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Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm

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Re: Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm

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post #41

You can skip the splash screen by running the following in the JS console: $('#TB_window').hide() $('#TB_overlay').hide()

you geeks. just refresh the page and press ESC when it's just starting to load.

It's amazing how many clever sites with clever JavaScript splash screens this works on. For instance, EmberCasts when it was "invite only" mode could be accessed this way.

Re: Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm

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You can skip the splash screen by running the following in the JS console: $('#TB_window').hide() $('#TB_overlay').hide()

You can also right click in Chrome or Safari and hit inspect element. It's not hard to figure out which nodes to \backspace from there.

Yep, that's what I did.

Re: Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm

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post #44
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This story seems to heavily imply that the government authorised somebody to break into the firm and steal the data relating to the whistleblower's case. That strikes me as highly unlikely Chances are, it was. Just look for the agency with the most interest in their documents. Do you have a better hypothesis?

> Just look for the agency with the most interest in their documents. Maybe it would have been done by a group interested in having it look like the government was trying to steal data relating to this whistleblower case? Even weirder things than that have happened IRL.

Maybe, but is it more likely than the government stealing the data?

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post #63
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Just look for the agency with the most interest in their documents. Maybe it would have been done by a group interested in having it look like the government was trying to steal data relating to this whistleblower case? Even weirder things than that have happened IRL.

Maybe, but is it more likely than the government stealing the data?

I thought the government already had it? :) :)

Re: Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm

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post #41

You can skip the splash screen by running the following in the JS console: $('#TB_window').hide() $('#TB_overlay').hide()

you geeks. just refresh the page and press ESC when it's just starting to load.

Yea, but that requires timing. If you just click the favicon in Chrome there's a dropdown with permissions. Turn off JavaScript. Refresh.
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