There are three basic reasons why people buy prepaid products:
4) Traveling to a site to evaluate it for potential business expansion. Or meeting with a new supplier or customer. And I don't want my competitors buying my credit card and/or cell phone data to see what I'm up to. Or politicians leaning on me for a payoff to get the building permits.
This isn't Ultra vs Coventry. ISIS knows we know about their Twitter accounts. They are public, and therefore known for a reason: these are the recruiting contacts for new fighters. The actual tactical command and control is done elsewhere.
Sure, ISIS can just create some new accounts. But while they are doing that and rebuilding their contact lists, they can't get their propaganda stuff out as easily. If Anonymous wants to screw with them, fine.
Not doing it well. Some 18 year-old/b/tard can track anonymous posts through various "dark apps" and successfully dox them. But our professional intelligence services are crying "Dark apps! We're helpless!" They are incompetent.
Your lack of understanding of what US intel is currently doing is hilarious.
So you're saying we saw Paris coming, but just didn't bother to tell the French? Or we've caught all the people leaking NSA/CIA information (other than Snowden, the one guy who came out and admitted what he did and that this crap goes on all the time). Of course, we're pretty good at catching Chinese spies. Because they have Chinese names.
I thought ISIS's whole thing was recruiting people through social media.
And that will probably continue. Until the potential recruits have been vetted (i.e. no FBI logging onto a game and volunteering to go to Syria). At that point, they will probably be given instructions on where and how to connect to a darknet portal.
Our intelligence services are getting quite lazy. No actual humint work, even on line. They just want to scrape the Internet with giant automated filters and act on every instance of "bomb" or "jihad" that they trip over. It's too much work to pose as a disenchanted 18-year-old, build a back story and correspond with an ISIS recruiter. But give them the opportunity to put on a tuxedo, drink martinis and meet Pussy Galore and I'm sure they'd be up for that.
Are these the idiots who backed down when threatened by the cartels?
The cartels have people inside the US DoJ and CIA. So it's a lot more difficult maintaining anonymity when money is no object in tracking down people messing with the cross-border drug business.
One could have said the same thing about Christianity before the Age of Enlightenment. But most of them have mellowed out and stopped burning people at the stake.
Even now, people like Jihadi John are covering their faces, knowing full well that the current struggle isn't likely to last long enough for full time employment. And their future involves having to sneak back into western society and retire on a UK pension.
Slashdot Mirror
Stop? What are you talking about? Are you unfamiliar with the Agile Development paradigm?
about:config > toggle dom.storage.enable to False
and then watch Slashdot start to blow chunks. We're being tracked by Dice along with the best (worst) data scrappers.
OK, so how about offering some good, constructive and effective ideas to deal with the problem?
I wonder how many people would have been killed in the Bataclan theatre if 10% or even 5% of the audience were (legally) carrying concealed weapons?
There are three basic reasons why people buy prepaid products:
4) Traveling to a site to evaluate it for potential business expansion. Or meeting with a new supplier or customer. And I don't want my competitors buying my credit card and/or cell phone data to see what I'm up to. Or politicians leaning on me for a payoff to get the building permits.
Hey, you're in pretty good shape. You should take up golfing.
Now there's a non sequitur if ever there was one.
Not singing this?
Eveyone raising pigs NOT facing Mecca had better label them as such. So I'll know not to buy their products.
For the right price, I could be persuaded to part with my red mercury.
The discs were just used as pistol targets.
I mean, what do you expect us to do now that our hoard of AOL discs is running low?
California
So, we'd go from hopelessly biased in one direction to hopelessly biased in the other.
Always happy to share our vast quantity of experiences.
Oh, I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay,
I sleep all night and I work all day.
This isn't Ultra vs Coventry. ISIS knows we know about their Twitter accounts. They are public, and therefore known for a reason: these are the recruiting contacts for new fighters. The actual tactical command and control is done elsewhere.
Sure, ISIS can just create some new accounts. But while they are doing that and rebuilding their contact lists, they can't get their propaganda stuff out as easily. If Anonymous wants to screw with them, fine.
We have drawn a line in the sand.
Cross it and we shall draw another.
we're not doing human intel anymore?
Not doing it well. Some 18 year-old /b/tard can track anonymous posts through various "dark apps" and successfully dox them. But our professional intelligence services are crying "Dark apps! We're helpless!" They are incompetent.
Try again.
And this defends your position how, exactly?
hang around Monte Carlo and the Bahamas
Any volunteers for an undercover assignment in Tora Bora?
[sound of crickets]
Your lack of understanding of what US intel is currently doing is hilarious.
So you're saying we saw Paris coming, but just didn't bother to tell the French? Or we've caught all the people leaking NSA/CIA information (other than Snowden, the one guy who came out and admitted what he did and that this crap goes on all the time). Of course, we're pretty good at catching Chinese spies. Because they have Chinese names.
I thought ISIS's whole thing was recruiting people through social media.
And that will probably continue. Until the potential recruits have been vetted (i.e. no FBI logging onto a game and volunteering to go to Syria). At that point, they will probably be given instructions on where and how to connect to a darknet portal.
Our intelligence services are getting quite lazy. No actual humint work, even on line. They just want to scrape the Internet with giant automated filters and act on every instance of "bomb" or "jihad" that they trip over. It's too much work to pose as a disenchanted 18-year-old, build a back story and correspond with an ISIS recruiter. But give them the opportunity to put on a tuxedo, drink martinis and meet Pussy Galore and I'm sure they'd be up for that.
"do you remember this song?"
We can remember it for you wholesale.
Are these the idiots who backed down when threatened by the cartels?
The cartels have people inside the US DoJ and CIA. So it's a lot more difficult maintaining anonymity when money is no object in tracking down people messing with the cross-border drug business.
One could have said the same thing about Christianity before the Age of Enlightenment. But most of them have mellowed out and stopped burning people at the stake.
Even now, people like Jihadi John are covering their faces, knowing full well that the current struggle isn't likely to last long enough for full time employment. And their future involves having to sneak back into western society and retire on a UK pension.
Whoosh!
The idea is to credit the wrong group and start a fight between the two of them.