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For sending files, Firefox Send is pretty cool and straightforward. The files are sent P2P and are E2E encrypted. I'm not sure why Mozilla hasn't added a bookmark for it in Firefox yet. https://send.firefox.com/
Signal is also an excellent p2p e2e encrypted file sharing service.
IIRC Signal needs phone numbers.
So Mr Manafort should chose Tox over Signal in any future crimes.
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> In Germany, you obey the speed limit German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.
Foreigner visiting Germany here: I ALWAYS try to keep to speed limit, sometimes 10% slower. You have well hidden radars and you can't use radar-finding apps (forbidden by law). Last time I was driving not strictly I had two photos in 15 minutes. If this makes you upset, drop the radars, I will happily drive 10% faster.
What, the spending at $25,000 at Duane Reade (NYC-area drugstore) wasn't a dead giveaway of money laundering? https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/manafort-under-scrutin... (bottom) The entire inventory of the store is barely worth 25K, I assume he must have been loading up on gift cards a la Mexican drug lords ( http://am.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/10/drug-lords-using-gift-car... ).
Or he had some really expensive meds and bad insurance. That's pretty unlikely though.
$21,300 for his meds. The remaining ~4,000 maybe just fell out of his wallet.
https://nytimes.com/2018/02/23/health/valeant-drug-price-syp...
If you have a track record on the span of decades of doing shady stuff, why would you associate yourself with a lightning rod of controversy? Why join any political campaign? Manafort is not a smart man.
Money and a desire to get back to positions of influence, most likely. See this article for a lot of detail: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-ma...
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Preview is the unsung hero of macOS. It does so much that Adobe Reader charges for: signatures, annotations, page rearrangement, plus it has the added bonus of being able to open obj and stl files.
It doesn’t do actual (cryptographic) signatures that Adobe charges for. It only does pretty pictures of handwritten signatures as an inserted object, a trivially falsifiable things.
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No shredder can match the document-eradicating power of an incinerator.
Interestingly enough, many documents have been recovered from Pompeii. Quick history refresher: Pompeii was an ancient Roman city-town near Naples. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79, Pompeii was covered in ~15 feet of lava and volcanic ash. One imagines that this was highly distressing to the residents of Pompeii, but none were available for comment as they were all busy being incinerated. I guess we'll neve…
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_firestorm_of_1991
Hilarious those journalists "I attempted to transform my Word draft of this blog post into a PDF. I confess that I did fumble a bit at first (it’s been a while), but I eventually managed to get the job done. According to my stopwatch, the full ordeal took me 42 seconds." When the real problem ws turning a PDF into Word.
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> I despise protected pdfs with a passion When I want to "protect" a PDF, I print it as a TIFF and then PDF that document. It's less "protecting" than "making it difficult to alter or copy-paste from," but it works. (Also good for ensuring your redaction blobs can't be moved.)
Why use TIFF? It supports layers, so I'm not sure it'd guarantee that redaction blobs are effective.
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Everybody's stupid sometimes, and it only takes once to do you in.
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.
Is that a fact?