To those fretting: there is a wide margin between a legit VPN service and these guys. Interpol are not coming for your paid run-of-the-mill VPN provider.

I hadn’t even heard of 1VPN prior to this story, and the reason is that they advertise almost exclusively on cybercrime forums - mentioned multiple times in the article.

The administration/owner of this VPN service explicitly tailored their business to enabling cybercrime. That’s real stupid, because it means you become a legitimate law enforcement target as an accomplice with prior knowledge / facilitator to a crime, and generally explicitly waives your immunity rights as a service provider under legal frameworks like EU DSA.

Dutch police stressed that this particular VPN service “was considered criminal, because it specifically targeted cyber criminals.”

First VPN “mainly advertised on the cyber criminal forums known to the police and thus expressly approached cyber criminals as potential clients,” Dutch police said. “The website of the service also stated that any cooperation with the judiciary would be denied, that the service was not subject to any jurisdiction".

Lol. There is no country on earth that is not subject to any jurisdiction - as the VPN provider and users found out.

Any legit VPN has a thorough ToS/policy to explain acceptable and unacceptable use of their systems (including any illlegal use like crimes/DDOS/etc), and to cover the legal jurisdiction they fall under and what they do when recieving legal court orders.

If anything, be pissed that this intentional cybercrime service tarnished the concept of VPNs a little, not that they were pursued and busted. Your legit provider is safe.

Fantastic outcome. Great to see people striking when their concerns are not answered and unions coordinating.

How is a ‘lifetime pass’ a subscription? 🤔

Six months of exposure.

There is zero chance that the CISA systems have not been comprehensively breeched by every foreign adversary.

Good thing Trump cut 1/4 of their workforce last year. It’s really paying dividends for Putin.

This is really damning evidence of AI’s vaporware benefits tbh.

As LLMs key functionality is supposed to be their ability to take a body of work (training data) and then take natural language input to deliver valuable and accurate natural language outputs, automated helpdesk and call centers are supposedly their absolute bread-and-butter low challenge implementation cases.

And yet… Here we are. They still aren’t anywhere near the quality or value of just hiring people.

Was running VMs for various learning courses etc for work.

It still runs about 80% nowadays with no VMs running and just with the amount of browser tabs and background shit I leave running.

I still play Helldivers 2 on this long-toothed beast, but I do have to live with a fairly low framerate and make sure I don’t leave too many processes open in the background (its a CPU intensive hodgepodge of a game engine). Most other newish games work fine in 1080p to be honest. I haven’t been keeping up with the latest and greatest either.

Modest framerate don’t bother me much because I’m from the era of 320x240 games.

At this point my main PC is a ‘classic car’ of gaming. EVGA GTX 1070, z170 mobo, 64GB DDR4 RAM, i7 6700k.

First bitcoin made graphics cards double in price just when I was looking to upgrade my gfx, then a wider crypto wave, tarrifs, then a pandemic, then more tariffs, and then AI made everything rapidly wildly expensive.

My usual upgrade process of “waiting for prices to become reasonable around the 5-6 year mark” has proven to be a bad plan for this period…

It was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge.

Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.

Pretty 🥹

Yeah… I don’t drink Coke often but I like caffeine free diet coke / coke zero. I don’t want the sugar and I don’t need caffeine.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Yes but think of all the jobs they’ll be earning by attracting META to build in their state with those massive tax writeoffs… In their… Automated… Very lightly staffed datacenter…

Its not as egregious as you think. ‘Everyone’ group means every Synology user account - not that everyone on the network that can talk to the NAS, they’d still need both a Synology account and Shared folder permissions. Any Synology user trying to access those files would still have to have read and write access to the Share to actually access it (eg via file explorer SMB/CIFs or app-level access to Synology File Manager, or they would need to be granted SSH access to get in via terminal, etc) in order to R/w/m the files.

I know it’s a bit confusing, but it’s correct. Docker often causes confusion with file permissions. There are file-level permissions (this article) and there are share-level permissions. You need both to access folders and files via mapped drives / SMB, this setting is just to ensure that Docker containers which can be running as a variety of user names (depending on how you config docker and the container) don’t experience issues accessing files you’re expecting them to be able to access, as Synology says, the default Docker folder permission is for the ‘everyone’ group to have Read-only access. This should allow most Docker containers configs to at least run and then if you run into issues writing/modifying files… That’s a clue you have missed some file permission configuration settings that need to be done, and the only reason it’s running at all is because that default ‘everyone’ permission is saving your butt.

IMDb has been making shitty decisions for a long time. They have always been a business first, community last.

I doubt RT is much better but I use it mostly. It at least has been consistently the same amount of shitty UI since inception. TheMovieDb.org has a decent ratings system too and is getting more use, but again it’s privately owned.

I’m not aware of a community run and operated ratings DB that’s got any significant uptake… Would be glad to hear of one if anyone knows.

Now that is a pet rock.

It was exciting. No idea what the phone call could bring.

Nowadays… ‘Unknown number’ just preloads frustration because you know it’s most likely a robocall.

My data is in this breach.

Thankfully, it’s all been exposed already by several prior banking data breeches over the last 5 or so years.

Yay?

The one I’m thinking of specifically recently is the revelation by Indian subcontractors that META was lying about their Rayban smart glasses having private mode that would not recording in private areas you set like bathroom, shower, in bed etc… And in fact it had sent tens of thousands of videos of people nude or fucking to the Indian subcontractors.

METAs response? Fire them, admit nothing. Lol. That’s some grossss shit that even normies want nothing to do with.

Agree. One thing that I’ve noticed is that if it’s about social media I say I “had to delete it for mental health, that shit is so bad for you”, and generally get a much more receptive response than when I explain it’s primarily for privacy and that I don’t trust them with my data.

Though Zuck and others are making it way easier to point out how creepy their platforms are, so that becomes a good entrypoint re: privacy also.

This is really fun, thanks for sharing it.