• meejle@lemmy.world
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    3 minutes ago

    Surprised the UK age verification selfies haven’t been used to extort people yet. It’d be so easy (and is such an obvious reason why the law is bullshit).

    SecurAge🛡️
    “Log in with Google to verify your age.”

    “Sorry, we weren’t able to verify you using your Google Account. Please take a selfie for verification.”

    “Now give us £1000, or we’ll send your picture and details of the porn you were trying to access to everyone in your contacts.”

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      2 hours ago

      i get how usenet is better than streaming from a popup filled website, but i fail to see how it is better than torrenting
      qbittorrent has built-in search as well

  • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    Black Mirror had an episode about this.

    Surprised it took someone this long to actually make it.

    I forget the name of the episode. If you’re curious, it’s on Netflix, it’s in season 3, and it’s right before San Junipero. It was bleak AF, which is why the only happy (and arguably the best) Black Mirror episode came right after it.

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      Yeah, with quite a plot twist. The entire time I was practically yelling at the tv “who cares, then let’s them release the video of you jerking off and own it. We all do it!” Then at the end, “… oh.”

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        21 minutes ago

        Right, the part I don’t get is, the video of you isn’t going to include what you’re looking at. And if it does you can say they faked it. They could put anything there. They don’t have a shot that includes both you and the screen. They can get sound though, so they can match sound, but that can be faked too. Strip out the audio. Separate the sounds of what you were really watching from the ambient sounds (and the grunts/moans from you) and then dub those sounds over the new audio and it should be passable.

        Also, I just wouldn’t do anything embarrassing with a camera pointed at me. I’d cover the camera or point it away from me. Even sitting on the toilet browsing, back cameras point down at the floor, front camera points up, maybe gets the top of my face? Nothing private is seen by the camera by my best intentions. I just do this naturally. I guess others don’t?

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      18 hours ago

      It’s Shut Up and Dance, my fav

      the only

      I disagree. For starters there’s also

      Episodes from the first five seasons with happy endings (the way they're presented, at least), spoilers duh

      USS Callister Hang the DJ Be Right Back (though the stakes aren’t that high either) Arguably one from Bandersnatch

      Also, I don’t like San Junipero as much as others do because the final conflict goes way too fast and the way it was resolved felt abrupt. Still nice though

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      15 hours ago

      RATs existed for a long time but you needed to manually hit record I think? I’m assuming this is just some extra automation.

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      11 hours ago

      Also if you are sending my family a copy, send it to my email address too. Thanks.

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    19 hours ago

    Been receiving emails about this for years now. Finally can trust those messages.

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      19 hours ago

      I’ve been trusting them for years. It’s a miracle that they were able to setup a webcam I’ve never owned in my life and have it filming where I always go to spank one out.

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        They did the same to me. I think they’ve got cameras set up all through my house. So I started walking around naked so they’ll have something nice to look at. I haven’t gotten a thank you yet though.

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        Why the hell can’t I get a phone without a front camera? I never use it and it creates an annoying hole in my screen

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    18 hours ago

    The spam messages have been duly ignored for years. LOL.

    “If you have access to my computer, why are you blackmailing me? You could just steal the money from the accounts.”

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      1 hour ago

      Seriously, go ahead and try to give someone that shit. No one would be surprised I watch porn and I don’t do it in any sort of interesting way. I’m guessing no one would even want to watch it.