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Cake day: October 3rd, 2025
  • SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIMEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There was a recent study done by the University of Cambridge which analyzed the black market for fake accounts across various platforms in multiple countries. They found there was a correlation with the price of these accounts and ease/difficulty in setting up a SIM farm for that country.

    Snippets from https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index

    “One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”

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    A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.

    So the likely outcome of this Korean effort will be to increase the costs for fake accounts but not to entirely eliminate them. With the extra risk of another place for sensitive data to be leaked.

  • SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.catoBoycott US@lemmy.ca•Ford wants U.S. envoy to apologize for ‘unacceptable’ comments to Ontario trade repEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Time will tell. The ad campaign and Trump’s reaction to it may play a role in the start of a shift on Republican unity in the States.

    From https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/politics/canada-tariffs-senate-vote-trump where some Republican Senators voted with Democrats to end tariffs on Canada:

    Sen. Tim Kaine, one of the Democratic co-sponsors of the Canada tariff resolution, said Tuesday that the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was not appropriate. The administration initially argued that fentanyl flowing from Canada into the US was the inciting emergency, and the tariffs were increased last week after the Ontario Premier ran an anti-tariff advertisement invoking quotes from former President Ronald Reagan.

    “It is ridiculous to say that fentanyl is an emergency with respect to Canada, and it’s a pretext that’s just used being used to pour more and more tariffs onto Canada,” said Kaine. “And why don’t we pour gasoline on the fire? If they run an ad we don’t like, we’ll increase the tariffs by 10%.”

  • SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Alberta Separatist Pushes for End of Indigenous Rights at ‘Unity’ Conference
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    2 months ago

    This article is well written and provides detailed connections between “Freedom Convoy” protesters, Alberta Separatists and other disgruntled people/organizations. A few highlights from the article:

    Bruce Pardy, the executive director for an organization called Rights Probe

    “In order to really turn the page here to become not just an independent country, but a new and free country, Alberta has to ditch the things that are Canadian that exist in Alberta right now,” Pardy said. “Let’s just list some. A Westminster system of government. A Crown. Single-payer public health-care system, a managerial state and Aboriginal rights, you have to get rid of all of these things. And of all those things, perhaps the elephant in the room is Aboriginal rights.”

    Pardy is the executive director of Rights Probe, and the sole staffer listed with the organization, which warns of “the end of Western liberal civilization” on its website. Pardy is also a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank.