I actually read 4 of the 5 years were for the hair.
Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
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Wire fraud, wire fraud, it's nearly always wire fraud. Elizabeth Holmes, George Santos, Charlie Javice, all the people who got fake Covid funds - wire fraud, wire fraud, wire fraud. In this day and age if you're committing fraud it's pretty hard for it not to be wire fraud given how everything is transmitted digitally. And penalties for wire fraud are extremely steep (up 20 years for each charge), and it automaticall…
Sounds like I need to target wire fraud as well, with drug cultivation/sales, firearm manufacture/sale/possession (even by a felon), and tax evasion to my list of charges to jury nullify on...
(Not a lawyer)
Fraud basically means lying to someone to steal from them. Wire fraud means doing that using electronic communications.
Of course there can be bogus charges and you should vote to acquit on those, but wire fraud seems squarely in the set of things that should be illegal if we have laws at all.
Re: Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
#223Honest question, why are we not all just on IPV6 now? It seems like at this point almost all the underlying hardware and software should support it? It seems like the only argument for sticking with IPv4 is NAT, but I can't think of a technical reason we couldn't do NAT with IPv6?
IPv6 is still a mess of compatibility issues, and being an early adopter is not always fun.
I had a really weird problem where Youtube videos were unwatchably laggy on my home desktop PC. Gigabit hard-wired connection. Every other streaming site worked great, ditto every other device I owned. Even downloading the videos on the same device using yt-dlp worked great. After much tearing of hair, I noticed that in the network tab for attempting to watch Youtube, all of the requests for video data that were laggy were going to IPv6 addresses. So I turned off IPv6 at my network adapter and everything worked great after that. I guess Youtube and that PC and browser were the only things that supported v6, every other site, device, and Python dropped to v4 and worked fine.
I guess I could dig deeper into what really went wrong and try to fix it, but I feel like I've already spent enough time and headaches on it. The off switch is just easier.
Re: Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
#224The underlying crime was wire fraud, and it happened to be about acquiring IP addresses. He wasn’t prosecuted because he got too many, but for how he got them.
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One complaint that I have about ipv6 and mac addresses is that they use hex separated by colons. Not only is it way longer than an ipv4 address, you can't rattle one off using a number pad. Back when I did full time IT, that sounds like a nightmare if in ipv6 land you have to enter addresses as commonly as you have to enter ipv4 addresses.
I think 1 IP address per human was short sighted. We ran out before the human population doubled. But I think a billion per human was someone liking powers of two, and nothing more. “Ipv5” with 48 bit addressing would have done pretty well. As 6 octets or 4 base 12. For humans you could reserve all ambiguous addresses and have about 50k times as many addresses while people sort themselves out. You could still be able…
v4 was 32-bit, v6 was 128-bit. I think that 64 bits is a more obvious happy medium.
Conveniently, 2^13 = 8192 allows you to use most of the information available in four decimal digits. And 64 = 13•5 - 1 means that you get a roughly even division into five address tiers (with either the first or last one half the size). 4095.8191.8191.8191.8191 is a bit worse than 255.255.255.255 but not nearly as bad as ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff.
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Every major OS uses the IPv6 privacy extensions by default. Short version: your device frequently picks a new address at random.
a new address from a prefix that still identifies you? or a new address from a mixed pool of customers of your ISP?
A new address from the network that your ISP routes to your house. That's basically identical to the way an ISP routes a single IPv4 address to your house.
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The US justice system seems very odd to this European. Then I realize that if the EU project ever were to reach its presumed goals (by some), we'd probably end up with something pretty similar in terms of "oddness complexity".
I'd say you're already there.
In terms of law enforcement: I disagree. It's like 97% national still.
In terms of civil disputes between citizens from different member countries - well, we don't have any phone/internet/post police.
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In other words just not putting stamps at all, and the postal service would 'return' it to the address listed as return (which is actually your destination)?
Don't they stamp "postage due" on it if you're short postage?
They do, but if you put it in a public post box(like say @ the post office), the only way they know where to send it is to the return address.
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Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.
For one the Postal Inspection service consistently has a high conviction rate around 98%[0]. Whether that's due to operational excellence or the ability to unwrap evidence for a living is subject for discussion. [0]: https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2019/pb22524/html/cov...
Or it doesn't move unless it's nearly certain of its case.
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Quite a bit more boring, but a co-worker once paid a contractor to install some blinds in his house, for a few thousand dollars. Dude took a down payment and then never delivered/installed the product, wouldn’t return their calls, etc. My coworker went to the local police, who wouldn’t do anything, but then his lawyer advised him to go to the postal inspector (he had mailed the check to the contractor.) The contracto…
The US justice system seems very odd to this European. Then I realize that if the EU project ever were to reach its presumed goals (by some), we'd probably end up with something pretty similar in terms of "oddness complexity".
Oh, it is absolutely wild, which I don't think is a very good characteristic for a legal system, especially one where the rule is that 'ignorance of the law is not a defense'.