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by scrps 6y ago
"Initially, the IRA created social media accounts that pretended to be the personal accounts of U.S. persons.[44] By early 2015, the IRA began to create larger social media groups or public social media pages that claimed (falsely) to
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C.I.A. Lacing (2014)(fieggen.com)
218 points by scrps 6y ago|89 comments
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by scrps 6y ago
I am glad I am not the only one who saw this and immediately thought of Eve. I was always surprised at how many people got suckered into this scam on eve even after it was well known. CCP's policy on allowing this type of grift is fair
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by scrps 6y ago
Hanlon's razor of course, but it is hard to believe that this isn't malice masquerading as stupidity. Hard-coded credentials, zero encrypted protocols used for transport, and weak crypto for the credentials. Guest/[empty] rea
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by scrps 7y ago
If you are interested, Tor keeps a list of exit nodes you could compare against. I'd be curious to see how many are exit nodes. https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses
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by scrps 7y ago
In the same situation, it is indeed in brew. brew install wireguard-go wireguard-tools Pretty painless to use and I haven't experienced any issues.
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by scrps 7y ago
Saying technological changes don't subvert the underlying structure of a concept is like saying war didn't change after the introduction of gunpowder or flight. These technological changes add additional dimensions, they may not r
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ER doctor charged with abusing his baby. 15 medical experts say there's no proof(nbcnews.com)
9 points by scrps 7y ago|0 comments
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by scrps 7y ago
Since when is criticizing a national government or it's policies == hating an entire country? Not to mention the author was born and raised in China... I would also be careful in raising the assumption that most people reading FP (or f
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by scrps 7y ago
Michal Zalewski's book Silence on the Wire (2005) had an entire chapter devoted to this called "I can hear you typing".
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Global network's nuclear sensors in Russia went offline after mystery blast(reuters.com)
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by scrps 7y ago
So is enjoying the benefits of society without paying into it. If you don't want to pay to maintain a stable society don't cry when it comes crumbling down.
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by scrps 7y ago
Another vote for hosting your own. I used to roll my own VPN server but switched to Algo since it is easy to roll out and supports most major VPS providers. https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
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by scrps 8y ago
I was curious about this as well and did a bit of searching around (I didn't dig that deeply and IANAL) and found this: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/warrant-canaries-and-di... Specifically Section IV, subs
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by scrps 9y ago
The cheapest food is among the nutritionally worst food you can buy. That is of course just one of the causes. http://seriecientifica.org/sites/default/files/povertyobesit... https://www.ncbi.nlm.n
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by scrps 9y ago
Articles 18-20, United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Ratified by 48 nations, no votes against and 8 abstentions. http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/inde...
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by scrps 9y ago
I don't know if the secret service is using a modified DJI or their own in-house design but they were testing a non-RF teathered drone: https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsussspia-020-united-states...
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by scrps 9y ago
If a Facebook post of a photo of a friend sitting in their new BMW, sipping 30 year old single malt next to a 19 year old bikini model whist reading Grant's Interest Rate Observer on a beach in Nice captioned with a Kurt Vonnegut quote
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by scrps 9y ago
When a Prosecutor's ambition is tied to a career path that demands high win/loss records, a "tough on crime" stance and constant but misinformed public scrutiny (Nancy Grace, fetishized true-crime shows, etc, I don'
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by scrps 9y ago
It probably doesn't help that seemingly everyone is slapping a SoC into anything that has electricity, spending 0 time/effort to harden the device, providing little to no guidance to end-users on best security practices then pushi
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by scrps 9y ago
I encountered the same thing (also in 2017) with the addition that they wanted front and back scans of a government-issued ID as well. Having to pay with a credit card before you can use paypal didn't earn them any points either. Suffi
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by scrps 10y ago
Yeah, that is true with Netflix... It was a pre-coffee post so the gears weren't fully turning yet.
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by scrps 10y ago
The TV and Radio ad argument falls a little flat when you consider people have left radio for competitively priced streaming music that is ad-free and people have left TV for competitively priced streaming movies and TV that are ad-free. Ne
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by scrps 10y ago
I would absolutely turn my adblocker off as well if that were the model. My problem isn't advertising, it is false, malicious, bloaty surveillanceware that most advertising is today. Ads need to be curated by content providers.
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by scrps 10y ago
Sadly, I agree that an "Oh, more for me!" mentality would probably be the prevailing sentiment. Only a philosophical shift brought on by a serious downturn in circumstances would cause people to reconcile their presuppositions of
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by scrps 10y ago
I generally get funny looks and the feeling that people are imagining me with a toothbrush mustache and a comb-over when I suggest this: Wouldn't population control to an extent help slow the rate of emissions? Caps on births or higher