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Cake day: September 3rd, 2023

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  • However, the former IT manager, Jonathan Katz, abused his managerial position and highly privileged account at a mobile telecommunications store to overcome security measures and perform unauthorized number ports.

    As someone who worked in mobile phone sales: there are tons of people making 30k/yr that have the same “highly privileged account” this guy did. He seems to be on the IT side which would make it easier to track. Retail employees do this all the time and usually for less money. People come in with a fake ID and someone’s social and they walk out with a new phone activated with their phone number. An example is being made out of him, but I guarantee this issue is more systemic

    If someone is willing to potentially trade their employment for $5k, the pay is probably low and the turnover is high. Aiding in identity theft is wrong, but five years in prison seems overkill






  • As a disclaimer, I’m someone relatively new to usenet

    Usenet has provided a much more consistent option for media quality for my server. Most titles in the last 20-25 years have around ten distributions ranging from 720p to 4k. The biggest difference are downloads. It’s no contest: better bandwidth with much much more consistent speeds. You won’t stumble on something with one seeder on a 300kbps connection. There’s no requirement to seed content back, although I recognize that if you’re using private torrent trackers this is likely the case for you already

    Overall I enjoy how much better usenet is to gather media from when it comes to the amount of time from request -> server availability