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xocnad commented on Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN   techdirt.com/2025/08/22/i... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
hluska · 14 days ago
I worked in surveillance cameras for a long time and started my own company in the field. So, I wouldn’t be so quick to diminish the value of location/bearing.

Armed with those details, a sufficiently motivated person with an easy to obtain skill set could avoid a camera.

With airports, leaking a location for a major component of active perimeter and taxiway monitoring is a serious issue. A month before the crash, someone got into the wheel well of a plane at O’Hare in Chicago so taxiway security is not a solved problem. Leaking camera locations and bearings is dangerous.

xocnad · 14 days ago
Sure but where is the commercial value?

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xocnad commented on Telo MT1   telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht
Aurornis · a month ago
> You seem very intent (here, and in the loneliness thread) on projecting your own experiences as the baseline on which things should be evaluated.

I was pointing out that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You cannot conclude that a truck never goes off-road by observing them on city streets. That was your claim, and I explained why it didn’t make sense. I also explained why trucks are not primarily sold as off-road vehicles anyway.

> It is a known fact that the vast majority of truck owners rarely ever use the truck bed

If you read the “studies” that make these claims they use two tricks:

First, they specifically exclude a truck defined as a work truck.

Second, they redefine “using the bed” to some arbitrary threshold, like hauling a large load of loose dirt or hauling something over so many hundred pounds.

If you actually believe that truck owners aren’t putting anything in the truck bed, you’re out of touch.

But why does this one point trigger you so much? If I showed you a similar study that the majority of people with back seats rarely had more than 2 people in their cars, would you become similarly enraged at the people buying 5-seat cars instead of a compact 2-seater?

If I showed you a study that the majority of people rarely use more than 200 horsepower would you start getting triggered by all of the 300, 400, or even 500 horsepower cars so wastefully driving around?

There’s something about pickup trucks, specifically, that makes a vocal minority irrationally angry and triggered. It’s a funny meme to watch because so many comments in this thread are absolutely sure that they understand the situation but they don’t understand basic facts about how you can’t tell if someone goes off-road by judging the condition of their paint, or that using a truck for work purposes doesn’t render it visibly damaged in a way that they can see. They just see trucks, get triggered, mix it with misleading “studies”, and come to believe odd conclusions like “truck drivers don’t use their beds”

xocnad · a month ago
Why are you triggered by the vocal irrational minority? You seem quite defensive for someone who is confident and comfortable in the the truck they own and how they use it and maintain it.
xocnad commented on Wtfis: Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots   github.com/pirxthepilot/w... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
thih9 · 4 months ago
Off topic, in case this needs a backronym with no profanity, sharing some ideas; first one is my favorite:

- What's That Funny Internet Site?

- Web Threat Forensic Inspection Service

- Warden That Flags Internet Suspicion

xocnad · 4 months ago
TIL a new word - backronym
xocnad commented on Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry   forbes.com/sites/tonybrad... · Posted by u/rbanffy
xocnad · 5 months ago
Where did you see any reference to any source or lean in what you replied to? You are projecting your viewpoint on which is good or bad.
xocnad commented on A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed My Mailchimp Mailing List   troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phi... · Posted by u/gpi
pembrook · 5 months ago
While distressing, this was likely done specifically to 'pwn' Troy and not necessarily due to the email list on his blog being especially valuable to spammers.

If you were on that list, you're not suddenly going to get a huge influx of penis pill/spam emails (you might get highly targeted phishing attempts, but, if you're like most people your email can easily be found anyways).

Bulk spam is largely a solved problem, that's why big mailing lists divorced from the sending domain of their owners are mostly worthless these days (gmail/outlook/etc won't put an email sent to 100k people from a domain with no rep in the inbox) and quickly decay due to list rot and bad metrics. I know tons of people will fight me on this based on what used to happen decades ago, but it's true.

More targeted low volume Phishing on the other hand, that's the real problem today. Gmail/Outlook/etc. don't have very sophisticated ways to prevent that. Low volume or 1:1 emails get way less scrutiny than bulk emails (you can't conduct business with outside firms without some level of permissionless communication), so be on the lookout.

xocnad · 5 months ago
> While distressing, this was likely done specifically to 'pwn' Troy and not necessarily due to the email list on his blog being especially valuable to spammers.

To what end though? Positive public notoriety isn't going to be a thing. Buffing your darknet creds also seems pretty unlikely since the sophisticated phish would be better spent actually gathering emails. And most obviously if they were targeting him in some other way why do the immediate automated export?

xocnad commented on A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub   twitter.com/SollenbergerR... · Posted by u/amarcheschi
somenameforme · 6 months ago
A surprisingly large amount of data one might think is classified is not at all. In this case all the examples listed are from freely available public data outside of the Twitter thing which seems to be just setting up the environment for some local tool. Here are the sites:

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datacatalog.worldbank.org

opendata.arcgis.com

mrdata.usgs.gov / www.usgs.gov

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Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just causes further divides. People who think DOGE is not a big deal will use this to confirm that 'oh no the worst they could dig up is somebody posting publicly accessible data in public!' And those who do think it's a big deal will often just double down on stupid and insist this was leaking secret information, even when they probably know it wasn't. So you end up with people living in two different worlds, but only one of them is real.

xocnad · 6 months ago
While this is the lede there are other activities posted. If there were true transparency with nothing to hide Mr. Wick would not have taken the repos private but just ensured that that all avenues of harassment were disabled. More of concern to me is the potential for a focus on the union status - though with just the screenshots it is quite difficult to tell what is really going on.
xocnad commented on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp   newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-... · Posted by u/ahurmazda
commandersaki · 6 months ago
Enjoy switching to Lotus Notes.
xocnad · 6 months ago
Been gone for a couple of years now. Outlook replaced it. Legacy Domino apps still around in various places though.
xocnad commented on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January   ft.com/content/cdd0b5c8-2... · Posted by u/doener
xocnad · 6 months ago
And yet you felt the need to inject that viewpoint into a thread where everyone is pointing out their own personal preferences and not telling others what to buy.
xocnad commented on DOGE Said It Cut $232M from Social Security. It Was Only About Half a Mil   theintercept.com/2025/02/... · Posted by u/ceejayoz
refurb · 7 months ago
Because he built a massive electric car company, launched a new global satellite internet service with micro-satellites, and successfully launched reusable heavy rockets?

(In before someone replied with the famous Obama quote “you didn’t build that”)

He said he was going to do huge, groundbreaking things and actually delivered on them?

Elon is clearly capable but I get it, people disagree with his politics so they pretend he not credible at all?

xocnad · 7 months ago
Granting him the credibility associated with building and running some pretty successful engineering companies, in whatever the dimensions of that are deserved, is arguably warranted. Within that space the always coming next year or two FSD has proven to be hugely optimistic at best and blatantly manipulative otherwise however do some skepticism is still needed. The misrepresentations and lies he is telling as the defacto head of DOGE are so many and broad (and laced with such heavy personal and political bias) that the only pretending going on is when you say they are credible by default.

u/xocnad

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