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Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by anvandare »

artie_effim wrote: post #5

Isn't that brainf*ck?

Yes. The highlighted areas are:

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+++++++++++[>++++ ++++++++[- ]-[>+-- -[-][-]>++> +[>++[-][-]>+>++[++ >++[-] [-]>+>+[>++++[ -][- ]++++++++[>++++++ ++++++[-]+ ++>>+>+[->+++[-][-]+ +++++++[>++++++++ +[-]+++>++ ++++>+>+-++-+--

=> z.\SUY.ZA...

(hex values of the key: 7A B3 5C 53 55 59 03 5A 41 03 06 01)

xor-ing the .png with the key gives a data blob, so it's either an executable (which I'm not going to run) or I did something wrong.

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by fwdpropaganda »

ronreiter wrote: post #8
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Recall when the Mossad assassinated someone in a Dubai hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9KDysPbZ0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Ma... The only reason I point this out is because many (most?) techies have a natural aversion to helping out this sort of thing. It's totally fine if you don't. But it's easy to forget the end result.

He is a murderer and a terrorist. If you murder people because they are Israeli and you think you can get away with it, think again.

I'm not saying you don't have a point, morally speaking.

But legally speaking do you agree that's probably not legal? And if so, then would you say it's OK to bypass the law with it's convenient for you?

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by Waterluvian »

placebo wrote: post #15
Waterluvian wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the attitude that makes it hard for me to take Israel seriously. Like they have an inherent right to go after whoever wherever. It feels like a CIA / KGB learned trait. I think I'm most frustrated by the notion of other nations going to work in my country. You do you. But not in my yard, eh.

I'm curious, how do you interpret the above as the "right to go after whoever wherever?"

The parent comment disappeared so I cannot answer you without recalling from memory what was said. That's unfair because I don't have confidence in my memory.

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by doktrin »

IIAOPSW wrote: post #17
aerodog wrote: post #7

Knowing what we know about how shameless their government is about killing unarmed civilians, why on earth would any ethical human being support them? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/israeli-forces-kill-3...

option 1) you take the job. Bad things happen in the world with your help and you end up richer. option 2) you take the high ground. Someone else takes the job. Bad things happen in the world and you don't end up richer. What did we accomplish today?

Aren't we talking about government salaries here? It's not like there aren't (more) lucrative options elsewhere for any and all qualified candidates. Money isn't always the primary motivator.

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by stef25 »

anvandare wrote: post #31
artie_effim wrote: post #5

Isn't that brainf*ck?

Yes. The highlighted areas are: >+-++ -+--> [+--+] + +++ --.-------- -.+++.[++>--- + +.-[----->++ -. +[->+++ +.+++++ ++++++.---------- --.----[->+++ + .-[-->+++++ --- .------.[--->+ ++.[-]>+-++ -+-- > [ +--+] + + -++ -+--> [+--+] => xor-with-key +++++++++++[>++++ +++++++ +[ - ]-[>+ -- -[ -][ -]>++> +[>++[- ] [ -]>+>++[++ >++[- ] [ -]>+>+[>++++[ - ] [ - ]++++++++[>++++++ +++++ +[ -]+ ++>>+>+[->+++[- ] [ -]+ +++++++[>+…

Good effort!

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by beaconstudios »

devilmoon wrote: post #27
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> because their god told them that's their promised land A substantial portion of the earliest Zionist settlers were atheists and a substantial portion of hawkish Israelis today are. The insistence on founding and maintaining a Jewish state in Israel is not overall theologically motivated.

Oh you're right, it's only a colonialist and racist motivation, god doesn't come into play

colonialist, I can understand as Israel was carved out of the British Mandate, but I don't see the racism aspect?

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by anm89 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #30
devilmoon wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't really need aljazeera to know that Israel isn't such a nice country when it comes to mowing down human lives because their god told them that's their promised land

> because their god told them that's their promised land Can you please stop spewing antisemitic bullshit, especially on the 70th anniversary of Israel? Israel was founded after thousands of years of antisemitism ranging from verbal abuse over pogroms up to the Holocaust so that Jews would have a safe haven from antisemitism.

Jew here. What's anti-semtic about this. Did `G-d` not tell the Jews it's their promised land? Is it not part of the justification used in elements of the dispute?

Antisemitism is not the act of disagreeing with a Jewish person. It's bigotry based on that classification. This is unequivocally not anti-Semitic in my mind and I'm saying that from the perspective of someone who has experienced bigoted anti-Semitic treatment.

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by jlebrech »

aerodog wrote: post #7

Knowing what we know about how shameless their government is about killing unarmed civilians, why on earth would any ethical human being support them? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/israeli-forces-kill-3...

you mean the civilians brainwashed into killing their citizens?

Re: Mossad 2018 challenge

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Post by bhouston »

simonh wrote: post #14
aerodog wrote: post #7

Knowing what we know about how shameless their government is about killing unarmed civilians, why on earth would any ethical human being support them? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/israeli-forces-kill-3...

Are the people they're up against really all that morally superior? I'm not making a whataboutist point, it's just that if you're picking a side you have to look at more than just one of them. So absolutely soldiers should be held accountable for their treatment of captives, and e.g. Israeli soldiers have been jailed for assaulting prisoners, but I don't see many Palestinians being jailed by their own administrative…

It is the occupation and the every expanding settlements that is generally seen as the problem. One people who do not have rights under the control of another for the last 50 or so years. The same issue in apartheid South Africa. That is the fundamental and core issue, everything else is noise around it.

And the occupation can not end because so many want to keep the settlements expanding.

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