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Post by wutwutwat »

23B1 wrote: post #190
wutwutwat wrote: post #187

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No I'm not. I'm telling someone they are ignoring all the bad things our government allows and benefits from. I'm not really sure what competing interests has to do with anything I said. Are "competing interests" the reason our own government is spying on us and tracking our lives in the secret? I'd love to understand what "competing interests" means in the context of what I said and what it has to do with the rights…

If you can't imagine that a bureaucracy as large as the united states government might not have competing interests within... I'm not sure I can help you.

Still waiting to be told what the fuck that has to do with them spying on their citizens...

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by defrost »

oaththrowaway wrote: post #174
defrost wrote: post #147

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I hear the US has more than one state and open inter state borders though ... Kind of undercuts the whole some states have really good gun laws argument.

Why do the states with "good" gun laws have worse gun violence?

You'd want to direct that to whoever was claiming some laws better than others.

It's moot when the inter state borders are leaky - the genius of Australia wasn't that guns were banned (they weren't) but that national gun laws were unified across all states so that all sales are registered and all buyers are vetted for criminal | domestic violence backgrounds.

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by defrost »

psunavy03 wrote: post #182
defrost wrote: post #155

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Has Texas agreed to adopt the strictest gun control measures in the US sates? I assume you understand the question re: Schengen.

Schengen allows for border crossings with no checkpoints just like US states. Which means the "different states have different laws" canard is no different than Europe. What's to stop someone from leaving Switzerland or Czechia with a firearm until they get caught?

Schengen doesn't have a Texas - Switzerland raised the bar on semi automatics to match Schengen law - it's a more uniform zone than the USofA is wrt gun law.

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by mikrotikker »

fullspectrumdev wrote: post #77
kajecounterhack wrote: post #60

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> In a country where you can buy assault rifles with minimal background checks, people worry about addresses being available because someone might be able to look up the address to kill them with a drone and a home made bomb. Drones and IUDs may be less traceable than guns and offer even less risk to the user. Currently if you're going to use a gun, you basically have to be suicidal or care zero about the consequence…

Doxing remains dangerous in Europe, the posters just trying to score cheap points.

Remember that time a bunch of Scandinavian bikers got hold of some Carl Gustovs and used them to explode a rivals building among other things?

Re: U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers

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Post by permo-w »

wutwutwat wrote: post #62
permo-w wrote: post #51

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in a similar area, it absolutely pains me to see the amount of personal information demanded by online job applications. realistically how hard would it be for me to set up a fake job listing on Indeed and just hoover up highly valuable PII? you could even take it further with personality tests, IQ scores, RATs, etc. if you were a foreign power wanting to gather data on defence programmers, for blackmail, corruption,…

I've been personally dealing with this exact thing. And it doesn't help that linkedin is a shit show of fake companies and job postings that seem to be doing exactly what you said, phishing for PII. Like, why the fuck is a job application asking me for my address? It's a remote job, the absolute most you would ever need is my city. There's a lot of companies that think I'm the very lucky resident at 123 Main St :) Th…

I had an interview with a recruiter recently where I asked them about their data protection practices and they put the phone down on me
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