Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by babkayaga on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @07:05AM (#41578197)

cleber. but china can blackmail you into working for them. you will have no recourse if it does.

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by dijit on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @07:34AM (#41578422)

Blackmail me how? By giving information to the people who would have had it otherwise?

Hardly a defensible position to blackmail someone from.

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by pvaldes on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @04:24PM (#41585019)

Anybody that has lots of videos from you could train a deep fake realistic model and create a fake video depicting you committing a major crime. Sadly blackmail is the easier part.

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by dijit on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @04:41PM (#41585199)

I am failing to understand why I would prefer the US to have the ability to do this over China though.

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by pvaldes on Friday September 20, 2024 @04:56AM (#41600090)

This depends on if you can vote to change the presidents of US or China or not.

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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by dijit on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:47AM (#41600327)

I can do neither.. that's kinda my point.

I have super powers on both sides, one can influence the policies and politics of my country much stronger than the other[0].

Why would I choose that side, they don't give me more rights and they don't give me any capacity to complain.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15920618

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