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> If NSO/HackingTeam were in the business of selling physical weapons to foreign governments, would they have been responsible for a government killing journalists with said weapons?

If they were in the businesses of selling weapons of war and caught instead selling covert weapons with no legitimate use in open warfare to countries that disclose illegal acts of war to them, I think they belong in the Hague being tried for war crimes.

(After that, I suppose they can be referred to human rights courts as a defacto part of each government that had violations. Since they were active participants in the use of the weapon as shown by the phone list, they have no argument that they were not active members of every conspiracy involving their service.)


> If they were in the businesses of selling weapons of war and caught instead selling covert weapons with no legitimate use in open warfare to countries that disclose illegal acts of war to them, I think they belong in the Hague being tried for war crimes.

If they were doing that, I agree.

But these weapons have legitimate uses in law enforcement and why do you think that the client government disclose their illegal acts to NSO?


Good to know, but my memory of Maine is that these places look like trucking exchanges points that few tourists will investigate and I don't see the ethics in having easy retail that isn't also responsible for equally convenient recycling.


At least in California the idea seems to be that someone will find and return all the bottles for the deposit money, even if it's not the original customer. Even if you throw a bottle in the trash, someone will probably dig it out.


I'm not sure I believe this diagnosis. I think communications has made for more formal estrangement since it's pretty hard to find a lifestyle that explains why you can't video chat from anywhere anytime and the cost of even trans-continental travel is rarely a quarter of a year's salary.

The further you go back, the easier it was to have excuses to greatly limit contact and only have contact that is very impersonal. The average American is a decendant of adults who were never going to see their parents again. Most would have felt a great deal of social pressure to treat that as a hardship and disguise if it was their primary motivation.

I think hunter gatherers would have been predisposed to finding new groups at adolescence even if their culture lacked a specific rule for which sex does so, and the priorities of agricultural societies to keep land rights are probably not particularly compatible with our evolutionary past.


Has anyone seen anything similar but for browsers?

(I.e. I would like an extension popping CSV and other relational formats while surfing into the browser's DBs to then work with in a GUI like this.)



Not really, I want to scrape a relationship from the current page into a table to be used in joins, etc, with tables from other pages I have previously scraped. The current page being CSV is only an example of a clear relational table.

One can do similar things ~manually popping data into the domains Key-value DBs while scraping, then injecting a GUI to work with all the data, but a tool for doing this with relational database primitives would be more powerful as jailer demonstrates.


Do those sites have fraudulent affiliate marketing programs?

It sounds to me like they are over edges MLM companies are careful not to cross. I.e. they probably don't know if they could legally pay the "influencer" they are chatting with an affiliate fee.


> paid for by the tax payer.

Actually the Zurich build out was only financed by the tax payer to be done by the electric company and Swisscom. Internet providers must each have equal options to lease the last mile from whoever built it out in a given city or town; it isn't free.


> A typical consumer router will take up something like 5-10 watts.

You demonstrate a good worst case, but the article writer wants to use more than 10 gb/s so he can't actually use your typical router, he can have 15 gb/s with the MikroTik CCR2004-1G-12S which has an unknown idle W and a max around 50W.

Looking into the problem, I can't really determine why I should upgrade to 10 or 25 gb/s, but if I wanted to do so now I would rather buy components I could reuse than buy a router that will be inefficient for its entire service life.


Given 85% in the cohorts likely to die are vaccinated but a little less than half who die are vaccinated, half actually implies the vaccine is roughly 85% effective against death. So trying to emphasize half of those who die are vaccinated in a headline about a place with a higher rate of vaccination than the reader's is trying to put a bias into the head of people who skim the news.


Sign me up for this "85% effective against death" vaccine!


Most phones secured bootloaders are hacked in less than 6 months if there is sufficient interest in the model. So if treatment of this as a huge security threat that makes other rights moot is valid then most of us should be able to return our improperly secured phones before their warranty is up.


Not the case, it takes significantly longer... if it happens at all.

Much longer. It took until 2019 for checkra1n to become a thing to unlock Apple A7 to A11 devices. Apple A11 is a 2017 SoC.

A12, A13, A14 remain uncracked today.

In Android lands, bootloaders starting from quite some years ago are quite solid too, with no bypasses except when the device maker provides you the possibility to unlock it.


None of which is relevant to the premise that someone is going to do [insert something evil here - perhaps involving the radio]. Because if any device is cracked after any period of time then someone wanting to do [insert something evil] will just buy that device in order to do it.


Rather, I would not buy a software product from them or accept any project that depended on one since they eventually will sell it to some smaller company to dump it, apparently even when they still need it themselves.

Reminds me of this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517846


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