Why is there so much overlap between infosec and furries?
People who spend inordinate amounts of time indoors on the computer have more time in which to develop computer skills.
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deepdriver commented on Should you delete your Patreon account after they laid off their security team? soatok.blog/2022/09/09/sh... · Posted by u/some_furry
deepdriver commented on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics doubleblindmag.com/san-fr... · Posted by u/O__________O
Great news. Whether or not you believe these substances have significant therapeutic potential (I do), it's basically indisputable that they are socially harmless. Nobody gets addicted to them, there are no known negative health effects. There is absolutely no justification whatsoever for their criminality, and there never has been.
Certainly in terms of short-term judgement impairment, this isn't true:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/teendeathbridgefal...
deepdriver commented on Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021) berthub.eu/articles/posts... · Posted by u/pabs3
One company controls the internet more than any other: Cloudflare.
They shield, and therefore effectively man-in-the-middle, roughly 20% of all websites on the Internet:
_9xrb commented on Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church asia.nikkei.com/Politics/... · Posted by u/rntn
God damn someone has a god complex.
Yes, the cult leader declared himself Christ:
_9xrb commented on Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church asia.nikkei.com/Politics/... · Posted by u/rntn
Japan had a cult crisis circa 1990. This was the most famous example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo
however as the bubble economy popped there was a moral panic over financially exploitative cults and closely related multilevel marketing scams.
For those skimming, Aum Shinrikyo is the cult responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin attack. What's often overlooked is that the cult synthesized the sarin gas themselves in a self-made sophisticated chemical weapons lab:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack#Chem...
When their headquarters were raided, police found enough weaponry to fight a small war:
>Over the next week, the full scale of Aum's activities was revealed for the first time. At the cult's headquarters in Kamikuishiki on the foot of Mount Fuji, police found explosives, chemical weapons, and a Russian Mil Mi-17 military helicopter. While the finding of biological warfare agents such as anthrax and Ebola cultures was reported, those claims now appear to have been widely exaggerated.[52] There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people.[53]
They bought a sheep farm in Australia to mine uranium in order to enrich it and build nuclear weapons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Aum_Shinriky...
Had they not been caught, I have little doubt they'd have eventually succeeded.
deepdriver commented on Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church asia.nikkei.com/Politics/... · Posted by u/rntn
Someone over at Twitter called it the most successful robloxing in a while for this exact reason.
Is "Robloxing" the new "but in Minecraft?"
_9xrb commented on Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive twitter.com/keffals/statu... · Posted by u/danso
It's easily verifiable that bank details were shared on KF. It's also easily verifiable to see that non-public information about folks was posted, especially when real details were posted about folks commonly known by their pseudonyms online.
Whether it's legal or not is unimportant. My question is for the internet archive: is it ethical for them to knowingly rehost dumps of PII? Just because it's public doesn't mean it's right for them to treat it like any other page. The goal of the KF users is to harass by putting that information out there: if IA rehosts that intentionally, they're making an active choice to further the goals of KF users.
>It's easily verifiable that bank details were shared on KF.
I see you've backed off from "bank account numbers" to "bank account details," perhaps after Googling the same Twitter screenshots I just found in an attempt to verify your claim. Those screenshots show a user describing a hacked bank account's balance and recent purchases. That's pretty bad; hacking into bank accounts is very illegal. The individual who broke into the account very likely committed a crime. Regardless, the screenshots don't show any credentials or account numbers. I'm not sure if posting someone's bank balance is illegal, but I'm guessing it isn't; maybe it depends on how it was obtained... don't know, not a lawyer.
Of course, the screenshot is totally unverifiable now that KF is wiped from the Internet Archives, which is the point of the submitted link.
_9xrb commented on Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive twitter.com/keffals/statu... · Posted by u/danso
Yes. I provided a link you can click on, but you can also go to the Kiwi Farms Wikipedia page that catalogs victims killed and nearly killed by Kiwi Farms harassment campaigns.
I've never seen this alleged "suicide counter" on the website, though I've only looked at it closely in the past couple weeks.
The site owner posted this rebuttal to assignment of blame for these suicides, which I find compelling. For instance, the widow of one victim decried Vice News (one source referenced in the article) for using her death to attack Kiwi Farms:
_9xrb commented on Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive twitter.com/keffals/statu... · Posted by u/danso
This whole campaign has been damning for the folks trying to take down kiwifarms. All of the evidence of their bad past behavior that used to be confined to one obscure site is now plastered all over the internet, and millions of people know about it.
My personal semi-conspiracy theory on this is that the search warrant served on Keffals (no, not a SWAT call, a search warrant) contained some note that they got probable cause from evidence on a kiwifarms thread. Since then, Keffals has been running to countries with no extradition treaties to Canada and trying their hardest to erase that evidence from the internet under the guise of stopping suicides.
If you want a real conspiracy theory, recall that original and long-running KF thread subject Christine Weston Chandler was persuaded to incestuously assault her mother by a person named Isabella Janke. Kiwi Farms uncovered Isabella's history with Christine, and extensively documented her online activities to include allegations of extortion, CASM, and animal abuse:
Now consider that Isabella's father Mike Janke is a former Navy SEAL who has a professional relationship with Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wio7sDDBA
These records have been wiped from the Internet Archive. I wonder how long they will remain on archive.ph.