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Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat

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Post by night862 »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #191
night862 wrote: post #103

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A bit of fun ... but my opinion is that a war with decades long ceasefire is common-law armistice. At the very least, stopping shelling is some sort of détente. I'll admit that "War" is a somewhat colloquial term nowadays, for better or worse.

I disagree, it is still war-proper if you have troops amassed at each others border, constantly training to invade each other and developing weapons (NK's ICBM aresnal) specifically to target the other guys (you need ICBMs to target america,not SK). If american policy changed and america withdrew troops from SK, there will be a continuation of the Korean war, since NK's leadership believes the US is the only thing st…

NK can't strike the United States. Their low-quality "ICBM" probably can't even target another continent. They really have poor ballistic missiles. On the other hand, NK can't be targeted except from a sub in the ocean, or over Russia by ours.

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Post by notepad0x90 »

night862 wrote: post #211
notepad0x90 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, it is still war-proper if you have troops amassed at each others border, constantly training to invade each other and developing weapons (NK's ICBM aresnal) specifically to target the other guys (you need ICBMs to target america,not SK). If american policy changed and america withdrew troops from SK, there will be a continuation of the Korean war, since NK's leadership believes the US is the only thing st…

NK can't strike the United States. Their low-quality "ICBM" probably can't even target another continent. They really have poor ballistic missiles. On the other hand, NK can't be targeted except from a sub in the ocean, or over Russia by ours.

I thought they at least claimed they can hit the west coast of the US? and that US ICBMs, launched from the US mainland can strike any target in the world.

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Post by gorgoiler »

a_dabbler wrote: post #86
gorgoiler wrote: post #73

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Out of interest I looked up who controls the DNS root servers: Europe (2): RIPE and Netnod AB. RIPE is Europe’s RIR, run as a conference by European ISPs. Netnod is a Swedish ISP. Asia (1): Project WIDE, part of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. US (9): Verisign, Cogent, NASA, US Department of Defense, US Army, the University of Maryland, ISC (as in the Bind9 people), ICANN itself, and the University of Southern Cal…

DNS != The internet. You can still use the internet without access to the DNS root servers

Of course but the contention is that Internet infrastructure, of which DNS is a fairly indicative example, is controlled by US entities.

It’s not, but it mostly is, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of other centralised components — hardware, cables, numbering, protocols — were similarly organized.

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Post by petre »

churchill wrote: post #192
petre wrote: post #189

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The US hasn't destabilized Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, yet they get migrants from those countries. And Gaddafi also got screwed by Szarkozy and Tony Blair. The US probably had other plans which didn't quite work out as intended.

Hah! The US has a long and shameful history of meddling in Latin America: coups, outright invasions (Panama, Grenada, Nicaragua, Honduras, etc.) and overthrows or assassinations of democratically-elected leaders considered leftist. Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile, etc. Haiti: Historian Hans Schmidt notes that, “US Navy ships visited Haitian ports to ‘protect American lives and property’ in 1857, 1859, 1868, 186…

That was quite a while ago. You forgot about Nicaragua and the Contra war though.

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Post by justinclift »

petre wrote: post #214
churchill wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah! The US has a long and shameful history of meddling in Latin America: coups, outright invasions (Panama, Grenada, Nicaragua, Honduras, etc.) and overthrows or assassinations of democratically-elected leaders considered leftist. Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile, etc. Haiti: Historian Hans Schmidt notes that, “US Navy ships visited Haitian ports to ‘protect American lives and property’ in 1857, 1859, 1868, 186…

That was quite a while ago. You forgot about Nicaragua and the Contra war though.

1989 wasn't that long ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...

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Post by justinclift »

mattmaroon wrote: post #175
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #123

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> drone bombing land based ones How do you imagine that a drone will be able to find and damage an underground cable? This is not Afghanistan, a drone will not live long past China’s/Russia’s air defences.

I imagine pretty easily. They likely don’t have to find it, nothing gets dug in North Korea without US watching it via satellite. Chinas air defenses likely don’t exist in North Korea. I have no doubt the US has plans to cut them (and probably anyone else you can imagine) off in the event of war.

Apparently China's navy is stronger than the US navy these days.

So it might not be a great idea to start doing stuff like that in their back yard? ;)

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Post by justinclift »

churchill wrote: post #108
averageRoyalty wrote: post #42

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The land of democracy, ladies and gentlemen. Rights for us, nobody else.

Funny thing about American meddling is that it always comes back to bite the US in the ass. The War of Terror has cost $8 trillion and there's nothing tangible and lasting the US has to show for it. Groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS (esp. their networks across Libya, Iraq, etc.) are offshoots of American meddling in the region, growing healthily despite everything. Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iran (now a rabid enemy), Iraq, Syria…

Hey, it's not all bad. We all got a movie out of it. ;)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/

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Post by jorvi »

manquer wrote: post #193
jorvi wrote: post #104

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Yup. This also why people should only use fintech banks (Revolut, N26, Bunq, etc) as a checking account and should keep the bulk of their money elsewhere. Because of the relatively low-friction signup process, fintech banks are extremely trigger happy with account locks, and at that point you have to go through their permanently-overloaded customer service to get your money transferred to another bank, a process that…

Also don’t keep money that that you cannot afford to miss in fintech because they are not banks at all. The FDIC insured bank which actually has money when using these apps is somewhere in the backend and you get stuff like the synapse bankruptcy[1] [1] https://apnews.com/article/synapse-evolve-bank-fintech-accou...

That’s just wrong. Revolut, N26 and Bunq all have banking licenses, which means funds are insured to €100 000, €200 000 if it’s a shared account.

It’s not that they “steal” your money, but unlike your local bank, their customer service is much less tactile which means that if you’re up shit’s creek getting out if it gets much harder.

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Post by rurban »

churchill wrote: post #192
petre wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US hasn't destabilized Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, yet they get migrants from those countries. And Gaddafi also got screwed by Szarkozy and Tony Blair. The US probably had other plans which didn't quite work out as intended.

Hah! The US has a long and shameful history of meddling in Latin America: coups, outright invasions (Panama, Grenada, Nicaragua, Honduras, etc.) and overthrows or assassinations of democratically-elected leaders considered leftist. Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile, etc. Haiti: Historian Hans Schmidt notes that, “US Navy ships visited Haitian ports to ‘protect American lives and property’ in 1857, 1859, 1868, 186…

Not only in Latin America. The US also continues to keep their fascist allies alive in Europe, Asia, Africa and everywhere else.

Every leftist country will either be undermined secretly (Europe), will have fake elections to overcome this problem (Latin America), or endure another fascist coup.

In Europe this fascist US backed coups happened until the 70ies. Now the press is enough to vilify citizens and workers rights.

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Post by churchill »

justinclift wrote: post #217
churchill wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny thing about American meddling is that it always comes back to bite the US in the ass. The War of Terror has cost $8 trillion and there's nothing tangible and lasting the US has to show for it. Groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS (esp. their networks across Libya, Iraq, etc.) are offshoots of American meddling in the region, growing healthily despite everything. Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iran (now a rabid enemy), Iraq, Syria…

Hey, it's not all bad. We all got a movie out of it. ;) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/

Now that you put it that way :)
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