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[ZP @Zpodell]

@VanceNate What was the deal with that train incident involving foreign heads of state on the border with Ukraine and Poland?

[BeamTracker | Military OSINT @BeamTracker_]

🔴🇺🇸🇮🇷BREAKING: An unusually large amount of USAF tactical air assets are currently airborne above the Middle East (1)

- x4 KC-46A tankers
- x3 KC-135R tankers
- x1 P-8A maritime ISR

Interestingly, one of the KC-135Rs has been circling above central Saudi Arabia for a while now, likely supporting RSAF airspace defence operations. (2)

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

Terrorist Motaz Azaiza admits he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten in the streets of Gaza on October 7th and deliberately DIDN’T release the footage because he wanted to protect the identities of the people beating them.

Let that sink in.

The same Motaz Azaiza who was celebrated as a “photojournalist.”
TIME 100.
Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Celebrated by CNN, The Guardian, Sky News and on and on.

And Crazy Mrs. Rachel introduced this guy to millions of CHILDREN as “my friend Motaz.”

He had footage of Israeli hostages being beaten and his concern was protecting the people BEATING THEM.

[Luana @LuanaGoriss]

This is a pre Yom Kippur music concert with Hanan Ben Ari (a Jewish Religious Zionist). The words these mostly young people are singing are:

“Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; renew our days as of old.”

They are not ‘Messianic Jews’. They are not believers in Jesus.

This is what Judaism looks like. This is what worshipping the God of Israel looks like. This is the fulfilment of the words of the prophets: “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Jeremiah 31:31.

You can’t improve on this. We know who we are.

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

I biffs 'em and boffs 'em, and always out-ruffs 'em.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Turkey allegedly tried to kill a key U.S. government witness in federal custody.

Reza Zarrab had begun cooperating with prosecutors after exposing a massive Iran sanctions-evasion scheme involving Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank.

Then an inmate came at him with a knife.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This is what the columnists called a war crime.

Yamam goes through the alley, through the door, through a dark apartment with a flashlight, and finds them on a mattress. Hebrew. “Where is everyone. Here. They are here. Almog. Andrey. Shlomi. We came to get you. Stay calm.”

Then they move them out of a civilian house Hamas had turned into a cage, while the neighborhood is still live.

June 8, 2024. Two hundred and forty-six days after Nova. Noa Argamani came out of another building in the same raid. These three came out of this one. That is the entire operation the West filed under body count. Not a press conference. Not a slogan. A unit walking into a room and saying the names of people who were not supposed to still be breathing.

If this footage offends you, the problem was never the rescue.

[ZP @Zpodell]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ I have no words

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

There's a trend in Africa mocking ghetto culture in Black America.

This is the funniest thing on the internet right now🤣

[Magills @magills_]

“You didn’t think it was suspicious when a guy named SIDDARTH JAWAHAR asked for the $15,000,000 to be in Amazon gift cards?!?!?!”

[Alexander Clover @Cloverkid92]

The 389th Arriving back at Lakenheath enroute back to the states with probably some of the best nose art I've seen in a very long time. Shock 'Em.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

I’m literally howling…

[谢万军 Wanjun Xie @WanjunXie]

据传，习近平在印度主办的金砖峰会上晕倒，经随行医疗团队的紧急救治后，提前结束对印度的访问，搭乘专机返回中国。飞机抵达北京机场后，北京当局没有安排大批官员接机，也没有组织欢迎仪式，而是用军用直升机，直接将习近平送到了北京301医院，进行急救。

据称，经北京301医院专家团队的诊断，确定习近平患了严重的缺血性中风，也就是短暂的脑梗死。由于习近平怕印度方面获取他的身体健康信息，所以，他拒绝在印度医院进行紧急救治，而是搭乘专机返回北京救治。由于飞行途中，没有手术条件，医疗团队只能痛殴保守型治疗，维持习近平的生命，因此，习近平已经失去了黄金急救和手术时间。在北京301医院，习近平即使能通过手术进行治疗，但很大的可能性，会留下严重的后遗症。

目前，北京当局还无法确认，习近平能否在访美前恢复健康，所以，北京当局还在等待，看是否需要取消9月下旬的访美行程。

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This video still hits me every time I watch it. It’s one of the most moving and emotional videos of a live broadcast I’ve ever watched.

Lucy Aharish, an Arab Israeli news anchor for Channel 13, in the days after October 7, with country still on fire, and yet she just switched into English mid-broadcast and talked to the world like this is her home. Because it is.

She even apologized for doing it. “I’m sorry I’m using the microphone like this. As a journalist it’s the only weapon I have.”

Then she said OUR beloved country is under attack. Hamas is a terror organization. Not a government. Not a leadership. They murdered babies and children and old people and women and men in their beds. Kidnapped them. They fired rockets at civilians.

She didn’t spend one second making the story about being Arab. She said WE. Left, right, religious, secular, Jews, Christians, Druze, Muslims, people who came from everywhere. It’s the same fight. OUR lives. OUR kids.

Yes Israel argues. Every country argues. That doesn’t mean we don’t protect this place.

Then she went after the ones who still wouldn’t condemn it. “Imagine Saturday morning. Kids asleep next to you. Sirens. And suddenly some terrorist is in the house murdering your family in front of you. Can you imagine that? Look into our eyes. Stand with us.”

A lot of people were very careful that week. But she wasn’t. And that’s why I still play it.

[ZP @Zpodell]

🫣🫣🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤡🤡🤡

[Special Taiwan @TaiwanSpecial]

Taiwan and the world:

So it turns out Boba Milk Tea, Taiwan’s pride and joy, is named after a woman with big titties.

A milk tea vendor in Tainan invented a larger tapioca pearl, and to stand out in the market, named it after a Hong Kong actress famous for large breasts.

In the late 1980s, Hong Kong actress Amy Yip 葉子楣 became famous as a pop-culture sex symbol known for her voluptuous figure.

Her popular nickname in Chinese was bōbà (波霸), which translates to a slang term for a woman with large breasts.

Over time, the name stuck and became widely used—especially in overseas markets—to describe both the large pearls and the bubble tea drink itself.

#Taiwan #boba #culture #HongKong

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

We have identified 11 nurses and 5 physicians in five Southern California hospitals who may have counterfeit degrees from India, including a current emergency medicine trauma surgeon.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

This is the story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8.

I was the primary author of Windows Product Activation on the operating systems side. Not the key math – those were the ACTUALLY smart guys with heads so big that they bumped the doorjamb on the way into your office. I just did the protection of and integration into the operating system.

As you likely recall, Product Activation required that you have a key, and you’d have to activate it online or over the phone.

But Microsoft had large corporate customers, think hundreds of thousands of PCs, and those customers did not want to have to activate every offline PC. So in that case, you would be given special “Volume Media” that could be unlocked with a Volume key.

That way, a volume key could never unlock your retail CD.

Now, to know what media you have, I inspect the disc image. And the Volume licensing media contained a special binary blob that I made. It was about 10MB of data, entropy stripped, hard to duplicate on Usenet at the time. And it was only present on the Volume media.

That secret data, which I hashed and checked to match to the key, was Microsoft Bob. I took their disc data and compressed and encrypted it several times. Rest assured it’s encrypted and even in the AI age no one has extracted it yet. I really just needed random data, so I started with a precompressed binary image because, secretly, I was young and didn’t know if I could trust CryptGenRand 

And so, if you ever tried the FCKGW key on a regular XP CD, it wouldn’t work, because you didn’t have Bob buried in your bits.

But if you had the means in 1995 to download large ISO binaries or copy CDs, all it took was the key and a copy of the disc.

The key itself still had to pass the product-key validation math (the part I didn’t own). Once it did, WPA simply skipped the rest of the process. That combination—valid VLK + matching volume media—is what made the install look fully legitimate, including early Windows Update checks.

How it leaked

RTM went to manufacturing on 24 August 2001. Retail launch was 25 October. Roughly five weeks before launch the warez group Devils0wn (often written “Devil’s Own”) posted a complete, non-beta “Windows XP Pro Corporate” ISO together with the FCKGW key. That ISO was the volume media. Pirates then started baking the key into images or just writing it on the CD with a Sharpie. The famous photo of the marked-up disc is from that scene.

The most plausible source is an OEM or hardware partner that received final media early so they could ship PCs on launch day. Dell is the name that comes up most often; Intel has also been mentioned because of later source dumps. There were very few organizations that actually possessed a VLK that early, which is why the timing points at a partner rather than a random corporate customer. But I do not know. Presumably someone does.

Aftermath

We started blacklisting the Product IDs that belonged to the leaked keys (FCKGW decoded to one of the 640-range PIDs we later treated as toxic) in SP1. SP2 and Windows Genuine Advantage made the check more aggressive and also started blocking updates for those installs. Other, un-leaked VLKs continued to work on volume media for years; Microsoft did not kill the entire volume-licensing path, just the ones that had escaped.
So the design decision was “give trusted big customers a convenient offline path.” The operational failure was that the media and one of those keys left the building before the product even reached stores. Once both pieces were public, WPA’s hardware-binding never got a chance to run.

These Days

If you’re curious about what I’m doing today, check out Task Manager TMOG at https://t.co/OZcq1axGTb where you can download the Free version! It runs fully native on Windows, Mac, and Linux!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

60 Minutes just released the rescue video of two Air Force officers shot down over Iran.

“Bravo” free-fell with a shredded parachute, broke his back, then climbed a 7,000-ft ridge while Iranians hunted him.

Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine:

“There was clear intent out of the Iranian ground force to come find those two guys.”

“We would have sent more to go get the back-seater.”

U.S. sent 90+ troops on the ground in Iran to rescue "Bravo".

We leave no one behind.

[Stop Government Corruption @StopTheCorrupt]

ATTENTION EVERYONE; Harris County Commissioners said a 7.6% tax hike is your only option. Their own 128-page budget says otherwise.

I spent 100+ hours going through everything. What I found:

• $93.4M sitting unspent by the 5 of them right now (p.72) — added to the budget AFTER public comment ends
• Their own $25M hiring freeze got cut to $5M this year (p.74)
• 13 officials getting raises to $305K (p.101)
•Their own budget says 80/20 healthcare cost-share is standard — they still cover 90%+ (p.16)

This is a deficit of choice, not necessity. Stop blaming Trump. Look at page 72.

@RodneyEllis @adriangarciaHTX @LesleyBrionesTX @HCP4__Briones @HCPrecinct4 — explain the $93.4M.

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 WATCH: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz in a joint statement: "The IDF has now destroyed the underground infrastructure of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Ali Taher Ridge, thus completing the organization of the security zone in southern Lebanon"

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm

Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.

LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.

The evidence begs to differ.

216 million of these are sitting in living rooms.

Where are the regulators?

Writer: Daniel