This. EuroPol/FBI have no jurisdiction in Pakistan. As long as they don't target victims in their own country, they are most likely able to act with impunity.
Russia, China, and North Korea too -- at least two of those have tacit if not open approval to target Westerners. I get the sense that PRC is more constrained and less willing to suffer the consequences of hosting random hackers but Russia especially is just lawless as long as they're not targeting Russians.
I live and work in Russia. Guess what country shines brightest in WAF logs? Guess where data encryption extorters operate from? Fucking US of A. There was even a case once, where I knew specifically the person who was harassing the service I supported and there was literally NOTHING I could legally do about that.
So stop pretending (or pushing your ignorance) as if western countries are doing any better in that regard - they just as well don't care what their hackers do in other countries. All that exceptionalism is just sad.
This happens because countries that aren't the best of friends simply don't cooperate with each other, and criminals don't shy to abuse it. So from the standpoint of the rest of the world, it's the western/nato/five-eyes countries who are "just lawless as long as they're not targeting their own". Except the rest of us just have deal with it rationally, while you pat yourselves on the back with your ignorant supremacist exceptionalism, using these situations as yet another way to brew hatered. How can you actually believe that you are the only ones who have problem with foreign hackers? This is insanely naive! It's a global issue and WE ALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.
The only chance to trigger any legal action here is to establish legal presence. And even then there are no guarantees if there is no damage done in their jurisdiction. At least that is the experience for someone in Russia trying to deal with Western hackers. And that was before 2022. Now it's just open cyberwafare with hacktivists attacking everything in Russia and vengeful CTOs striking back.
And JFYI, proxies are also a thing. Shit load of foreign attacks are just your locals using a properly configured proxy.
Push your politicians to actually cooperate, instead of enjoying the leeway it gives to intelligence agencies. Otherwise, enjoy the treatment you give to everyone else.
They’re certainly not cheap not sure I’d call them unaffordable though. I’ve had 2 root canals in the last few years and they were probably $200-400 a pop with insurance. I’ve also had an extraction, bone graft, and implant and that was probably a few grand.
> even the "consenting" ones often have histories of sexual abuse and unresolved trauma that are tainting their "consent." A hypothetical society where every daughter grows up in a two-parent household, is known and loved by her father, and is never raped, is going to have a major shortage of porn stars.
Your heart's in the right place but your logic here is flawed. By framing it this way you muddy the entire concept of consent by declaring an entire class mentally unsound on account of unsubstantiated past events. Exceptions for intoxication are arbitrary enough. Now past "trauma" invalidates consent?
Don't get complacent. It's easier than you think to recruit the next generation of porn stars from stable families; it's been happening in front of us all along. Just expose kids to sexual topics early and often, nudge them in the direction of alternative religions with euphemistic masturbation rituals, promote the idea that promiscuity and "sex work" is normal and empowering, get them used to posing for cameras for validation, offer them more attention than their parents, get them to reblog excerpts of erotic literature with strangers, persuade them to run away, and coerce them into prostitution/child porn. It's the "fuck you mom and dad please help me" pipeline. The sexual abuse starts under your own roof and the rape only begins at the end. It's the parents who assume their family is immune that end up blindsided. Everything throughout is engineered coercion.
Once grooming became a taboo topic, we stopped talking about it long enough to forget what it even looked like. Anyone interested can trawl /r/runaway or Roblox/Discord looking for fresh faces to add to the NCMEC posters. The FBI has been warning about this for years...but fuck those morons, we're "protecting kids" by banning Backpage, TikTok and PornHub. Porn stars don't all start as junkies from broken homes but they often end that way.
If you and your community care as much as you claim, please advocate for effective mandatory parental controls, especially within multiplayer game environments that allow communication. The action against PornHub is an empty stunt that will likely not stand and achieves nothing.
Troll files bad faith lawsuit on behalf of Falcon Ltd. claiming S. Andworm infringed upon their copyright on multiple gay porn titles uploaded to TorrentSite. This stuff gets picked up by sites scraping dockets and resold as "background check" services.
You are now falsely associated with this content in an authoritative context. The suit will obviously fail but until then people will see a lawsuit was filed against you and by who. The scam works because nobody questions the legitimacy or sees it through to resolution.
"Fake and gay" has never described something so aptly.
There isn't much you can do about bad faith claims. Claimants either face no consequence for false reporting or are able to plausibly deny it.
It's a crime in Japan to pay protection money to Yakuza. It seems to be working. They are a shadow of their former selves.
You can mitigate adverse consequences. Punishments for child kidnapping used to be severe, but then abductors would just kill the hostage since they had little more to lose. Today's sentences are next to nothing to encourage surrender.
Attribution is easily deflected. You really don't want to recruit mercenary vigilantes to respond to a false flag operation.
> This tit for tat type response would seem to be more consistent with how governments respond to terrorism
Lol. Not a selling point these days.
The US has always had a very strange policy of criminalizing hacking, regardless of intent.
Places like Russia and Israel look the other way as long as the target is foreign, and we outsource our own phone forensics to the latter (Cellebrite). Thus, Israel has a better understanding of our own vulnerabilities than we do.
So you never know who you're up against given some ambiguous heuristics. As retribution, you might end up inadvertently attacking an "ally." It's safest to keep us disadvantaged.
I wonder about this. It never seems to conclude zebras are the problem. It's always humans.
Is eliminating humans the wrong solution, or just one that we don't like?
We see this with crime stats too (and as of late, voting results). Unfavorable outcomes surface, and interested groups immediately move to discredit it.
Because we can't fathom that the results might actually be accurate, nothing ever changes.
Hold on though, we're talking about "intelligence". It would be pretty fucking stupid if "Ultra smart AI" assumed the person who ordered "Please solve climate change so that I can live in a nice world" ended up with a solution which is more like, "I'll exterminate every last one of you...". Seems very frustratingly fucking dumb?
What have we done lately, on a global scale, that doesn't make us as a whole, as a species, not very frustratingly fucking dumb?
We are literally strip-mining and destroying the world that is sustaining us at a rate that means our (grand)children probably won't even be able to eat and live. What else but "very frustratingly F dumb" is that? And this is one example. Another one would be how we allow a few tech monopolies to monopolize our "attention" and all information and knowledge about us. We see it happening but do nothing, and always too late about it. We are unleashing AI systems that we know will disrupt lives, industries, maybe even societies, without anything in place to stop it if it does run out of hand.
We see ourselves as smart. And individually we probably are. But on a grand scale? F* dumb, if you ask me.
We do all of this, because we don't have the collective intelligence to overcome the problem. The point of developing Artificial super intelligence is that it can help us overcome those problems.
> If our great-great-grandchildren were asked the question of whether we in 2024 should do away with animators so that they, our inheritors, could travel to Neptune, then I'm sure they'd say it's worthwhile.
Or...keep the animator jobs and send AI to fucking Neptune.
You haven't noticed that tech makes everything worse for subsequent generations? It keeps replacing menial jobs and adds expensive complexity to the simplest of transactions, concentrating all wealth amongst the owner class.
If our great-grandchildren travel to Neptune, it will be voluntary enslavement out of desperation.
What is your definition of "tech" here? Cause food production technology, medical technology, energy, transportation technology has made material improvements in how long and healthy lives people live, over the last 3-4 generations.
Nah, the bigger problem is that you can reach victims, but the long arm of their law enforcement can't reach you.
You don't need OPSEC when you're judgment-proof. You can operate in plain sight since nobody can do anything to you.