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I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

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Post by sojournerc »

rot13xor wrote: post #204
avgDev wrote: post #67

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This reminds of a Costco bug I discovered, it appears that they fixed it lol. So, Costco runs AS/400 in stores, and their online store is in .Net MVC. I worked with both technologies and often have to communicate with AS/400 devs and they are close to their retirement so little fucks are given. Plus, working with DB2 is annoying in general, the .NET data provider from IBM is expensive and sucks. Now onto the bug, whe…

I'd expect Costco would require receipts for returns, even for online purchases, like most stores. Then the store would only refund the amount after discounts. But perhaps Costco is more trusting of their customers because they have to pay for membership.

I'm a member and am nearly certain they can just lookup what you've bought on the membership. They scan the member card for any purchase.

Re: I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

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Post by sojournerc »

worker767424 wrote: post #228
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #51

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> I like how you shared how you learned lesson to not share mischievous activities with people in the same post you then go and share more things you haven't been caught for American public schools are quite adept at teaching distrust in authority, particularly in bureaucrats. That doesn't mean distrust in everybody.

I love how student government teaches you how government really works. The election is a popularity contest for a puppet regime with no real power, but you can pat yourself on the back and take price in the democratic process.

This made me think of The Simpsons episode that parodies Evita. Lisa is elected but quickly becomes a tool of the school administration. Season 14 I think

Re: I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

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Post by insan1d »

I got a cease and desist letter from apple around the same age and see it as an achievement I want to frame in the living room (it was when the iPhone 4S and Siri was released. At the time, there was a way you could get Siri working on a jailbroken phone but required running a Siri server that scrapped keys from Apple’s servers. A lot of people were doing what I did a charging for it, so I made a free and public one. I remember the day my VPS provider sent me an email with Apple’s request to shut it down lol)

Re: I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

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Post by pvg »

hutzlibu wrote: post #215
angst_ridden wrote: post #163

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One other funny detail is that most of the Stasi file was handwritten notes in pencil. The vast majority of it was crap. It seems that a lot of her associates were obligated to report on her to the Stasi, but either couldn't or didn't want to give any details that would be harmful to anyone. Much of it was along the lines of "[fellow student] says [subject] was disinclined to denounce rent-control as a counter-revolu…

The Stasi was, especially in the end, exponentional invasive. Meaning they approached allmost anyone in any slightly important position and put pressure on them, to work with them to report on their collegues. (In the end, there were 90 000 of them, with a population of only 16 million). "you help us (and socialism) and we help your career - or you decline and good luck with your career, or the carrer of your partner…

you send one to prison for telling a bad joke about the government?

For the most part, that sort of thing did not send people to prison. They'd have run out of prisons.

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Post by registeredcorn »

belval wrote: post #89
SamBam wrote: post #42

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I'd say it still sounds a bit hostile. I'd suggest "assuming it's true" as a nicer way of saying it.

Seeing the reply I'm getting, I think this is just the "English is my second language" showing on my side. I always assumed both expression were somewhat equivalent but clearly they aren't.

I wouldn't concern yourself with it too much. Both of your statements were entirely reasonable and polite in tone and candor. Hair trigger, induced outrage is common among Englisch. They are much less prone to such gewinsel in public, the knives only come out online for whatever reason.

Anyway, it is important to recall that with every move that is made, it will disturb someone else. Impudence should be avoided, but the trivialities and whims of Englisch are of little concern.

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Post by drfuchs »

dekhn wrote: post #216
drfuchs wrote: post #183

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Yeah, he's for real, and I heard him tell this story (and a number of others) about 40 years ago, for what that's worth. In addition to his other info on the web mentioned elsewhere here, there are also quite a selection of his files from the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) system, that have been pulled off of old backup tapes, and with permission appear at https://www.saildart.org/LES (note the 3-letter account name, and 3-l…

Cool. I mean, wow, that's a great old resource. I like https://www.saildart.org/[OLD,LES]/ (always interested in what academic researchers at stanford and berkeley were doing around the time I was born, especially machine learning)

Well, then you're sure to like https://www.saildart.org/JMC (John McCarthy).

Re: I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

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Post by transpute »

UK initiative to regulate computer security professionals, https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/ukgov_cybersecurity_p...

> security specialists could be struck off or barred from working if they don’t meet “competence and ethical requirements.” … people who aren’t UKCSC-registered professionals might not be able to claim any new legal defences … similar to the General Medical Council and its register of doctors allowed to practice medicine in the UK.

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Post by boring_twenties »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #226
standardUser wrote: post #221

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That is not true. The NSA operates domestically as well.

https://www.nsa.gov/about/

Oh, okay then, case closed.

In other news, North Korea says they're a democratic republic, so that's another thing we don't have to worry about.

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Post by champagnois »

mmh0000 wrote: post #179
champagnois wrote: post #41

It makes me wonder -- does everyone end up investigated for their interest in HTTPS and trying to think up encryption methods? It seems even having a passive interest in computer science or cryptocurrency would inevitably lead to one taking a class or buying a book on these topics. The business person in me always brainstorms the various potential business applications of any technology -- and that inevitably leads t…

May I suggest, a brief reading of the Wikipedia article on Crypto Wars[0]: The Crypto Wars is an unofficial name for the attempts of the United States (US) and allied governments to limit the public's and foreign nations' access to cryptography strong enough to thwart decryption by national intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

All of this just seems like government is developing an addiction for lazy police work.

A dragnet approach of digital malware and backdoors is a form of automated policing that will always be as unpopular as red light traffic ticket cameras.

Society has always accepted that some criminals going free is the price we pay for having our rights be respected.

I hope things get better here.

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Post by riversflow »

Teknoman117 wrote: post #158
lokimedes wrote: post #46

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I had sysadmin rights on my school’s Windows servers after some very simple social engineering (for a 10 year old). The real irony was that I was called to the principal’s office on multiple occasions because I seemed to be able to fix things on the network that the local “admin” (e.g. music teacher) couldn’t. Fun times indeed. It completely ruined my respect for authority figures. Which in retrospect has been the mo…

I was in high school from 2007 to 2011. Half of it in rural Alabama, the other half in the Bay. Even being in the tech capital of the world, the school administration's views on technology and information access were so backwards. Our school basically didn't allow accessing any websites that weren't on some allowlist. Teachers had accounts to bypass the content filter. We had a game design class that happened after s…

Similar time period, I used portable Firefox and then Chrome on a thumb drive to bypass our content filter. I actually find this surprising in retrospect, but I'd guess they were using Content Advisor on Internet Explorer[1]. I carefully guarded my secret.

[1] this pdf appears to lend credence to that idea(no affiliation). https://www.kvcc.edu/pdfs/MyItLab/myitlab_BestPractices_Home...

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