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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "The exact sequence of events that led to her losses is complex, so Telegraph Money enlisted the help of fraud expert James Freedman to piece together with Ms Jefferys what is likely to have happened." This is not how an
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by nxzero 10y ago
HTTPS has been a ranking factor in Google Search Results for awhile; meaning not using HTTPS is a negative.
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Sounds like organized crime, which is to say a rogue employee was forced, paid, or conspired to only generate one of three PINs knowing that they'd the theif would get three chances. Today, pretty sure that a solicitor in the same situ
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by nxzero 10y ago
Customer in the story wired all the funds in her account, more than half of the median average UK salary, to the scammer; she wired £17500 ($22948 USD). Do you really pay that much in bank fees to warrant covering you making a mistake like
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "What if the bank is the enabler, making it possible to gain access to someone's account only by publicly available social information?" Using that logic, why would the scammer even need to call the victim? >>
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Banks are protecting your money by not agreeing to pay for fraud they are not responsible for.
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I'm not implying anything, though I very clearly stated the customer, not the bank is the party responsible for allowing the fraud to take place. Are you implying that being a victim of fraud automatically results in the damages being
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by nxzero 10y ago
Aside from the reference to sharing a PIN, I missed "How banks are refusing to shoulder responsibility for fraud". What am I missing? More importantly, the customer referenced in the article basically wired all the funds in her ac
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It's not just a phone number, but also the IMEI. And the objection is that the service makes it (intential) very hard to use it anonymously.
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Issue may not be the routing, but that a mobile device is required to create an account. Are you saying that the Signal Protocol created Open Whisper Systems, which is lead by Moxie Marlinspike, does not require a phone number to work? (Say
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by nxzero 10y ago
Social networks are by default designed to circumvent reasoning. True reason based system would require claims based on science - and nothing more. There would be no discussion.
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by nxzero 10y ago
State Department appears to have said something conflicting with your account as it relates even to average citizens: http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/1207/US-to-fe...
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Deep Dive into WeWork’s User Base as Hundreds of Members Cancel(medium.com)
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>> "lost golden age and the opportunity that seemed available to his parents’ generation" Anyone that believes there's less opportunity now than at any point in history clearly lacks an understanding of the current stat
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Any reason to believe this isn't a passive attack; aka: honeypot, watering-hole, etc.
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The "btih" value is the checksum.
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Snowden is a Russian Agent(pastemagazine.com)
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Even with US companies in China following all the rules, the US still is unable to beat Chinese companies. This is the real issue, and it's the US companies fault that they can't be innovative enough to figure out the Chinese mark
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>> "In April, the U.S. government officially named the Great Firewall a barrier to trade." That's absurd.
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At least it wasn't a squirrel... http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/01/map-squirrel-cyberatta...
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Mapping Hundreds of Power Disruptions Caused by Squirrels(citylab.com)
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ETH miners haven't enforced anything. Do you really believe that they're not playing both forks as an option until it's clear what's going to happen?
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Reminds me of this video: Epic Cat Fight w/ Two Birds http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WQd9kuXpUYU
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$50-100k signing bonus; not annual compensation.
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Very possible I've misunderstood to process, but given the hash is produced via the reuse of the secret key and that the crypto uses a one-time pad - why is it not possible to crack the secret key? EDIT: For an explanation of how this
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by nxzero 10y ago
Given the topic, curious if anyone knows anything about "Able Danger" operations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger Or the rapid decline of terrorism (80%) following the end of the Cold War: https:
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How Square Watermelons Get Their Shape(nytimes.com)
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"Papers, Please" is a game that includes passport inspection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers,_Please
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Google still uses huge amounts of human curation, it's just harder to see; examples include: reCAPTCHA, Google Quality Raters, Google Maps Editors, etc.
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>> "they handed the keys to democracy to the very conglomerate they attempted to take down" Maybe, did you catch White Rose's fire side chat at the end of season one? Who is handing the keys to who in season two?

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