Tangurena2

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by Tangurena2 5d ago
So this is the result of "move fast and break things (humans in this case)".
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by Tangurena2 8d ago
Well, it would be a very bad idea to use any pagers sent anonymously to the researcher.
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by Tangurena2 8d ago
Some of the code needed to be digitally signed to execute on target hardware, so being able to get the actual digital certs meant that Stuxnet could not be a hacker group and could only be some national agency or "Bond villain."
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by Tangurena2 8d ago
Some of the recipes in the Anarchist Cookbook are incorrect. I know, I had a copy from Paladin Press.
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
> there are several platforms One such platform used to be called Vigilant Systems. They'd sell details of where a car has passed a police/Flock ALPR camera, mostly to repo companies, but also bail/bounty hunters. Using
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
It is European which means that it is both anti-capitalist and communist and therefore must be spit upon.
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
In the olden days, the doc would hold your nuts and tell you to turn your head and cough. This was to detect if you had a hernia (which was a medical exception). The bunghole inspection was to see if you were the receptive partner in anal i
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
The politicians really want to know who to prosecute if someone on the internet says bad things (about them).
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
Not in the US. Several EU countries have PKI systems integrated with identity documents that let the requester to ask for age (for example) and then only age is supplied. But their PKI systems are for the whole ID document. As for the passp
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
That's why I say "Our lobbyists have more money than your lobbyists" . Every state has sunshine laws to show who the lobbyists are, what they lobbied on, and to whom. Some states separate those lobbyists into legislative &am
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
I used to work for my state's DMV. They'd sell vehicle registration data to various companies, which is how and why you get those "we've been trying to reach you about your car warranty" phone calls. I don't kn
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
It is a REAL ID requirement. It is federal law. States issuing REAL ID compliant identity documents must mail them to your physical address. USPS provides that data for address validation. DPVCMRA = delivery point is a commercial mail recei
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
It would be best for any such ID system to capture only the minimum data to fulfil their function. Pre-WW2 Dutch records also listed religion, which made it very easy for the Nazis to round up and murder them. Some examples from Kansas show
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by Tangurena2 12d ago
I fell down one of those rabbit holes by watching a young adult TV show called "The Children of the Stones" which was filmed at Avebury (a village built around a stone circle, about 25 miles north of Stonehenge) and the book &quot
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by Tangurena2 13d ago
Until the Industrial Revolution, there was nothing even close to what we nowadays call "childhood". As children became old enough to walk by themselves, they'd accompany their parents and help with weeding & cultivation.
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by Tangurena2 13d ago
> In thirteenth-century England, Christians were expected to avoid meat every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday during Lent (when eggs and dairy products were also forbidden), Advent and on some saints’ days (or the eves of their feasts)
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
You can change your credit card number. You cannot change your face. And because REAL ID requires mailing your DL/ID to you (in order to prove you live at that address), the address will not change (most states require you to get a new
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
Our lobbyists have more money than your lobbyists.
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
To abuse that requires physically going to a file cabinet. People in that office are going to question you. If something happens, it is isolated to a single office, limiting suspects to a small number. Putting it online makes it vulnerable
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
The GDPR comes from a different direction - you own the data about yourself, no matter where it is stored. In the US, courts have ruled that the compiler of data owns all that data - you have no control about data about yourself (except in
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
> The fear of a national ID isn’t just about tracking and privacy, but that an individual cannot participate in society or survive if the government decides to revoke the id. This is because the US made a critical flaw by tying the aut
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
In the Heartland data breach, the custom malware that hackers wrote copied the mag stripe as it passed through the payment system. I got a new credit card after that broke (also after Target's breach was reported). Heartland did not st
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
Estonia has done several versions of this. One is a "digital nomad" visa that includes a card with digital keys to do business in Estonia while not living there. https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/nomadvisa/ The
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
Heh, like my 100MHz scope used for audio signals.
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by Tangurena2 14d ago
I hope you're aware of the TekWiki: https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Main_Page Mine is a TDS224. Cheap, but I only use it for keeping my Eurorack synth going. 100MHz is overkill for audio. Although some modules
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by Tangurena2 15d ago
The US was fighting the wrong war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese wanted independence since the 1920s. The US didn't. The French didn't (the second time). The Japanese didn't. The French didn't (the first time).
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by Tangurena2 15d ago
I've watched some videos showing UNREP and they're fascinating. It takes a lot of skill to keep the ships parallel. There was a collision earlier this year between the resupply ship and the recipient. Analysis: https://
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by Tangurena2 16d ago
As a country, we sure do think it is our mission/duty from god to "save the world from communism" (or whatever it gets called today). I think one movie that shows this is High Noon . That 70+ year old movie shows that it is
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by Tangurena2 16d ago
I think that the V-Chip shows that when parental controls are available, most parents will not use them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-chip#Usage

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