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by rosndo 5y ago
> I’ve used Uber three or four times in my life and each time was a worse experience than a taxi. Every time I call an Uber in London, an extremely professional and courteous driver shows up within a couple of minutes in a Mercedes S-cla
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by rosndo 5y ago
Nobody is sitting by these servers, looking at packets as they pass by. > Not only was the organization so derelict in their affairs that they failed to protect sensitive customer data, they didn't even notice the "crime"
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Like it's harder to argue breaking and entering if you secure a door with a bent clothes hangar or carabiner vs a padlock, even a bad one. It’s not. How (and if) the door is locked makes no difference whatsoever.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> I also do not value the ability to look at computer systems on an unauthorized basis -- i.e. I do not think it brings any value to society -- so by my lights, I lose nothing by it being illegal. Not only that, but despite what views bo
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by rosndo 5y ago
That’s been litigated over and over again. Some requests, performed with malicious intent, do in fact count as unauthorized access.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> A reasonable person wouldn't build a house with no walls to store their secrets in, and then put the house in a public place and give access to the public. A reasonable person might fail to properly lock their door. Try that defen
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by rosndo 5y ago
I remember an old HN comment about this, but can’t find it right now. It went something like this (but obviously worded far more eloquently): Hackers love to think that they’re captain Kirk outsmarting the computer, but real life isn’t Star
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by rosndo 5y ago
> I am unaware of any case going to trial using that interpretation of the CFAA since Which interpretation would that be? That unauthorized access is illegal?
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by rosndo 5y ago
Huge difference between this and weevs case. weev did what he did knowingly and maliciously. Intent matters, weev knew his access wasn’t authorized. Judyrecords didn’t know they were accessing non-public data by incrementing the integer, we
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by rosndo 5y ago
There’s no such thing as a serious DNSSEC bypass.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> But seriously, the point of this Finnish tax is to internalize externalities of vehicles that contribute excessively to global warming Hardly. The taxes are based on the value of the vehicle, not emissions.
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by rosndo 5y ago
It’s very common for people to just fake utility bills for this purpose, the banks do not verify them.
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by rosndo 5y ago
As far as I understand SWIFT very much runs over a VPN that works on the public internet. https://www.swift.com/our-solutions/interfaces-and-integrati... There’s no separate comms infrastructure for SWIFT, it’s very mu
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by rosndo 5y ago
But in the case of London properties, the actual laundering happens in Russia. The money is “clean” when it arrives in the UK, with extensive documentation to demonstrate it’s provenance. Both the UK media and government like to apply the t
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by rosndo 5y ago
You’re just further driving in the point that you don’t actually know what any of these words mean. Honest services fraud has literally nothing to do with this. What’s next, RICO?
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by rosndo 5y ago
> sued for criminal contract breach. I don’t think you even know what these words mean.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> India & China are continuing to do business with them Every bank I’ve talked to in these countries strictly refuses to touch transfers from Russia. Our usual incoming volumes would be several million usd per month, so we aren’t sup
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by rosndo 5y ago
Even China, India and UAE are heavily restricting trade with Russia. None of my banks in these countries are accepting transfers from Russia. My fixers in Russia confirm the same, and say the best they can do is exchange money into cryptocu
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by rosndo 5y ago
But most of the nazis people speak of in the context of Ukraine are not foreigners traveling there, but Ukrainian citizens.
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by rosndo 5y ago
It’s been mandatory since 2018. Browsers will reject certificates which have not been publicly logged. Perhaps next you’ll wonder if it’s as simple as compromising a CA and a CT log? Nope, as browsers require cryptographic attestations from
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by rosndo 5y ago
> but it does work all across europe, in every shop I went. That’s because deep inside it’s secretly something like a mastercard maestro, no? Why don’t you just get a “normal” card from N26 or similar? I used to have one of these weird
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by rosndo 5y ago
> They have the BRICS sphere of influence on their side. So and so, my banks in BRICS countries are refusing to accept incoming transfers from Russian banks. At least in China, India and the UAE Russian money seems to be a no-go. Pretty
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by rosndo 5y ago
Ah no. Nazis are bad. But it’s okay to praise Nazis for doing good things. This is perfectly internally consistent.
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by rosndo 5y ago
By choosing to only have an EC card you’re making a deliberate choice to make your life difficult by using an incredibly obscure method of payment, no? You can hardly expect those to work even in other EU countries, much less with an US ba
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by rosndo 5y ago
I don’t get it. How are my friends morally bankrupt for selling NFTs to people like Will Smith or Dubai royalty? Same people who are buying their art to hang on their walls. It’s not like NFTs brought them a whole new audience, it’s just th
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by rosndo 5y ago
>IMO if you encounter any non-technical artist "excited" about NFTs, tell them to stay the hell away, or risk being seen a bad friend. Fuck that, despite me being incredibly skeptical of NFTs I’m perfectly willing to acknowledg
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by rosndo 5y ago
I think the “planet-killing scam” is very HN-sphere thinking. Most people have no idea. Most non-technical artists I interact with seem very excited about NFTs, often asking me to help them create their own (unfortunately I’m not interested
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by rosndo 5y ago
While I largely share your feelings about NFTs, I think the general population outside of HN sphere does not. I’d hedge my bets on this one, I’ve interacted extensively with the massive art market and NFTs really seem like a natural fit.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Actually not really, I’ve switched banks used by my UK based business a couple of times. It has never been difficult. I would certainly want to switch banks if I started hearing complaints about me using Stripe .
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by rosndo 5y ago
My European debit card number worked just fine (as it basically always does when someone asks for a “credit card”)

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