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He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price

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Re: He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price

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Post by uconnectlol »

sophacles wrote: post #235
uconnectlol wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nope. archive.is has their cloudflare configuration set to "i am under attack mode"[1], which makes the cloudflare captcha come up every time a tor / vpn / "bad" IP address visits it. its been like this since 2015. if you aren't familiar, cloudflare just serves tor / vpn / "bad" IP captchas for every domain you visit. the captchas themselves are broken half the time. in 2018 cloudflare then added deep packet inspecti…

It's pretty well documented that archive's owner doesn't like the way Cloudflare reports EDNS for 1.1.1.1, and causes problems for people who come via that dns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495204

and its pretty undocumented that cloudflare has blocked all tor users plus any other major shared IP since 2010 and only in 2018 added the condition i mentioned above, and you still get blocked from all cloudflare sites if you do anything special like change your user agent or the Accept header

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Post by uconnectlol »

dmd wrote: post #213
uconnectlol wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nope. archive.is has their cloudflare configuration set to "i am under attack mode"[1], which makes the cloudflare captcha come up every time a tor / vpn / "bad" IP address visits it. its been like this since 2015. if you aren't familiar, cloudflare just serves tor / vpn / "bad" IP captchas for every domain you visit. the captchas themselves are broken half the time. in 2018 cloudflare then added deep packet inspecti…

Then why do I get a captcha loop if I use 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9 as my resolver ... but if I use 8.8.8.8, I don't? I can switch back and forth and reproduce it perfectly each time.

ah okay well both are true: if you use tor / vpn (regardless of what DNS server is used) you are blocked from archive.is. if you use bare IP but 1.1.1.1 as your DNS, then i guess you get blocked too

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Post by uconnectlol »

hoistbypetard wrote: post #232
uconnectlol wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this archive.is website (and its other domains) has been misconfigured in "I am under attack mode" since 2015 or so. which makes cloudflare's nonsense captcha come up every time you visit it (and / or just the javascript bot check script).

Source? That has never happened to me, and I use archive.is/archive.ph/whatever other domain they indicate I should use very regularly.

sorry i forget to state i'm talking about if you have a "bad" IP address. for random people with their home IP it normally doesn't happen

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Post by thfuran »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #248
thfuran wrote: post #133

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>The IRS doesn't want to catch the small fries, to some extent tax evasion is desired for smaller companies. What?

That does come across weirdly but the IRS is a perennial favorite defund target so they don't have the resources to go after everyone, they should only choose juicier cases in that respect. There are some good points in this article (the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero) that can be extrapolated to other parts of the financial world. The highest level point is that sometimes, a little slippage is needed for busine…

Not having the means to catch every fraudster is very different from wanting them to commit the fraud. I think the only sense in which the IRS wants tax fraud is that some portion of its bureaucracy is dedicated to handling fraud and many of the people so employed would prefer continued employment to magically eliminating all fraud.

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Post by bauruine »

uconnectlol wrote: post #260
bauruine wrote: post #221

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archive.is doesn't use Cloudflare. The captcha is reCAPTCHA.

they literally have used cloudflare since 2015 or earlier, for every minute that service existed. if you tried to open it with tor from then until now, you get: " One more step Please complete the security check to access " "Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA? Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property." which is cloudflare's classic tor blocking page

The captcha has reCAPTCHA written on it and the Tor Browser does like 15 requests to google.com domains. None of the archive.is|li|ph|today domains use Cloudflare name servers and resolving archive.is from all over the world returns not a single Cloudflare IP.

I'm pretty sure they don't use Cloudflare.

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Post by mx_03 »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #16

My experience of whistleblowing even here in the west is that usually it goes very very badly. The only real thing open to you is to refuse to do anything unethical, quit and walk away. Many people can't afford to do that. Things ought to be different but we live in corrupt societies where the law is different for the rich and powerful than for everyone else.

For sure walk away if the company asks you to something ilegal. Not worth the jail time even if you cant afford having no job.

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Post by jstarfish »

gadders wrote: post #144
PaulKeeble wrote: post #16

My experience of whistleblowing even here in the west is that usually it goes very very badly. The only real thing open to you is to refuse to do anything unethical, quit and walk away. Many people can't afford to do that. Things ought to be different but we live in corrupt societies where the law is different for the rich and powerful than for everyone else.

Unless you're Bradley Birkenfield [1] TBH that's the only circumstance in which I think it would make sense to whistle blow. "In 2012, as a consequence of his whistleblower status, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) awarded him $104 million, 26% of the total $400 million in taxes returned. It was the 4th reward paid to date since the IRS Whistleblower Program went into effect in 2006." He did 40 months in prison…

> TBH that's the only circumstance in which I think it would make sense to whistle blow.

It's equally-lucrative in Defense. You won't work anywhere ever again, but the DoD pays out enough to make it worth your while.

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Post by pixl97 »

NemoNobody wrote: post #244
pixl97 wrote: post #231

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>nothing to do with right or wrong, which is written in our heart It's just quite unfortunate we're all reading from different heart books.

I don't think we are reading different heart books at all - we are taught that we are but we are pretty much exactly the same when it comes to matters of the heart

[Looks at the DSM-5]

No, no we are not.

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