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Probably less. He could change his mind at any time.

He "learned his lesson" so he was allowed to stay in office. He learned his lesson alright. He learned he can do whatever he wants because the federal government is overrun with traitors.

This isn't caving. This is the deal they originally wanted, before Trump intervened in his first term. Trump will refuse, and then the EU can say "I thought you wanted fair trade" before retaliating. Maybe it's embarrassing for the US.

This will happen both ways. Once agreements to buy are over, prices of American material exports will collapse within the US. The USDA says 40-45% of rice is grown for export. Americans are going to eat a lot of rice.

Trying hundreds or thousands of hashes against the servers of random unconsenting people on the internet is beyond what I would be comfortable with. People have been prosecuted for less. It's not the same as a crawler where you try a few well known locations and follow links. You're trying to gain access to a system that somebody did not intend for you to have access to.

These endpoints probably don't have protection because they were never designed to and it's hard to add it later. Theoretically, if the IDs are random that's probably good enough except that you wouldn't be able to revoke access once somebody had it. The IDs probably aren't random because at some point only the path is used. It's how software evolves. It's not on purpose that somebody may be able to guess the ID to gain access to it.

This article is very confused. America definitely isn't banning TikTok because it's unpopular or unimportant. American billionaires are stealing TikTok because it is more profitable than their apps.

He has amazing levels of energy for being a fat old man who can't walk down a ramp. It could be the drugs.

I think in this case whether it's distribution or not would have to go to court. It's not intentended to be distribution. Depending on the judge and the lawyers it could be distribution or not distribution or the prosecution may have committed a crime in finding it.

That is possible, but I don't think you need to worry about that. Having a copy of a movie is not normally itself a crime.

If the server is using a standard path prefix and a standard file layout and is using standard file names it isn't that difficult to find the location of a media file and then from there it would be easier to find bore files, assuming the paths are consistent.

But even for low entropy strings, long strings are difficult to brute force, and rainbow tables are useless for this use case.

It's not that challenging if you are looking for specific media files, but if you wanted to enumerate the files on a server it's basically impossible.

If the ID is the MD5 of the path, rainbow tables are completely useless. You don't have the hash. You need to derive the hash by guessing the path to an existing file, for each file.