The golden rule: “He who has the gold makes the rules.”
Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
I try to post as sincerely as possible.
The golden rule: “He who has the gold makes the rules.”
People want to be lied to.
So much for going on a Shodan safari in South Korea.
News flash: IoT doesn’t always mean “backend is on AWS.”
Sheesh.
The only way you won’t have to provide PII is if you buy it from someone outside of the exchange ecosystem (from somebody face to face with cash or a gift card (note: Local Bitcoin has been gone for about a year now)). Exchanges have to comply with KYC (Know Your Customer) laws if they want to operate in the US, which is why they’re asking for PII.
I was serious. BBSes would be an ideal long-distance communication method under some circumstances.
Or perhaps an unassuming office building that only has outbound VPN connections.
This. Whoever manages to splice an optic nerve (meaning, it goes just about perfectly) would be in line for a Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Librewolf on my personal laptop.
A few of us have a long-running joke that World War III will be started because somebody can’t reach Pornhub anymore.
Still have a modem?
Depends on which lines are affected.
Originally it was a portmanteau of “stalker-fan.” Think “super fan.”
They’re sacrificing a lot of research funding. Must be serious down there.
Not all of these kids have any other computer.
Just as securicams in schools in the 90’s conditioned a lot of people to accept on-street surveillance.
That’s pretty much what it’s for.
That article is from 2014.
Additionally, there are hangers-on who are banging the drum about another January 6 if they don’t get their way. It’s foolish to take them at their word and think that it only means a voter supporession billl.