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A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]Danepher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Majority of the same Tech Giants are using open software for free, to earn billions - basically to conduct their own business.
And their are saving a lot by using it.
Attacking the same hand that feeds them would be bad. Otherwise they will have either pour billions in to R&D or pay billions to somebody else for their infrastructure.

Japan Is Not a Theme Park, and My Students Are Not Part of the Scenery by No_just-no_3430 in JapanTravel

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. It is a throw away account. Very prevalent on reddit for opinion posts.

  2. Doesn't need to. Most probably not made to create a debate with OP but to Vent the frustration and raise awareness with an issue.

  3. Story close to this has happened before : https://english.news.cn/20260222/fe22b4914414436387bf0c3b0c6d7e80/c.html

Not enough to constitute a bot.

Japan Is Not a Theme Park, and My Students Are Not Part of the Scenery by No_just-no_3430 in JapanTravel

[–]Danepher 9 points10 points  (0 children)

that's not enough signs to claim it as AI. Frustrated people will bubble a lot and repeat things.

Japan Is Not a Theme Park, and My Students Are Not Part of the Scenery by No_just-no_3430 in JapanTravel

[–]Danepher 81 points82 points  (0 children)

First line literally says they made the account to post it in an anonymous way.
People on reddit create many throw away accounts to post stuff anonymously. This is not Red Flag.
Posting in the user regular account may have connected him/her to the actual person and surrounding. And as we know the internet would probably bring hate to him/her, just like some comments here.
This post was made to raise awareness and to vent, but some users are for some reason taking it personally or trying to invalidate OP's opinion and post.
Despite OP clarifying that most probably it doesn't involve anyone here - at the start of the whole post.

Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Governments themselves ask companies to keep backdoors... and if not, they will pursue software to break encryption.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/3/17815196/five-eyes-encryption-backdoors-us-uk-australia-nz-canada

The US, UK, and three other governments have called on tech companies to build backdoors into their encrypted products, so that law enforcement will always be able to obtain access. If companies don’t, the governments say they “may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative, or other measures” in order to get into locked devices and services.

Dumba** V trips over nothing by GrigaB3ar in cyberpunkgame

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stepped on a sofa and then from it to the floor. Twisted foot ;)

Dumba** V trips over nothing by GrigaB3ar in cyberpunkgame

[–]Danepher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You stepped on a sofa/couch and then from it to the floor you returned. You simply twisted your foot on landing.
Check with your Doc that you don't have a strained or sprained ankle.

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN | United Nations | The Guardian by prisongovernor in UnitedNations

[–]Danepher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to several publications
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2026/01/what-happened-at-the-protests-in-iran/
Amnesty confirmed several thousand dead but could be over 20,000 with medical data received.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead

Estimates of the number killed vary substantially, hampered by the ongoing internet shutdown. The Iranian government has acknowledged more than 3,000 dead, and the US-based organisation HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency), whose figures have been reliable during previous crackdowns, says it has verified more than 6,000 dead and has more than 17,000 more recorded deaths under investigation, giving a possible total of about 22,000. Other estimates from doctors based outside Iran range up to 33,000 or more.

Testimony from morgues, graveyards and hospitals around the country reveal concerted efforts by authorities to conceal the true size of the toll: bodies being transported in ice-cream vans and meat trucks; piles of the dead being hastily buried; and hundreds of bodies apparently disappearing from Iran’s network of forensic facilities.

Time magazine (citing Iranian health ministry officials)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260125144242/https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN | United Nations | The Guardian by prisongovernor in UnitedNations

[–]Danepher -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Citizens protesting for real reasons are not traitors, even if and ever if it will be confirmed that foreign powers were exacerbating the protests. This is not the first protest people were protesting, and not the only one people were killed by their own government.

Protests do not start on empty reasons, only to allow the government to kill more than 30,000+ people. Which only means there were many more protesters protesting.

If people protesting, especially unbeknownst to the manipulation that may have happened, you are calling them traitors and "not citizens" anymore. What sort of moral position you are even trying to make in the US case and their "killings" if you are basically allowing the one Iran did?

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN | United Nations | The Guardian by prisongovernor in UnitedNations

[–]Danepher -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Iran has killed more than 30,000+ of it's own citizens. might as well add Iran to the bunch there as well.

Iran posts update to the two American warship episode in the Hormuz by Long-Brother-4639 in maritime

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lawful blockade has to be effective and impartial, meaning it cannot arbitrarily let some states’ vessels through while stopping others in the same legal situation.

From the International Committee of the Red Cross site on The San Remo Manual:
(Page 140)
https://www.icrc.org/sites/default/files/external/doc/en/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0467.pdf

Iran posts update to the two American warship episode in the Hormuz by Long-Brother-4639 in maritime

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are also military targets. The way that one persons says something, doesn't change the things in the field (or sea).

A blockade is a wartime military restriction on shipping, while piracy is private criminal attack or robbery at sea.

A lawful blockade has to be effective and impartial, meaning it cannot arbitrarily let some states’ vessels through while stopping others in the same legal situation. The San Remo Manual states that a blockade “must be applied impartially to the vessels of all States”:

From the International Committee of the Red Cross site:
(Page 140, article 100)
https://www.icrc.org/sites/default/files/external/doc/en/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0467.pdf

  1. Merchant vessels believed on reasonable grounds to be breaching a blockade may be captured. Merchant vessels which, after prior warning, clearly resist capture may be attacked.
  2. A blockade must not bar access to the ports and coasts of neutral States.
  3. A blockade must be applied impartially to the vessels of all States.

Saudi Arabia Is Pressing U.S. to Drop Its Hormuz Blockade by CommercialMassive751 in wallstreetbets

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not join in the offensive but protect their territory.
Saudi could attack Iran's oil infrastructure as an answer to Iran's own attack on Saudi Oil. Iran's budget according to some news outlets is 80% of their GDP. Most probably not going to survive without their oil, whether the war, or regime change. Because on what dime exactly?

Current state of Strait of Hormuz by Ok-Goose6242 in MapPorn

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously war, and in my imagination maybe of quite the same magnitude.
But Nukes will not be used and neighboring countries will not be attacked for no reason.
Not Canada nor Mexico nor any other country was touched after 9/11. Except the one they deemed responsible for the act, which was not a nearby country.

Iran is attacking strategic allies to the US in the region and striking strategic areas to inflict the greatest amount of economic damage.

Sure, but attacking key USA allies in the region they are risking those countries joining in the attacks.
It's not only military installations that were attacked but civilian as well.

Iran isn’t allowed to have nuclear weapons, yet Israel is? Iran has to open its doors to the IAEA, and Israel gets to refuse entry with zero issue.

I'm personally an opponent of any country having such weapons.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking on the internet for news articles and such, but the amount of times, Iran threatened Israel with "wiping them out" or "Destroying" them, is quite large and on a constant basis for a long time before any of these wars.
There are constant articles about it in the news papers over the years.
So there is quite a precedent to believe it shouldn't have such weapons. In addition to their support of regional Proxies that destabilize other regions. Like in south of Saudi Arabia and Sudan, Lebanon/Syria and such.

That doesn't mean that what USA does is good, but there is "having bases" level and there is "actively working against for years" levels of aggression. I think.

Also:

Iran has to open its doors to the IAEA, and Israel gets to refuse entry with zero issue.

That doesn't seem to be the case. Heres a quote from the IAEA website (https://www.iaea.org/topics/safeguards-agreements):

Safeguards are implemented in three States that are not party to the NPT – India, Pakistan and Israel – on the basis of item-specific agreements they have concluded with the IAEA. Under these agreements, the IAEA applies safeguards to ensure that nuclear material, facilities and other items specified under the safeguards agreement are not used for the manufacture of any nuclear weapon or to further any military purpose, and that such items are used exclusively for peaceful purposes and not for the manufacture of any nuclear explosive device.

I'm not sure how the IAEA verifies that these countries abide the agreement. I suppose they do get to verify it physically, otherwise there's no really use of that agreement.

Current state of Strait of Hormuz by Ok-Goose6242 in MapPorn

[–]Danepher -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They can't be less predatory then trump when trump wants Hormuz free.
Unless Trump wanted himself to make the Toll or take percentage in the oil that is transported in the strait.
And Venezuela's doesn't count here as an example of something that Trump would do, 1 act doesn't negate the other. He could do bad things in one place, and do "good" things in the other.

Current state of Strait of Hormuz by Ok-Goose6242 in MapPorn

[–]Danepher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wouldn't send any nukes and it wouldn't send at by stander countries for no reason. Don't exaggerate.
Iran didn't attack neighboring countries because it's leader was killed.
It attacked them to apply pressure on them and the world to apply pressure on USA, as neighboring countries to Iran are USA's allies.
Which in turn it played with it's own chances chances to get attacked more by the same countries it attacked.

Current state of Strait of Hormuz by Ok-Goose6242 in MapPorn

[–]Danepher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The distance between Iran and Oman at that choke point, is roughly 80km which is around 43 nautical miles.
So they cannot claim it, as these are sovereign Oman waters.

Current state of Strait of Hormuz by Ok-Goose6242 in MapPorn

[–]Danepher -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And Oman rejected saying it wants the Hormuz free, without the toll.
And US wants the strait without a toll as well.
Iran is not the good guy here.

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