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2024-10-01 at 10:53 PM UTC in My house is totally fuckedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-10-01 at 6:36 PM UTC in Iran Has Launched Missiles At Israelirans face when all those missile control panels they ordered from china start beeping and getting warmThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-30 at 8:18 AM UTC in Just Finished Deus Ex, And...The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-29 at 4:49 PM UTC in Football Sunday Discussion & Criticisms (Mostly just be critciizing people as always with no real on topic discussion)The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-27 at 11:52 PM UTC in When places have "Bulletproof" glass you know i realized somethingyeah
A lot of stores don't even have bulletproof glass, they just have a layer of plexiglass of varying thickness to prevent Jamal from hopping the counter. There's also no such thing as "bullet proof" glass, only bullet resistant glass, the lower end of which can hardly stop a .45 let alone a large caliber rifle bullet.
So yeah, you probably could walk in with an AR or .357, put a couple rounds through the glass and convince the poor red dot foreheaded fellow behind the counter to hand over the $87 in the register, but there's really no point as most people don't pay with cash anymore, store safes rarely contain more than $500 even on the weekends anymore, and most importantly discharging a firearm while committing armed robbery is a very quick and easy way to end up with an attempted murder charge even if you pinky promise the judge you really didn't mean it!!!
Besides, holding up a liqour store is sooooo 1989 all the real niggas do fraud and steal credit cards and do the chase bank money glitchThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-27 at 11:39 PM UTC in Leaked photos of Lanny at his "job"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-25 at 12:23 PM UTC in What is the meaning of life?42The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-25 at 5:53 AM UTC in The Core Tenets Of RealismWhen they say "AI safety", what they really mean is AI weaponization against all who oppose them.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-19 at 9:25 AM UTC in Lebanon's Spicy BatteriesI’ll try and keep this concise, so cliff notes for what happened:
Incident
On the 17/09, pagers started exploding across southern Lebanon. Hezbullah typically used these pagers to transmit one-way status updates, warnings of inbound strikes etc. to their soldiers and people in the community, and it was the specific brand and model Hezbullah preferred that were exploding. Roughly 3,000 people were hospitalised and 10 killed outright which flooded the Lebanese hospital system, prompting medical resources to be transferred from friendly countries such as Iran and Iraq.
Two days later, other devices began exploding as well, primarily portable ICOM-branded radios but there were also reports of various other items such as clock radios, portable solar chargers, remote access keypads and other personal electronics. This wave of explosions was smaller but more lethal – roughly 400 reported injured and another 10 or so killed.
Cause
The initial news reports, mostly citing anonymous US/israeli sources claimed that it was a cyberattack and that the israeli intelligence services had found a way to remotely detonate the lithium cells inside the pagers. This was obviously not true given the videos of explosions – they were high explosives, there were no major fires and no characteristic vapor/smoke, as well as the explosions themselves being too violent and consistent.
It was later leaked by the Lebanese investigation team (and ‘confirmed’ by anonymous israeli intelligence sources) that the pagers had been tampered with to contain around 20g of PETN explosive compound, and that the batteries had been shorted and overheated in order to detonate the PETN charge.
Attack Vector
Initially I assumed that the pagers themselves had their firmwares hacked to detonate upon receiving a certain code, but the later explosions in other devices makes this seem less likely.
The most likely attack vector is some kind of modular bomb built into the lithium cell – the attacker could remove the battery from the casing, put a smaller battery and triggering system (likely a small radio antenna that shorts the battery when receiving a specific frequency, as space would be too limited for decoding chips or anything like that) in the casing and fill the remainder of the void with PETN. With this kind of device an attacker could replace the lithium cell in any portable device with a hidden bomb without having to worry about software/firmware/circuitry in the device itself.
Supply Chain Attack
Before the second wave of attacks, analysis was focused on the pagers themselves – they were the AP-924 model manufactured by the APOLLO GOLD company in Taiwan, a model that was popular in the 2000s and still in use by hospitals and other critical centres that wanted a way to keep contact with staff if cellular networks failed.
APOLLO is now under investigation by the Taiwanese authorities and has released several statements relating to the AP-924 – specifically that they no longer manufacture the device themselves, and that they’ve licensed the design to a Hungarian consultancy firm, and the design has been changed since it was transferred.
The consultancy firm, BAC Consulting, appears to be some kind of front organisation as it only has one registered employee (a woman who appears to have had her identity stolen, as she published several academic papers on hydroelectric cells in the mid-2000s before re-emerging as a generic NGO volunteer in the 20202s), a website (now deleted) that says nothing about what the company does or any kind of manufacturing capability and annual cash inflows of $500,000+ since 2022. It stands to reason that this company or its subsidiaries were set up explicitly for this kind of sabotage.
As an aside, there are also reports that the manufacturer would not ship the batch of pagers directly to Lebanon, instead sending to Jordan where it was held by customs before being transferred on – leading to speculation that they could’ve been tampered with there.
HANDALA Hacks
A pro-Palestinian hacker group calling itself HANDALA claims to have hacked several israeli companies involved with this attack and will release evidence ‘in a matter of hours’.
They claim that the battery bombs were developed by Israeli Industrial Batteries in conjunction with Unit 8200, israel’s famed SIGINT/Electronic Warfare unit. According to them the explosive batteries were manufactured in israel, then shipped to Europe (specifically to the manufacturing plant affiliated with the aforementioned BAC) and implanted in the pagers and potentially other devices meant to be delivered to Lebanon (indicating that the sabotage was performed at the site of manufacture, not in customs in a transit country).
This, however calls into question how the Mossad was able to transfer large amounts of explosive into the EU and out again after assembly.
The answer to that question is that Vidisco is another israeli state-adjacent company that works with Unit 8200. Vidisco manufactures around 80% of the X-ray and contraband detection hardware used in western airports and seaports, and apparently maintain backdoors that allow israeli state operations to simply silence detection on shipments they want to keep secret.
HANDALA claim to have around 20TB of data stolen from the two companies to prove their claims; we’ll see if they’re able to deliver.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-18 at 8:29 AM UTC in The exploding pagers made me think of you guys <3The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-16 at 2:09 AM UTC in Fona's Official Minecraft SpeedrunFona if you’re an hour and a half in and haven’t even made it to the nether it’s less of speedrun and more of a playthroughThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-13 at 1:05 AM UTC in Will send my nudesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-12 at 2:26 AM UTC in Approximately 14 years ago, the world witnessed a unique miracle that many people may have missed out on (but BradleyB didn't)A largely unknown rapper named Ca$h Out created one of the most bumpin songs ever and suddenly found himself not only on every pop & rap radio station but at the top of the billboard hot 100, peaking as the 38th most famous song of the period.
The song was called Ca$hin' Out the star single on his first album Ca$hed Out.
Still bumps FYI
At this most point most artists would consider what their next big hit will be, begin touring, or working on their next album. However the rapper Ca$h Out proceeded to literally leave the rap game and take all of his money with him, effectively cashing out.
https://dbpedia.org/page/Cashin'_Out
So it always just brings a smile on my face when I found it in my spotify playlist and remembered this little odd bit of rap history where some nigga named Ca$h Out gets rich off the single Ca$hin Out on his first album called Ca$hed Out and then takes all his money and cashes out.
10/10 THank you for coming to my story time.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-12 at 1:58 AM UTC in Do you remember when that teacher lost his entire career due to attempting to fit in with inner city boys???Can you lend a nigga a pencil?" asked a then 55 year old inner city Philadelphia schoolteacher to an african american student. Who responded by voicing complaint to the school administration who promptly placed the old man on leave.
Outraged at what he saw as not a racial remark and instead as a lingo to help ingratiate himself with his majority black students he went on the local news to describe the difference between NIGGER and NIGGA including holding up signs.
As you may have guessed this ended his teaching career where he eventually went on to perform private tutoring until retirement.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-11 at 5:06 AM UTC in Kamala is about to get raped to shreds by Trump in tonight's debatedidn't watch debate
the election's about the Trump personality vs. the diverse brown woman personality, not policy
them arguing about nothing in particular isn't going to change anyone's mindThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-11 at 4:10 AM UTC in XMR has been cracked 🔓 no longer private/anonymousnah all it is is chainalysis setting up monero network nodes to collect the IPs of devices that initiate transactions.
the network itself is still fundamentally secure, and you should be using tor to conduct transactions anywayThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-11 at 2:20 AM UTC in Kamala is about to get raped to shreds by Trump in tonight's debate
Originally posted by Elbow Kamala is gonna curb stomp Trump. lmao
Trump is doomed and the fact that he is and will remain the only viable candidate for Republicans until the day he's dead will usher in a decades long golden age with absolutely zero Republican power in the executive branch.
People who fall for populism and have been ruled by fear aren't going to be swayed by reason. No one likes their beliefs trampled on and argument rarely convinces.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-09 at 4:05 PM UTC in You are so low, so very low.APPLE BOTTOM JEANS JEANS BOOTS WITH THE FUR WITH THE FUR
SHE GOT THE WHOLE CLUB LOOKIN AT HER
NEXT THING YOU KNOW
SHE HIT THE FLO
SHAWTY GOT LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOWThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-06 at 1:09 AM UTC in Fona goes to Vintage Computer Festival '24Here’s the plan, we’re gonna rob the bank that’s right in down town Chicago. Fona will be the driver, posing inconspicuously as a worker. KoF will be the demolitions man, i of course will orchestrate the whole thing and we’ll be in and out in 45 seconds.
Fellas, after this one we’ll never have to rob another sperm bank in our lives.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-05 at 10:31 PM UTC in Fona goes to Vintage Computer Festival '24Welcome to Chicago fona!!!!
Now you see why me and KoF are the way we are.
Wishing you lots of love and good tidings!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
