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I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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Post by galaxyLogic »

sgtnoodle wrote: post #29
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> seems…nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread Not sure if trolling, but in case not, vaccination has had “a substantial impact on mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks” in America [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709178/

The link you provided describes a simulation based on assumed vaccine effectiveness. It's also from 1 year ago. It doesn't seem to reflect any statistically backed insights into what's actually happened over the past year. Or am I missing something?

According to the following graph deaths per 100,000 people are: 18 for unvaccinated 3 for vaccinated. at the peak of the graph between July and October 2021.

Doesn't that tell us that vaccinations help to significantly reduce Covid-deaths?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-co...

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Post by threeseed »

_dain_ wrote: post #58
asddubs wrote: post #32

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weight gain isn't contagious

no but it's aesthetically disgusting

Please post photos of yourself.

Would help us to put in context what aesthetic perfection looks like.

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Post by Ambolia »

sgtnoodle wrote: post #50
Ambolia wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Covid deaths" are also a very meaningless metric where every country or region does whatever it wants. Excess deaths would be a better metric, but also hard to remove from there all the damage done by lockdowns, stress generated on the population, and by hospitals stopping attending other diseases in some places.

So what's the right available metric to look at that statistically quantifies the effectiveness of the vaccines? Or does one not exist?

Control groups. But most countries and trials seem decided to get rid of them as fast as possible.

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Post by jschwartzi »

twofornone wrote: post #35
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> seems…nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread Not sure if trolling, but in case not, vaccination has had “a substantial impact on mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks” in America [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709178/

That paper is purely based on a model with [optimistic] assumed effectiveness and transmission parameters. It does not consider any actual infection statistics to come to its conclusion. I'd love to see a paper explaining why some two months ago cases were already at or approaching record highs in countries with 70-90% vaccination rates, like UK, Israel, multiple EU nations...Gibraltar is particularly interesting bec…

In my state the vaccination rate is above 70% and the hospitalization rate has decoupled from the positive rate. The spike this winter ended in October whereas last winter it didn’t end until January. We’ve been on a downward trend even with shows and restaurants open and people having parties. So I would cite that as evidence the vaccine is protecting our population.

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Post by d0gsg0w00f »

twofornone wrote: post #35
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> seems…nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread Not sure if trolling, but in case not, vaccination has had “a substantial impact on mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks” in America [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709178/

That paper is purely based on a model with [optimistic] assumed effectiveness and transmission parameters. It does not consider any actual infection statistics to come to its conclusion. I'd love to see a paper explaining why some two months ago cases were already at or approaching record highs in countries with 70-90% vaccination rates, like UK, Israel, multiple EU nations...Gibraltar is particularly interesting bec…

Right, and this is why I have a problem with employer enforced mandates even though I'm vaccinated. The government taking away your right to work and support yourself based on some pretty flimsy data about the public good for something that should be a personal decision. Fact is, the vaccinated really shouldn't be losing much sleep over the unvaccinated other than maybe those dirty people might be taking up an ICU bed when I need one.

Ok fine, you want to enforce this: then just man up and imprison the unvaccinated using force. Don't hide behind employers and make them do your dirty work. Taking away a person's right to work is only 2 degrees separated from making them dependent on the state. It's a fear tactic they're hoping they won't ever have to enforce--not that much different than holding a gun to someone's head.

At the end of the day you're never going to be able make someone do something against their will. People who go against the mainstream will already suffer social consequences. If you have to do something with government resources then beef up the ICU beds .

While you're at it you may as well make it illegal to work if you're a smoker, or obese, or if you've ever had a car accident because those things may lead to eating up an ICU bed for some other person that stands on a higher moral ground.

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Post by Ambolia »

ziml77 wrote: post #54
Ambolia wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Covid deaths" are also a very meaningless metric where every country or region does whatever it wants. Excess deaths would be a better metric, but also hard to remove from there all the damage done by lockdowns, stress generated on the population, and by hospitals stopping attending other diseases in some places.

Why would you remove the excess deaths caused by hospitals not being able to handle non-COVID illnesses due to taking care of COVID patients?

Because those are dependent on the response to the disease, not the disease itself.

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Post by differentView »

slownews45 wrote: post #3

Short version if they get taken down: The validation apps used a 512 bit RSA public key. They used a factoring app and spend $200 on amazon to factor the private key from the public key. They were then able to generate the COVID passes. This is for the Honai Police Dept.

>This is for the Honai Police Dept.

*Hanoi

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Post by _dain_ »

threeseed wrote: post #68
_dain_ wrote: post #60

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> "immunisation with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine reduced the chance of onward virus transmission by 40–60%" [1] so why are there still soaring case rates in the countries with the most vaccines? I'll trust my lying eyes, thank you. it's honestly insulting that you can post some pissant "study" like this and expect to be taken seriously when anyone can just look at the case rates and vax rates by country…

a) There are still soaring case rates because vaccination rates are not 100% and you have waning immunity. People who are dying are the ones who are unvaccinated. But you will still get breakthrough cases which nobody has ever denied will happen. b) If you some independent study which proves your statement that vaccines only "marginally" affect transmission then please post it.

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ukhsa-vaccine-surveillance-...

case rates are as high or higher among the vaxxed in every age group that matters.

as for 100% vaxx rates as our way into the promised land: a) lmao and b) this is unfalsifiable. we could get up to 99.9% vaxx rates and corona fanatics like you would still say it's the intransigent 0.01% holdout are keeping us from crossing the finish line. you are just like every other ideological zealot who dismisses the empirical failures of their ideas (nazism, communism, etc) by saying all those real life examples weren't really the True Ism, and that we would have immanentized the eschaton already if not for all those pesky people with their free will.

not to mention there are stable wild animal reservoirs of the virus and those are never going away.

again, you haven't made any coherent argument as to why I can't just look at the case rates by country and compare them to vaxx rates and draw the obvious conclusion. am I not allowed to say the sky is blue without a peer reviewed study?

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Post by threeseed »

coolso wrote: post #36
dvt wrote: post #34

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Actually, it is , as it tends to be intergenerational[1]. Parents that don't care about their health will raise kids that don't care about their health. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5305001/

Furthermore, even outside of an immediate family, the more overweight people are, the more socially acceptable it becomes, resulting in more obesity. There’s also the massive costs to our healthcare system and insurance premiums.

And yet obesity whilst being a problem for decades has not caused an epidemic of obese people.

Why is that ? Because obesity is not contagious and most people don't make decisions about what they eat and their activity levels based on choices other people make.

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Post by pawelmurias »

galaxyLogic wrote: post #63
pier25 wrote: post #28

Here in Mexico the gov issued vaccination certificates always have errors. People have resorted to downloading the PDF and "hacking it" (editing it in Acrobat). Nobody ever actually checks whether the certificate is valid or not.

I think most people who are smart enough to fake the certificate are smart enough to get vaccinated. What do you win by using a fake certificate vs. getting protected by the vaccine?

You can sell fake ones to retards who are scared of the vaccine. Some might be stupid enough to pay good money for it.
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