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It's not a new word. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghai... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied
That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".
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That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.
It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".
Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?
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Antisemitism was not really about religion. Many Jews had actually converted to Christianity for generations. The Nazis still considered them to be Jews.
Ahh...well there is the famous saying, "I decide who is a Jew." It was used on the head of the German Manhattan Project and a Jewish head (like a headmaster some shit) of a concentration camp, forget which one. And that's why we say "German Manhattan Project" stedda "Americaner Atomwaffenunternehmen" (I made that word up, it is correct in German to make words up, that means atom weapon undertaking), because German an…
Hans Bethe James Franck Edward Teller Rudolf Peierls Klaus Fuchs Otto Loewi Max Bergmann Dieter Gruen Lilli Hornig
I also forgot many in this list.
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The US government might buy it to help them find good candidates to recruit as spies and saboteurs, or to note if current spies and saboteurs are under suspicion or have been discovered.
If the records are digital and non-air-gapped in any system of any country, you can assume that the US government has access to those records already. The exceptions to this assumption are exceedingly rare.
What do we do now? It seems the majority of people on the planet now have had some of their data leaked. Or are becoming ever more entangled with government and corporate systems which control and peddle their information as they see fit. Is it ultimately a big nothing burger, or is this some singularity we are passing through?
> What do we do now? I was thinking - if I had this, what could I do with the personal records of a billion Chinese people? And I must conclude - absolutely nothing. It's of no interest to me. Now, I probably lack sufficient criminal imagination, but the point is stuff like this is hard to fence because there's a very small market of buyers. In an article I wrote for Routledge about the markets for stolen digital dat…
It’s also useful for more targeted social engineering attacks.
Related: Hacker claims they stole police data on a billion Chinese citizens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31984663 - July 2022 (1 comment) Hacker claims to have obtained data on 1B Chinese citizens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980101 - July 2022 (1 comment) Hacker claims to have stolen 1 bln records of Chinese citizens from police - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31977354 - July 2022 (1 com…
Thanks for reposting this. The last link submitted by me only got 3 upvotes. Guess it sounded just too crazy to be true 2 days ago!
It sucks when you're earlier and don't 'win', but it evens out in the long run if you post lots of good stories, since sometimes the lottery works in your favor. One of these years we'll get around to implementing karma-sharing to spread credit across multiple submitters.
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nitter link, since Twitter put up what seems to be a timed login gate when I was halfway through reading the thread: https://nitter.net/_KarenHao/status/1543949945614393344
The app download nags on mobile web are so unbearable I stopped using Twitter entirely
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The previous big case I remember was linkedin leak with 700M users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674393 At this point I've basically accepted that all my info will be found on sites like fastpeoplesearch.com and that anything I tell any company (or I guess in this case, govt too) will eventually be leaked, correlated, and used against me.
What's fastpeoplesearch.com? Some search engine for leaked credentials? (it appears to be geoblocked in Europe)
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It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".
> irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently. Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?