.com)
1 points by krn 7y ago|0 comments
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by krn 7y ago
OxyData and OxyLabs seem to be sister companies[1]: the former sells data as a product, the latter sells scraping as a service. [1] https://vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-08-24-09...
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by krn 7y ago
> Analysis of the “Oxy” database revealed an almost complete scrape of LinkedIn data, including recruiter information. "Oxy" most likely stands for Oxylabs[1], a data mining service by Tesonet[2], which is a parent company of N
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by krn 7y ago
> This much is obvious, and it's exactly why the maintenance exists. Crashes happen; the precursors are baked right into new processes and procedures. When said processes pick up on similar symptoms in the future, it might be in the
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by krn 7y ago
Zend Guard[1] was often used for licensing PHP code in mid-2000s. [1] https://www.zend.com/products/zend-guard
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by krn 7y ago
> I'm saying this to highlight that what you're pointing out, while not desired, is kinda expected. If it was expected, it wouldn't be newsworthy. And metallurgical issues in Boeing planes can be as critical as software is
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by krn 7y ago
There are also issues with 737 NG[1]: > At least three Ryanair Boeing 737s have been grounded due to cracks between the wing and fuselage but this was not disclosed to the public, the Guardian can reveal. > The budget Irish airline is
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by krn 7y ago
According to the same source: > But there was worse to come: every part in the production process has to be signed off at each stage of its manufacture on a document called a "shop traveller". This records that each individual
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by krn 7y ago
> It seems to me the FAA comes out of this looking terrible, even if the accusations are not grounded it seems absurd that no actions were taken to verify such a notice coming from a QA engineer in the company itself. This has been going
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by krn 7y ago
Derek Sivers is like a hacker friend you never met who takes your mind to the places it needs to visit.
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by krn 7y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20809247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19189631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17111642
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by krn 7y ago
> Hetzner isn't really a 'cloud' thing in the same way as AWS et al are, and doesn't really seem to have ambitions in that direction. Hetzner Cloud is more about IaaS than PaaS, and competes directly with DigitalOcean
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by krn 7y ago
> There is some notion that he may have been operating a honeypot (kompromat factory) for Western intelligence services (particularly CIA or Mossad). Mossad seems to be the most likely player here[1][2]: > Given the chance to refute W
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by krn 7y ago
That's in comparison to 32€ / month at ProtonMail, according to the previous comment.
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by krn 7y ago
> I like Protonmail more, better, cleaner webUI, focus on privacy, nice app... but it's really really expensive. Have you considered something like Mailbox.org instead? It's also privacy-focused, European-based, allows custom d
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by krn 7y ago
> He unintentionally garrotted his sister in the middle of the night? Yes, for a kid with autism it would have felt like "playing" without realizing the consequences of the "game" he was in. Such a person can be menta
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by krn 7y ago
> The poor brother was grown up now and a software engineer who already went through enough trauma and had to sue the show for defamation. I have watched that documentary and as someone who has a lot of experience with autism spectrum di
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by krn 7y ago
> Whomever gets vetted by the US government and the hr Israeli government gets a copy. That explains how Saudis got access to NSO products.

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