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Man i hated both of the mcgills. But chuck a little bit more. Then it was just jimmy trying to one-up every bad encounter as payback for chuck doing him wrong.
Think the foil is to reduce the chances of electromagnetic interference with servers. I don't know if they had ECC memory when this photo was taken, so it might have been a grave risk
Ecc memory has been around for a very long time. Not that they necessarily had it on those machines, but it's been around since the 50s, and has been in widespread use for over 30 years.
It’s a faraday cage to prevent electromagnetic attacks. Somebody outside could use it to collect data. https://www.311institute.com/hackers-find-a-way-to-neutralise-faraday-cages-to-exploit-air-gapped-systems/
This is the correct answer. This is a fairly old picture and these guys were extremely paranoid.
There is a cool documentary on YouTube where you see this place and the rest of the original pirate bay stuff.
https://youtu.be/eTOKXCEwo_8
Yeah we used to think my granddad was paranoid as he kept saying that MI5 were keeping tabs on him.
It turns out they were infact keeping a bunch of trade union people under surveillance, so he was probably paranoid and correct.
Technically that was one of Chuck's more lucid moments, he was pretending to be off the deep end to get Jimmy to confess to chicanery out of concern for Chuck's mental health.
Love how Chuck acted like he was so much better than Jimmy and then pulled the exact kind of scheme Jimmy himself would cook up to further his own petty goals
It left me conflicted, cause he's not wrong about anything. Saul goodman was not a good man. But ironically it was chuck who pushed jimmy into leaving the part of himself who tried to do good behind.
*"Honey came in and she caught me red-handed,
Creeping with the girl next door,*
*Picture this we were both butt-naked,
Banging on the bathroom floor"*
A true philosopher!
Keep in mind he is kinda paranoid with the blocking of the walls and all. I bet he uses the old stuff to insure he can’t be tracked or something. He also went really down hill if you see recent pictures of him. He was all about freedom of information and helped more people than many of us combined.
It's actually mostly lighting and lense that makes you look like shit. You can be in pretty rough shape and be photogenic with the right lenses, lighting, and angle. Everyone looks stupid from full-light, head on like in mug shots. It's actually *less* *expressive* (like you capture *less* about the person's to-a-naked-eye look) when you do it like a mug shot because if you're all washed out and flat-looking, there are fewer details for the brain to interpret across both the picture and the person in real life (if you happen to see them).
This is less noticeable for people you know well because your brain fills in a lot of the blanks without telling you, but it gets hard for people you don't know, especially from populations you've not spent time with (so your 'mental model' of that person is less advanced).
I mean there’s a reasonably significant number of people who would absolutely love to put him in prison and then cut off his access to technology forever… So I mean like, if he’s paranoid I’d say it’s incredibly reasonable for him to be so and at that point it’s more smart than paranoid.
Special foil stuff does actually block signals. You often line electric guitars insides with foil to block signals and make them more quiet (it’s called shielding).
Maybe Lain from Serial Experiments Lain? Pretty funny considering how that show is all about the dangers of forging ones identity using the internet, but maybe that was intentional?
I don’t think it’s a waifu thing, that’s an underaged girl in an anime about how over-usage and over-reliance of the internet world is an inherently harmful thing. Given his career, I’m sure you can see why he liked it
Domnhall Gleeson, son of Brendan Gleeson. my first thought was that the guy in the pic looked like a Weasley brother and you guys confirmed that I was right lmao.
Domhnall Gleeson is incredible. Been a fan since I first recognized him in Ex Machina.
If you haven’t seen The Patient on Hulu, I’d suggest doing so — he plays an amazing antagonist to Steve Carrell’s protagonist.
Bro please tell me there are more of those cartoons somewhere. I love that one and I can’t even find it, and I’ve been hoping that there’s more than one.
Yes, but this is not Gottfrid. It's a polish demo scene dude. The books in the background are in polish. I can't really make out the text, but there's too many consonants to be Swedish. Also looks nothing like Anakata.
I listen to a podcast called Darknet Diaries. One of their episodes is about Pirate Bay and they interview a guy named Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi. The history is unbelievably fascinating. They started a Pirate Bay political party and a Pirate Bay religion.
You can listen to it here. It’s worth your time.
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
I mean it's probably something like; super gifted kid, too smart for public school, gets ostracized/bullied for being different, dedicated himself to his craft instead of socializing, got good at computer tech, hated big business, created piratebay
Honestly this is the era when computers were still cool. Like there is this whole thing of 90s internet anarchism and hacker culture that just goes away sometimes between 2005 and 2010 as the internet is commercialized and all the edges are smoothed out.
I bet there are still guys like this out there but... Idk even as someone who is not that old yet, the internet used to be cooler before everything was on the same 5 platforms and before it was interwoven with every other aspect of our lives.
I hear ya, man. The Pirate Bay was one of the last remnants of the Wild Wild Internet. For those who are really in the know, I'm sure there is still a "dark side" to the web, but Pirate Bay, Limewire, etc were hugely important websites that let the average person give an FU to corporations and the government (and steal stuff, just to be totally clear). Those days are gone.
Especially that we all collectively gave up on the copyright thing is insane to me. Like... Digital Information is basically free to share, so someone creates something once and literally half the planet can enjoy it. Yes people should be paid for their work but solving piracy by making everything a subscription or SaaS type situation really closes off an important frontier imo, and often the products are not really better than before.
Pirate bay was an expression of that spirit but also obviously just a way to ~~steal~~ not pay for stuff.
Imo the demise of these things feels similar to what happened to the FOSS movement in general:
It used to be that for every task where there's specialized software there used to be a guy that made free software that did the same thing but with a clonky interface and maybe a bit more buggy. Now open source is basically just outsourcing development and market games by big tech.
> Especially that we all collectively gave up on the copyright thing is insane to me.
Piracy sprung up to solve an access/service problem. Starting in the mid-late 00s(in the US at least, can't speak for other countries) services sprung up that essentially competed with piracy, and it turned out that yes, people *would* pay $10 a month to stream damn near any movie/TV show they could think of, without the risk of getting an ISP letter or a computer virus. And it turns out a lot of people were happy to buy their games through steam, especially when they run deep-discount sales twice a year(remember the days when you could drop $20 and walk away with a dozen high-rated backlist titles?). Foreign TV is more available in the US than ever, no more having to wait 6 months(or never) for that hot new show from the UK or Aus to air on our networks.
I've already seen interest in piracy spiking again as those services become less user-friendly. Always online is a big one in software. I know I'm not the only one looking to pirate a copy of software I already own a license to, due to the internet suddenly being required to launch the game. Book piracy is going to see an uptick if(when) the Internet Archive's lending library gets taken offline...everything I've checked out from them is old stuff that I *can't* get from my library because the companies that published them haven't cared to make them an e-book, and the physical copies are long since out of print and weeded. And of course video streaming is currently fragmenting, with users being priced out of the services. I don't listen to streaming music(I have music I own on a memory card in my phone like an old person) so I can't speak for the state of streaming music, but I do know spotify is one fuck-up from going the same way as netflix even if it hasn't so far.
Agreed. My main reason for using Pirate Bay, Lime Wire, etc. was to get things in digital form or to get things not available in the US. Ripping things took time and sometimes special software depending on what you were copying,
Then Netflix started making things available as did Apple Music / iTunes. I forget what came next, but you could also buy digital versions of items on Amazon as well as Apple. Sometimes DVDs or BluRays would come with a digital download link. Once we had more than two options for watching things online, I knew the following would happen. People started dropping cable. But now every single network seems to have their own streaming service. So instead of paying for hundreds for cable, we can pay $100 for piecemeal online streaming. It’s a bit infuriating.
I think pirating is going to increasing in the coming years because the networks splintered off into their own streaming services like this.
100% agree with this.
I would also guess that many who fondly look back at those "wild" days were kids or students with no income back then. Having both easy access and spare income makes platforms like Steam much more appealing than pirating.
Movies/series being spread over half a dozen or more competing platforms will likely increase piracy again for those media, not because any singular platform is *bad*, but because of the inconvenience of signing up on, paying for and searching from multiple platforms becomes more of a hassle than just pirating.
Shit man. I just came back the pirate bay. It's more usable than ever and I'm shocked at how much better my experience is with watching TV and movies. Internet providers really scared people off with those barrage of email copyright notifications, but VPNs are so cheap that once you use that setup once you're done on streaming.
I had forgotten what the free and open internet even felt like. Now that I got a taste I want it all back. This is coming from someone who is pre-AOL.
A few years ago I delivered pizza to a trailer court, and they were two very large men in their underwear, tons of networking equipment with computers, no furniture to speak of (not even chairs), and the trailer was extremely hot. Tipped awesomely and never ordered again. No idea what they were doing, but it looked pretty serious. Curiosity got the best of me and I drove by a few days later and the place looked abandoned, although I didn't investigate very much.
I think there is still some hardcore hackers out there, but they're extremely underground and the barrier for that kind of knowledge is just very high.
I just posted this in response to another comment. It’s one of my favorite episodes. I love how the guy they interviewed his sentenced to jail and decided he didn’t want to go. Then he said in Sweden people don’t have to go to jail because humans aren’t meant to be locked up. There was more to it than that, but it was still funny.
Like, zoinks Scoob, I can't believe it! You caught me red-handed, running Pirate Bay. I know it's not right, but it's like, the only way I could afford all those Scooby Snacks.
Which is why his computer displays aren’t CRT, apparently this van eck phreaking only works on them.
Edit: I wrote that horribly but I’m too tired to fix it
> In April 2004, academic research revealed that flat panel and laptop displays are also vulnerable to electromagnetic eavesdropping. The required equipment for espionage was constructed in a university lab for less than US$2000
From the wiki article the poster above you linked
Faraday cages work, but not like this. They're harder to get right than you'd think.
I've been in a commercial one, at a radio repair shop. The technician had an FM radio on the desk, tuned to a local station. With the door just pushed closed, the radio station still came in loud and clear.
It wasn't until the tech pulled the locking handle all the way closed that the room properly sealed and the signal went away.
Keep in mind, that's a commercially built room made for exactly that purpose. A millimeter-scale gap along the edge of the door was enough to compromise its integrity.
Now look at the foot gap between the space blankets and the floor and consider whether that's RF-tight.
And then you have my garage. It has a steel roof, steel siding, and metal doors. 3 glass windows. I can’t get a wifi signal, cell signal, or listen to the radio in there. I have to set everything just outside the window for it to work.
The power lines around my office building cause a similar effect according to IT. Idk why, but they said it has to do with them literally surrounding our building. We get some cell signal, but it’s shitty and drops calls a lot. It’s fine when you pass to the other side of the power lines
This will date me, but my parents used to have horses and somehow the electric fence would sometimes interfere with my dail-up connection. I put together the pops coming in on the handshake and started having to disconnect the the electric fence box to get a good connection to play Age of Empires et al.
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His room looks like Chuck’s from Better Call Saul after he really started losing it
1216 one after Magna Carta
CHICANERY
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Woodwork gang
Chicanery! Who even says that anymore!?
As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never.
NEVER! I just… I just couldn’t provide it…
He orchestrated it!
He defecated through a sunroof!
And he gets to be a lawyer… what a sick joke!
Man i hated both of the mcgills. But chuck a little bit more. Then it was just jimmy trying to one-up every bad encounter as payback for chuck doing him wrong.
Trying to get that coke number, one over Jordan
Think the foil is to reduce the chances of electromagnetic interference with servers. I don't know if they had ECC memory when this photo was taken, so it might have been a grave risk
He kept his Oreos in that room. The foil was to keep them fresh
Looks like he keeps them scooby Snacks, man
Ecc memory has been around for a very long time. Not that they necessarily had it on those machines, but it's been around since the 50s, and has been in widespread use for over 30 years.
Can confirm, have sorted a ridiculous quantity of ram and saw plenty of ECC DDR and DDR2
It’s a faraday cage to prevent electromagnetic attacks. Somebody outside could use it to collect data. https://www.311institute.com/hackers-find-a-way-to-neutralise-faraday-cages-to-exploit-air-gapped-systems/
This is the correct answer. This is a fairly old picture and these guys were extremely paranoid. There is a cool documentary on YouTube where you see this place and the rest of the original pirate bay stuff. https://youtu.be/eTOKXCEwo_8
well tbf people were in fact after them
Yeah we used to think my granddad was paranoid as he kept saying that MI5 were keeping tabs on him. It turns out they were infact keeping a bunch of trade union people under surveillance, so he was probably paranoid and correct.
As the saying goes: > it’s not paranoia if they really *are* after you!
Not just people. The law.
It was covering the window…. It was cold outside.
Covering the window to keep out the outside.
keep all the outside out!
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Looks like he made the room a faraday cage
This was my initial thought too! Figured if you're doing what he's doing, you'd want to isolate yourself as much as possible.
Electrical infetterence
Technically that was one of Chuck's more lucid moments, he was pretending to be off the deep end to get Jimmy to confess to chicanery out of concern for Chuck's mental health.
Love how Chuck acted like he was so much better than Jimmy and then pulled the exact kind of scheme Jimmy himself would cook up to further his own petty goals
The battery gag really threw him
*exist*
It left me conflicted, cause he's not wrong about anything. Saul goodman was not a good man. But ironically it was chuck who pushed jimmy into leaving the part of himself who tried to do good behind.
That didn’t work out well for Chuck.
Looks like a Faraday Cage
Expected more people to say this
“And HE gets to start an online index?! What a sick joke!”
Real-life shaggy
It doesnt help that hes got shaggys outfit on
And the chin beard, and the blonde hair, hell maybe it is IRL shaggy!
“It wasn’t me”
But she caught me on the counter!
That was funny.
As soon I saw it, I was like ZOINKS!
That, that's the joke
I don't get it. Who is this Shaggy that you speak of?
It wasn't me.
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It wasn't me.
*"Honey came in and she caught me red-handed, Creeping with the girl next door,* *Picture this we were both butt-naked, Banging on the bathroom floor"* A true philosopher!
**♪ oya wanna weeka suna wassa stole ya villa ♫** **♪ tressa son a weakness ole o cleana ya pilla ♫**
Go on..
Twas me
That’s why he said it
Yeah, be he also looks like shaggy because he's got Shaggy's outfit on
He's pirating Shaggy.
Like whoa Scoob!
Yeah I was gonna say wtf is Shaggy doing outside the Mystery Machine?
Is this like, 20 years ago? Those laptops look ancient.
Yeah this is an old picture, for sure. I remember seeing it when pirate bay was becoming common, but not huge.
According to Google, Pirate Bay started in 03, so yeah, pretty much exactly.
Laptops are giving me 25+ honestly
USB-A cable hanging down from the top of the picture, Serial Experiments Lain drawing. At least 1998-1999.
Keep in mind he is kinda paranoid with the blocking of the walls and all. I bet he uses the old stuff to insure he can’t be tracked or something. He also went really down hill if you see recent pictures of him. He was all about freedom of information and helped more people than many of us combined.
Has he? More recent pics I see, he just looks like he got older and kept his bad taste in facial hair.
Yea he looks like he just got older, cut his hair, and kept the beard
I must be thinking of pictures when he was arrested in Cambodia
Mug shots always make you look like shit, they’re not gunna let you wash up and eat before they snap the pic.
It's actually mostly lighting and lense that makes you look like shit. You can be in pretty rough shape and be photogenic with the right lenses, lighting, and angle. Everyone looks stupid from full-light, head on like in mug shots. It's actually *less* *expressive* (like you capture *less* about the person's to-a-naked-eye look) when you do it like a mug shot because if you're all washed out and flat-looking, there are fewer details for the brain to interpret across both the picture and the person in real life (if you happen to see them). This is less noticeable for people you know well because your brain fills in a lot of the blanks without telling you, but it gets hard for people you don't know, especially from populations you've not spent time with (so your 'mental model' of that person is less advanced).
Jesus Christ, he looks 20 years older!
I mean there’s a reasonably significant number of people who would absolutely love to put him in prison and then cut off his access to technology forever… So I mean like, if he’s paranoid I’d say it’s incredibly reasonable for him to be so and at that point it’s more smart than paranoid. Special foil stuff does actually block signals. You often line electric guitars insides with foil to block signals and make them more quiet (it’s called shielding).
I forgot about Lain, what a cool anime that was, I'll have to rewatch it
PRESENT DAY. PRESENT TIME.
The lain picture indicates present day.. present time! HAAHAHHAAHA
He's 38 today. He seems like early 20s in this picture
Laptops might be 25+...but he would have been 13 years old 25 yrs ago...
If I had to guess, because I’ve seen this pic before ages ago, sometime in the early 2000s. So, at least 20 years ago.
That Thinkpad with the red dongle. That was a workhorse in early 2000’s.
Haha his waifu sketch in the corner!
A waifu, a nudie, in a Faraday cage; a day in the life.
And the dildo on the bookshelf
I found Waldo!
Shelfdo?
GROND
That's a decorative dildo. The practical dildo is off-camera, so-to-speak.
"Timmy go grab the guest dildo and put it in the foyer before the smiths get here."
That’s Lain. From Serial Experiments Lain
That makes sense, both of them are very related to computers.
Let's all love Lain.
Looks like Lain.
it is lain
Was literally going to comment this /r/Lain will probably be happy
Present Day. Present Time. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA---
Maybe Lain from Serial Experiments Lain? Pretty funny considering how that show is all about the dangers of forging ones identity using the internet, but maybe that was intentional?
I don’t think it’s a waifu thing, that’s an underaged girl in an anime about how over-usage and over-reliance of the internet world is an inherently harmful thing. Given his career, I’m sure you can see why he liked it
Oh man the security guy from Dredd must have been based on him. They look the same and their set up is similar.
I was reading through to see if anyone picked up on that! Same actor as General Hux. Mad range.
Domnhall Gleeson, son of Brendan Gleeson. my first thought was that the guy in the pic looked like a Weasley brother and you guys confirmed that I was right lmao.
TIL!
He’s the dude in Ex Machina too! Another great movie.
Bill Weasley as well, among like a million other roles. Domnhall Gleason, son of Brendan Gleason (Mad Eye Moody).
Domhnall Gleeson is incredible. Been a fan since I first recognized him in Ex Machina. If you haven’t seen The Patient on Hulu, I’d suggest doing so — he plays an amazing antagonist to Steve Carrell’s protagonist.
Was looking for this, first thing that popped in my mind.
Fucking legend
Delicate Steve? I like it
Shits purple… super sticky
Bro please tell me there are more of those cartoons somewhere. I love that one and I can’t even find it, and I’ve been hoping that there’s more than one.
Joe Cappa on youtube. "Delicate Steve - Scooby Snack"
"Sire"
🤲
Somebody say Scooby snacks?
We got a live one!
Sire
*clicks lighter*
Holy shit, there was a meteor that just cut through Perseus straight into Draco's tail... I thought it was gonna hit Earth. ~sire~
Yes, but this is not Gottfrid. It's a polish demo scene dude. The books in the background are in polish. I can't really make out the text, but there's too many consonants to be Swedish. Also looks nothing like Anakata.
Dude is a real life hero
Zoinks
I genuinely want to hear that boy's story. (the boy, not the Man we know today)
I listen to a podcast called Darknet Diaries. One of their episodes is about Pirate Bay and they interview a guy named Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi. The history is unbelievably fascinating. They started a Pirate Bay political party and a Pirate Bay religion. You can listen to it here. It’s worth your time. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
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Sadly the Americans won and managed to enforce their laws in another country.
I mean it's probably something like; super gifted kid, too smart for public school, gets ostracized/bullied for being different, dedicated himself to his craft instead of socializing, got good at computer tech, hated big business, created piratebay
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aww tysm
Nevermind tinfoil hat. He’s got tinfoil room
I have no idea what that’s for. I came for answers and have so many more questions
If it’s a server room, he might be trying to create a faraday cage to eliminate outside electromagnetic interference on the devices.
It's to keep the MLB from stealing his thoughts, duh.
A brilliant genius before his time
Honestly this is the era when computers were still cool. Like there is this whole thing of 90s internet anarchism and hacker culture that just goes away sometimes between 2005 and 2010 as the internet is commercialized and all the edges are smoothed out. I bet there are still guys like this out there but... Idk even as someone who is not that old yet, the internet used to be cooler before everything was on the same 5 platforms and before it was interwoven with every other aspect of our lives.
I hear ya, man. The Pirate Bay was one of the last remnants of the Wild Wild Internet. For those who are really in the know, I'm sure there is still a "dark side" to the web, but Pirate Bay, Limewire, etc were hugely important websites that let the average person give an FU to corporations and the government (and steal stuff, just to be totally clear). Those days are gone.
Especially that we all collectively gave up on the copyright thing is insane to me. Like... Digital Information is basically free to share, so someone creates something once and literally half the planet can enjoy it. Yes people should be paid for their work but solving piracy by making everything a subscription or SaaS type situation really closes off an important frontier imo, and often the products are not really better than before. Pirate bay was an expression of that spirit but also obviously just a way to ~~steal~~ not pay for stuff. Imo the demise of these things feels similar to what happened to the FOSS movement in general: It used to be that for every task where there's specialized software there used to be a guy that made free software that did the same thing but with a clonky interface and maybe a bit more buggy. Now open source is basically just outsourcing development and market games by big tech.
> Especially that we all collectively gave up on the copyright thing is insane to me. Piracy sprung up to solve an access/service problem. Starting in the mid-late 00s(in the US at least, can't speak for other countries) services sprung up that essentially competed with piracy, and it turned out that yes, people *would* pay $10 a month to stream damn near any movie/TV show they could think of, without the risk of getting an ISP letter or a computer virus. And it turns out a lot of people were happy to buy their games through steam, especially when they run deep-discount sales twice a year(remember the days when you could drop $20 and walk away with a dozen high-rated backlist titles?). Foreign TV is more available in the US than ever, no more having to wait 6 months(or never) for that hot new show from the UK or Aus to air on our networks. I've already seen interest in piracy spiking again as those services become less user-friendly. Always online is a big one in software. I know I'm not the only one looking to pirate a copy of software I already own a license to, due to the internet suddenly being required to launch the game. Book piracy is going to see an uptick if(when) the Internet Archive's lending library gets taken offline...everything I've checked out from them is old stuff that I *can't* get from my library because the companies that published them haven't cared to make them an e-book, and the physical copies are long since out of print and weeded. And of course video streaming is currently fragmenting, with users being priced out of the services. I don't listen to streaming music(I have music I own on a memory card in my phone like an old person) so I can't speak for the state of streaming music, but I do know spotify is one fuck-up from going the same way as netflix even if it hasn't so far.
Agreed. My main reason for using Pirate Bay, Lime Wire, etc. was to get things in digital form or to get things not available in the US. Ripping things took time and sometimes special software depending on what you were copying, Then Netflix started making things available as did Apple Music / iTunes. I forget what came next, but you could also buy digital versions of items on Amazon as well as Apple. Sometimes DVDs or BluRays would come with a digital download link. Once we had more than two options for watching things online, I knew the following would happen. People started dropping cable. But now every single network seems to have their own streaming service. So instead of paying for hundreds for cable, we can pay $100 for piecemeal online streaming. It’s a bit infuriating. I think pirating is going to increasing in the coming years because the networks splintered off into their own streaming services like this.
100% agree with this. I would also guess that many who fondly look back at those "wild" days were kids or students with no income back then. Having both easy access and spare income makes platforms like Steam much more appealing than pirating. Movies/series being spread over half a dozen or more competing platforms will likely increase piracy again for those media, not because any singular platform is *bad*, but because of the inconvenience of signing up on, paying for and searching from multiple platforms becomes more of a hassle than just pirating.
Shit man. I just came back the pirate bay. It's more usable than ever and I'm shocked at how much better my experience is with watching TV and movies. Internet providers really scared people off with those barrage of email copyright notifications, but VPNs are so cheap that once you use that setup once you're done on streaming. I had forgotten what the free and open internet even felt like. Now that I got a taste I want it all back. This is coming from someone who is pre-AOL.
Not steal, but infringe on copyright.
A few years ago I delivered pizza to a trailer court, and they were two very large men in their underwear, tons of networking equipment with computers, no furniture to speak of (not even chairs), and the trailer was extremely hot. Tipped awesomely and never ordered again. No idea what they were doing, but it looked pretty serious. Curiosity got the best of me and I drove by a few days later and the place looked abandoned, although I didn't investigate very much. I think there is still some hardcore hackers out there, but they're extremely underground and the barrier for that kind of knowledge is just very high.
I just fell into the pirate bay rabbit hole and i dont regret it
Can I get a quick summary?
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
A quick summary is a 2 hour video now?
Some nerds made a website and it made some people mad and some people happy.
MOST people happy
I just posted this in response to another comment. It’s one of my favorite episodes. I love how the guy they interviewed his sentenced to jail and decided he didn’t want to go. Then he said in Sweden people don’t have to go to jail because humans aren’t meant to be locked up. There was more to it than that, but it was still funny.
You could’ve said it was a young Thom Yorke, and I probably would’ve believed you.
He looks healthy
Like, zoinks Scoob, I can't believe it! You caught me red-handed, running Pirate Bay. I know it's not right, but it's like, the only way I could afford all those Scooby Snacks.
What is the stuff on the walls and ceiling?
Mylar, thermal cameras can't penetrate
Foil. So the government can’t track him
No so the government can't [Van Eck phreak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking) him
Which is why his computer displays aren’t CRT, apparently this van eck phreaking only works on them. Edit: I wrote that horribly but I’m too tired to fix it
> In April 2004, academic research revealed that flat panel and laptop displays are also vulnerable to electromagnetic eavesdropping. The required equipment for espionage was constructed in a university lab for less than US$2000 From the wiki article the poster above you linked
Beat me to it. Really fascinating paper
Bad news: it works even better with LCDs
Does it actually work?
Faraday cages work, but not like this. They're harder to get right than you'd think. I've been in a commercial one, at a radio repair shop. The technician had an FM radio on the desk, tuned to a local station. With the door just pushed closed, the radio station still came in loud and clear. It wasn't until the tech pulled the locking handle all the way closed that the room properly sealed and the signal went away. Keep in mind, that's a commercially built room made for exactly that purpose. A millimeter-scale gap along the edge of the door was enough to compromise its integrity. Now look at the foot gap between the space blankets and the floor and consider whether that's RF-tight.
And then you have my garage. It has a steel roof, steel siding, and metal doors. 3 glass windows. I can’t get a wifi signal, cell signal, or listen to the radio in there. I have to set everything just outside the window for it to work.
The power lines around my office building cause a similar effect according to IT. Idk why, but they said it has to do with them literally surrounding our building. We get some cell signal, but it’s shitty and drops calls a lot. It’s fine when you pass to the other side of the power lines
This will date me, but my parents used to have horses and somehow the electric fence would sometimes interfere with my dail-up connection. I put together the pops coming in on the handshake and started having to disconnect the the electric fence box to get a good connection to play Age of Empires et al.
Can he unhinge his jaw and eat a giant sandwich?
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I'm surprised this is not further up. It looks nothing like Gotte.
the warlock
The Napster
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nice try FBI
Not today CIA
Shaggy + Lain
Watch Lain sometime. It’s good.
This dude is a real legend. I wonder if he’s still in Cambodia; or what he’s up to now.
thank you for your service sir
Zoinks Scoob!
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This is how I imagine reddit mods
They wish.
reddit mods imagine they are this guy with their nice comfy RGB gaming setup
Add 300lbs, more anime posters, some lotion and paper towels on the desk, and maybe a 2 liter of mountain dew and you might be getting close.
What's the lotion for? Mosistrurization?
Moisturbation.
Not gonna lie that space looks pretty cozy.
Enemy of the State 2: Ahoy Me Mateys
Shaggy that left the Matrix.
Wait, isn't this a scene from Dredd?
Ma! The meatloaf! I never know what she’s doin….
Good man!
I think he is customer service at a big bank.
True Hero
The Ma-Ma clan takes a toll