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What is the difference between humans and other animals? The ability to write, the ability to plan far into the future and the ability to fuck up the whole planet.

We are incredible social creatures, as much as we like to deny it.

[...] happiness, self-confidence, how I motivate myself, changes, etc.

Other topics include staying positive, the importance of having self-discipline, and recognizing that it's highly likely that you won't remember the problems you have right now in just a few months or years.

Be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and spread the love!! All the positive feelings you have for your friends, the people you look up to ... don't be afraid to treat yourself with that same love.

OSINT stands for open-source intelligence. That is, the collection and analysis of data obtained from publicly accessible information channels. Such sources can basically be anything: newspapers and magazines, television and radio, data published by official organizations, scientific research, conference reports, etc.

Nowadays, of course, such intelligence is primarily based on information scraped from the internet. Over the past 10–15 years, online public communication platforms have become especially valuable as OSINT-gathering tools: chats, forums, social networks, and messengers.

The range of people using OSINT is quite diverse: journalists, scientists, civil activists, government and business analysts, as well as intelligence officers themselves. In a nutshell, OSINT is an important and effective tool for collecting data. But perhaps the more significant question is how such information gets put to use.

All British Army personnel, including senior officers, will now face disciplinary action if they're caught using WhatsApp over fears that Russia is using phone data to choose airstrike targets

ABUSE OF TRUST In most cases, successful social engineers have strong people skills. They're charming, polite and easy to like — social traits needed for establishing rapid rapport and trust. An experienced social engineer is able to gain access to virtually any targeted information by using strategies and tactics of his craft.

Savvy technologists have painstakingly developed information-security solutions to minimize the risks connected with the use of computers, yet left unaddressed the most significant vulnerability, the human factor.

Despite our intellect, we humans — you, me, and everyone else — remain the most severe threat to each other's security.

Do you have an iOS device to test with yet? I know for a while you didn’t.

Not yet, @k00b and me are currently discussing exactly this in Slack, lol Quote from me:

I can't believe Apple is making me buy an Apple device so I can debug their shit lol

I'll try to get my hands on a used 6s next week

There are few things more frustrating to me than hearing someone defeating themselves. Saying they can't do something when they can. We live in a time where it is almost a virtue to be a victim. To blame others for why you are in your current state. Now, part of this is true. We are all products of our time, our families, our culture, and our economies. Many of us have been abused or persecuted for various reasons. Many have enemies, people that hate them, and what us to fail. This has always been true and will likely remain to be true. So what.

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There will always be people smarter than me. There will always be someone born with more advantages than me. There will always be someone or something pushing against me. But I can move forward. I can press on. I have agency over my mind and body if I will take it. I can make my life better and the lives of others. In my experience people hold themselves back far more than others. Many here hate the state. I do as well. Its evil but many do not take their freedom back where they can. They don't do things they can do to make themselves more free. Freedom begins in the mind. Stop saying "I can't". Instead start saying, "How can I?"

How can I __?

I used to be as innocent as you My excuses ran out, ran out of things to complain about Fear will always find a way to show Right through

You want to be more hurt than me You want to say you're more the victim You wanna complain and pass the blame You want to say you're more the victim

Despite feeling strongly about this, I don't think I'm very good at it, which is bad.

Based on the variety of links and discussions you share alone, you're exceptional at this actually.

A fact I try to keep front-of-mind is that your outputs are a function of your inputs. An implication is that if you consume the same info as everyone else, you will think the same thoughts as everyone else. You will have the same "insights" and be vulnerable to the same exploits. In the same way that trusted third parties are security holes, an information monoculture is a security hole. Worse, it's a hole you may not even know you're in, because the people around you are in it too.

It will reverse when the bombs drop

I'm not that knowledgeable about anything, really... Naturally, that makes me a pretty boring partner in terms of socializing and conversations.

The only topics I can have a conversation about is Outdoor-gear and Bitcoin, which would be fine, if only the other side would be interested or knowledgeable about these two topics...

In order to change this, I'd like to start reading a healthy amount of books, in no specific order, but on a multitude of different topics.

Oh! Social engineering, interesting indeed! I'll have a look at that genre, too.

My task is made more difficult by a simple truth: Every reader will have been manipulated by the grand experts of all time in social engineering — their parents. They found ways to get you — "for your own good" — to do what they thought best. Parents become great storytellers in the same way that social engineers skillfully develop very plausible stories, reasons, and justifications for achieving their goals

Respectfully…

What are some countries cities states islands etc. that gave you nothing but red flags, or were otherwise not what you were hoping for?

Why won’t you be returning??

Going to predict a lot of big cities appear in responses here. What a lot of people haven't worked out is that unless you're rich (i.e. your local purchasing power is multiples the destination you're travelling to), most cities are pretty miserable to experience as a tourist. They're designed for living in and for locals.

Like a fiction based life form, call me cartoon Like escaping colors from a box, filling dark rooms Like illuminating sky patterns, breaking up Like a dream with your lover, don't wake me up Like a solar eclipse when the sun parts with the moon Like the summer being over but it came too soon Like the moment that your essence became crystal clear Like the flowers in the spring, show your face once a year

All good things come to an end, that's just the way it's always been It might not seem that fair to you but it is the start of something new All good things come to an end that's just the way it's always been It might not seem that fair to you but it is the start of something

Trying to understand our place in the galaxy while being excellent to each other.