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What makes you think it will only be used against criminals?


Because there are so many of them we don't have time to bother honest citizen, except on the road but that's for the money :)


> Because there are so many of them we don't have time to bother honest citizens

Can I come and live on your planet? It sounds very nice.


Well join the police then.


More like they ignore dangerous criminals in order to focus on inconvenient "honest" citizens.


And why would that be?


you're assuming people working at the NSA would rather catch criminals than look at people's nudes. That assumption, unfortunately has been proven incorrect.


Now we've got NSA in Belgium that's interesting!


Not since Twitter introduced Spaces. Which seems to have killed Clubhouse.


Oh wow, even the year checks out.


So all the while, for almost two years, Virgin didn't do squat about this. Gives me flashbacks to some of our disclosure interactions with PayPal and others.

Wonder why issues like this are so common - do they just de-prioritize vulnerabilities reported by researchers to death?


Virtually no legal consequences for them. Virgin is also one of the worst consumer business I have ever interacted with (and this includes many big US ISPs with bad reputations). The company is beyond dysfunctional.


Does anyone know whether the spyware mentioned is anyhow related to Project Pegasus[1? It's also really interesting that Apple patched Security issues for iOS that was targeted by NSO Group and makes me wonder if that might be the same vulnerabilities exploited by the UAE hacker for higher company [2]. [1] [https://cybernews.com/news/expressvpn-cio-daniel-gericke-fin...] [2] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036869715/apple-issues-criti...


UAE, NSO and minimal punishment or reaction from the US. Story of the last few decades


From this article: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/16/silk-road-founde...

"his family opened a Twitter account for him in June, and they’ve been posting his tweets ever since."


Elon has become the crypto maker or breaker. A single tweet of his can add billions of dollars to a coin's market cap. Incredibly powerful


But there's a problem for me -- how do you prove that this particular comment has validity? It's Reddit -- you can shitpost whenever you want. Trolls run rampant. It'd be easy for WSB mods to simply state that all those comments/examples that the SEC is presenting are just trolls and has nothing to do with WSB. A Reddit forum is far too loose to be accused of any coordination.

Edit: typos


For some people, politics isn't a choice, a luxury, an option to discuss or not, just because of the breadth and width of what politics means. T

Even then, there'd probably be a better time for a politics detox week than the current week, since it will be so impossibly difficult to not discuss the goings on. I mean, these are historic times (in the US, with international repercussions).


He might have been joking, but I think most people would be interested in it


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