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zrthon Improving first impressions on Signal

crating a new yandex email account works nicely via tor for me

zrthon An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software

In this context, a GUI application, it has some meaning. Java GUIs are know to be not enjoyable.

zrthon Jim Lanzone to leave Tinder and become CEO at Yahoo

How does you being annoyed by the reporting on a CEO's daycare situation, let us deduce that this CEO was not hired based on merit?

zrthon Jim Lanzone to leave Tinder and become CEO at Yahoo

What a misogynist comment: What makes you say that Mayer got hired for being female?

zrthon Osama bin Laden was found because his family hung their clothes out to dry

Tbh, i think it's just advertising for a book disguised as news.

zrthon Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data

This is great news. The more people in power have been hit, the more repercussions we can hope for.

One possible way to force a bit of scrutiny upon NSO group would be to crowdfund an Pegasus subscription and use it against Netanyahu.

Any serious suggestions what we can do to ensure that in the long run there will be less and not more "Hacking for hire" companies lending their tools for use against journalists and the opposition?

Shit will really hit the fan when the "ransomware as a service" discovers the "targeted surveillance as a service" business model.. Interesting times to be alive.

zrthon What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?

I'd be quite surprised is someone who lost/had stolen and then recovered a nuc would admit to this taking place. I really don't think we would know if this had happened.

zrthon Surgeon general: No 'value' to locking people up over marijuana use

Last time when this quote was posted on HN, consens turned out to be that its is quite unclear if it was ever say. I remember this as i really wanted to belief that the story was was true but ended up thinking it rather no true.. Unlike in the article you linked to, last time the conclusion was that the source recalled overhearing Nixon two decades ago, and thus was deemed quite unreliable at best - Anyone know more than me about this?

zrthon Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

When you say "one could be targeted/painting an target on one self" what does this imply? Basically that some group, most likely a nation state actor might hack my systems in the hope to see what else i have and who i am selling to?

Or rather that when i cross the wrong broader in to the wrong country that i might disappear?

zrthon Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

Correct me if i am wrong. I think another reason why ZDI maybe could pay more is because they also have other paying customers that pay for IDS/IPS subscription.

zrthon Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

Gaslighting at its finest.

zrthon Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

Can you give me a feeling for wat ethical buyers would be. I'd assume bug bounties and ZDI and similar. What else?

zrthon Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

Did you consider they RH us trying to start a run by spreading fear that they are going to be bankrupt soon?

zrthon Viking ship in Norway buried near cult temple, feast hall and funeral mounds

Or should we instead rather expand words like "cult" to refer to Abrahamic cultures too?

zrthon ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies

They say Dec 2019 to Mar 2020: "Our anomaly detection alerted us to high scores in DNS blocking starting from December 2019 until March 2020"

zrthon "Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs

I'm a bit surprised about the assumption that remote work is more expensive than on site work for the company. I guess it could depend on the location of the company's office.

zrthon “You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation

Thank you for taking the time to write the tl;dr!

zrthon Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee

> Facebook is not evil in and of itself. Facebook's management is evil.

Sarcastically this make me want to reply that John the ripper was not evil. John the ripper's brain was evil.

zrthon Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome

The Wikipedia source you liked to contradicts what you wrote.

You write: 'knocking a whole train off of a bridge and killing everybody on board'

Wikipedia writes: 'The two trains derailed each other, and four cars fell off the viaduct. 40 people were killed, at least 192 were injured, 12 of which were severe injuries.'

zrthon Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations.

-- George Orwell (possibly wrongly attributed)

zrthon ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

holy fuck. do you have a url for me?

zrthon Ask HN: What would you do with unmetered 10gig?

wikipedia unlike google always has the current Library Genesis URL https://libgen.is/

zrthon A sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cooking sensation

Sure, but then again chilly/paprika/capsicums were none existent in India before the 15th century, so what is ever authentic and original except a continuous change?

zrthon Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use

Serious question: How is this different from what google is doing?

zrthon Help fight trafficking by uploading photos of your hotel room

Not hotel rooms but fotos of random locations:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/17/two-europol-stopc...

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/04/22/cre...

zrthon Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

True, Mexico is quite ruff. It's hard to even guess where to start from and what to do.. Maybe go after the people who are responsible for selling the weapons and laundering the money? E.g. US based weapons manufacturers and German banks?

There are countries that are not as hopeless where I can see potential for change, or so it seems at least: https://www.dw.com/en/murder-of-jan-kuciak-13-judges-arreste...

zrthon Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

Sometimes investigations can be continued from other countries where silencing journalists is less feasible.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daphne_Project

zrthon Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

The most promising way to prevent politicians and criminals from trying to censor through killing journalists is to retaliate the killings by investigating the initiator and their allies until every crime they have committed has surfaced. As soon as it is clear that a flood of investigations are consequence of violence against people who speak the truth the risk of speaking should diminish greatly.

zrthon Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (2018)

There's a great Podcast by Matthew Caruana Galizia, the son of Daphne & Tortoise Media.

4 Episodes a ~30min:

https://share.transistor.fm/s/81b87c83

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/my-mothers-murder-epis...

zrthon Covid-19’s impact on Tor

Do you have anything to back these claims up?