![]() While we’re on the subject, how many terrorists were caught lately, say in Europe or U.S.?ĭrug dealers – here, the budget may very well be justified. So, again, 0-click iOS exploits + malware – it’s not very well justified for this category. They use old devices without GPS or capability to run user apps. These fellas standardize on the use of dumb phones, as opposed to smart phones. Terrorists – basically, on the most entry level jihadists forums, in the tech section, “opsec for dummies”, the recommendations are to stay away from iPhones. So, it’s not very well justified for this purpose. As we see from other stories, such as the fake secure phone network that the FBI ran, major criminals stay away from regular devices and instead use various “Secure” phones. Here’s the rub, though, really big criminals don’t use iPhones. We should however keep in mind they must be really big criminals to justify the multimillion-dollar investments. Let’s look closely at the categories that you might want to target with, say, an iOS 0-click spyware:Ĭriminals – these are legit targets and constantly highlighted as the reason why governments purchase software such as Pegasus. How would you use it? Given the number of “bullets” is limited, one must choose targets very carefully. Now, imagine you have purchased an expensive spyware suite worth several millions USD that effectively gives you the option to hack any smartphone anywhere with a click of a button. A friend of mine who worked in law enforcement said a few years ago his cyber budget to catch criminals was a hefty US$3000. Law enforcement rarely affords such budgets. NSO is an expensive suite in the range of millions if not tens of millions USD. ![]() One of the long-running claims by NSO Group is that its Pegasus surveillance tool is only used to target criminals and terrorists. To be, or not to be: legitimate targets for NSO Pegasus and other legal surveillance malware? I’m yielding some space for a very important op-ed by my friend and mentor Costin Raiu, a big-game APT researcher with few equals. I’m looking forward to kicking it with Bill on the murky world of ransomware negotiations, making bitcoin ransom payments, and war stories from high-profile incidents. Coveware CEO Bill Siegel will headline my fireside chat at SecurityWeek’s Ransomware Resilience & Recovery Summit on Jan 26th. ![]() My main ask, send feedback here or on Twitter ( DMs open). It’s incredible to watch the organic growth of this newsletter (I deliberately avoid marketing and promotion) into a fun community of builders and defenders.
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Opposite to Pasta stands Chicory, the previous Wielder and namesake of the game. Later on in the story, still, Pasta faces the manifestation of that self-doubt in the form of a boss fight and fights through it. Pasta, remember, wasn’t even supposed to become an artist. They asked Chicory, “Are you really sure it should be me?” On many occasions, Pasta’s earnest and can-do attitude is peppered by their own self-doubt. One of the first conversations you have in the early game is with Blackberry, a previous Wielder, who tells Pasta that they don’t look ready to wield the brush. ![]() Upon becoming the Wielder, Pasta faces doubt, both expressed by others and internal. But Chicory also brings a poignant story about self-doubt, burnout, and the ways in which we can nurture ourselves during times of confusion. With such a solid gameplay base, Chicory would be a perfectly fine game if it were about nothing. (The only drawback is that the paper-like top-down graphics style can make some 3D platforming elements difficult.) Pasta can move through the world as I paint it as well – one technique allows my little dog to swim through paint and up walls, just like in Splatoon. I do this puzzle-solving without moving Pasta and just by painting the scene. Some platforms can be painted on to bring them to their desired location. Bombs can be activated remotely with the press of the paintbrush. The magical tool opens up a new slate of mechanics and gameplay to use in puzzles. Like in Zelda, a lot of puzzles center around relatively basic actions: moving and blowing up bombs to clear paths, arranging platforms to navigate from one side of the screen to the other. Other than the painting, the game largely functions like a top-down Zelda game, so much so that it feels like one of the most meaningful iterations on the formula since A Link To the Past. I colored in the full scene as a way to express my respect for him, his lost friend, and the beautiful water he sat beside. ![]() At one point, I ran into Hummus, a Koala whose friend passed away recently. And while I often found myself unleashing pure scribbling chaos, in some moments, I would take a break and color the entire scene in more detail as a way to pay reverence to the world. For any person who grew up using wacky brushes in game series like Kid Pix, Chicory is a joyous return to that childlike practice. ![]() At one point, I figured out how to create a fun effect by laying down a solid color and then rolling my mouse’s scroll wheel to alternate colors quickly with the striped textured brush. True to the expressive nature of the game, painting is a breeze, and you don’t actually have to be artistic to color pretty scenes. Image: Greg Lobanov, Alexis Dean-Jones, Madeline Berger, Em Halberstadt, Lena Raine/Finji As you explore and overcome challenges, you unlock new kinds of brushes and stamps. ![]() Each zone has its own set of colors: An area called Supper Woods has fall colors like gold, crimson, and orange, while Gulp Swamp uses a lightened color palette of lime and blue-green. The game, developed by Greg Lobanov and a small team of artists, looks like a giant digital coloring book that I paint as I move Pasta throughout the map. When we start, Chicory has disappeared, along with all the color in the world, and so it falls on our excitable puppy dog to bring color back.Ĭhicory’s overworld is filled with charm - it’s named Picnic and all the characters are named after food. The brush belonged to Chicory, who holds the position of “Wielder,” a term for a powerful artist and leader who colors the world. Throughout December, we’ll also be looking back on the year with special videos, essays, and more!Īt the beginning of Chicory, I take control of a dog I named Pasta, who also happens to be the janitor on duty when they find a magical paintbrush laying on the floor. For our 2021 game of the year coverage, Polygon is celebrating our top 10 video games with a collection of essays. ![]() If I close the browser, and I login again, often I find it "hanged up", even if few minutes are passed. I have the feeling (not proven) that it keep working while I have the browser open, with my user logged in, and the D.S. options works, however usually I also have to "Select All / Stop", then "Select All / Play".Īfter that, it works like a charm, and I usually can keep adding Magnets with no issues, at least for a while.īut, after a while (I can't find the exact amount of time, really), he "hangs", and I need to do one of the proposed tricks. The trick of changing the "engine" in the D.S. I copypaste them into Download Station, with "Input URL", and they stay there forever. ![]() They are working, and with plenty of seeds. With every firmware (now updated at 4., and Download Station 5.6.3.157).īefore to start, I check the Magnet (for example on checker DOT openwebtorrent DOT com). Anyone have any suggestions how to get the issue properly fixed for good, without needing to change the software (under Settings -> BT -> PT) or restarting the Download Station service every time I want to start downloading something. I got the NAS a couple of months ago and for the first few weeks everything worked fine but then the problem appeared (probably right after either performing a FW update or updating the Download Station app/service). But, after all the tasks have finished and Download Station has been idle for some time, downloading new links stop working again. Then, once the initial download tasks have started, adding new ones work fine. ![]() new torrent magnet links to be downloaded, they stay stuck with the "Downloading metadata" status unless I use one of the workarounds mentioned in the original post. When there are no ongoing download tasks and I add e.g. I'm still experiencing the same issue on TS-453Be running latest firmware (4.) and Download Station (5.6.3.152). Run decryptSecretFiles again and verify that the interactive prompt for handling the existing file works as expected.įor testing purposes, secret.sbt is checked into the VCS in each project, so it should be easy to verify that the contents did not change after encryption / decryption.Ensure that secret.sbt is re-generated, and that it contains the same text as before. Delete secret.sbt and run decryptSecretFiles.Ensure that is generated and that it contains seemingly encrypted text. Then test the encryptSecretFiles and decryptSecretFiles commands: For each, first follow the associated setup instructions. There are two test projects test-project-keybase and test-project-kms, for testing the corresponding plugins. The KMS console allows you to dynamically control who has access to the data key without making changes to the repository, making it a very scalable approach (if you don't mind paying to use KMS). The plugin uses the specified data key to AES encrypt the secret files. Add enablePlugins(KmsSecrets) to the build.Generate a KMS data key via this command: aws kms generate-data-key -key-id=YOUR_KEY_ID_HERE -key-spec=AES_256 and add the CiphertextBlob to encrypted-kms-data-key.txt:.In order to use this plugin, you must do the following: The KmsSecrets plugin leverages the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). ![]() Keybase is free and simple to use, although the secret files need to be re-encrypted whenever a user is added or removed from authorizedKeybaseUsernames. The plugin delegates to the keybase pgp encrypt and keybase pgp decrypt commands.
![]() I didn’t have any extra bulk money to depend on, and I never even worked a regular job here. Everyone who has talent that’s at home and thinks they can’t do it, really, if I can do it then anybody can do it. “I was determined to make it work just so I could go back and tell people that they could do that too,” she said. With her face and art now appearing on TV screens across the country every Wednesday night at 10 p.m., Blaze said she hopes her struggles and success serve as hope for others with big aspirations. Out of the blue one day, her friend Lemeir Mitchell, a Philadelphia native and cast member on Black Ink Crew Compton, called Blaze, inviting her to be a part of the series. Though Blaze was diligently fighting to make a name for herself, one phone call immediately accomplished that. “It taught me how to be more resilient, that I have what it takes to make money to survive on my own without having to work for someone.” “I never worked a real job since I got out here, so it was a constant struggle for the first two years,” Blaze said. Blaze began doing inexpensive tattoos for people while landing promo modeling gigs on the side. I’m really independent, so that just bothered me altogether.”Īfter some time (and finally tracking down her equipment), things started to look up. And then my tattoo equipment got lost in the mail, and so for two weeks, I basically had to let my ex take care of me. I was trying to do anything to make money. Everything was so expensive and I didn’t know anyone. about three months after that,” Blaze said. She knew Blaze was meant for bigger things than serving food. DeMenczuk secretly hoped Blaze decided to stay on the West Coast and chase her dreams. And when I came back, Mary, the owner, she was taking me off the schedule,” Blaze reflected.Īt first, Blaze was taken aback…until the owner explained herself. “I asked to take a week off work so that I could go visit L.A. All the while, Blaze – and her employer – had a gut instinct that she was destined for more. Blaze dropped out of school and began waitressing at King George II Inn to earn some money while honing her talents. But one year into her studies, she realized tattooing, an art form she had recently picked up, made her happier. Mark Catholic School and Bucks County Technical High School, Blaze had plans to pursue a career as a lawyer after receiving a full scholarship to Penn State University. This “what you see is what you get” personality is due largely to Blaze’s far-from-easy journey to success, a bumpy road that shaped her into the strong, resilient woman seen today.Ī graduate of St. “I’m not going to change who I am or try to appeal to any certain person.” If you don’t like it, you’re not for me, I’m not for you and that’s OK,” she said. “I feel like I’m pretty comfortable and confident with who I am, my flaws. Basically, what viewers see on TV is what they’d get in real life. Still, the cameras didn’t deter the artist from being her true self. “It’s definitely a new dynamic.”Īdmittedly, being mic’d up and having a film crew follow her every move for 12 hours a day was an adjustment for Blaze. Everybody is multi-talented on our cast,” Blaze said. Some of the other franchises, they just do tattoos. ![]() “In our show, it’s a little different because we all do music, art and tattoos. The purpose behind the latest edition is to not only show off Compton’s rich cultural history, but prove the city is more than its reputation. The Black Ink Crew franchise, according to Blaze, has existed for nearly a decade, with other series including Black Ink Crew New York and Black Ink Crew Chicago. They just cover our lives, in and out, even the bad stuff.” “People with different goals going for different things, working in the same space. “It’s basically the ups and downs, the highs and lows of the tattoo world, working at a tattoo shop, and working with different personalities and egos,” Blaze explained. 14, the 28-year-old became a household name to millions when she appeared on the VH1 series premiere of Black Ink Crew Compton.īlaze is a main cast member on the reality show, which chronicles Danny “KP” Kilpatrick as he heads up IAM Compton, the city’s first-ever tattoo shop. It was a massive risk, but one that’s paying off better than Blaze ever imagined. ![]() ![]() To get a money order issued, you have to use cash or have the money taken directly out of your bank account making the funds “guaranteed”. ![]() – Guaranteed Funds – A money order is issued with NO bank information on it and is backed by a 3rd party issuer like Western Union or MoneyGram. I also breakdown what to do if you lose a money order and how to spot a fake one from a mile away.Ī money order is a great way to pay someone or have someone pay you. It’s with this in mind that I researched the 11 best places to buy a money order near you, as well as the costs associated with each. ![]() Maybe you don’t have a checking account, or perhaps you’re buying a used vehicle from a private party, whatever the case, you stand a great chance of needing to buy a money order from time to time. They’re a piece of paper similar to a check, but unlike a personal check, they’re considered guaranteed money. Be wary about receiving one from someone you don't know, and don't spend the cash from money orders you deposit in the bank until you know the bank was able to cash them.Dating back to the Civil War, money orders are a fast and secure way to pay an individual or business. Can be fraudulent: Some unscrupulous people create fake money orders.It depends on your bank's funds availability policy. Funds could be delayed, depending on where it's cashed: Just note that if you cash a money order at your local financial institution and it's not a branch of the issuer, you might not be able to get all of the money right away.Depositing it into a bank account or cashing it at the issuer's office are good options for bypassing fees for cashing a money order. Buying and cashing the money order can incur a fee: When you buy a money order you may need to pay a small fee, and the same goes for cashing one if you cash it somewhere else besides your own bank or credit union.Postal Service, also known as USPS, offers an online money order inquiry service that allows buyers to input a money order number and get an update on its status. The entire process for researching the status of a money order can take weeks. Can be harder to track than a personal check: To track a money order, the sender must fill out tracking forms and pay an additional fee to learn whether the money order has been cashed.International money orders thus provide an inexpensive and swift way to send money across the border. An issuer with multiple branches in different countries can issue a money order in one country that can be cashed in another country. Can be issued in one country and cashed in another: Money orders can and often are used to send money outside the country.Depositing money orders is a good option for recipients concerned about the fees charged to cash the certificates at other locations. Can be deposited into a bank account for free: A recipient can deposit a money order into a bank account, much as you would do a check.They can cashed it at their local bank or credit union, though this could mean they have to wait to get the cash. Recipient can cash it at their local bank or credit union: The person who receives a money order doesn't necessarily have to go to the same place that sold the money order or the sender's bank.In contrast, money orders don't include personal information about the purchaser. That's because personal checks include the account holder's routing number and bank account number printed on the bottom-information can be stolen and used to create and sign fraudulent checks. Doesn't include sensitive information: In some situations, paying with a money order can be safer than paying with a personal check. ![]() Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely. ![]() Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. Grim Dawn (as mentioned) is the easiest example (though Torchlight 2. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. Artificer item with perfect rolls to be memorable. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. Torchlight 2 is a fantastic Diablo-style clone that shoots for simplicity and straightforward brawling while not being afraid to get a bit light-hearted at times.In this fantasy world, the player. 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![]() Gameplay continues as usual, but your new starting point will be the room where your character was moved. Otherwise, roll the dice, or if there is one in the room, take a secret passageway. Pratt in 1946 and published by Waddingtons Games in 1948. Cluedo (a portmanteau of Clue and Ludo) was designed by Anthony E. If your character is moved because of another player's suggestion, you can then start your turn with a guess if you'd like to, using the same room. Games (expansions, promos, etc.) in the 'Cluedo' or 'Clue' family of games, published by Parker Brothers and others. If the player does not have any of the cards, the responsibility to reveal a card moves to the next player to the left. If she has more than one of the cards, she only chooses one to show. Clue Wiki is an online encyclopedia dedicated to the classic board game Clue, created by Anthony E. Peacock, 3.) Professor Plum, 4.) Colonel Mustard, 5.) Miss Scarlett 6. Here’s the overview of the CLUE characters (most of which are also on the suspects’ list): 1.) Mrs. And, while they are all characters, they are also all suspects in the game. If the player has one of the cards, she discreetly shows the card to you, so you can then mark it off on the clue sheet. The classic board game is brought to life in Clue: On Stage Six guests are invited to a dinner party thrown by an anonymous host. The Clue game characters are a colorful bunch. Scarlet in the kitchen with the wrench." In doing so, you then move the suspect and the weapon into the room you're in.Īfter you make a guess, the player to your left checks to see if her cards contain the character, room, or weapon you've named. Miss Scarlet was the red pieced character. Make a guess about the solution to the murder, wherein you announce the suspect, the room where the crime took place (which must be the room that you're in), and the weapon. Colonel Mustard is one of the suspects in the Clue (Cluedo) board game. When you land in a room that has a secret passageway, you can take it directly to another room on your next turn. As the game progresses, try to get into a different room on each turn. More importantly, the seven core characters of Clue were also radically redesigned along with new backstories and an overarching plot for the game. ![]() If you’re looking for international names, this is a good resource, which also introduce a few new colors. Then again, there’s so many really good inspired games and characters created on this forum which might be worthy of inclusion. Basically anything formally licensed to carry the Clue/do name. When you enter a room, stop moving even if you have more spaces left on your turn. Or make your own criteria to suit yourself. ![]() Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)* 4. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)* 4.5/5 Totals for the Month: 51 movies, 12 1st time ![]() Warlock III - The End Of Innocence* 2.5/5įriday The 13th Part VI - Jason Lives 4/5Ī Nightmare On Elm Street 2 - Freddy's Revenge 3.5/5Ī Nightmare On Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors 4.5/5Ī Nightmare On Elm Street 4 - The Dream Master 3/5Ī Nightmare On Elm Street 5 - The Dream Child 2.5/5 Totals for the month: 59 movies, 16 1st time Wishmaster - The Prophecy Fulfilled* 2.5/5Ībbott and Costello meet The Invisible Man* 3.5/5 Watch No Escape Online Free Streaming, Watch No Escape Online Full Streaming In HD Quality, Let’s go to watch the latest movies of your favorite movies, No Escape. Totals for the month: 51 watched, 13 1st time No Escape (2015) with English Subtitles ready for download, No Escape 2015 720p, 1080p, BrRip, DvdRip, Youtube, Reddit, Multilanguage and High Quality. Actors:Byron Gibson, Claire Geare, Lake Bell, Matthew Timothy Olynyk, Nophand Boonyai, Owen Wilson, Pierce. It's drawn similarities to Alien and just like the crew of the Nostromo have no escape in that movie, the crew of the Demeter have no escape with only the sea around them and are forced to fight for survival.ġ0/13 - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed. Sure this could have all taken place over the course of a night or two but Dracula slowly picks off the crew of the Demeter one by one. Maybe criticisms that it's too long are valid but it didn't bother me. So no surprise John Hyams delivered the goods again with Sick. Starring: Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan. Soon after relocating to Southeast Asia, an American family lands in the midst of a violent coup that could cost them their lives. ![]() Gorillas.BAS was a part of DOS 5 and written entirely in QBasic. Okay, here’s a game that I, er, think virtually everyone reading this has played: Gorillas.BAS. If you can get it running, it’s still lost none of its hours-sapping power. I recall spending hours playing that – two-player with friends – to see how much of a score we could rack up. Amazingly, the entire game was programmed in assembly, but the music, sound effects, and speed of the ball were simply incredible. The shareware version, the first couple of tables, came free on the front of a magazine. There’s even an Android version available these days!įurther Reading: 25 Best PC Games to Play in 2019 44. Epic PinballĮpic MegaGames’ Epic Pinballwas one of the first DOS games I played. The CD version had animated cut-scenes, speech and more music. Little Big Adventure was a fantastic game. You have to travel throughout the planet, and eventually, stop the evil doc’s plans to drill into its core. You could choose from four behavior modes: Normal, Sporty, Aggressive, and Discreet, with the latter having you tip-toe around to sneaky music. You played as Twinsen, one of several inhabitants of the planet Twinsun that is under the ruthless rule of Dr. Anyone recall playing as Gorrister and talking to Edna while she was strung up on a meat hook with slaughtered pig carcases? 45. Little Big AdventureĪdeline Software International’s Little Big Adventure was a 3D isometric adventure game that featured some of the best graphics of the time, and a compelling storyline. With the voice of Harlan Ellison as AM (who also wrote the short story based on the game), there are some real tense and odd moments. So it’s quite chipper.Īnyway, AM takes the character you choose into their past and throws them into their darkest fears. Quite a disturbing adventure game this, as you play as one of five tortured characters trying to outwit the hateful Allied Mastercomputer, or AM as he likes to call himself.Ĭan you remember the opening? It’s about how much he hates humanity, how if every nanoangstrom of the 387 miles of circuitry was engraved with the word “hate,” that wouldn’t equal one one-billionth of the hate AM feels towards us. An excellent game, even by today’s standards. The floppy disk version though was just as captivating, but those Spice demands were tough. It was a stunning game, with the later CD version having stills and clips from the film as well as speech. ![]() You played as Paul Atreides, managing mining the Spice production, the Fremen, and bringing the fight to the Harkonnen to drive them off Dune. ![]() “He who controls the Spice, controls the universe.” Dune for DOS was a great adventure strategy game that followed the novel quite closely. Interestingly, the shareware title was available from the BBS of Leeds Trinity and All Saints University, just as the next one was… 47. Dune It may not stand up to modern gaming in terms of the graphics, but it was an ace little addictive game that you couldn’t stop playing. The first episode has you rescuing eight sages, who will help you stop the Shikadi from destroying the galaxy. Wasn’t there some kind of FBI raid at the time that seized all the master disks?Ĭommander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy was the third game in the Commander Keenseries, and one of the more popular. The only way you can pay him back is to buy drugs from one location, and sell them for more in another location. That didn’t stop a lot of us from buying the disk from computer fairs though.īasically the immoral storyline has you as a small-time drug dealer, in debt up to your eyeballs with a loan shark. Still, an ace game.įurther Reading: PC Building Guide – be quiet! Pure Base 600 Case 49. Dope WarsĪnother DOS game that caused something of a stir from various focus groups, churches, parents against things corrupting their young and pretty much everyone on the planet with a moral consciousness. It wasn’t one to show your mother, and I vaguely recall there being some Mary Whitehouse-like backlash from the idea that you’re setting fire to government buildings. To help you further the conflagration, there were petrol cans lying around that could be picked up and spilt to help the fire spread to the corners of the floor. The idea was simple: you needed to set fire to the entire floor, destroying virtually everything in the floor while you legged it down the stairs to the next level. Behind you was a fuse that had a flame following it after a few seconds of starting the level. You were a pink square that needed to be controlled around the floorplans of various government buildings. ![]() It was pretty basic looking, even for an early DOS game. |
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