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Fwd: Quora hacked (html)
by Razer 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

Dear Auntie Imperial, We are writing to let you know that we recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to our systems by a malicious third party. We are very sorry for any concern or inconvenience this may cause. We are working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future. What Happened On Friday we discovered that some user data was compromised by a third party who gained unauthorized access to our systems. We're still investigating the precise causes and in addition to the work being conducted by our internal security teams, we have retained a leading digital forensics and security firm to assist us. We have also notified law enforcement officials. While the investigation is still ongoing, we have already taken steps to contain the incident, and our efforts to protect our users and prevent this type of incident from happening in the future are our top priority as a company. What information was involved The following information of yours may have been compromised: Account and user information, e.g. name, email, IP, user ID, encrypted password, user account settings, personalization data Public actions and content including drafts, e.g. questions, answers, comments, blog posts, upvotes Data imported from linked networks when authorized by you, e.g. contacts, demographic information, interests, access tokens (now invalidated) Non-public actions, e.g. answer requests, downvotes, thanks Questions and answers that were written anonymously are not affected by this breach as we do not store the identities of people who post anonymous content. What we are doing While our investigation continues, we're taking additional steps to improve our security: We’re in the process of notifying users whose data has been compromised. Out of an abundance of caution, we are logging out all Quora users who may have been affected, and, if they use a password as their authentication method, we are invalidating their passwords. We believe we’ve identified the root cause and taken steps to address the issue, although our investigation is ongoing and we’ll continue to make security improvements. We will continue to work both internally and with our outside experts to gain a full understanding of what happened and take any further action as needed. What you can do We’ve included more detailed information about more specific questions you may have in our help center, which you can find here. While the passwords were encrypted (hashed with a salt that varies for each user), it is generally a best practice not to reuse the same password across multiple services, and we recommend that people change their passwords if they are doing so. Conclusion It is our responsibility to make sure things like this don’t happen, and we failed to meet that responsibility. We recognize that in order to maintain user trust, we need to work very hard to make sure this does not happen again. There’s little hope of sharing and growing the world’s knowledge if those doing so cannot feel safe and secure, and cannot trust that their information will remain private. We are continuing to work very hard to remedy the situation, and we hope over time to prove that we are worthy of your trust. The Quora Team Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Contact with Julian Assange
by jim bell 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/emails-wikileaks-publisher-julian-assange-m… [partial quote begins] "President Donald Trump's longtime ally, veteran political operative Roger Stone, said his emails about WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange during the 2016 presidential election, which it appears special counsel Robert Mueller may be be zeroing in on, are being “mischaracterized.” Mueller’s increased focus on Stone recently gained attention when a series of email exchanges between Stone and his former associate, Jerome Corsi -- a fellow Trump loyalist whom Stone hired to conduct research in advance of the election -- emerged last week. In an interview with ABC News on Monday, Corsi provided ABC News with copies of a plea agreement he said was drafted by Mueller’s prosecutors, which cites three emails involving Stone about getting in touch with Assange."[partial quote ends] Jim Bell

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on the legality of advocating for the interests of Aryans - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Must handle the enemy within. Whom you may not criticize? Brett Favre on the Israeli bombing of the USS Liberty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE4hyMCVQPo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident Brett Favre Speaks Out Against the Terrorist Kikes That Bombed the USS Liberty https://dailystormer.name/brett-farve-speaks-out-against-the-terrorist-kike… Jim Smith: The Day Israel Attacked America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx72tAWVcoM

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ZDNet: ACLU wants court to release documents on the US' attempt at backdooring Facebook Messenger
by jim bell 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

ZDNet: ACLU wants court to release documents on the US' attempt at backdooring Facebook Messenger. https://www.zdnet.com/article/aclu-wants-court-to-release-documents-on-the-…

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Autonomous Weapons
by jim bell 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Autonomous Weapons Are Coming, This is How We Get Them Right https://www.yahoo.com/news/autonomous-weapons-coming-them-110000750.html

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G20 in Argentina
by grarpamp 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_G20_Buenos_Aires_summit Look and Bow down to all those Murderers Ruling over You. Hey Argentina, Cry for us ok. And let's ban Crypto too because your Kings know it's gonna quash them... https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-regu… 12 sq km become infested with 22700+ state thugs. Freedom to travel and speak suspended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Argentina A glorified tomb surely needed for a police chief... https://www.clarin.com/politica/anahi-salcedo-anarquista-herida-recoleta-si… https://tn.com.ar/policiales/anahi-esperanza-salcedo-del-pasado-de-su-famil… https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/policiales/2018/11/15/la-vida-de-la-anarqu…

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Comey drops challenge to subpoena
by jim bell 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Ex-FBI head Comey drops challenge to U.S. House panel subpoena https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-fbi-head-comey-expected-drop-subpoena-challen…

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If any language takes over the world, I'm happy it's BPF that's doing so.
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Teh Linux kernel's BPF is soon to take over the world - Linus once half joked that the goal of Linux is nothing short of world domination, but it's taken ~30 years to get here with BPF rapidaly rising the totem pole: Comment: https://lwn.net/Articles/773497/ LLVM bitcode, in addition to the lack of portability between LLVM releases etc, is a hell of a lot further from the machine than (e)BPF is. BPF is really quite remarkably easy to JIT down to x86_64 and most other modern machine languages, and the interpreter core is pretty small and easy to read as well, as such things go: most opcodes translate directly into a little bit of obvious C acting directly on the variables that hold the register contents. (Far more work goes into the verifier, which of course is necessary even, perhaps especially, if you're JITting). One sign that BPF is nicely designed: as someone who's been hand-writing BPF recently (rewriting a code generator that used to generate output for a much more, ah, *verbose* intermediate representation with many more opcodes), whenever I found I needed a particular opcode, it was there, and nothing I didn't need was there except the weird historical stuff to do packet content inspection. I like BPF. I thought I'd hate it, because all such things are generally hateful, but it's not hateful at all: it has no horrible irregularities that make you scream and most of the annoying limits as a general-purpose-but-verified language (stack size, etc, lack of even constrained loops, etc) are being raised or fixed as we speak. If any language takes over its world like BPF is doing, I'm happy it's BPF that's doing so. Article (I think such LWN articles are paywalled for 7 days only - I wouldn't be a subscriber otherwise...): Binary portability for BPF programs https://lwn.net/Articles/773198/

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1984! US Senate Launches Forfeiture and Crypto / Cash / Assets / Prepaid War
by grarpamp 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1241/text http://www.article78againstnydfs.com/advocacy.php This is a new bill that was introduced on the floor of the US Senate entitled, Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017. It basically says everything is evil.. Cash is Evil Bitcoin/Crypto is Evil Prepaid Phones are Evil Gift Cards/Vouchers/Coupons are Evil These people are certifiably insane. Among the bills sweeping provisions, the government aims to greatly extend its authority to seize your assets through Civil Asset Forfeiture. CALL YOUR CONGRESS AND SENATORS TO TELL THEM TO NOT SIGN THIS, EMAIL WORKS AS WELL, DONT HAVE TO BE IN THOSE STATES TO SEND A GOOD MESSAGE https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members https://cohesionsoftware.github.io/ A two minutes phone call to the local U.S. senator's office can prevent the sort of debate that happened in Florida (and compare that with how it happened in New Hampshire) https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hbis7/us_congress_going_full_198… https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6hbhnp/americans_heads_up_congr… https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6hccra/senate_bill_s_1241_is_a… World government's getting scared of world's peoples, crypto, etc... Except for NH, for now at least... http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/13/new-hampshire-exempts-bitcoin-and-other

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NYT admits Israel has right to exist as Jewish state, but not USA/ Euros as White states - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

Fun from the Jew York Times, polling folks around the world, with CNNPC in on the polling action too: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/11/europe/antisemitism-poll-2018-intl/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/antisemitism-europe-jews.html … Nearly a quarter of the respondents said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars. More than a quarter believe that Jews have too much influence in business and finance. … Nearly one in five believe that most anti-Semitism is a response to the behavior of Jews. Roughly a third say Jews use the Holocaust to advance their own goals. … Just 54 percent say Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state. … Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years. Welp, ya gotta wonder why these facts are not actually refuted - over and over, and over again Jewish publications such as Haaretz and NYT cry about poll figures or social unrest revolving around Jews and "oy vey, all dis anti-semitism!" yet never, ever, is the core issue addressed - is it the behaviour of Israel that has people stand up for the Palestinians? Is it the truth of the facts of extreme Jewish influence over most of American "political life", the Federal Reserve and therefore all business and the economy and therefore the economic well being, or soon to be something slightly different? Where is the lie in people's belief that Jews use the Holocaust to advance their own goals? As they say, facts have this odd tendency to speak for themselves. So thank you NYT and CNNPC for reminding us of a few facts. TDS has their take on this of course too :) Yeah But New York Times – Why Does Everyone Hate the Jews? https://dailystormer.name/yeah-but-new-york-times-why-does-everyone-hate-th… Create your world,

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