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> Heck, a decade and a half ago there were claims that governments could narrow a search for an audio file upload based on the deviation from 60hz on the power line noise - in an audio recording. Wow. Any source for this?
Here's a brief piece on the practice: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671
It's incredible that so much tax payer money and human resources are devoted to defend pharmaceutical companies monopoly on drugs. By his inventory it sounds like his customers would likely be people with chronic conditions that have strong presence of pharmaceutical lobby to prevent legal sales of cannabis and probably cannot afford Xanax through legal means because the cost of getting medical help is extortionate.
this guy should not be in jail. if he lived a little further north he could grow cannabis in his back yard. its wrong and its immoral but i guess the old white dudes in capes playing judge grew up thinking cannabis makes you into a rapist
this guy should not be in jail. if he lived a little further north he could grow cannabis in his back yard. its wrong and its immoral but i guess the old white dudes in capes playing judge grew up thinking cannabis makes you into a rapist
They charged him on multiple charges * illegal possession of firearms, distributed a few kilos of Xanax and also lots of marijuana over 2 years or so. If he sold pot only he'd probably get a suspended sentence as a first time offense. I think he got a bit greedy, had he stopped short at some point and went on a year long vacation around the world he would probably be still free now.
A friend described that many in the government/military of Nazi Germany (including Hitler) were using significant amounts of amphetamines. Which in part lead to the atrocities of humanity that occurred. I can’t speak to the truth of this, and have definitely seen the US War on Drugs as a way to treat people unfairly based on race etc. I would certainly believe something similar is going on with the Trump administrati…
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They charged him on multiple charges * illegal possession of firearms, distributed a few kilos of Xanax and also lots of marijuana over 2 years or so. If he sold pot only he'd probably get a suspended sentence as a first time offense. I think he got a bit greedy, had he stopped short at some point and went on a year long vacation around the world he would probably be still free now.
as i understood it the firearms were legally owned but became illegal because of the traficking charges
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I think it was referring to Electrical network frequency analysis, which is to find the time that the recording was made. It compares small changes in mains hum frequency to historic records of the changes. I am not sure how it is in the US, but the UK grid has a single frequency over the network so it wouldn't work for finding the location.
The propagation of waves is very fast, but wouldn't distance from multiple large sources or sinks fluctuate the frequency just slightly based on distance?
I don't like to sound like I'm wearing tinfoil, but I'm not sure I believe this. We keep getting eyebrow-raising explanations for how computer criminals are caught; I always ask why bother? The American intelligence apparatus has compromised nearly all network traffic, from hardware backdoors on up. I assume the real way this person was detected and caught would be too embarrassing to admit, hence the fingerprints-fr…
Parallel Construction. it would be a national security catastrophe if it leaked that NSA was bulk decrypting all TLS/SSL traffic Internet-wide, by using a giant rainbow table of prime pair products for instant decryption without factoring, which was first proposed by Rabin back in 1997 at a NIST working group for establishing crypto standards. then NSA would lose the biggest SIGINT advantage since ENIGMA back in WW2.…
Whats that all about bro?
What I find the most interesting about this article is that someone was able to be identified using a picture of their fingerprints. Thus, any photos posted online could be scoured for identification information. And with computer vision technologies becoming more mature, it means that regular video footage of people could identify them the same way in seconds or less using a wide variety of different visual traits.…
There was some pytorch software called "enhance", i.e. ./enhance [options] and you could take an image that someone took of their unpowered tv across the room and pull out a high resolution image of their face from the reflection in the matte-ish surface. I used it on reddit to convince people it was unsafe to post any images of that sort. It seemed to work for about 6 months. There's magic in image enhancement, but…