JoeSmithson

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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I also don't understand why it's necessarily bad...? Countries face internal security threats. For example, in the UK, the 7/7 bombers were British, ditto the Manchester and London Bridge attacks. In fact most terrorists who
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "Low-performing students at private schools are having their estimated Cs and Ds bumped up to As" Do you have an example of this happening? It seems basically impossible from my understanding of the process. ----- Edit: I thi
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
It's similar to how Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones aren't cool, but still sell out stadiums. Facebook (the company) will probably settle into a stable pattern like the BBC's radio lineup, where listeners roll from R
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Wow. What did the training prompts look like?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
By this logic, no legislation can ever seek to reduce online child sexual exploitation
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
What similarities do you see between EARN IT and IPA?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Exactly. Vice are trying to frame this like some massive gotcha, but the Navy lays out their strategy openly; > “While we do not actively recruit on Twitch or through such streaming platforms, the esports team members are there to answer
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
The vast majority of frontline policing is in response to an emergency call, so they have no control over where it is. HN seems to think police spend their shift waiting for crimes to happen in front of them.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "they could be worth trillions" Trillions? 50x the size of Ford? Bigger than, essentially, the current combined value of every car company in the world at the moment? How?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
But could images from several telescopes be combined through a Kalman filter or something to resolve higher details? I am imagining some kind of internet enabled telescope that knows it's GPS location and orientation, and phones home i
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "GCHQ has a program called ROYALCONCIERGE, where they hack the reservation systems of hotels to watch for targets renting rooms" Your own source makes it clear that this system works/worked by intercepting emails. > &
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
The reason UDP is less leaky is not because it meets any guarantee better, but because it guarantees less
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
So essentially, no, they do not have "all my emails". > "Instead, it's still stored on google's servers but they can access your emails via automated requests to google, via search terms or by providing your user
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Do you mind explaining precisely what you mean by "NSA has all my emails"? Suppose I sent an email yesterday from my Gmail to a friend's Gmail, are you saying the text of this email is stored on an NSA machine?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Your first link doesn't support your quote. The queries are sent to the data holder who send back the data, the agency does not have direct access
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
If they don't have police powers, then yes.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
It's always possible to impersonate police, I'm not sure what your point is? Wearing what the officers in the video are wearing - uniform with a prominent POLICE label - is sufficient to be identifying yourself as police, and woul
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
It says "POLICE" on their uniforms
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
? The point of the report is to provide the IOCs for the WellMail malware, which has never been reported before
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "What's stopping some jackass in cosplay from pulling the same stunt?" The ultimate answer to this is; potentially being prosecuted for kidnap and impersonating police. Most police powers boil down to exclusive legal def
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Here's the full advisory https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/files/Advisory-APT29-targets-COVID-1...
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "a woman is someone who thinks they're a woman" which is a clearly nonsensical recursive definition This is a perfectly meaningful recursive definition.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Harvard is not the most powerful institution on earth, nor do people from Harvard run all the more powerful institutions, nor, even if that were true would it mean Harvard itself is necessarily powerful. To pick a random and specific exampl
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Yes that's precisely my point - there would still be parallel construction but there would be nothing illegal
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Exactly, it's more like suspending yourself from your armpits
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
No, you don't have an absolute right to know all the details of how an investigation was conducted. You don't necessarily get to see the intelligence that supported a search warrant, for example.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Parallel construction is still used in the UK. That's my point - it is used to conceal sources in a wide variety of circumstances, and is orthogonal to any issues regarding illegality of evidence.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Yes, but what if the cameras are not illegally placed, but in fact put there with a warrant. Then there is nothing illegal going on at all, but it would still be in LE interest to parallel how they know about the drugs, so that they can con
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I have read the other replies, that don't appear to have been made by anyone with any experience of parallel construction.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
No, not necessarily. In the UK, for example, all phone intercept is always inadmissible. The main incentive for paralleling something is to protect the source, to maintain its effectiveness.

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