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Recently, a team of individuals went after phone scam call centers in India in EPIC fashion. Mark Rober used his skills to fashion booby traps, Trilogy Media flew to India and had insiders plant them, and Jim Browning used his hacker skills to gain access to the scammers' internal systems. What follows is mind-blowing. Presented here are three separate videos from each of their channels detailing how it all went down and the aftermath.Mark Rober - Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb PaybackTrilogy Media - GLITTERBOMBING a Scam Call Center w/ Mark RoberJim Browning - Pranking Scammers ft. Mark Rober Each...

The person allegedly has the Dominion code and might need a hand. I'm not on Twitter but I have a licensed copy of Ida Pro 32-bit plus the Hex-Rays decompiler. I use it all the time and I could lend a hand if I could get a link to the code. My version only works on 32-bit code, so if it's 64-bit code I can't do anything with it. But the only way to find out is to feed it into Ida and see what it spits out.

McDonald’s is known for its Big Mac, Happy Meals, and creepy clown mascot, but not for trying to be innovative with technology. Yet, the fast food chain restaurant teamed up with aerospace and robotic engineering firms to reinvent the straw and make it easier to drink its Chocolate Shamrock shakes.

Now that Mitt Romney has chosen his Vice Presidential pick and the obligatory praises and hand-wringing has begun, I'd like to focus on one particular aspect of the Ryan pick: He isn't a member of any of the protected/privileged/special minority classes. Which is to say, he's a white male Christian. The horror! Already, whispering across the Plains of Punditry and echoing through the Canyons of Polling comes an unwelcome sound: the chant that this does nothing for women and minorities. Romney didn't appeal to them before picking Ryan, and the two of them don't after. So let me get right...

Someone I know is going to be working as a teacher's assistant in a high-school U.S. History class. She is wondering if there are some good online sources that she can use that haven't been twisted by people with a leftist agenda. Would anyone be able to point me to some?

(Sigh...) How else can I start? I support Rick Santorum, donated to him, but I'm losing count of the times I watch him on a live interview and feel the need for a facepalm. God love you, Rick, but you do not think well on your feet (or perhaps someone working for isn't doing his job prepping you). When Chris asked Rick about siding with "big labor", the right answer was that "there are valid reasons for labor unions and I'll support them when it's fair to do so. Unions get a bad rap when union leaders abuse their leverage...

crashed after speeding through a school zone Friday. Deandre Cortez Thomas, 18, and Hakeem Saleem Hunter, 21, both of Wilmington, Del., were each charged Saturday with 20 counts of firearms violations, resisting arrest, reckless endangerment, conspiracy and similar charges. Ryan Christopher Harden, 19, also of Wilmington, Del., was charged with 28 counts of aggravated assault and robbery of a vehicle, in addition to firearms violations, resisting arrest, conspiracy and similar charges.

For several weeks, we have been having trouble listening to Beck, Rush, and Hannity (and usually only those) in our area. Our local station is 1210AM, and seemingly a few seconds after each show starts a nasty interference kicks in and only stops after Hannity is finished. Tonight is unusual in that it's happening right now. It only seems to happen here in Delaware County (PA), according to my father.

Received this in my inbox tonight... Dear Friends, The Congress is continuing its work to try to get healthcare reform legislation, and I believe the prospects are reasonably good that we will produce a bill. I hope that the bill will have the public option - and a robust public option. We will have a cloture vote tonight and I believe that we should be able to get 60 Senators at least to agree to start the debate. Click below to hear my take on healthcare reform It would be my hope that my colleagues would not draw lines in...

This Sunday, June 28, National Geographic TV airs Hitler's Stealth Fighter. Set your TiVos or just kick the rest of the family off the TV, because this one should be good. Back when stealth was very, very secret, a few people quietly advised me to take a look at the Horten Ho229, one of WW2 Germany's most advanced designs - a jet-powered flying wing made of wood. In a German book, a British documentary producer had found something even more interesting: the Horten brothers, Walter and Reimar, had planned to use a primitive radar absorbent structure (RAS) in the leading...

The airwaves and the Internet wires have been burning with all manner of rhetoric over the past three months, but perhaps the three that most bear retaining in the minds of Americans is: Elections have consequences. Usually elections revolve around familiar "wedge" issues, abortion, gay marriage, gun rights, and taxes, but this time part of the electorate has raised the ante. This time, they have made a statement on what form they would wish for society as a whole. The fundamental form of society is important. A society can allow people to live without fear, to achieve their full potential,...

I just checked my email and found something very disturbing in my inbox. A friend picked up his six-year-old from school today. They got onto the topic of possibly having Sarah Palin become the first female VP, and his daughter announced that she wanted Barack Obama to become President. While he disagreed with her choice, if she had made her mind up on her own that would at least mean that she had some interest in what was going on in the country, which isn't a bad thing. It turns out that her teacher had told her that Obama was...

Wafaa Bilal, video artist West Hall Auditorium, RPI Campus, Mar 5 2008 7:00PM The Department of the Arts / iEAR Presents! at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will feature the work of Iraqi-born video artist Wafaa Bilal. The opening of “Virtual Jihadi” and Bilal’s lecture will be March 5, 2008 in the West Hall Auditorium of the RPI Campus in Troy, NY. The exhibit opens at 7:00 p.m., and the lecture is at 7:30 p.m. A reception with the artist will follow. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public. For directions or more information, please visit...

Let’s have a little fun… This is an addition to a very well-known and well-loved card game (which I won’t name to stay within trademark law). You will need (in my estimation) two decks of said card game to use it with this addition, which I call “FReeper ONE!” (partially to avoid any trademarks and partially because we speak ENGLISH in this country—grin). I haven’t figured out point totals for these cards, but they should liven things up a lot, and I’m pretty sure our fellow FReepers will have a lot of fun playing. I recommend making two sets of...

NORFOLK, Va. -- At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against Defense Department networks, Netwarcom officials said. Attacks coming from China, probably with government support, far outstrip other attackers in terms of volume, proficiency and sophistication, said a senior Netwarcom official, who spoke to reporters on background Feb 12. The conflict has reached the level of a campaign-style, force-on-force engagement, he said. “They will exploit anything and everything,” the senior official said, referring to...

Just yesterday we wrote you to call your Senators to oppose the broadcast flag on the Telecom bill. Today, we have some hope. Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire will be proposing an amendment[PDF] to strike... both the broadcast and radio flags! But he needs other Senators to support the amendment, or it’s not going to happen. This is where you come in. Below is the same list of Senators from yesterday. If you’re from one of those states, call your Senator today with this simple message: “Support the Sununu Amendment to strike the broadcast and radio flags.” If you’re...

This will be a busy week in the House -- Congress goes into summer recess Friday, but not before considering the Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA). Never heard of SIRA? That’s the way Big Copyright and their lackey’s want it, and it's bad news for you. Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer's memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again,...

A flood of legislation released by the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole classes of consumer electronics In 1998, U.S. entertainment companies persuaded Congress to make dramatic changes in its copyright code by passing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA gave copyright holders new rights to control the way people use copyrighted material and new protection for technologies designed to restrict access or copying. The movie and record companies argued they needed these new restrictions to fight increased piracy threats in the digital era. In the eight years since the DMCA's passage, however, piracy...

After only four weeks in office, the Polish right-wing government of Lech Kaczynski has provoked Moscow by releasing Warsaw Pact Cold War-era war game plans and agreeing to publish over 1,700 documents that may embarrass former ally Russia. At a Friday press conference, Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski presented a map from 1979 showing the expected nuclear strikes across Central Europe under one Warsaw Pact planning scenario for armed conflict with NATO forces. He also signed an order allowing researchers access to Poland’s hitherto secret Warsaw Pact archives, in defiance of a confidentiality agreement among the former alliance members.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the MPAA is trying to ram broadcast flag legislation through Congress again, this time as an amendment to a budget reconciliation bill. Ever since the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority in mandating that all consumer electronic devices capable of receiving digital television signals incorporate support for the flag, the media industry has been working on getting Congress to enact the flag. This latest attempt involves tacking on an amendment to a budget reconciliation bill. Reconciliation bills are an optional part of...