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One type of strange result you can get from this is that if you have some weird small stock or cryptocurrency that doesn’t trade very much, you can give it a very large market capitalization by selling one share or token to your buddy at an inflated price, and then you can go around telling people “ooh look at the huge market cap of this thing, it is so valuable, it must have discovered a cure for cancer,” and maybe you can do bad stuff with that.
The Nickel Market Almost Broke
bloomberg.com
Many people have asked me "why don't you just try to login with the credentials in the breach" and obviously this would be an easy test. But it would also be an invasion of privacy and depending on how you look it, potentially a violation of laws such as the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In fact it would clearly constitute "having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" and whilst I can't see myself going to jail for doing this with a couple of accounts, it wouldn't stand me in good light if I ever needed to explain myself.
Here's How I Verify Data Breaches
troyhunt.com
The industry that most avidly grabbed on to the term “creative” to glamorize what it did was the very motor of consumerism: advertising. In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, ad agencies abandoned the old “reason why” mode of advertising a product (“Here is what you need it for”) and replaced it with branding. They were no longer selling a product. They were selling an idea about the product. People were buying an image they wanted to be associated with. It was the adman’s job to create that image.
The Origins of Creativity
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