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by strictnein 1mo ago
Yes, I'm well aware of XKeyscore. If it required ~700 servers in ~150 locations (mostly US military bases and embassies) to surveil a small slice of internet and other traffic back then, how many would it require now? How many location
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by strictnein 1mo ago
What? That's not a "straw-man" in the slightest. I was responding to the comment that said "Everyone who disagrees with the GOP is labeled antifa" with two of the many prominent Democrat politicians who haven't
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> "it’s no big secret that the NSA is listening in on the node/isp level" The NSA is doing deep packet inspection at every "node/isp" in the world? That's a pretty amazing claim. How are they managing t
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by strictnein 1mo ago
The NSA couldn't care less about you and your customers, nor do they have any interest whatsoever in the megaton of worthless internet traffic that goes through Cloudflare. This article, from over a decade ago now, explains how they ac
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by strictnein 1mo ago
It clarifies what, exactly? That there are a myriad of spellings for a group whose name is originally in Arabic and couldn't care at all about how we spell it? I was just correcting the person who thought it was inaccurate to use the s
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by strictnein 1mo ago
I always enjoyed Kim Zetter's work. Well written and researched, and she doesn't put herself in the story, unlike some other authors. She highlights the practitioners who are actually the ones doing the work.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Hizballah and Hezbollah are different spellings of the same thing, with Hizballah probably being more accurate and the one regularly used by the US government.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> "They claim that anyone who does not align with their policies is a member of this organization" No one is claiming that Amy Klobuchar or Gavin Newsom is a member of antifa.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
By "bookie" I was actually thinking of all the small sportsbooks I saw in the UK when I've visited in the past. Calling them a casino would have been wrong and I couldn't remember the term "sportsbook".
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by strictnein 1mo ago
"All of these" is two. OpenAI had a router issue. Anthropic had a separate issue. Anthropic uses a lot of SpaceX compute, so an Anthropic issue and a SpaceX issue can be one in the same, as was likely the case this time. And they
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by strictnein 1mo ago
I'm confused by your statement. Are you suggesting that these companies that have invested tens of billions in their networks and datacenters decided to create a shared single point of failure?
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> They all transit the same wires as all other traffic. Copy them at any regional bottleneck. Oh, is that all? > Again, they transit the same wires as everyone else Which shared wires does Google's traffic go across? Do they shar
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by strictnein 1mo ago
It happened yesterday.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
If this would have included a full RCE chain with Sandbox escape Google would have paid significantly more. Having just a Sandbox RCE is neat, I've got some on my laptop currently, but it's just a piece of the puzzle.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
No, it doesn't. HSTS and other methods prevent this from happening.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Explain the system in which you could capture all of these chats with no knowledge of anyone in these data centers. How are they routed to this NSA system or through some NSA device when these companies' compute are spread over hundred
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Read the article. It doesn't match the title. OpenAI says it was a boring reason: a routing issue.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
What does having a "well trusted TLS cert" enable for them in this case, exactly? Having a magical cert doesn't mean you can just intercept everything.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic have their systems in dozens of data centers, including using compute from the major cloud providers. Are you implying that all of these data centers (and many of their employees) are involved in helping the the US gove
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Sharepoint is the cause of the outages?
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Neither of these companies have stellar uptime records. Their downtime episodes overlapped in this instance. In this case, it was a partial downtime for both. Also, OpenAI is saying what caused it: > "A routing error starting around
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by strictnein 1mo ago
So in ~4 years the number of people needing professional medical help to combat their gambling addiction has over doubled and that's not a sign that there's a growing issue? I guess I should just stick to really deep thoughts li
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by strictnein 1mo ago
I say this with all sincerity, I love this sentence: "My father, a mechanical engineer, was a tireless advocate of the hypocycloid crankshaft mechanism." For some reason just reading that brought a smile to my face.
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> NHS gambling clinics have experienced a rise of 130% in referrals in a year, leading to a large increase in the number of support locations. Sounds like the enlightened citizens of the UK aren't either?
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by strictnein 1mo ago
You've been able to gamble on your mobile device for 100 years in the UK? Modern gambling isn't you talking to a bookie and putting down $100 on your favorite team. That should still be legal. Phone apps which learn your behavior,
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> say you have WhatsApp and only was registered with an email, that email is hard or impossible to link it to you I mean, this simply isn't the case. Email is very noisy and leaves tons of evidence all over the internet. > new ph
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by strictnein 1mo ago
Redefining common words is the issue here. > If you don't accept society's rules about related norms, such as you having a different definition of theft froom society's Society's "norms" around buying is tha
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by strictnein 1mo ago
The amusing thing about all of this is that the tech that Microsoft is using to be the "good guy" in this is the same thing they were savaged for when they announced it for the Xbox One. The ability to take a physical disc and use
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by strictnein 1mo ago
> That is why I am not too enthusiastic that our Dutch intelligence agency will receive offensive capabilities as well AIVD[0] has had world renowned offensive cyber capabilities for a long time now. They punch _way_ above their weight c
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by strictnein 1mo ago
A lot of these exploits don't survive an update, power cycling, etc. Some, if they're done well, may also clean up after themselves. Doing digital forensics on a restrictive mobile device (like an iphone or decent android phone) i

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