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dobbsbob

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    Comment #8647516

    http://www.psmag.com/science/vancouvers-free-heroin-injectio... They gave 322 homeless street addicts free opiates, which allowed them to sort their lives out since their day to da…

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    Comment #8647430

    They are still doing it http://allafrica.com/stories/201407170971.html

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    Comment #8637833

    Bank xfers they will transfer to a cashing service, somebody willing to use fake identity to open business accounts to receive stolen funds and show up in person to a bank to withd…

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    Comment #8637789

    Evolution is primarily resellers too, the majority of org fraud is on Russian forums like infraud.cc where they sell by bank identification number and entire databases of stolen fi…

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    Comment #8629143

    How did WhatsApp receive an A rating when it can access your mic and camera to record without confirmation?

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    Comment #8627913

    At least your media even talks about this, I'm in a 5 Eyes Alliance country and none of them have written anything except excuses why we should be under 24/7 surveillance. Our sena…

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    Comment #8626906

    If you have a phone with an Intel XGOLD baseband (Samsung S3 Intl version) you can read log output https://github.com/darshakframework/darshak/blob/master/READ...

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    Comment #8625980

    German police and intel agencies sent 440,000 sms type0/stealth attacks to trace phones last year, FBI sent an OTA to a suspects internet stick to broadcast his location, and somet…

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    Comment #8607145

    If you have a Samsung s3 International version you can use this to identify when your GSM connection has no encryption https://github.com/darshakframework/darshak Works on Intel xg…

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    Comment #8580682

    Indeed, it works like freenet IRC where you have to make an account first then log in to it with Tor. This is solved by making a throwaway VPS or virtual desktop you ssh into with …

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    Comment #8580669

    You can exchange bitcoins on IRC for prepaid virtual visas and mastercards, paypal, any 3rd party payment you want. There's a few web services for exchanging coins to visa too, whi…

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    Comment #8575672

    Vendors there sold phony identification for the sole puposes of renting drops to import narcotics or start a false front company. SR wasn't involved in trading databases of stolen …

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    Comment #8575639

    SR#1 they created the Armory, a seperate market. It was full of scams and extortion attempts so shut it down. Best listing was some guy in Russia trying to peddle uranium for GPS c…

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    Comment #8575418

    He sold cookie cutter stores that vendors bought and wouldn't take long to que up puppet and deploy a .onion for the hundreds of vendors on SR2. I wouldn't give Tor a green light e…

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    Comment #8575322

    The SR2 guy 'defcon' was also selling his services as a .onion developer/ops so likely all these other sites he set up for vendors and they were seized when he was caught and coope…

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    Comment #8572630

    They catch Russian carding marketplace admins all the time so living in Brazil or Russia is no guarantee you won't end up in jail either. Just takes one mistake and you are on a pl…

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    Comment #8572503

    They probably just use the tried and true method of exploiting flaws in the server, then helpfully offering to fix it. Repeat until trust builds and eventually a fed agent is the S…

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    Comment #8559192

    Textsecure for Android uses wifi/reg data and SMS if you want. Signal, the version for iOS with combined Redphone + TextSecure will be data too. Soon they will also allow email ide…

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    Comment #8548721

    A friend of mine in Washington DC can go down to a public park where they have movie night in the summer, and with a bunch of random people they can openly drink wine and enjoy a m…

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    Comment #8548672

    Plenty of other cities have this problem http://www.straight.com/news/714781/mental-health-arrests-va... Severely mentally ill and violent people wandering the streets, committing …

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    Comment #8548337

    There is plenty of extortion attempts, not for narcotics but for weapons sales many of those listings are criminals who will threaten you once they get an address according to thei…

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    Comment #8513790

    Encryption and password locks are pointless against a cartel, presumably they will employ rubber hose cryptanalysis to get any information they want. Seems like one solution would …

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    Comment #8506139

    There's a good stack exchange post about ATA secure erase pitfalls too, how if you just do --secure-erase and not enhanced option then some SSDs will just compress the data and not…

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    Comment #8503553

    Or google 'what books should I read to become a programmer' http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/