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Hickfang

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    Comment #25876570

    > She was gay, an alcoholic, suffered from lifelong clinical depression and had a tough upbringing, not really a combination that will produce an easy person given her times. But s…

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    Comment #25841529

    Lately, I've come to suspect these terror scares are home grown plots by the state security apparatus, designed to justify their existence.

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    Comment #25814338

    First rule of 'Cyber Security': never use the phrase 'Cyber Security' in any serious discussion on hacking. If I was going to hire-on a computer security professional. The first qu…

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    Comment #25802028

    > Stuxnet[0] for example. A highly sophisticated attack using several Windows 0-day exploits Nobody in their right minds uses windows to control vital industrial plant, especially …

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    Comment #25795777

    > .. That's precisely the point of a union. It's an organization to protect its members .. That's just it, the union is there to represent the interests of the senior officers and …

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    Comment #25727785

    No explanation, no second chance, no appeal.

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    Comment #25664005

    I call cyber BS on that story!

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    Comment #25646820

    > What are some cool things that are possible? - extract resources I guess. Is this Russian program trust worthy. Yes, it's guaranteed to have been backdoored by the NSA.

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    Comment #25603082

    @scpedicini: "This had to have been one of the most boring articles I've ever read. Flowery, overly prosaic and not a single interesting take away about actual safe cracking - and …

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    Comment #25500521

    Is there a non fascist source for the same material?

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    Comment #25450260

    “Simone de Beauvoir, Pervert” https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/08/simone-de-beauvoir-perv...

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    Comment #25349152

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVqN4ivQ_TM Hear elRon in his own words. As he once put it, he was “drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys” at the time. http://www.cosvm.…

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    Comment #25341510

    Dispensing with all the folksy prose, buy enough lottery tickets and you'll win on the lower draws.

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    Comment #25283410

    Dear EU, you don't get to tell us what to do anymore!

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    Comment #25250895

    A pretend bard contributed to a pretend bum!

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    Comment #24634361

    I find it hard to believe Anonymous actually met his advisor. Bret Weinstein has fully called out the tactics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3sPIDm9bPs

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    Comment #24546394

    The future of the .NET “Standard” .. it'll be a continously moving target, making it near impossible to clone ;] Of course that'll mean developers are for ever playing catch-up, re…

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    Comment #24493488

    > Why would I assume they want their presence to remain hidden? Why don't they land in time Square or go on a reality television program?

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    Comment #24461134

    > try posting some "conservative" opinions on HN sometime and watch the downvotes fly.. I can't see your post, where'd it go :]

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    Comment #24455609

    Assuming these UFOs are vessels from off-earth and want their presence to remain hidden then why do the space aliens persist in buzzing US air bases.

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    Comment #24455488

    Yea, the missing ingredient is darker dark matter :]

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    Comment #24455395

    Watching the video is even more revealing. Future historians will be amazed as to how a border-line aspergers case got away with engineering a virtual monopoly on computing. https:…