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How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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For anyone who wants to try if their browser blocks it: javascript:for(;;){alert("am%20I%20bloc%20yet?");} Just copy that into the URL field of your browser (In a new tab, because it will block whatever site you do this from (duh))

Huh, I'm surprised it doesn't have the checkbox to block future alerts. (in chrome, also it stripped the javascript: when pasting)

Yes, chrome seems to automatically strip the javascript: I assume that's a security measure.

Re: How Japanese Police Turned Cyber Prank into Arresting Cases

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That same minister is launching a cyber attack on unsecured IoT devices to get the country to strengthen its stuff. He seems far the from the worst guy for the job. https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tel...

Sounds like a white-hat stuff to me - probing the security and reporting found vulnerabilities to owners. Genuinely curious - why do you write it like this a bad thing? As long as they don't exploit what they find, of course. Better let good-intended actors do that before ill-intended actors do the same.

I think it’s an awesome thing to do. Heck I think they should push even harder than they’re currently doing. This is the only real way that I see governments can practically enhance average national security.

I wrote that as a way to counter the assumed image of him being incompetent because he himself doesn’t use computers. Perhaps it was unclear.

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