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by prvit 4y ago
Of course, this is just a blog post by a gaming company for their gamer audience, but lots of this stuff is downright dishonest. For example: > Now, while most players might find the idea of a corrupted Windows installation objectionable
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by prvit 4y ago
> Right, so my point is that hacking everyone playing the CTF or the infrastructure is similar to running rm. It’s really not. rm is destructive, hacking competitors or infra to collect flags isn’t.
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by prvit 4y ago
> It's like saying in biathlon (skiing+shooting) how can you arrive at the finish second if you have a working gun? It’s really not.
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by prvit 4y ago
rming the CTF infra spoils the enjoyment of everyone else, winning because you’re the best and showed up with a cool exploit chain isn’t spoiling anything for anyone.
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by prvit 4y ago
>it's a different kind of competition than the players expected CTFs are (usually) hacking competitions for hackers, what else would you expect?
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by prvit 4y ago
>(or rather: fun factor after a couple of years passed and folks stopped being annoyed or down right furious at the perpetrators) Poor sports, I’ve always struggled to understand people who’d partake in hacking competitions and then get
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by prvit 4y ago
> Remote account opening is a door wide open for fraud and, again, nowhere else. Remote account opening is way more common in Europe than the US.
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by prvit 4y ago
The whole point of Soho house was to be a place for people working in creative industries. Now that everyone can get in, they’re just boring restaurants with mediocre-at-best food.
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by prvit 4y ago
Soho House is just silly now, I literally know of law firms handing memberships out as an employment perk. So much for being a cool place for creative folks, now they just let everybody in. Also, at least in London the clubs simply suck.
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by prvit 4y ago
This really has nothing to do with cryptocurrency though. This is just a classic brokerage scam, no different than the countless forex scams or Israeli binary options. This is a common scam that’s not at all exclusive to “exotic investments
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by prvit 4y ago
How do you propose that this ages old scam could be “solved”? The “bad actors” are based overseas, largely out of reach of any realistic enforcement action. No amount of financial education will save these idiots. Perhaps the only realistic
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by prvit 4y ago
I think we can all agree that you have to be pretty fucking stupid to fall for some hot girl randomly reaching out via whatsapp and offering you investment advice. https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockchainStartups/commen
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by prvit 4y ago
I’m not kidding. You’re putting way too much faith in the article, most swatting calls are not spoofed. > I can’t call the cops from my phone and say I’m XYZ and have killed my girlfriend and am going to kill more people You totally can.
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by prvit 4y ago
For what it’s worth, a lot of vehicles marked “organ transport” are just people trying to avoid speeding tickets and aggressive behavior from other drivers.
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by prvit 4y ago
These attacks work against defenders that can’t be bothered to implement WW2 era defences. These kinds of “attacks” have been well understood for a good 70 years now. It’s simply restating the obvious. Nothing has changed, unshielded electr
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by prvit 4y ago
It’s really not, the answer tends to be obvious.
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by prvit 4y ago
Nonsense, most people don’t try to maximize the quantity of their academic publications.
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by prvit 4y ago
Yes, but phone number spoofing is not an important part of this story in any way.
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by prvit 4y ago
Spoofing calls has literally nothing to do with swatting. The cops do not care which number the call comes from.
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by prvit 4y ago
It’s really not. SWATting has nothing to do with spoofing numbers. You can call from google voice or skype and the cops will take it just as seriously.
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by prvit 4y ago
Despite the title, the article you linked has nothing whatsoever to do with spam coming from Gmail.
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by prvit 4y ago
cmg is on the editorial board of a pro-Russian propaganda operation. It probably makes sense to not trust anything they say. cmg is directly involved in pushing disgusting lies like “Is Russia’s Bombing of the Mall in Kremanchuk Another Fal
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by prvit 4y ago
Not necessarily, but it’s not particularly unlikely. Depends entirely on how lucky you get with the operator.
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by prvit 4y ago
https://theweek.com/articles/531458/troubling-rise-swat-team... This 2015 article claims 80k deployments per year And I guess it makes little difference whether it’s the SWAT team that shoots you or just regular c
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by prvit 4y ago
Why does this get downvoted? Involuntary commitment is not free in the US.
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by prvit 4y ago
Callers need to exercise a fairly high level OPSEC to maintain anonymity. If you aren’t using some VOIP service, there’s a good chance your call will be traced and the cops will be at your door anyway.
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by prvit 4y ago
Why does this get downvoted? There are many similar numbers operated by orgs that won’t call the cops on you.
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by prvit 4y ago
There are thousands of stories of people calling this number and having a SWAT team show up at their home. E: hard to even imagine what kind of an utterly horrible person would downvote this
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by prvit 4y ago
This the worst analogy.
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by prvit 4y ago
Are you drinking Moet? That stuff is only good for the staff to clean the toilets with.

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