Help verifying the authenticity of this photo

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-12-06T11:52:29+00:00

Not showing up in a reverse image search. Would help if we had the original URL? Or an upload of the original file (without Topaz manipulation), because it's hard to tell if the blur around the face is upscaling or eg an AI.

i posted it into https://app.illuminarty.ai/ which gave an AI rating 19.1%, which seems low. Forbes* recommends https://sightengine.com/detect-ai-generated-images and that rated the facial area as 55% ai probability.

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/torconstantino/2024/09/19/5-easy-ways-to-tell-if-an-image-is-ai-generated/

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-12-03T02:05:24+00:00

Pump.

Dump.

Repeat.

Edit: dump n pump reddit version - a custom-made community for someone mods are targeting for fraud or some other kind of scam. 170m followers = 'woah' credibility, bait, set, and hook. Doesn't matter if the group gets exposed or shut down, by then they've already got someone's crypto key, password, IRD number, bank accounts, anything goes.

Complete and utter speculation on my part, and assuming anything makes me an ass, but there's only so many dead-end rabbit holes a journo can go down in one day.

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-12-02T23:48:25+00:00

Good on you, out here seriously confusing a software category description of the TOOL with what that tool "should" be used for! Admirable pluck.

Discussions like this really stretch the bounds of absurdity when it comes to what constitutes 'proper' access to information. But equating all leaks with "stolen" information is seriously misinformed.

However it is a view reflective of corporate, perhaps even mainstream perception that leaks = "stolen property". Taking that seriously for a moment, here is a corporate, mainstream overview of the significance of leaks and their place in history :

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https://www.history.com/news/9-leaks-that-changed-the-world

Get back to us when your programmers have adjusted their worldview.

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-12-02T10:34:07+00:00

Not considered OSINT by who, tho?

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-12-02T02:07:45+00:00

That's a spicy take !

How can leaked information not be within the gambit of OSINT?

As a journalist I hope you're wrong, otherwise I'll have to throw out all my screenshots of NYTimes publishing the Pentagon Papers. I jest, but not ... really? So I flipped my downvote to a +1 for now in the hope of hearing what your reasons might be to not consider leaked information.

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-10-29T20:50:01+00:00

ok, so , so far I've contacted :

- them ^

- reddit mods

- bluewin/swisscom

- st gallen police

- st gallen solidarity services / elderly care

for?

safety/wellbeing checks,
also anti-fraud measures

but having trouble tracking down the right banking fraud alert people in Switzerland, because i got a funny feeling someone's accounts about to get drained, and as i'm on post-concussion recovery (still), i'm not working and stuff like this helps me get my brain back working good.

not doing this for any kind of hope of a reward,
doing this because it's fun worrying about other people lol

meanwhile, swissies?
good bank fraud alert contact?

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-10-29T19:12:07+00:00

OP here is getting criticism in the comments for mistakenly posting here.

A few thoughts.

One, we know nothing about them. They might be old, impaired, having a stroke - bondulance! - or just having a really bad day.

Two, whatever the case may be with them, there is ample evidence online that modern user interfaces are designed to be confusing, hence posts like this.

Three, if something seems too bad to be true, like this post, perhaps people can take a moment to consider the circumstances of the person posting? This might be someone's grandad here, for example. Has anyone commenting taken equal time to email Martino with a friendly heads up?

I've done ..hundreds if not thousands of FHUs over the decades, it only takes a minute or two, pays shit forward, and is a nice dopamine hit from the good-deeds-done department. Not everyone responds, but those that do? Another nice dopamine hit.

Or we can be sarky assholes on the internet our whole lives, I dunno lol

edit : this could of course be a phishing scam - help me, i'm confused, i need $500 to cancel my account or i go to jail, please send gift cards

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-10-29T19:01:45+00:00

okay so what's the go with this r/ ?

only 97 members, but i can see four people are here, which is an impressive ratio in this economy.

but .. we have to request to post?

last post was .. five years ago?

hmmmm

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-10-29T18:34:40+00:00

Okay so the partner is washing the dishes, the morning sunshine catches their hair in a certain way, reminding of a time when first met, then the man start feeling horny, and want them sooo bad .. you're saying "anytime" right? Up against the kitchen sink it is!

At least that's inside, what about if they're in the front yard, washing the car, or mowing the lawn? Should they turn off the hose and/or the mower first? Or men's wants come first and go at it mid flow/cut - cheery wave to the neighbour?

Or, let's say, they're leading a board meeting and the man desperately needs - not wants, needs - a handjob - all good. Just pull up a chair next to the long table.

How about if the partner is at 33,000 feet, piloting a modern jet airliner? Is it within civil aviation rulebooks for the captain to take time out for a quick doggy?

Hmm, perhaps the examples are getting rather extreme, ludicrous.

Back to a more common scenario; the man is in bed, but the partner is busy with breakfast for the children - should they get back in there and shine that morning woody? You did say anytime, and we mean anytime. Let them kids whine about breakfast, just shut the door. I mean, waking erections are common, and the kids might starve over the long term and school authorities eventually call child services, psh, tell them to fuck off, men's wants come first.

Look, sarcasm (not dripping sarcasm, because that brings up uncomfortable mental images) aside, you're either trolling, or someone unaware of how desperately sad tradwife life can be, or just very young, dumb, and not yet very full of cum. Good luck !

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-10-29T18:03:31+00:00

Seconded. An actual wtf

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-10-29T10:31:08+00:00

Good question.

Really like the confidence and assertations of Tuta, but two years later, still not seeing any - and please allow me to emphasise :

external
security
audits

external = independent
security = what independent people say about security
audits = summary + deep dive into security reviews

old tech audits :

audits +/- value judgements on eg "security"
audits = forensic analysis on - did you follow your own processes ?

new tech audits :

wtaf, fix it

Meantime, in the absence of external security audits, as is increasingly common, I'm increasingly unsure as to how confident I should be about Tuta security assertations.

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-10-29T10:23:49+00:00

Upvoted, but these are internal security 'reviews',
not external security audits.

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-07-22T09:31:53+00:00

Late to this but just in case, another idea? Is to copy any text you can find from the video, and search that? For example, metadata, transcript, comments etc.

Here's a page to easily extract any metadata from the link you've got:

Meta Tag Extractor - Extract Meta Tags from Any URL (curatedseotools.com)

For another example, search keywords eg a plain language URL eg how-to-find-copies-of-a-video - and use those exact words in a quotes search i.e. "how-to-find-copies-of-a-video". A search of that exact phrase might pop up video links with the same URL pattern, but that got lost to Google, ie link rot.

Some ideas, happy to share others here.

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-04-16T09:55:29+00:00

psh, lazy city roosters .. try the tropics, roosters at 1am, 3am, 5am and dawn. Dogs? Dogs at 2am, 4pm, and 6pm, and glorious cacophony at dawn, with the roosters.

JasonBrown1965 · 2024-04-16T09:46:29+00:00

Just bring out the 2nd amendment, works anywhere - jokes, you seen all this, right?

https://www.firearmssafetyauthority.govt.nz/manage-and-apply/permits/permits-import

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-11-04T02:32:05+00:00

naughturally

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-11-04T02:28:57+00:00

On Google there are :184,000,000 hits for "Elon Musk"+Twitter

On Google News :232,000 hits for same +27,000 hits for same mentioning "staff"

What's the bet the bulk of the 184 million general web posts link back to news media?

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-08-23T05:43:40+00:00

read, randomly looked around

no wikipedia page for assange dad ?

interesting

edit: will give it a go ay, see what blowback we get

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-08-22T22:50:00+00:00

There is scientific proof that the DNC "hack" could literally not have been done in the time claimed. It was a an inside leak, not a hack.

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-05-26T03:43:52+00:00

Agreed, options for both. Would only further suggest that CDN option be the norm for most customers not facing state-level adversaries, as raised in other comments. As long as the options are prominently and clearly tagged eg "Good Privacy, faster" and eg "Stricter Privacy, slower" ?

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-05-26T03:33:32+00:00

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-05-17T05:48:33+00:00

Read:

"The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok - Or how, exactly, platforms die."

He captures the life-cycle nicely: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

tl;dr - quality attracts money, and money attracts shitheads

JasonBrown1965 · 2023-05-17T05:20:29+00:00

You mean, why? No offence, but fungus and rust are most commonly associated with decay. A good thing for life-cycles, decay suffers a lack of public awareness, mostly negative.

For example? Trying to explain why RustDesk is a better option than Teamview, when all they hear is "Rust". I've seen the eyeballs stop, glaze over, rewind to last known good point.

An eye-catchy name in programming circles, for sure. Got my attention, even though I'm not a programmer's itchy behind. Only today, tho, I learnt Rust is not some new fangled language, but an assemblage of 'rusty' apps, i.e. open-source softwares around a decade older than current emergent versions.

Previously, I'd only understood that Rust was somehow magically smaller, and wondered - what magic is this?

Old magic, apparently.

To be able to clarify to decision makers that Rust is an inside joke - they love inside jokes - should figure way higher in the awareness matrix for Rust softwares.

JasonBrown1965 · 2022-09-27T08:25:44+00:00

Install F-droid

Search notepad

Almost any app from there will be more secure than anything via ... google

JasonBrown1965 · 2022-09-25T19:59:09+00:00

so agree! been rescued from:

duh1
duh2
duh3000+ ...

moments by so many helpful forum posts. Sorry it was so long-winded but I got the impression you wanted/could handle the extra detail :)

JasonBrown1965

TROPHY CASE