When will people learn that any advertising that occurs during extortion like this is the focal point of hate and fear?

This is like anti-advertising.

Same, I used to have some Caliber extension that stripped DRM. Last used it 2-3 years ago and worked for Adobe DRM at least.

I like to go check out the book I want from the library, and when it gives me the Amazon DRM version I just go search for the epub version online and download that. IIRC, completely legal as I have legal access to the book…somehow.

I was going to bring up the Interpol bust all around Africa of SIM farms that is referenced in this article. Usually all about international calling and for scammers to use.

Reporting on this said that this setup had been involved with nation-state level threats. I wonder if it’s that these spammers were just doing their spam stuff and have all their stuff automated to sell bandwidth. Like you just send them a CSV with numbers and messages, and they don’t care what the content is. So then nation-state just books a few campaigns that are what kick off an FBI/Secret Service investigation because the nation-state isn’t actually affiliated with the spammers.

This setup is worth a ton of money just chugging along, and realistically, this is not built to overwhelm a few key mobile towers. These things are built to spam and scam.

It does matter because it means that using the same legal methods, a government can compel any business or entity to divulge any file you as a user have allowed to enter the system. This isn’t a far jump from making all your Google Photos, Drive, etc. files searchable without a warrant if someone can trigger the right reasons.

See? And now you can wear that “former” as a badge of honor.

The mods under discussion are the ones that mod more than FIVE large communities. if those people haven’t figured out a way to make that a paying gig, then they’re doing it wrong.

But…I came here just for the gloating fediverse content.

What else could there be?