As another datapoint with Finnish IP from Mullvad VPN: CAPTCHA loop and indeed after solving first CAPTCHA this can be found in page source:…
They use monero because what they are doing (copyright infringement) will get you in to big trouble anywhere in the western world. Without cryptocurrencies much of the modern large scale archival efforts wouldn't be…
Assuming the person is a passive consumer with no messages / money exchanged with anyone, it is very hard to prove social harm or damage. Sentences should be proportional to the crime. Treating possession of cp as…
I think they are legal in the US as long as the render or drawing is not depicting a real person.
Way to dismiss a solid argument based on an anecdote. I wouldn't be so quick to conclude that porn has nothing to do with seeking out real life sex, especially given how it has been widely studied that the amount of sex…
I saw a twitter thread about the "WormGPT" a few days ago and was annoyed to see how much engagement it seemed to get given how obvious nothing burger it was. The few examples of its code output were laughably bad.…
Illegal doesn't necessary mean that something is morally wrong. I'm all for making ransomware actors life harder, but it should not come at the cost of also affecting regular drug buyers/sellers.
PKDBF is just the password derivation function to better protect the vault against dictionary attacks. The vaults are still encrypted with AES-256.
The methods this malware uses for anti debugging wouldn't cause headache for anyone that isn't completely new to the subject. Download 10 random python malware samples and you'll notice that probably at least 8 of them…
Some EDRs do stuff like adding russian keyboard layout as an alternative, which stops a fair share of 'malware as service' type stealers.
Bisq is a really impressive project. Upon first hearing about it I was a bit skeptical at how a decentralized peer to peer exchange would work in practice, but now that I've used it a few times with no issues, it really…
It is an interesting ethical question that needs more research done in to it. Though given how people's brains tend to shut down upon hearing the topic, I feel like the general public would be vastly opposed to it even…
As another datapoint with Finnish IP from Mullvad VPN: CAPTCHA loop and indeed after solving first CAPTCHA this can be found in page source:…
They use monero because what they are doing (copyright infringement) will get you in to big trouble anywhere in the western world. Without cryptocurrencies much of the modern large scale archival efforts wouldn't be…
Assuming the person is a passive consumer with no messages / money exchanged with anyone, it is very hard to prove social harm or damage. Sentences should be proportional to the crime. Treating possession of cp as…
I think they are legal in the US as long as the render or drawing is not depicting a real person.
Way to dismiss a solid argument based on an anecdote. I wouldn't be so quick to conclude that porn has nothing to do with seeking out real life sex, especially given how it has been widely studied that the amount of sex…
I saw a twitter thread about the "WormGPT" a few days ago and was annoyed to see how much engagement it seemed to get given how obvious nothing burger it was. The few examples of its code output were laughably bad.…
Illegal doesn't necessary mean that something is morally wrong. I'm all for making ransomware actors life harder, but it should not come at the cost of also affecting regular drug buyers/sellers.
PKDBF is just the password derivation function to better protect the vault against dictionary attacks. The vaults are still encrypted with AES-256.
The methods this malware uses for anti debugging wouldn't cause headache for anyone that isn't completely new to the subject. Download 10 random python malware samples and you'll notice that probably at least 8 of them…
Some EDRs do stuff like adding russian keyboard layout as an alternative, which stops a fair share of 'malware as service' type stealers.
Bisq is a really impressive project. Upon first hearing about it I was a bit skeptical at how a decentralized peer to peer exchange would work in practice, but now that I've used it a few times with no issues, it really…
It is an interesting ethical question that needs more research done in to it. Though given how people's brains tend to shut down upon hearing the topic, I feel like the general public would be vastly opposed to it even…