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Squinky v2.0 posted:it kinda owns, usually high school kids are dumb and do things like delete all their attendance records so they go from 20 absences to 0 overnight 
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Phobeste posted:my high school was wired with pots terminated with rj45 for some reason and all the servers for the district were in a single lil closet with a normal residential air conditioner, which dripped. also all the schools got internet through microwave connections to the high school that wennt out when it rained. Lol the guidance office at my old high school still had old ibm xts to access the student database and the only other computers were the handful of 486 machines in the computer classroom that were on a 10mbps lan with no internet access. the library had two apple ii systems and a few more xts along the back wall that sat under plastic covers and were never turned on in my tenure there. the last year i was there they introduced two internet connected computers on 56k dialup, one in the library next to the apple ii systems and one in the computer lab. nobody ever used them because you needed to fill out a pile of "I SWEAR I WILL NOT LOOK AT PORN" forms before they would let you touch them this was around the turn of the century apparently the district had a major fire a few years ago that destroyed their servers and a lot of paper records, both of which were kept in the attic of the converted mansion the district used for their offices El Mero Mero posted:They found out three months from when I was to graduate as a senior, after I had spent years excusing absences for myself and friends. The district thought they had caught it right away though because they only had a few months of paper attendance records on file. Punishment was a suspension and I had to write a paper on the subject of integrity. gotta love the ol' "your punishment for not going to school is being forced to not come to school"
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suffix posted:there's three listed authors though? do they even exist? googling the last two names turns up nothing related to security or crypto research, aside from a link to that paper
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May 11, 2019 18:45
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CommieGIR posted:For Windows: lol recommending codec packs in 2019 "hmm, yes, vlc had a bug, so instead i'll just install this random mishmash of software put together by 14 year old anime enthusiasts and downloaded from a random site. oh, i have to remember to do a custom install so i can unselect all of the adware" you can just install plain mpc on windows and it will play everything that isn't an old realmedia file or some pirated pedo anime that some nerdlingers enabled a bunch of experimental encoder flags on so their waifu's face has minimal banding
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Jul 24, 2019 02:56
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Dylan16807 posted:the most recent comment currently says people love to poo poo on vlc in general, and i can understand why. i once made the mistake of sending in a fix for a minor bug that i found and dealing with those french sperglords was not worth it. they seem actively hostile to outsiders
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infernal machines posted:inkjet drivers used to include a local apache tomcat instance and java runtime airprint is the best thing to happen to printers in a long time at least with any os that uses cups the printer just shows up and works without any driver bullshit
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Volmarias posted:There are Secured Credit cards, where you make a small refundable deposit then can draw against it via the card. It's like a debit card but worse, but builds a history of being able to repay your credits and with effectively no risk for the bank. there are some banks, like capital one, that deal in the subprime market and give cards with very low limits to people with no or very bad credit, or at least they used to, so they can start or rebuild their credit history the real bs is that your credit score can also impact things that have nothing to do with loan repayment like your car insurance rate, and having no credit can be worse than bad credit in these situations
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Jabor posted:this is a pretty self-centered way of saying "i can't think of anything that hasn't been done already" sound more like "all the low hanging fruit is gone and well  "
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Aug 2, 2019 04:28
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there are other variants of this out there. people with custom plates that say things like "NO PLATE" or "MISSING" have been bombarded with unpaid tickets
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Aug 12, 2019 23:32
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Cocoa Crispies posted:like, I bet every other desktop os has similar poo poo going on under the hood "xorg is horribly buggy" is to security conference talks as "the drinking age in america is bs" is to intro college communication courses an easy, low effort topic that can be thrown together at the last minute
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thermapens are worth every cent
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Sniep posted:amazing. she probably needed it after what she went through on the bus
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Media Bloodbath posted:Well at least there is no mandatory minimum on burglaries. you still end up with a felony that will haunt you for the rest of your life even if it’s knocked down to a misdemeanor these guys will still have an arrest record which can come up at inopportune times
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~Coxy posted:POWER never left. I still see ads for it in the lifts sometimes. you can buy a power9 workstation if you have $6000+ burning a hole in your pocket
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everything in it is end-to-end auditable, so i guess if you are paranoid about the nsa being up in your business or china backdooring firmware it's a viable option also you can configure it with 2 22-core cpus, with 4 logical cores per physical cpu core, for a 176 core workstation (with an architecture that nothing is optimized for these days) infernal machines posted:wait, what happened now? there were some cves fixed back in october, unless there is something new yet to be publicized
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Xarn posted:Probably completely stupid, but strlen is bad and you shouldn't use it anyway how do you get the length of a string in c then? some string functions like strcpy (and strncpy, which doesn't guarentee null termination), strcat and strdup are horribly unsafe, but strlen doesn't actually write to any memory
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infernal machines posted:... did you not have one of the first CD burners when you were in school and make mad bank of pirated games and music cds? back then you could also throw together a pic programmer for a few dollars in parts and sell playstation mod chips too. flash some code to an 80˘ chip and sell it for $20 ($40 installed)
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spankmeister posted:As a sort of pirate netflix, yes. People will pay for that. oddly enough, just today i saw a news article about some guys getting busted for this. they were running a paid pirate stream company out of las vegas nevada why would you run something like this out of the usa? that's basically asking to go to jail
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PCjr sidecar posted:fairly late (mid 00s?) directv sent out a pay-or-we’ll-sue demand letter (for $3k?) to everyone who had ordered card programmers (?) from one of the vendors they had sued. they would often get all of the sales records from a busted vendor and just spam "pay us $3500 and admit guilt and we won't sue you" letters to everyone, regardless of what they had actually purchased. in one case they demanded money from anyone who bought a smartcard reader, regardless of what they used it for, and in another case they demanded money from people who bought things that had nothing to do with tv piracy, like dreamcast mod chips (which only defeated the region lock), just because they bought them from some vendor that also sold hacked satellite cards all pay tv providers are poo poo and i'm glad they are slowly going down the drain e: even better quote:On one occasion, I learned from some other investigators that (DirecTV) was trying to obtain a settlement from a letter recipient who had bought a plastic pouch that could be used to carry a smart card programmer. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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Main Paineframe posted:he was 100% right about all of that though he was right about the internet becoming an open sewer of unverifiable data the part about physical retail thriving because "we need salespeople"... not so much
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mystes posted:It would be nice if we could use different numbers for each transaction or something like TOTP codes instead of the static CCV this is basically what happens when you use a tokenized system like apple pay
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Cocoa Crispies posted:screwed comes in degrees and if ross didn't have mycrimes.txt open and image-able he might not die in federal prison they already knew he was doing murder for hire since the hitmen he paid were undercover agents if it was just drugs he probably would have gotten 20 years and been out in 10
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Storysmith posted:the makers of TAILS must think it doesn’t hurt, because pulling the liveusb triggers an immediate wipe-RAM-and-shutdown wtf?
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Chris Knight posted:back in the 1980s in the Boston, MA area there was a UHF porn station at night that had a scrambled signal. ota pay tv wasn't uncommon back in the day, especially in long-time cable holdout cities like chicago at one point when i was a really young kid we had showtime via some kind of ota setup. we needed a specific kind of antenna and my dad's friend gave him a modified descrambler box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbCHpO9UR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyfa3wX4qFk
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spankmeister posted:I looked it up and the case I was talking about was with Little Lupe. she actually showed up in court with proof of her age had she not done that, the guy would have gone to prison based solely on the testimony of some random pediatrician who incorrectly swore that she was underage
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it extended beyond that: he really doesn't like locking doors and and insisted that the door to the building where he was squatting be propped open at all times, regardless of summer heat, winter cold or an armed maniac running around
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Hed posted:I just went for one of my free annual credit reports and one of verification questions was: where's the "idk i'm under 70 and don't give a poo poo about this horoscope voodoo stuff" answer
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Shame Boy posted:y'ever seen the movie Catch Me If You Can, i imagine it was basically that you could basically hang around an area for weeks committing fraud before anyone actually noticed. if you just did it for a bit and then stopped and disappeared, there was probably very little chance of ever being caught
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A Man With A Plan posted:Mormons are big in all of the security agencies. Squeaky clean backgrounds, none of the vices that often cause background check problems, and lots have foreign language thanks to missions. Plus the general conservativeness and devotion to the USA. One Mormon girl I knew growing up had 2 brothers in the Secret Service a girl my brother was friends with in high school with went to work for the nsa. she was a hyper-overachiever in high school, never drank or did any drugs, went to one of those uber-nerd technical univerisities where people spent their saturday nights drinking pepsi while programming and talking about math and happened to be a place where the nsa liked to recruit for internships, because the kids are almost all straight-edge nerds (which probably explains why so many of their projects have names that sound like pokemon). it seems like classic move of getting them while they're young with promises of getting paid for their hobby while serving their country and normalizing them into the organization early on so they don't think about how the compartmentalized bits of projects they work on are ultimately part of a larger system used to liquidate people, the banality of evil and all that she had to do one of those background checks where they go back and talk to everyone you've known since kindergarten, so my brother had to talk to an investigator, who was a retired secret service agent turned security consultant, to answer questions like "to the best of your knowledge has she ever used narcotics, does she have ties to foreign countries or governments, has she ever said or done anything that could cast doubt on her loyalty to the united states, etc..."
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Midjack posted:they go after counterfeiters too! they’re the treasury law enforcement arm. the cryptography they do is likely use and maintenance of communication systems rather than cryptanalysis like nsa is most famous for. i talked to a secret service guy who retired in the late 90s, and apparently the job was more fun in the old days when counterfeiters were really smart, sophisticated operations with engravers and printing presses vs teenagers passing $20 bills that they printed at home in the lunch line. also election season was awful because it meant spending hours standing around in full gear guarding stairwells and slabs of concrete every time a candidate came to town to give a speech
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:lol political science is a worthless degree it's the degree you get when going to law school so you can put a perfect gpa on the application
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a guy down the hall my first year was majoring in political science for that reason. he was kicked out during the second semester because he got drunk and punched a security guard
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speaking of, the release of firefox 84 next month will be the last with flash support. flash has been eol-ed for the last 3 years and isn't supposed to get any more security updates past the end of this year anyways
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Truga posted:ironically, hwid is how activators work these days does slic modding the bios + using oem activation keys still work, or did that trick die with 7?
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Midjack posted:or just do what apple does, give the os away and make the money on enterprise support and other products. apple gives away the os because it's tied to their hardware you're thinking of the red hat model where the os is free, but you pay if you want enterprise support
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Last Chance posted:i remember those "vista capable" stickers that came on machines with 512mb RAM lol. running vista sucked on those because the thing would just hit the pagefile nonstop. i remember new vista systems with double that and they were still unusable to the extent that you would click something and wait 2-5 minutes for something to happen this lives on in those bottom-end laptops that only have 32gb of storage and are so space constrained that they can't install updates unless you clear out the internet cache and temp folders
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cinci zoo sniper posted:14 year old me saved up a pile of cash from gifts and working full summers to buy a gaming pc. i paid like 200 euro for a windows vista licence, which was like 15% of my total budget. deep in microsoft hq sirens sounded and a chain of events began culminating with someone barging into the CEO’s office with urgent news: “sir, someone in eastern europe actually bought a windows license!”
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so the remote ccc conference happened over the last few days. any presentations worth watching besides the game & watch hacking video? just from skimming, nothing is jumping out as terribly interesting
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The Fool posted:my understanding is that WhatsApp got traction because sms in non-American countries was a shot show, and the privacy aspect was a bonus yeah, those sms-over-ip apps caught on because phone companies in some cases wanted something like 0,50€ or more to send a text 5km over a border in some cases, when it comes to prepaid plans a text uses 1 'unit', where a unit also equates to 1mb of data, so you pay the same to send 160 bytes of sms message as you would a full megabyte of data
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Jenny Agutter posted:the website for that isp is incredible, and they charge $150/mo for 15Mbps yeah, that's what you can get away with when you are the only isp in the rear end end of nowhere
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