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by shmatt 5y ago
Great commentary. The US is hopefully looking into why these employees are using iPhones + local SIM. And if that has been approved in the past, maybe re-think that
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I can't imagine something like this not being in the cloud. The potential for a customer to give their local NSA/8200 the tool to figure out the 0days used is too large Pegasus is only as good as its 0days are secret
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by shmatt 5y ago
* A US Phone will route your call via NSA servers[1], so yeah thats OK from the US governments side * Publicly at least, NSO acknowledges there are state level agreements, the latest one with France, to block entire country codes from Pegas
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SA is only 25% vaxxed. Perfect ground for new mutations
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Not an official study but just an observation - its very possible to avoid lockdowns so far, by implementing true vaccine passports. Israel did that without any shutdowns during the 4th wave. Basically banning non-vaccinated people from mos
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She, as a family doctor, was fast to alert from the front lines. But she is not an infectious disease specialist. The first doctors seeing HIV cases in California without knowing what it was, yet alerting the medical community, were not the
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Yes, they made it up According to wikipedia/some google-fu SV has just above double the high tech jobs as Austin
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the only mix of well educated locals without relocating people, and wide areas of empty land
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by shmatt 5y ago
Yes, the many US government 3 letter agencies would love to have full read access to every single iPhone in the world. It doesn't mean Apple needs to comply, or that doing so without a search warrant is legal in California
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I have a feeling Apple would be happy to have mediocre engineers as long as they are willing to be in the small subset willing to commute daily, showing the ultimate personal sacrifice to their employer
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In the U.S, big cities are dealing with a huge housing crisis. There aren't enough residential units for all its residents. You would have to fix that crisis (neighborhoods and politicians banning high rises, etc.) before that could be
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by shmatt 5y ago
The missing link here is - some businesses that suck make tons of money Yes, they don't like the comparison to Thrasio but its a great example. Buy a bunch of meh-quality glorified dropshippers and make $$$$ I'm sure their end gam
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I don't think anyone assumes the booking for their next family vacation or business trip can't be tracked. They use their credit card and their telephone number at least As for losing the customer base of drug kingpins and wanted
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US government ineptness? Or US citizen ineptness. It's not the government buying this debt Now what, the government stops people from trying to make a quick buck on a high risk investments? We can start from stopping Americans from pay
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by shmatt 5y ago
They do care about 1 thing and thats Pegasus source code. A Senior Engineer of theirs got caught and jailed trying to sell it for 50 Million Dollars[1]. I assume they don't want their index of exploits leaked [1] https://www.
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These are the same people (ex 8200 - Israeli NSA) who sell security startups for 9 figures within a year of opening them. Then the next year open another one The same people are playing both sides It's not like the government doesn&#x2
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Commerce Adds NSO Group to Entity List for Malicious Cyber Activities(commerce.gov)
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>as of October 27. Out of 224 homes, 208 — or 92.9% — were priced below what Zillow paid. >36.5% were listed for less than the company first paid for them from the outset. So these are ZillowBots numbers in Phoenix. They start off wit
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by shmatt 5y ago
This article may not be a sign, but a different[1] article is a pretty decent sign Zillow is also selling individual homes, not just this package. In their main algorithmic buying market of Phoenix they're selling individual homes, 93%
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by shmatt 5y ago
I really don't understand the hype outside of FB, including people in the industry claiming its 'genius' for them to take over the name for better SEO Has a big corporation ever succeeded in telling us what the next big hyped
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by shmatt 5y ago
As a younger person groups is all I use it for. I also use Instagram (so they still get my data) and TikTok, but when I need advice/help/reviews/just reading about other peoples issues the quality of content is slightly highe
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by shmatt 5y ago
The original whistleblower got propped up and enjoyed it way too much. To a point their congressional testimony included their take that FB is a threat to national security (I haven't seen anything in their history that would hint they
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by shmatt 5y ago
There was a joke, or maybe anecdote, going around the Israeli high tech industry when Google purchased Waze When it came time to get an overview of the codebase being purchased. The Google Maps car navigation iOS team had over 200 engineers
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by shmatt 5y ago
Which makes another tweet of his even weirder. Someone questioned the plausibility of making that demo mobile >it’s perfectly clear. Just not public. https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/656667935205797888
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by shmatt 5y ago
I have to say, I've been reading these comments who love or hate ML, treating them as just another internet argument As someone who was following the public hype but never actually saw what they released. This is absolutely completely
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I did something similar in a big fashion company in the past They had a non-utilized collection of tens of thousands of tagged clothing photos going back to the 80s. I Used DCGAN to generate images of new clothing, then model arithmetic to
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by shmatt 5y ago
One thing these companies aren't spending much time on: Engineers. Their software is hilariously bad, and full of ways to exploit their service
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They work under a weapon exporter license. Which means the Israeli government knows very well each and every user, and decides who is allowed to buy the weapon and who isn't It's not exactly permitting, the government is part of t
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like i've written in other comments She has proven evil happened, we're now asking who directed it. The first thing we need to know is who did she report into, and who the most senior person in her teams meetings was. From there j
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by shmatt 5y ago
They're pretty much seem the same to me Same with Snowden. The person who needs to answer the question is 10 levels above him She is showing us "evil stuff happened" The question we're asking is "Did evil stuff happ

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