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Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by m463 »

aleksejs wrote: post #119
m463 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

reminds me of keys/badges with "drop in any mailbox" instructions that recover them.

This is an official USPS service available to anyone willing to attach their address and "a statement guaranteeing payment of postage due on delivery" to their keys! Which is neat but kind of awkward if that's also the address of the door the keys open. (per section 1.6 of USPS DMM 133 at https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/133.htm )

no media mail rates. Will have to return that overdue book to the library in person.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by digitalmonstars »

Onavo wrote: post #69
monitron wrote: post #50

This was fascinating, thank you. I expected to read about legal threats against the folks collecting this data and am glad that those didn't materialize. Also I only realized after finishing the article what a breath of fresh air it was to read something that came straight from another human's brain without LLM intermediation. Thank you to the author for that too.

> I expected to read about legal threats against the folks collecting this data and am glad that those didn't materialize. That's because the author folded over and played nice. Imagine if he exercised his first amendment rights.

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Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by mey »

tonyarkles wrote: post #128
wolvoleo wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ummmm. Any country with the knowhow to make an ICBM can source or build a gps receive without said restriction. Just saying. That's like putting a sign "no burglary permitted" and leaving the door wide open.

You’ve just described a significant amount of ITAR. Am Canadian but have to deal with it occasionally. MWIR/LWIR imagers are another prime example. I can order way better (spec-wise at least) IR sensors from AliExpress than I can from the US. Something about high frame rate IR being useful for some kind of guidance towards hot things shrug

Explosions&Fire has an interesting video on this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XHDXk9THJZM

Well indirectly about how they work and to counter them.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by digitalmonstars »

BowBun wrote: post #8
iamnothere wrote: post #7

The part where he gets contacted over the hit-and-run reads like the curl guy’s experience with people investigating “hacking”. I wonder how often this happens outside of software? Do fence manufacturers get emails asking to identify the culprit when someone crashes through a fence?

I feel like it's a "cast a wide net" type of strategy. Doesn't really hurt to ask and there _could_ be the tiniest hint that could lead to something. Maybe?

Specially when the goal may not even be to find and demand anything from a culprit, but simply to prove there was a culprit.

Insurance. This is about insurance.

See, in my country, you could not use a car's dashcam recording as evidence in a small claims court. But I could 100% use it with insurance. They don't abide by the same rules of what counts as evidence.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by jsrcout »

doodlebugging wrote: post #20

I was one of the data points in that spike related to the Chinese balloon incident though that is not the first time I used sondehub. A couple years before that incident I found the site while trying to help someone understand what they were seeing in the sky near where they live. An old dopehead, friend-of-a-friend was paranoid that they were being surveilled by aliens in UFOs, something they could assure you had be…

That's really going above and beyond. Hope it helped them.

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

frenchtoast8 wrote: post #60
mschuster91 wrote: post #10

> Meanwhile (and you might have noticed me asking for AWS help on fedi) we contacted AWS as the source IP was from an AWS network. It was very important however to make sure the AWS support did not shutdown access. I'm legitimately impressed that whoever got that ticket on AWS side actually followed through and was able to divert from their script...

When AWS suspects malicious usage in my experience they usually ask before shutting you down. The company I work at got one of these emails from AWS. We had a bug which caused us to hit a 3rd party API much more than we should have, and the service provider reported us to AWS for attempted DDoS. AWS just asked us to give our side of the story. I'm sure that being a large (but not enterprise) customer gives us some le…

I think I still get a human (working for big enterprise company) but it's almost guaranteed that the first response will be useless.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by porjo »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #124
makr17 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember being in Tel Aviv for work, and pulling up maps to plot out a bike route from the hotel to the office. Only to find that the entire route is blurred out online. Turns out our office was a few 100 meters from something important to the IDF, so no map/route data available. Too far to reasonably walk, and didn't want to try a bike without knowing there was a reasonable route...

Stupid question: Did you rent the bike? You nerd sniped me here! How did you have a bike on a work trip? That sounds fun.

Afaik Tel Aviv has city wide bike share, so guessing that's what OP was using.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by inigyou »

frenchtoast8 wrote: post #60
mschuster91 wrote: post #10

> Meanwhile (and you might have noticed me asking for AWS help on fedi) we contacted AWS as the source IP was from an AWS network. It was very important however to make sure the AWS support did not shutdown access. I'm legitimately impressed that whoever got that ticket on AWS side actually followed through and was able to divert from their script...

When AWS suspects malicious usage in my experience they usually ask before shutting you down. The company I work at got one of these emails from AWS. We had a bug which caused us to hit a 3rd party API much more than we should have, and the service provider reported us to AWS for attempted DDoS. AWS just asked us to give our side of the story. I'm sure that being a large (but not enterprise) customer gives us some le…

Did you know several service providers automatically suspend service based on a single unverified report from a pseudonymous account on AbuseIPDB? Make of that what you will.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by inigyou »

retired wrote: post #40

> Fuck Russia You know. I came to that conclusion when they started shootings rockets at a civilian airplane in 2014, killing 298 civilians of which 196 people that I share citizenship with. And fuck Germany for still buying Russian gas.

That's your red line on Germany? They're doing much worse than funding Russia.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by inigyou »

ghostly_s wrote: post #84

I found the cognitive dissonance interesting between emailing AWS support about the Ukrainian war effort: "it is incredibly important that the source AWS account is not blocked, rate limited or terminated - loss of life could occur.", then a paragraph later: "I was hesitant even working with them, as I don’t really want to help military, let alone the US."

Yeah studies show most people don't actually have morals and just rationalize whatevers convenient at the time
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