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I wonder if he's ever stolen from a powerful drug dealer, who could afford to send someone to Russia to get revenge - not necessarily show up at the hacker's door, but to rent some locals who'd do that

For extra clever points, make it a person who already does protect their privacy by e.g. encrypting everything on local storage, doesn't like the cloud, and not being all over social media. If the cops bust them and can't find any evidence, they'll accuse them of hiding things, if they comply and decrypts their stuff and there's still nothing, the cops will still insist it was this person and they're still hiding something. If there's other incriminating stuff in the encrypted disks, boom the cops will bust them for that instead and will still think they got the master hacker...

God damn debating with you people is useless sometimes.

My second paragraph is meant to show a possible other explanation why the Chinese didn't want foreigners snooping around their bio labs: in my belief the same evasiveness the Chinese has/had would apply to the USA if China wanted to visit and have unlimited access (for a thorough investigation) of American bio labs.

And I'm not talking about whether American journalists would be arrested. I'm just talking about the evasiveness about the labs.

Yeah, holding strong to the logic that's like a mom concluding of her kindergartner "You're being evasive, this means definitely that you're hiding something" is ridiculous.

If the outbreak started in Colorado, and Russia wanted access to the CDC lab there, Americans (officials and public) would also be crying and screaming...

But Serbia's system seems flawed, the EU system has all the data encoded in the QR-code, including name, the date the test was performed, the sort of test (PCR or antigen), and the result, plus a digital signature to prevent changing of those fields. And the QR code is given to the person and is static. The app that checks it checks that the document hasn't been modified by verifying the digital signature. What Serbia seems to have done is to have a PDF with the timestamp, and QR code which goes to a website showing a database entry with no timestamp (except for the URL which apparently does contain a Unix timestamp, but that's not authoritive nor easily parsable by huamns).

So if I got a negative test in July and a positive one yesterday, and I want to fly somewhere, it seems I can just copy the QR code from the test in July and paste it into a Word document that says "The test was performed on January 10, 2022, and the result is available through this link: [QR code with the link to the results from July 2021]". And it seems this document doctoring (with a document with a result that allows unvaxed entry) is what Team Djokovic has done.

He's turning to the Donald Trump of the tennis world. No matter how cunty his behavior is, he'll have his supporters (god bless nationalism, one of the more obnoxious forms of tribalism). And now with the whole shitstorm he'll even gain the support of the anti-science antivax crowd. Like Trump and to some extent Obama, he's become the subject of a cult of personality. He can never do wrong in their eyes.

Just to protect my ego when this is downvoted and flagged to death: watch this comment get downvoted, because even HN has too many such numbnuts.

> the participants who have mountains of capital will use it to price out competitors and new upstarts.

Lufthansa's interest is piqued. They already price out competitors, they've bought many smaller airlines (even the "national" airlines Swiss and Austria) and operate them at slim to negative margins to keep the workers quiet (the threat of bankruptcy prevents them from rebelling too much)..

I guess it'll be a "Facebook censorship API". Beyonce wants an image to disappear? If it's not on FB, IG, WhatsApp, Pinterest, it's pretty good. Prince Andrew doesn't want a pic of him with his hands around a minor and Ghislaine Maxwell nearby? Call Zuck...

Now I want to make a pizza with pineapple sauce in it...

I heard a former US Army guy saying in a podcast, even at home he's always dressed to be ready to walk out the door at any second, because it's a habit he developed in the Army. Which makes sense, the enemy doesn't wait for you to wait to put your socks and shoes on.

The article doesn't seem to answer the question it has on its headline.. instead it just goes through banal details of the hardware and software.

> Cars are popular for a lot of reasons.

And so is jetting off somewhere for holidays.. realistically we need to cut down so much to survive, but so far everyone is working on "it's future society's problem".

Only when the threat of death was within weeks did humans actually react with lockdowns, etc...