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The real lesson is: if you're going to do anything ilegal, don't discuss what you're doing on email. People so often forget that email is an official paper trail of everything you do.
This is sort of an aside to the article; but it boggles my mind how many people in the business world view PDF's as secure, unalterable documents.
Semi-related tip: I despise protected pdfs with a passion. Especially when you download a datasheet and you can't add annotations or highlights to it. So, how to remove this protection? One way is to print to postscript and convert back to pdf, but then you can't copy text from it. Here's how (on windows): download qpdf ( http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/ ) and run qpdf.exe -decrypt encrypted.pdf woho.pdf I made a small b…
On a Mac I think printing to the built in PDF saver might work?
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Different context but Buffett's quote “If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you’re going to get a ticket,” applies here. If you are a criminal you don't violate only one law. You tend to violate multiple laws and at some point you are going to be sloppy.
Buffet's quote applies to non-criminals as well.
Semi-related tip: I despise protected pdfs with a passion. Especially when you download a datasheet and you can't add annotations or highlights to it. So, how to remove this protection? One way is to print to postscript and convert back to pdf, but then you can't copy text from it. Here's how (on windows): download qpdf ( http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/ ) and run qpdf.exe -decrypt encrypted.pdf woho.pdf I made a small b…
Put that in AWS Lambda and charge $1 each. Boom, Saas-retirement-fund.
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Different context but Buffett's quote “If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you’re going to get a ticket,” applies here. If you are a criminal you don't violate only one law. You tend to violate multiple laws and at some point you are going to be sloppy.
Buffet's quote applies to non-criminals as well.
There are tons of "blue laws" in the US, some from over a hundred years back. Sometimes the police decide to enforce those. One such occasion precipitated the landmark Supreme Court case Lawrence vs. Texas.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jan/...
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Mostly true. Hans Reiser and Ross Ulbricht were smart folks who got caught nonetheless. But not always true. No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet.
Where’s the indictment and warrant for Satoshi Nakamoto? Who is even looking for him/her other than armchair internet slueths?
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Buffet's quote applies to non-criminals as well.
One might also argue that if you notice the cop following you and continue driving another 490 miles, you will deserve that ticket. And maybe an award for fuel economy.
Nixon was caught because he taped himself obstructing justice. Manafort was caught because he emailed incriminating documents in the clear. How the hell are we going to catch criminals who somehow avoid doing monumentally stupid things?
To have the analytical bent to think through all the risks you're exposed to in your criminal financial dealings and to take steps to reduce those risks probably also means you're able to realize (1) you can only reduce the risks so much so that a substantial possibility that you'll lose everything continues to exist; and (2) there are a lot of not-unambiguously-illegal ways to make money and acquire power capitalizing on your excellent analytical abilities.
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Put that in AWS Lambda and charge $1 each. Boom, Saas-retirement-fund.
$1 is going to struggle to beat free: https://online2pdf.com/remove-pdf-restrictions