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• On the post: Federal Agency Acquired NSO Group Malware Via Front Company After NSO Was Blacklisted By Commerce Dept.

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2023 @ 01:01pm

  Well rules are only for other people, not us. We'll just yell national security and everyone will look away obediently.

• On the post: 3CX Knew Its App Was Being Flagged By AV Platforms, Did Very Little During Supply Chain Attack

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2023 @ 05:28pm

  I have little hope that people will do anything correctly. What I can tell is that if North Korea owned your entire network because 1 company screwed up, told customers to look into the issue themselves b/c there are to many AV companies, and report back the findings to them I think this would be a big reasons people might have to close their companies & never use 3cx again.

• On the post: 3CX Knew Its App Was Being Flagged By AV Platforms, Did Very Little During Supply Chain Attack

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 08:00pm

  Well on the upside, they no longer have any clients to worry about pissing off.

• On the post: Fifth Circuit Finally Finds A Cop Unworthy Of Immunity, Strips Protection From Officer Who Shot Man Five Times During Routine Traffic Stop

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:42pm

  Then you obviously haven't been here that long. I am teh gay all the time. I also make sarcastic comments

• On the post: MLB Tries To Trademark 3 City Names, Runs Away After Law Profs School Them

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2023 @ 10:08pm

  "it was very unlikely that these trademarks would have survived the scrutiny of the USPTO itself" Has she met THE USPTO??

• On the post: Fifth Circuit Finally Finds A Cop Unworthy Of Immunity, Strips Protection From Officer Who Shot Man Five Times During Routine Traffic Stop

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2023 @ 10:41am

  Because all the darkies are terrorists waiting to murder cops with their super powers.

• On the post: Dish Network Is Still A Hot Mess With 14 Hour Hold Times A Month After Major Cyberattack

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2023 @ 10:37am

  But that might lower our stock dividend by 10 cents, we can't do that!!!

• On the post: Appeals Court Reverses Awful Decision Finding That Holding Up A Sign Telling Drivers There Are Cops Ahead Is Not Free Speech

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2023 @ 10:35am

  Just point your Reps at the court record where the officer makes the statement, I'm sure they can motivate the department to explain where it came from. Also city budgets are public so finding a payment from the feds should show up.

• On the post: Appeals Court Reverses Awful Decision Finding That Holding Up A Sign Telling Drivers There Are Cops Ahead Is Not Free Speech

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2023 @ 10:31am

  Cops like to pretend what they are doing is complicated, hence a sting. The "evidence" in this example is 1 officer looking at cars passing by him and he THINKS the driver might be on their phone. Because we know that cops never ever ever fib & the cost of the ticket is so much less than mounting a defense against an agent of the state who is given every benefit of the doubt, even if they are on a list of known liars... The fact that they were being paid overtime to issue a certain number of tickets to maintain the budget to pay them for the overtime to issue a certain number of tickets to maintain the budget.... They get paid if they issue 50 tickets, not get 50 convictions. They have a financial stake in the outcome. How could anyone possibly think that the incentive doesn't manage to corrupt the mission of getting people to not use their cell phone while driving. Perhaps it is a confidence game, its just its not being run on the drivers its being run on the citizens paying cops to meet a goal to get more cash.

• On the post: The Dirty Secret Behind Porn Filtering Laws? Content Filtering Doesn’t Work.

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2023 @ 03:21pm

  Fastest way to make something more attractive to kids?? Try to ban it. Its a tit. It will not warp your child forever if they see one, heck a few of them actually spent lots of time suck on one when they were younger. My son saw a penis on a statue!! And? Hes got one in his pants. Perhaps giving up the puritanical insanity is the way to go. To teach kids consent, to teach kids they can say no to icky things. To teach kids that yes you can get pregnant from having sex 1 time even if you didn't enjoy it. Look at the cast of characters in charge of the nation, this is the result of generations of parents trying to stop porn... you want that for your kids?

• On the post: As The Social Media Moral Panic Continues, People Keep Highlighting How Much Value It Actually Provides

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2023 @ 03:17pm

  Perhaps social media isn't the problem... Kids are more upset and worried today!! Have you considered its not social media but the news media repeating these idiotic talking heads going on and on about school shootings, how the groomers are coming to get them, how global warming is a thing, isn't a thing as huge weird storms put a tornado on the ground for 4 hours obliterating a town that will be the focus for several hours, people complaining how the government isn't doing enough, is doing to much, teachers quitting, programs being cut, books being banned and the best answer at least in AZ is to force kids to say the pledge. Kids are so much smarter than you give them credit for, they hear the insane ranting bullshit leaving your lips that the government is coming to take all the guns then kill all the white folk & replace them with brown people, the election was stolen, democrats eat babies... But yeah its social media upsetting the kids.

• On the post: As The Social Media Moral Panic Continues, People Keep Highlighting How Much Value It Actually Provides

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2023 @ 10:46am

  Morgan & Morgan are now paying for daytime placement of their we'll sue FB for not taking care of your kids commercials. One wonders if they are just trying to line people up so the second 230 gets jiggled they will file all of these cases.

• On the post: Deputies Who Raided Afroman’s House Sue Him For Daring To Turn Footage Of The Raid Into A Viral Video

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2023 @ 10:24am

  Oh they miscounted the money... Uh huh... They took out the security cameras for 'reasons'... Uh huh... Why no investigation into the alleged kidnapping that wasn't actually a thing? Why no investigation into the wanton destruction of property that didn't need to happen? Why no investigation into why they used dynamic entry into a home where children were present? Filing this lawsuit is literally the dumbest thing they could have done. The raised the attention & profile of this abuse of power against a citizen, there isn't any way the genie is going back into the bottle, and have revealed themselves as unfit for the job they have. Who was kidnapped? Evidence please. How was that evidence enough for Judge Droopy? How much pot was in his cd cases? How much pot was in his suits? What legal grounds is the policy to disconnect the security system of them home based on? Given the stupidity of their actions caught on camera, can we assume that they got more stupid once they stopped the recording? Were there any bodycams on any of the keystone cops who caused more harm & damage than the alleged harms in the unsupported warrant application? Did he have his momma make another lemon pound cake to send over to the courthouse?

• On the post: Utah’s Governor Live Streams Signing Of Unconstitutional Social Media Bill On All The Social Media Platforms He Hates

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2023 @ 01:39pm

  'Merica where we demand corporations have more of a duty of care for children than their parents.

• On the post: Judge Says White House Can’t Get Out Of Lawsuit Over Pressuring Social Media To Moderate

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2023 @ 04:09am

  Can we now agree that while the founding fathers had some foresight in trying to stop bad actors from using the government to bludgeon people that they never considered the people would elect someone who literally didn't understand the job & would appoint the worst possible people for jobs simply because they kneeled and kissed his ring?

• On the post: The US Government Has Not Justified A TikTok Ban

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2023 @ 04:06am

  This is all summed up in the chair telling the CEO he couldn't respond to the diatribe from a member who was literally making shit up. So tired of CCP CCP!!! being chanted. They know that the NSA has tapped communications and has gathered way more information that a phone can provide don't they? They know that that data magically gets into the hands of the FBI who aren't supposed to have access to it right? They know that the government leaks this data on a regular basis right? They know that fox news does the thing they worry about the CCP doing by spreading disinformation to create support for stupid things that are way more harmful than if 150 million people saw some 10 second videos trying to tell them that Taiwan is part of China don't they? They know that fake public interest groups lobby them to vote against things that the public would benefit from don't they? Xenophobia isn't a good look and for everything they are screeching about they offer exactly zero evidence it has happened. If this was such a problem why didn't they destroy meta who handed cambridge analytica all the tools they needed to undermine the country? Can we just admit that this hearing was a bunch of 3rd stringer racists who couldn't get faux news to contact them for hot takes on topics trying to build up their outrage reel of hot takes so people might figure out they are actually members of congress?

• On the post: Middle School Sued After Getting Stupid About ‘Justice For Lil Pickle’ T-Shirts Worn By Students

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2023 @ 03:57am

  Anyone else want to show up and sell pickles to the students to have at lunchtime?

• On the post: Online Facial Recognition Service Caught Cruising Through Graveyards To Fill Its Database

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2023 @ 07:19am

  If a website has a robots.txt that tells google to not index the site, google doesn't index the site. I am doubtful that Ancestry has terms that are very welcoming to those who just want to scrape a bunch of images and data to profit from. If you are standing in front of your window naked and George Google walks by he can take a picture. If you are standing in front of your window, with the shades drawn, and Pime Ye slips a straightened coat hanger inbetween the weather stripping to move the shade so he can take a picture its very different. Imagine an archaeologist walking into the Smithsonian, walking into an exhibit space & taking credit for someone elses hard work and effort so he can get a grant to discover someone elses display.

• On the post: Online Facial Recognition Service Caught Cruising Through Graveyards To Fill Its Database

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2023 @ 07:11am

  "very unpleasant news that our crawlers have somehow broken the rule" So you're incompetent or a really shitty liar? You found a source of images that you could tap and up until you got caught it was a great plan. You can claim you purged the offending images you gathered, but you couldn't give your crawler instructions it would obey, you have no credibility.

• On the post: Matt Taibbi Can’t Comprehend That There Are Reasons To Study Propaganda Information Flows, So He Insists It Must Be Nefarious

  

  That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2023 @ 05:41pm

  FNORD

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