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by prvit 4y ago
Unless your email was also compromised, your name was taken by an FB employee. They do this all the time for their friends and whoever might bribe them.
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by prvit 4y ago
Keep in mind that stolen credit cards sell for a couple of $, having a sim swapped paypal account wouldn’t offer you much of an advantage here. The reality is that cashing out significant amounts of money this way tends to be rather difficu
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by prvit 4y ago
This is incorrect. Instagram names are essentially impossible to recover (unless you know an insider) and there’s a liquid market for them. Same is not true of paypal funds.
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by prvit 4y ago
This is silly. Nobody is going to sim swap you to steal your paypal funds, getting the money out is way too difficult.
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by prvit 4y ago
This is a very old and oft-repeated trick though. https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute https://github.com/antifork/hopfake https://github.com/jprenken/rickroute https:&
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by prvit 4y ago
> Multiple studies have shown that pirates are often the best customers. (see https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-mu ...) But that’s a completely different claim, no? Also, Torrentfreak is horrible q
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by prvit 4y ago
> But I think you can also agree the delta between what they were doing and what geohotz did with the PS3 is not very large. It was absolutely massive. geohots jailbreak did not enable piracy. It’s like the delta between selling kratom a
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by prvit 4y ago
“anonymous hackers”? Publicly unidentified hackers you mean? That hack almost certainly had nothing to do with the jailbreaking scene. Sony pulled down their infrastructure to investigate an extensive compromise.
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by prvit 4y ago
Ah, you’re talking about Denuvo anti-cheat which is a separate product from the same company. Not the “core” Denuvo product.
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by prvit 4y ago
You could of course look at the facts of the case and understand why. He was, in fact, selling circumvention devices for the explicit purpose of enabling piracy.
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by prvit 4y ago
There was no chance he would’ve ended up with any of the things you mention.
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by prvit 4y ago
Tether, a multi-billion dollar business obviously has worse lawyers than “geraldwhen” on HN.
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by prvit 4y ago
But there was no way for you to know if that person was just really good or using cheats with vaguely legit settings.
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by prvit 4y ago
>Plenty of others have pirated games and then paid for them. I doubt a meaningful amount of people did this, but I’d love to see evidence to the contrary. >and plenty of people (myself included) have refused to buy or play games until
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by prvit 4y ago
That’s not what Denuvo does. The only meaningful difference between Denuvo and floppy-DRM is that Denuvo employs a bit more sophisticated obfuscation scheme.
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by prvit 4y ago
Some crazy rose tinted glasses here. Back in the CS 1.6 and CS:S days community admins would only catch straight up rage hacks, most aimbots and triggerbots would fly under the radar unless caught by clientside anti-cheat. But sure, we can
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by prvit 4y ago
What do you think is the gold standard study on this subject? I’ve seen this claim repeated often, but never with good evidence.
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by prvit 4y ago
Sure, but Denuvo is pretty much exclusively used by the very popular games. > At the same time, I have paid for games when they became available in Steam, years after I have played them, so I disagree on that point. Presumably for vastly
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by prvit 4y ago
Sure, but you can’t seriously argue that there is a significant audience of people who’d refrain from buying games if they couldn’t pirate them.
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by prvit 4y ago
> It's the best part for execs who think piracy cuts into legitimate game sales (it doesn't). I’ve bought games because there were no cracks available, I don’t think I’ve ever bought a game after pirating it. There’s no way I
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by prvit 4y ago
Stuff like Denuvo was normal back when games where sold on floppies… What is this “normalization” you’re talking about?
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by prvit 4y ago
binnerhn01 is obviously ShivShankaran posting on another user after getting ratelimited https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ShivShankaran
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by prvit 4y ago
>bad and very expensive housing Are you kidding? London has the highest quality apartment buildings in Europe. Well designed new builds with good services are abundant. This stuff hardly even exists in countries like France, Germany or S
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by prvit 4y ago
>I got IP banned for my comments on HN! . Looking at your submission history, I'm shocked that it's taken this long. Dang must be on a holiday. >These subreddits were against the russia-ukraine war and were stating that NATO
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by prvit 4y ago
And which war were these subreddits critical of?
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by prvit 4y ago
> deleted all subreddits that were critical of war hmmmmm Or wait, are you confusing subreddits with threads and admins with subreddit mods? That’s the only way your comment doesn’t read as downright insane.
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by prvit 4y ago
The Grayzone, home to impeccable reporting like https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bombing-mariupol-theater-...
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by prvit 4y ago
Depends entirely on the car and the wheels. For cheaper cars with cheaper wheels it’s cheaper to have two sets of wheels instead of paying someone to dismount and mount your tires. For a fancier car with expensive wheels, it’s generally goi
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by prvit 4y ago
> Good luck proving that Bob ran the company into the ground (and got rich doing so) because he's a crook, rather than just an idiot. You can't. Insider trading doesn’t make this any easier to prove. Bob can just start drinking
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by prvit 4y ago
If you focus only on price discovery happening in a specific market center, sure. However, because it’s 2022 and we have the internet and all I’m not sure it really makes sense to focus on specific market centers instead of the market as a

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