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Comment · 17 days ago
This is directly correlated to prosperity, just like the number of push-ups you can dot turns out to be a very high-fidelity indicator of your overall health. Obviously, a significant part of the UK politics has been directly aiming at destroying the UK economy and the UK identity.
Comment · 17 days ago
Curious on attribution. DPRK ?
Comment · 2 months ago
And no flights to Europe !! Since then, both Ryanair and Easyjet have OPENED new flights.between the UK and mainland Europe...
Comment · 2 months ago
The thing with the EU is that, worryingly, the less it works, the bigger it becomes (new memberstates, soon, Albania...) and the more power it takes on. This continent is heading for a catastrophic outcome and one must be blind to not see it.
Comment · 2 months ago
And don't forget to fill in all the administrative paperwork on how your business addresses climate change; LGBTQIA+ issues; men/women parity; etc !
Comment · 2 months ago
Well, maybe if anything coming from the EU is "good idea, bad execution", the solution should be to get rid of this bureaucracy altogether then.
Comment · 2 months ago
This sort of BS - which is why the UK left the EU by the way, happens on EVERYTHING. By nature, the EU is an extra layer of bureaucracy which can only exist by: 1.hiring 2. producing regulations to justify its existence. I have quietly seen it dismantle anything that worked in European countries, all while being called a fascist or far-right extremist for doing so. Well, here is the result.
Comment · 3 months ago
Highly debatable.

Threat-hunting at that level can easily use VPNs to make attributions, especially if those same VPN exit points happen to be correlated to other stuff that was attributed. And when you are Microsoft or Google (Jia Tan had gmail accounts), the telemetry they have goes way beyond "oh we can't see the real IP lolz".

The group responsible for the xz attempted compromise is circulating in certain Chatham House rules conference. It's just that, as someone there said "no one has had the balls to say it publicly", which in itself gives a strong hint.

Comment · 3 months ago
I know.
Comment · 3 months ago
Other fun fact: Microsoft and Mandiant have never had any problem doxing Russian APTs when they caught them.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's only going to recycle old news. The missing piece is attribution. Had it been the usuals (DPRK, Russia, China), the attribution would have been made publicly. The fact that is has not points as a friendly - especially when Microsoft (who owns Github) had all that telemetry and very likely has the means to find out. Some serious OSINT (consistency of timezone across months if not years of commits) pointed to the Middle East. An obvious Unit name comes to mind.
Comment · 4 months ago
Does Europe have a duty to provide free food and free home to half the planet ?

Can you also please give us your address, so that any person in need can go to your living room to settle down for a bit ?

Comment · 4 months ago
Hmmm... the only people that have "federally weakened" the EU are those that made that continent much poorer and less powerful than it was 20, 30 years ago. So you are correct partially: the US, throughout the second half of the second century, have seeked to weaken Europe and successfully done so (all indicators are worst now than they've ever been in Europe).
Comment · 4 months ago
Musk, Vance and Rubio are cheering for Europe to wakeup. Quite the opposite of what you say.

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