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Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

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Re: Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

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Post by AndroidKitKat »

PrivateButts wrote: post #99
lalith_c wrote: post #2

Move to ipv6 already

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.

When I was in a phase of really enjoying IPv6, I went out and bought one of these: https://ipv6buddy.com

I don't type in many IPv6 addresses anymore, so this doesn't see much use anymore. It does make a great desk nicknack, though!

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Post by IggleSniggle »

floren wrote: post #264
kens wrote: post #234

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The version of that story that I read is much longer, by Funranium Labs. It is entertainingly written, but I wonder how much is urban legend: https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2018/09/the-fringes-of-regulat...

Boy, that's a level of "sysadmin read too many BOFH stories and also thinks being 5'11" & bearded is a superpower" bombast I thought died out years ago.

Bombastics never die! They simply fade away...

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

lost_tourist wrote: post #252
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #247

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Still not as wild as the fact that while everyone was ridiculing Trump for instituting a space force, they have had a weather force, officially the "NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps", since 1917. But in all fairness, the distinctions are all pretty arbitrary, I'm sure people were laughing as much when the navy spun off their weather stuff and when the army spun off their flying stuff as they do now with the air force…

We laughed at it because it was the product of someone who isn't really known for original thoughts or consideration of complex concepts, so we all kind of assumed it was just a joke.

Who, Donald Rumsfeld?

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Post by queuebert »

fphhotchips wrote: post #291
andsoitis wrote: post #286

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The difference between being an Amazon Vendor and a Seller: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/01/2...

The vendor that appears on my Credit Card statement is Amazon. The organisation who sets the commercial terms is Amazon. The website is completely Amazon branded. The goods are usually stored in a big warehouse with "Amazon" written on the side and delivered by someone engaged and paid by Amazon. The box that arrives has "Amazon Prime" written all over it. I'm sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, Amazon is selling the…

A former Nascar driver, Jeremy Mayfield, was charged with felonies for (supposedly) unknowingly selling stolen goods through his scrap yard.

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #265
ben_w wrote: post #236

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I think we need a new take on that phrase, something like "ignorance of the law must not be a reasonable defence" — when the law is too complex for most people to understand, it is vulnerable to capricious enforcement, malicious compliance, and unwitting everyday violations being held against the politically undesirable. Not only do I have absolutely no idea how to get from here to there, I also assume the degree of…

One of my favorite saying is this: "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state" (thousands years old saying and nothing has changed). And, oh boy, do we have many laws. It is by design , to oppress the people.

You don't even need to consider ALL laws. Just look at the tax code in isolation for good examples.

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Post by anonymfus »

hattmall wrote: post #287
anonymfus wrote: post #279

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"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice,…

Sounds like using an Adblocker could technically constitute wire fraud. Especially if the service offers a paid version without ads.

I think no, as the clause says "transmits or causes to be transmitted", while ad blocking extensions block specific transmissions. But may be if you use such extension to block a disclaimer on paywalled website which obscures "read more" button, and press that button, causing website to transmit to you a paywalled content, that would be a wire fraud.

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Post by extraduder_ire »

zinclozenge wrote: post #184
squintychino wrote: post #120

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Story time? What makes Postal Inspectors so feared.

Some agencies, ones you might not even expect like the USPS and FDA, also have law enforcement powers, but have very narrow jurisdiction (relative to general law enforcement agencies like the FBI). So when a case actually does fall under their jurisdiction, they execute their duties "with extreme prejudice", so to speak. Assuming the story from the OP you replied to is true, the fact that they arrested the police off…

Notably, if you have a counterfeit dollar bill it's the secret service that deals with it.

I've read of someone who worked at a bank who was told that after getting a counterfeit, looked them up in the phone book, and they dealt with it promptly.

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Post by [deleted] »

murphyslaw wrote: post #199
xwdv wrote: post #123

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I once committed mail fraud when I was 17 years old. I had been using the return address as a destination address on envelopes to send mail to places for free without stamps. Finally got caught one day at the local branch. Postal Inspectors said I could face 20 to 30 years in federal prison.

I was part of a conspiracy to commit massive credit card fraud as a minor (thankfully all no longer relevant). I was given AT&T calling card numbers which were pilfered right from the USPS to use to connect to US BBSes to download hacked software. The Belgian guy I was in with got raided by the police. His hard disks had been hidden behind a brick wall with only the cables visible. They didn't find the hard disks so…

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Post by ohashi »

ozr wrote: post #169
jacquesm wrote: post #106

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I've seen Microsoft, Yahoo and Google all blackhole IP blocks wrongly because they were mixed up with IPs operated by spammers but I've never seen Spamhaus do this, in fact they went absolutely out of their way (without any requests from us) to ensure that our lonely IP on a Toronto ISP that did a lot of shady stuff was excepted.

You and the parent are both correct, which is the problem. Spamhaus is notorious for inconsistent behavior, driven largely by the personal whims of individual employees.

The fact anyone is reading anything from there at all seems better than Google et al.
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