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[d_eddie]

Copper + zinc also aids in the brassing of your balls so you can more easily deal with other aspects of the pandemic.

Real men go naked against titanium. Amateurs... 

[becoin]

I still think that we should avoid too much politics here (some is probably unavoidable).

It's unavoidable. Trump has only 8 days left to save America! If he fails this country will enter the most brutal dictatorship the world has ever seen.

[Hueristic]

German police take down largest DarkMarket

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/darkmarket-worlds-largest-illegal-dark-web-marketplace-taken-down

DarkMarket in figures:
almost 500 000 users;
more than 2 400 sellers;
over 320 000 transactions;
more than 4 650 bitcoin and 12 800 monero transferred.

Holy shit, I went to the link to see what the name of the dark market was and its DarkMarket!

Not sure if trolled.

[xhomerx10]

Facebook and Twitter are perfect examples of socialism:

• You get it for free,

...

if something is free the chances are high that YOU are the product.

 It's not free since you have to provide personally identifying information and a contact method.  Those two things are extremely valuable and should remain as private as possible.



 

[Hueristic]

Facebook and Twitter ....

Is it too soon for us to say "I told you so"?

[Torque]

Top 100 richest Bitcoin addresses bought 17x more BTC than sold in last 30 days
https://cryptoparrot.com/article/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses-bought-17x-more-btc-than-sold-in-last-30-days

Somebody knows sompfin....

[Samarkand]

Top 100 richest Bitcoin addresses bought 17x more BTC than sold in last 30 days
https://cryptoparrot.com/article/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses-bought-17x-more-btc-than-sold-in-last-30-days

Somebody knows sompfin....

Aren´t the biggest addresses all exchanges?


On an unrelated note, what happened to realr0ach?
Does he still post here?

Would like to know his thoughts on the current bull run 

[lightfoot]

- China locks down Langfang city with 4.9 million residents.

- Malaysia declares state of emergency.

- German lockdown could last another ten weeks.

- More mass vaccination centres opens.

- Emergency mortuaries have been set up in England as hospital mortuaries reaching full capacity from Covid deaths.

Stay save.

I called my parents to see if they wanted to go shotgun shooting. They called their neighbor and apparently the whole family is in the hospital with CoVID. Apparently it's not like the flu, and the remaining son is home with pneumonia.

Seems serious.

[lightfoot]

I still think that we should avoid too much politics here (some is probably unavoidable).

It's unavoidable. Trump has only 8 days left to save America! If he fails this country will enter the most brutal dictatorship the world has ever seen.

Capitol police: Now you know how the looters  patriots  idiots  trumpers got in....

[xhomerx10]

Arstechnica article providing more detail on the Parler hack.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/parlers-amateur-coding-could-come-back-to-haunt-capitol-hill-rioters/

From the article:

"Parler’s site was a mess. Its public API used no authentication. When users deleted their posts, the site failed to remove the content and instead only added a delete flag to it. Oh, and each post carried a numerical ID that was incremented from the ID of the most recently published one."

"Another amateur mistake was Parler’s failure to scrub geolocations from images and videos posted online. Sites like Twitter and Google routinely remove such metadata from content posted by their users. The video files hosted on Parler, by contrast, were “raw,” meaning they still contained this information."

What is this? A social network for ants?

More to the point, I think when their identity providers (Okta and Twillio) pulled support the site failed to "open API" access. Better than shutting down I guess.

Not.

Oh well, as always, never write anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want read aloud in your town square. That goes for this site too....

 So Parler was actually "hacked" by its security providers.  Nice.  That's exactly what you want in a security provider.

[Biodom]

Some people start to whine about lost/locked bitcoin...."locked value", etc..
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-price-btc-inaccessible-cryptocurrency-digital-currency-wallet-security-blockchain-2021-1-1029961482

Personally, I don't see how this could be helped besides remembering.

In the future, some complicated methods could be considered, but nothing that would go back and unlock already existing accounts.
I can see methods like personal attestation, genetics (DNA sample), image, document, iris scan, fingerprint, maybe something else IF taken all together BEFOREHAND and not separately.
This would have to be encrypted and voluntary, of course.
I think that we would move from the need to know the private key directly, but not sure how.
Of course, it would never be applied to old wallets with lost keys because the ownership cannot be proven.

Re the "panties" pics: there seems to be a perfect correlation between getting a bag of groceries and losing the panties 

[lightfoot]

So Parler was actually "hacked" by its security providers.  Nice.  That's exactly what you want in a security provider.

Not at all.

In any authentication system you have a choice to "fail safe" or "fail deadly" in the event of a problem. In Parler's case, when Twillo went offline they could no longer send out confirmation emails to verify new accounts or changing of passwords.

This happens in life. Cloud vendors are not 1000% reliable, communication errors happen, people forget to pay their bills, etc. When this happens you stop creating new accounts or stop allowing password resets until it's fixed.

Parler did not do this.

Instead their code just ignored the fact the system was down and allowed the user to do things anyway. This is set up for "minimal user disruption" because making sure the user has a nice "fluid" experience is more important than actual security.

THAT is the problem. You have a company run by security morons. Now they could have hired someone to do this right, but it's possible they didn't want to pay for it. Or they believed it was more important to have a good user experience than effective security.

Ah well.

[lightfoot]

Re the "panties" pics: there seems to be a perfect correlation between getting a bag of groceries and losing the panties 

It also seems to happen in bowling alleys for some reason. I have talked to several real women about this, and apparently this does. not. happen.

Which means these images might be from a post-apocalyptic future where womens' panties are lead lined to protect from atomic fallout or a universe where the gravitational constant is higher.

Or someone really likes bondage in a very very specific way. Dunno.

[eXPHorizon]

In the end USA will be like this :




Hopefully, i hate to see people suffer ..

[lightfoot]

Some people start to whine about lost/locked bitcoin...."locked value", etc..
https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-price-btc-inaccessible-cryptocurrency-digital-currency-wallet-security-blockchain-2021-1-1029961482

Emergency mechanisms... In other words changes to the blockchain to backdoor the system for "specific" accounts.

My answer to this is the same as when Ethereum rewound their chain for the DAO: *FUCK YOU*. Doing so makes the whole blockchain a scam and puts the most important part (immutability) into the dumpster. This is why I still support Ethereum "classic", it's the miners and chain that didn't just bow down to some random loser who couldn't write a proper contract.

If that happens to Bitcoin I sell immediately. Don't care if it goes to a million a coin, I will forever know that ownership of my coins is based on the benevolence of the "recovery committee".

[xhomerx10]

In the end USA will be like this :




Hopefully, i hate to see people suffer ..

 Perhaps.  They're currently heading off in several directions that don't lead to that though.

[Hueristic]

On an unrelated note, what happened to realr0ach?
Does he still post here?

Would like to know his thoughts on the current bull run 

Who gives a shit what happened to that cockroach.

I'd like to know what happened to V8.

[DaRude]

I still think that we should avoid too much politics here (some is probably unavoidable).

It's unavoidable. Trump has only 8 days left to save America! If he fails this country will enter the most brutal dictatorship the world has ever seen.

Does "save" here means to ignore the will of the majority, ignore decision of the judicial branch with the judges appointed by Trump, and in essence for loosing minority to commit a coup d'état while expecting the 81 million majority to idly stand by? Well, prepare to be disappointed.

Edit: Or do you mean to admit defeat, concede to Biden and try to unite the nation by deescalating the situation and reaching out to his base?

Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans. This is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for and I’m sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country.
...
Our campaign was never about one person or even one election, it was about the country we love and about building an America that’s hopeful, inclusive and big-hearted.

We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.

Oh wait no that's Clinton conceding to Trump, yeah fuck that there's no personal gain for Trump in uniting the nation burn baby burn

[DaRude]

On an unrelated note, what happened to realr0ach?
Does he still post here?

Would like to know his thoughts on the current bull run 

Who gives a shit what happened to that cockroach.

I'd like to know what happened to V8.

Thought he rebranded to that bitunlocker dude?

[Hueristic]

On an unrelated note, what happened to realr0ach?
Does he still post here?

Would like to know his thoughts on the current bull run 

Who gives a shit what happened to that cockroach.

I'd like to know what happened to V8.

Thought he rebranded to that bitunlocker dude?

Shsss, thats supposed to be top secret.