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Globally routable addresses are bad for privacy.

The comments from DarkSide hint that law enforcement requested access to the payment server and transferred from there. https://twitter.com/BleepinComputer/status/13932171157008302…

If it makes any difference, this piece led me to another one of her pieces covering an event directly involving my local community of which I was not previously aware, so I am than…

The video at https://tech.ifeng.com/c/83BS98wwWV9 is higher quality.

Note that Obama's birth was a conspiracy around 2008, before 8chan existed. I would argue that "the Donald" on reddit was a driver of Trump's online popularity. This argument is no…

Warren v. District of Columbia held that police have no legal duty to provide police services to citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Over $23 million paid by automakers funded these scummy advertisements. Thankfully we know this from campaign finance transparency. The ads say in fine print that they are paid for…

>bombarding people in the west with this kind of content is a strategy from China This is the premise of Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "I Remember Babylon" (which was first publi…

As for similar opinions, see Stephen Colbert on "truthiness".

From knockknock: > When you want to open a port from a client, you run 'knockknock', which sends a single SYN packet to the server. The packet's IP and TCP headers are encoded to r…

Re: sniffing, if I were implementing port knocking I would use the "single packet authorization" variant like in knockknock, which makes sniffing much less useful to an attacker.