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Funny how there are so many logos on the seizure notice . they should have put a McDonald's logo too or maybe a service where a company can pay to have their logo put on there given how much traffic the sized domain probably got
I wish the DOJ had a better designer for their domain seizure graphics.
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Not exactly, because the scenario isn’t “any two people on the plane” but “me and another person on the plane”.
It is still not another specific person, but anyone you know, which is a pretty large set.
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I would guess that things like search history, email records, cell phone records and security cameras are a huge crutch for police these days. So avoiding those things probably gets you most of the way there.
License plates, CCTV, purchase records, public transport etc. There are so many ways in which you could be tracked that the safe assumption is that you won't be able to avoid it.
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It is not about law enforcement either. It's about debating whether he's the sharpest tool in the shed or not. I contend that running such a criminal enterprise is no easy feat for a teenager despite the rookie mistakes he committed.
It's not easy: that's why he got caught. And he got caught primarily because he started a criminal enterprise, which makes him not the sharpest tool in the shed, if he would have been he would have turned his talents to something both more lucrative and legal.
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Not exactly, because the scenario isn’t “any two people on the plane” but “me and another person on the plane”.
We can see the full paradox at work here. The parent clearly states: > how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport. > I mean, what are the odds? This is explicitly stating "any two people" (and it's at an airport not a plane, so more people). But then follows up with changing the framing of question they're asking: > I only had it happen once, but it was nuts. The birthday paradox…
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Hub-and-spoke routing + "it's not a small world, it's a small social class/industry/demographic/what-have-you" + the tendency for industries to cluster geographically. And what are the odds people meet in the first place? Those exact same factors are what make folks run into each other again later. It would actually be weird if you never ran into people you know. >…Bangalore. Our trips had nothing to do with each oth…
Yep, and throw in that humans are just bad at estimating statistics. Like the birthday paradox : If there are just 23 people in a room, then there's a 50% probability that two people share the same birthday.
And is this for day-month or day-month-year?
"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…
> Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like this and then to go holidaying in the USA with incriminating stuff on your person... The US could have gone after him any time it wanted in nearly any country, including his home in Portugal. They actually arrested him in the UK. This issue with the warrant when he entered was a procedural thing that appeared out of convenience. They could have cooperat…