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Drip33··on Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round
Another example of a great sub:

/r/kidneystones

sad face noises

Drip33··on FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
What if I own the company and it's an acceptable Terms of Service use? What if I'm unemployed? Should I still be fired?
Drip33··on FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
I have access to some marketing data and for fun,

select * from mobile_location where latitude between 38.88778433380732 and 38.891917997746894 and longitude between -77.01269830654866 and -77.00613225870377 and epoch_timestamp between 1609954200 and 1610067600

Returned quite a number of mobile devices accurate to the meter. Was fun to see which phone was in which room or blade of grass of the building. I'm not even American.

Drip33··on Page contains characters from each of the Unicode character blocks
I found this page useful to test how code I've written handles unusual characters.
Drip33··on Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices
?l?d mask with I think 9 characters using default Android OS with updates. Both phones I think were minimum Android 5.0+ because that is when they switched to Scrypt to store password/encryption keys.
Drip33··on Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices
Galaxy S7 - online and cracked, Galaxy S4 - offline and not cracked ~2017-2019
Drip33··on Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices
My powered on phone was 0day'd by Cellibrite according to internal Law Enforcement emails in disclosure and my powered down phone was not supported at all.

Edit: The cracked phone has been in my possession for a while now and I've only powered it on twice for mere minutes since getting it back if there are any phone experts around that want to investigate.

Drip33··on U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road
If you can generate the private key to a 27 character or longer English readable Bitcoin address then you can use the same magical technology you possess to earn far more than $1 billion USD.
Drip33··on U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road
This address has no known private key https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1BitcoinEaterAddressD...

Sure someone could randomly guess it but not likely. You don't need to have or know a private key to generate a valid checksum bitcoin address that can be sent to.

Drip33··on Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
What I wrote about is forfeiture which doesn't include criminal penalties. Most of the American (which I am not) federal press releases I read about have a maximum $250,000 fine per count.

Here is a random press release from justice.gov https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-additional-individuals-in...

>The Sherman Act offense charged carries a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals. The maximum fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by victims if either amount is greater than $1 million. The false statements offense charged carries a statutory maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. The obstruction of justice offense charged carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

These fines are on top of the forfeiture so if the person in this article earned $1 million gross, $100k net they would have to repay on a guilty finding $1 million + say $500k in fines = $1.5m when they only "earned" $100k.

Drip33··on Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927197

> Also forfeiture doesn't account for the fact that you may have paid capital gains tax. I feel like they really shafted me on that one.

As someone also charged but not convicted, I learned hypothetically you also don't get to account for expenses if you lose. Meaning you could run a $10 billion gross revenue drug empire, it costs $9.9 billion to run so you walk away with $100m and you still have to pay $10 billion in forfeiture.

Drip33··on The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life
Neither but yes you're right for both.
Drip33··on The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life
> Is this a CFAA violation? No hashes were cracked

Cracking hashes alone is not a crime or I'd be in jail.

Drip33··on How the US Hacked ISIS
> I guess the "modern" browser fixes this for everyone else not using a ("modern") proxy.

Only if the site owner wants it so https://hstspreload.org/

Drip33··on More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy
There's a lot they can do, but then it makes it impossible to search your inbox for old emails by subject, from, to etc fields.

You can reduce what an adversary sees by not including anything useful in the subject line and the only thing you can't protect is who you're speaking to and when.

Drip33··on AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory
I'm assuming the computer is "locked" but online, and no users consent to logging in to run anything. Will any of these methods still work if Firewire drivers are disabled?
Drip33··on AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory
I thought that wasn't possible since DDR3 or 4?
Drip33··on AES Finder – the utility to find AES keys in running process memory
>If you can get a dump of the computer active memory you can ultimately get the decryption keys on consumer hardware

What methods are available to get a memory dump if Firewire is disabled? Feds couldn't break my encryption after ~1.5 years but my devices were all off when they showed up. Ironically the one device they did get into was a cell phone powered on but it had little evidentiary value and in one funny way was partly exculpatory.

Drip33··on Inside Information and Kodak Stock
Take it further. If you witness a car from Tesla or any other publicly traded corp spontaneously combust on the side of the road and you know it will result in massive recalls before the general public and then short the stock, is that insider trading too?

Edit: Or use satellite images to see when companies are receiving big shipments, sending out deliveries, or track customers to predict stock prices and revenues https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...

Drip33··on The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees
That requires some sort of malware (or similar) installed on the device/software creating the transactions which has access to the private key to leak it via some predetermined way and is different from what I thought you were saying that a pre-signed transaction could directly send funds to an unwanted address without you knowing by inspecting the signed transaction itself before broadcasting it.

Regardless, whatever job you have where what you've said is a legitimate threat model sounds like the most interesting job in the space.

Drip33··on The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees
>The fun bit is that the signer can backdoor transactions, and that part isn't something that can be verified by anybody who doesn't have the private keys.

Can you explain this? This is contrary to my knowledge of reviewing the details of a pre-signed transaction.

Drip33··on The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees
Looks still unconfirmed https://decrypt.co/32145/hackers-blackmail-exchange-with-5-m...

>In short, the researchers claim that the hackers have gained access to an exchange’s funds. They are able to send money to certain whitelisted accounts that are marked as reliable in the exchange’s database to—but not to their own. So, they are sending the funds with excessively high transaction fees to sap the exchange’s accounts, and they’re demanding a ransom if it’s going to stop.

Drip33··on The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees
I've never heard of someone successfully and unintentionally fat fingering a Bitcoin address typo to a valid Bitcoin address nobody owns. Fee box is a different thing, the recent $2.5m ETH headline you saw was not an accident but an attack/blackmail. Bitcoin core itself prevents you from using too high of a fee without an express override in the config.
Drip33··on The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees
Probably just twice. Bitcoin addresses are check summed so it's nearly impossible to fat finger a mistake.
Drip33··on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
>Something like r/watchpeopledie, they don't have to censor, and it seems contained. I wouldn't want to visit it, not more than once, it may not be healthy in general, but taking it down seems to be "just" censorship?

I can say for me personally after spending some time on that subreddit that I am far more cautious and safe in everything I do. I always look out for falling objects, wear helmets and safety gear when appropriate, drive even more defensively etc. The sub opened my eyes to the dangers of planet Earth, all the ways it tries to kill us, and I don't think I'm alone on this.

Drip33··on Select Code_execution from * Using SQLite; (2019)
Was the write a shell php file portion of the video/exploit patched?

Sites like https://sqliteonline.com/ and https://inloop.github.io/sqlite-viewer/ could be perpetually vulnerable if not?

Drip33··on Police Unit Resigns in Protest
>This headline is very misleading

I was not sure if I am allowed to editorialize titles a bit but I agree because they are still sworn officers. If dang is around, he should change it.

Drip33··on Police Unit Resigns in Protest
>The announcement comes one day after two members were suspended without pay when a video surfaced, showing them pushing over a 75-year-old protestor, causing injury.

>“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president.

Drip33··on In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed
> Prosecutors have a constitutional obligation to disclose information to defendants that could help establish their innocence. But there’s a big debate in criminal justice circles about when police misconduct allegations in unrelated cases fall under that requirement.

Contrast that with Prosecutorial immunity

>Prosecutors cannot be sued for injuries caused by their own misconduct. For example, even if a prosecutor deliberately withholds exculpatory evidence in violation of professional ethics and a defendant’s constitutional rights, and this willful misconduct results in an innocent person spending decades behind bars for a crime of which they are subsequently exonerated—the prosecutor remains immune from civil liability.[0]

What incentive do they have to provide the evidence? If prosecutor happens to be caught hiding evidence the remedy is dropped charges nothing more. They'll move onto the next case and do the exact same thing.

[0] https://fedsoc.org/events/prosecutorial-immunity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutorial_immunity

Drip33··on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
>Car runs over a cop

>https://streamable.com/q4nat7

This video is cut short (full video at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/newyork/video-2183600/Vide... ) but unmarked police car parks without lights or sirens facing the wrong way on a one way street. Police officer dressed fully in black proceeds to exit the vehicle on the passenger side and walk directly into traffic with no right of way. I know memes are discouraged here but shocked pikachu face.

Regular citizens are told "if you don't want police to hit you with their car door, don't stand in the middle of the road", the irony... https://twitter.com/DriveWendys/status/1266555286678048770

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