darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Failing something like diffing which is the best way you might consider a tool that enables you to print the document contents to another document, either another type of document (epub to pdf for example) or the same type and doing that should result in no metadata at all carrying over. Of course you need the right tool for it and it may result in all kinds of mishaps with shifted text and pages and other nonsense so diffing would be better while this printing to another file solution would be nuclear but likely to foil everything but very advanced methods not likely to be employed to prevent piracy and basically impossible to automate.

    I’d open the files up in Calibre or another viewer and see what kind of info it shows. Try to strip that, then open the result in a hex editor and try searching for your registered email address or phone number within the file which is the low hanging fruit obviously as if I were Amazon I’d use an internally known account number in either plaintext or even better encoded in unprintable bytes. All in all I’d try the printing to/converting to another format trick or consulting people more knowledgeable about this about methods and what to do.


  • Imagine getting arrested in a non-eyes, non-NATO country by the US. And right on the doorstep of Vietnam and China. How does that even work? Did the Cambodian authorities for some reason agree to arrest a dude who was in all likelihood an undeclared spy in their country for the benefit of the US and just hand him over without any further questions? Did the CIA kidnap him onto a plane and drag him away? Did he agree to be arrested and cooperate? I mean it’s right next door, a bus ride to Vietnam and a short plane jaunt to China and absolutely beyond the hand of the US.

    Also kind of funny, I thought at the time that the leak was almost certainly done by the administration itself to try and tamp down the back and forth between Iran and the zionist colony and prevent a war they didn’t want to be in.





  • It’s not practical. I looked into it once on a related matter and unless you’re a US state dept employee or member of the military, the fees and taxes on importing and registering a car bought outside the US are astronomically high, like the cost of the car all over again, tens of thousands of dollars. The US has very specific and nit-picky safety standards. It’s not a matter of meet or exceed, it’s a matter of meet and don’t exceed the limits imposed by law or regulation so you can’t buy and bring over a European car that has better safety features if they don’t meet US standards, so in that case you have to pay a specialty mechanic to adapt your car to US standards. And even if the standards are met exactly there are huge taxes and fees on it to discourage people importing cheaper cars. This is not the first US rodeo with protectionism for US car companies, they did this whole thing with Japan in the 90s and the Japanese eventually just did bulk importing and then later set up US plants for making the cars to get even lower costs.

    Those for whom it might be practical would represent a few hundred thousand, maybe a million or two people who live very close to the Mexico border and don’t just not registering in the US and dealing with the Mexican paperwork regularly.