Less developed economies have resorted to even more nefarious means.
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How about to hackers — and to even more nefarious entities?
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"They have a more nefarious form of entitlement," he says.
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Some people in Turkey, however, saw something far more nefarious.
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People have ... There's more nefarious uses of that data, obviously.
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But when you zoom in, you see something way more nefarious.
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Critics, however, say the move has a much more nefarious motive.
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Or is there something more -- or more nefarious -- at work here?
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But these marketplaces can also be used for more nefarious transactions.
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But other, more nefarious, people could technically do the same thing.
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Of course, texting could also be used for more nefarious purposes.
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Or is the national test excuse a cover for something more nefarious?
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Investigators now say the hack may be far more nefarious than previously thought.
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To Hillary, though, Trump's attachment to the birther movement was much more nefarious.
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Jack investigated and discovered a more nefarious truth, which he sought to avenge.
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This conundrum has far more nefarious implications than merely agitating an atheist millennial.
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More nefarious means were also employed: vote alterations, ballot box dumping, physical intimidation.
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Or is there some more nefarious purpose such as an attempt at intimidation?
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Perhaps more nefarious, however, are the social media streams that steal our time.
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Of course, there are also more nefarious motivations at play, but the dance!
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"Otherwise, it looks like we're hiding something far more nefarious," one person said.
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As if he isn't afraid of something darker, more nefarious in the region.
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Of course, there are also the more nefarious ways this tech can be used.
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But the town soon found that she had much more nefarious, turd-related intentions.
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There could be more nefarious applications for this sort of technique beyond sharing literature.
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Sometimes this data gets hacked or is used for more nefarious purposes than advertising.
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He has demonstrated nothing more nefarious than the virtuous hustle of a talented entrepreneur.
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But the more nefarious teach men to manipulate women for their own sexual needs.
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Because of this, perhaps, it's easy to ignore the more nefarious motives of these companies.
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But exclusion targeting can also be used for some more nefarious, and potentially illegal, aims.
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But the real threat in this movie is something (or someone, really) far more nefarious.
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When she said no, he apparently decided to pursue more nefarious means of getting online.
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Advertisers and even more nefarious actors have been using our data against us for years.
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One of aspirin's more nefarious downsides is that it can increase the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.
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That Trump kept Flynn on anyways suggests a dangerous stubborn streak, if not something more nefarious.
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But more nefarious traffic, such as drug dealing or child pornography, also passes through the network.
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Even more nefarious, to my mind, is that he appears to have treasonous associations with the Russians.
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It's not hard to imagine how this type of tool could be used for more nefarious purposes.
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But the people buying it had much more nefarious ends in mind than just a new audience.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Philip Davidson is equally focused on perfection, albeit through a much more nefarious lens.
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But there's a legitimate fear that these types of videos could be used for more nefarious purposes.
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But they've also been used for more nefarious purposes, like helping prisoners escape and spying on people.
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The reasons appear to be more nefarious than claims that the Island won't take additional austerity measures.
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Other times the results are more nefarious, like when retailers used algorithms to fix prices on Amazon.
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On more nefarious fronts, professional athletes on Cameo have also been used as pawns in cruel games.
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Jaku hacked Super Mario Maker to uncover what Nintendo was keeping secret, while others are more nefarious.
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The 5X is a Trojan Horse, it impresses you with its exterior but something more nefarious lurks within.
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Yet, every season has one cast member who seems just a little bit more nefarious than the rest.
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But while some hobbyists might be using the devices to make films, other people have more nefarious ideas.
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Muammar Gaddafi is no longer in power in Libya, but the vacuum was filled by more nefarious actors.
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Iran has been known to provide commercial cover for some of its more nefarious objectives in the region.
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Jean is taking suggestions from the students about sex ed, but Otis believes she's doing something more nefarious.
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Another, much more nefarious reason comes from George R. R. Martin himself in a recent interview with Time.
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Planes are more crowded, extra fees more nefarious, the glamor of the jet age left behind like a contrail.
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" Or, "What are the ways in which this technology we're designing could ultimately be used for more nefarious things?
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The motive can be making a profit, laundering money or, even more nefarious, using confidential player information for extortion.
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Based on information from various sources, agents suspected that their studies might be a cover for something more nefarious.
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But the Trump administration saw something more nefarious afoot: a U.N. power grab to usurp control over U.S. borders.
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But in a phone call one night last month, the authorities said, he hinted at his other, more nefarious work.
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The IRS says it believes this is all the result of a glitch, rather than something more nefarious like hacking.
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Relationships with parents are never easy, but Sam's dismissal of her dad feels like a symptom of something more nefarious.
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The prospect of a physical double seemed so much more nefarious than any of the doubles collected on the internet.
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If they were more nefarious, they would have been able to pull any sensitive (and non-encrypted) information being transmitted.
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The only man on that island, Guy Pearce's enigmatic scientist Halvorson, has far more nefarious designs than we originally realized.
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"Location-based tracking, for example, is much more nefarious than most people realize," said Bob O'Donnell, head of TECHnalysis Research.
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The prototype for Draw Your Blade isn't polished at all, and you're not fighting anything more nefarious than floating spheres.
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In that film, leaders and dignitaries were being secretly replaced by perfect clones as part of a more nefarious plot.
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There are examples of persistent surveillance tools being used to apprehend violent criminals, but we shouldn't forget more nefarious possibilities.
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It's not particularly heartwarming stuff, especially when it seems like there's something more nefarious going on behind Infinity's tragic backstory.
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As the hubbub around cryptocurrencies continues to grow, so, too do the ways that more nefarious folks can exploit clueless individuals.
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In this picture from 2016, the robot almost seems scandalized—like they were caught in the act of something more nefarious.
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The dad seems like he's your basic concerned and grieving father, but maybe there's something more nefarious going on with him.
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Diarrhea can be a result of something mundane, like stress, or "more nefarious causes," like infection and bacteria, Dr. Sam says.
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But, the thinking went, this was simply the unorthodox approach of an unorthodox politicians -- not something more nefarious and more conspiratorial.
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However, other conspiracy theories, such as QAnon, seem to be more nefarious and have begun to seep into the real world.
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She needs to seem as if she's going to Jean to help save her, even when her intentions are more nefarious.
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I think they're gonna get fined, and they're gonna move on and find ever-more-nefarious ways to spy on you.
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Blackburn, a major recipient of ISP lobbying cash, claims her legislation would hold ISPs accountable, but the intention is more nefarious.
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No matter how diligent you are, though, Rios thinks his more nefarious hacking brethren will only push harder to steal your information.
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Democrats, instead, are opposing promising reforms to create a smokescreen for something much more nefarious - a partisan takeover of the Federal Reserve.
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Increasingly, as even more nefarious players ramp up, that could mean more attacks on basic infrastructure, from electric grids to phone systems.
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He's being blackmailed by the Russian government, not just for being peed on by Russian hookers, but for much more nefarious things.
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The question now, though, is if this historic mission will serve as a stepping stone to something more nefarious down the line.
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Truman's occasionally abrasive nature didn't win many fans — though his verbal gaffes remind me more of, say, Joe Biden than anyone more nefarious.
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That includes Ed Harris, a frequent visitor whose barbaric tastes hint at a deeper, more nefarious motivation, still vague after previewing four episodes.
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But like many well-intentioned tools of the internet, some users have figured out how to use Twitter lists for more nefarious purposes.
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But the role he was playing was far more nefarious — and more blatantly ridiculous — than anything Zoo had attempted up to that point.
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These tools mean that like-minded people can get together for more nefarious purposes, safe in the knowledge that they can't be tracked.
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But sometimes the cause is more nefarious—a pickpocket plying his trade on the network, possibly employing a stolen travelcard to do so.
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That open Wi-Fi at your local coffee shop can give advertisers and more nefarious types the ability to track your IP address.
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When the meeting changes from trout fishing to an expenses paid trip to Hawaii for your family, it becomes more nefarious, he said.
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The call was "perfect," and the whistleblower's complaint was based on hearsay that made the conversation sound more nefarious than it actually was.
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The destruction of the Buddhas bespeaks the way the effects of imperialism reproduce themselves in an indigenous population, in even more nefarious ways.
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On Thursday morning, Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores equivocated on whether the "secret society" text was a joke or something more nefarious.
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Men such as Oscar may call themselves feminists and position themselves as allies to women, but their friendship is predicated on something more nefarious.
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In fact, the U.S. government is late to a party long dominated by black hat hackers working for themselves or even more nefarious parties.
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"This isn't new, but the landscape that we're in makes it so much more nefarious, and fast, and swift and hard to manage," Wilson said.
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When I clicked on it I was transferred to a SendGrid redirect site and dumped into TechCrunch – but the payload could have been more nefarious.
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He manipulated events—through payoffs, propaganda, and sometimes more nefarious means—to insure that indigenous politicians friendly to the United States would be "freely" elected.
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But the fact that Harder is targeting claims where Gawker, not its insurance company, is on the hook suggests something more nefarious is going on.
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And the Kree aliens, some of whom Captain Marvel revealed to be warmongers and propagandists, seem to be more nefarious and threatening that we thought.
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It's pretty light on the action, possibly signaling that there will be something more nefarious at play — like a villain or two — than meets the eye.
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It certainly wouldn't mean an end to fake accounts, many of which exist for reasons more nefarious than boosting follower figures (see, election interference on Facebook).
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Though many maintain the most likely scenario is that the storm capsized the boys' boat, some factors point to the possibility of something far more nefarious.
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Dr. Evil's son, played by Seth Green in the "Austin Powers" movies, loses his hair as his behavior becomes more and more nefarious, matching his father.
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The company's secrecy about its health-care work and use of code names like "Project Nightingale" makes its dealings look more nefarious than they actually are.
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The Pineapple is an invaluable tool for pentesters, but its popularity is also due to the fact that it can be used for more nefarious purposes.
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I'd missed the entire reason privacy isn't just a concern for those who logged into Ashley Madison or researched something more nefarious than the difference between starches.
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So right now it&aposs unclear if this person walked in with these phony grenades and thought they would make him look more nefarious than he did.
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It all has to do with keeping the Russia story alive by dribbling these little hints that there something more nefarious than rank money laundering going on.
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What it does make clear, however, is that dismissing the idea that there is something more nefarious going on here is now willfully blinding oneself to facts.
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And from a service level that is frightening but it's maybe just being used for marketing purposes, but then it can get to a more nefarious place.
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While "I'm Not Racist" was an arguably inartful but well-intentioned "gotta hear both sides" anthem, Lucas' recent comments feel much more nefarious and even more oblivious.
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While Bridges claims that he just was following orders with the seizure warrant, the US Attorney's office in San Francisco thinks there was a more nefarious motive.
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They may also show something more nefarious: a concerted attempt to create a climate of crisis by detaining and releasing migrants in the most chaotic way possible.
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Even more nefarious, the White House didn't want to leave a paper trail, so it didn't tell the NSA what information to share and what to withhold.
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It's unclear whether the fake MEW app is an actual Ethereum wallet that's trying to bring in some traffic from the MEW name, or something far more nefarious.
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Iran was accused of other, more nefarious methods of avoiding detection, like turning off signaling systems on its vessels and making ship-to-ship transfers while at sea.
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A woman named Llevana was mounting a defense against this new captain, and when I spoke with her she explained that there was something even more nefarious happening.
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But some people suspect a more nefarious motive: Delta and its rivals are making basic economy so unpleasant that people will pay extra to "upgrade" to standard economy.
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But it is possible to use hypnosis for more nefarious purposes, admits David Spiegel, MD, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University who has studied hypnosis for decades.
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It's unsurprising, then, that some Prison Architect modders would take this ethically ambiguous setup for a game and allow players to participate in scenarios with more nefarious ambitions.
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All of these have made concepts like data analytics and data mining, even around supposedly anonymised information, feel more nefarious and unclear in their target purposes and ends.
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But Volker now says he was in the dark for many of the crucial moments that would have pointed toward a more nefarious purpose of the Ukraine maneuverings.
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"They do anything for me," she says of her friends, flashing a sly hint that she might be capable of more nefarious things than she appears to be.
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It becomes a game of whataboutism where partisans justify the rough language on their side by pointing to some allegedly more nefarious language by those on the other side.
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Although this reference was intended as a joke in his April remarks, a recent Politico story casts the effect of their personal ties in a potentially more nefarious light.
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As the planet gets warmer and global emissions continue to soar, young activists are rising up to take a personal stand against humans' more nefarious impacts on the climate.
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Some have suggested Trump's desire to work more closely with Russia results from gullible naïveté; others have raised the possibility of more nefarious reasons for Trump's pro-Russia tilt.
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Abuse takes the form of fake accounts and bots that are either spamming users, attempting to steal information, or even more nefarious ends, such as political and social manipulation.
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The difference is that while a regular advertiser might want to merely sell you a product, a more nefarious character might want to politically influence you, or your vote.
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DMVs sell the data for an array of approved purposes, such as to insurance or tow companies, but some of them have sold to more nefarious businesses as well.
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But as the day of big event approached, Trump seemed particularly excited about his proximity to Putin — even as the Russian's image in the U.S. was growing more nefarious.
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" The Court's right flank argued that this state constitutional provision was enacted for a much more nefarious purpose — in Justice Brett Kavanaugh's words, to advance "grotesque anti-Catholic bigotry.
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The essay details the destruction of the street where he lives, but makes clear that the motivations for such "renovation projects" are often more nefarious than meets the eye.
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But given that "Black Panther" has an all-black cast and the storyline includes themes of race, many saw the move as more nefarious than just a friendly rivalry.
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" At Riot, the lawsuit alleges, its staff are known as "Rioters" who are supposed to be "core gamers" and the term "has a more nefarious meaning to its female employees.
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As much as we would have loved for Swift to star alongside Taylor in the venture as one-half of the brother/sister duo, Swift's role is decidedly more nefarious.
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This can be useful if it helps consumers see more relevant ads, but it can also be used for manipulation and more nefarious purposes, as the Cambridge Analytica issue shows.
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However, women later alleged that an all-woman sub organization within NXIVM, known as D.O.S. or "Dominus Obsequious Sororium" (which translates to Master Over Slave Women), had more nefarious intentions.
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But according to a new Russian TV report, the dumb spinning toys have a secret purpose—one far more nefarious than their insane markup: to turn people into brainwashed zombies.
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"I'm really hoping nothing more nefarious has been going on and that in fact, it is an overcrowding issue which is bad enough as it is," another parent told KKTV.
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The exams later served a more nefarious purpose: to screen out recently arrived immigrants, who tended not to do well on such tests, according to Claude Steele, a Stanford professor.
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There are more nefarious reasons to use LLCs, including to illegally hide assets, shield profits from taxation and launder drug money or funds embezzled from a foreign company or government.
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What a jury has to decide is whether this was a mere culture clash between LA-based reality TV stars and brusk Boston teamsters—or something more nefarious than that.
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While it is possible something more nefarious was at play, I think it is much more likely that Epstein's suicide was the result of negligence and not some grand conspiracy.
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The place is again overseen by Mr. Roarke (Michael Peña), but this time he has more nefarious plans for his guests, including fantasies of torture and revenge from the grave.
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The summons to Coinbase looks to be an effort to respond to the lack of action on the virtual currency front by focusing on more nefarious uses of virtual currencies.
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And finally, Google will go after more nefarious websites that open new windows when visitors click on invisible overlays or advertising links that are disguised as buttons, like video playback controls.
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Of course, we, along with Philip and Elizabeth, now know that no such plot exists, and that Directorate S's revised mission to steal Ben's superwheat is actually the more nefarious mission.
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That means the app can also be used to check in on loved ones from afar, for those who have kids or elderly relatives — or, one imagines, for more nefarious reasons.
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I haven't compiled it but there is enough interesting info in the files themselves that it could make an educational project for researchers and, sadly, a compact tool for more nefarious uses.
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Even though ISIS invested some effort into its drone training and development program, not much work or knowledge is needed to turn a hobbyist drone into a tool for more nefarious purposes.
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Stand-alone subscription packages offered by the NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB all black out in-market teams, leaving local fans in the dark or to find more nefarious means of viewing.
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The result was a new and apparently unwanted level of attention to his past business ventures, which showed plenty of irregularities but no hard evidence of anything more nefarious than tax problems.
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In the novel we get to fall in love with the campus along with Mae, and thus feel along with her the shock of discovering the appealing surface hides something more nefarious.
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Benign as these materials may seem to anyone familiar with tabletop gaming, many inmates will tell you it's not uncommon for correctional officers to mistake their gaming materials for something more nefarious.
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The Chinese theoretical journal Quishi, an authoritative organ of the Communist Party Central Committee, suggests Trump's real reason for embarking on his tariff war is far more nefarious than simply balancing trade.
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Maybe Chic's "cover story" –the one he tells the Coopers when he finally meets his biological family – is that he works for the government, but really, he's there for far more nefarious reasons.
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Anonymity is the unifying factor of the dark web, and it's used for all the purposes you might imagine, from the relatively benign (whistleblowing, cryptocurrency) to the more nefarious (child porn, narcotics sales).
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"A lot of technology can be used for very good purposes and that same technology can be used for more nefarious purposes," Nick Fox, Google's vice president of product and design, told me.
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The more nefarious way to get at the poison is to isolate it from the mush that's left behind after pressing the beans for castor oil, which can be used as a laxative.
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Motive unclear So far it's been almost impossible to judge whether Trump's is simply acting rashly or with more nefarious forethought since his own administration's explanations have been laced with confusion and contradictions.
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If that is the goal of the LGBT community leadership, then the reasons for rearranging the traditional definition is far more nefarious than just making a small segment of the population feel better.
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Daryl and Tara were headed for the Sanctuary too, but for much more nefarious reasons — they planned to kill Dwight and "end this thing right now," presumably without the knowledge of Master Rick.
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The show doesn't make them equivalent violations — Hooli's is more nefarious, Pied Piper's more useful — but it's taken as a matter of course that privacy concerns are a joke in the tech world.
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And given the nature of the charges against him and the other powerful, high profile individuals whose names have been linked to his case, was this all a mistake or something more nefarious?
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Dr. Sanjay's death is, of course, a red herring that leads Mulder and Scully to a far more nefarious plot and to a young alien hybrid named Kyle, who is searching for his sister.
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Migrants interviewed by The Times for this article said that they needed work, and that riding a bike, even on precarious terms, was better than more nefarious ways of making money like selling drugs.
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But the need to guard users' data — especially in an age when hackers and more autocratic governments can use it for more nefarious reasons — still trumps the public-safety concerns Mr. Barr is raising.
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But the combination of equipment failure that led to long lines in a purple state, alongside the Russian interference campaign of 2016, has raised percolating concerns that something more nefarious had happened in Durham county.
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On the second one about the documents, that one is a little bit more nefarious or troubling, and I think what Senator Leahy said at the end of that thread is where I come down.
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"Hell" got its name as something of a counterpart to Uber's controversial "God View" program which brought heat on the company after it was used for more nefarious schemes that seemed to violate user privacy.
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Not only would it allow you to have a microphone around the President during his private conversations, but being able to do something more nefarious, like sending a rogue tweet, could literally start a war.
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Today, as part of its efforts to improve how that ad business works, it provided an annual update that details the progress it's made to shut down some of the more nefarious aspects of it.
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Cartoon Network Each Gem has her own set of skills and powers, which are used both in daily life and to ward off threats to Earth from otherworldly creatures and other, more nefarious Crystal Gems.
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Malicious users often try to send emails that have URLs containing the names of companies like Google or Dropbox, but there will usually be some sort of giveaway that the links point to somewhere more nefarious.
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Trump has said a whistleblower complaint accusing him of soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 election from Ukraine during the call is false and based on hearsay that makes the conversation seem more nefarious than it was.
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Tax disclosure would let us see how Trump's businesses work — how successful he really is and how much that success hinges on investments from foreign actors who may have a more nefarious agenda than real estate development.
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Twitter's bot-friendly design and approach differs greatly from the tighter regulation of authenticity and automation on Facebook; the former allows for a thriving bot ecology but also makes a space for more nefarious uses of automation.
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It only seemed like Mulwray was a mistress because he chose to meet with her in a hotel room, which is a great way to cover up far more nefarious scheming with the quotidien deception of an affair.
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In the world of online commerce, they strive to capture our attention, perhaps doing nothing more nefarious than getting us to linger on a webpage for a few extra moments in the hope that we might buy something.
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In the latest twist, the New York Times reported on Friday, a pair of researchers is pretty sure that one of the recordings of the strange noises captured nothing more nefarious than a particularly loud breed of cricket.
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Now, these ad-blockers can deal a serious hit to publishers and creators who rely on ad views for revenue — and Google also worried in August that it could lead advertisers to use more nefarious forms of tracking.
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And the same thing with the internet; they used the internet really well and they learned how to use and communicate on it really well, and then they learned how to use it in a more nefarious way.
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Of course, what's happening here is, in some ways, more nefarious-sounding than the arch anti-capitalist take presumed: Microsoft is not merely trying to buy support; it's also pressuring local politicians into changing policies to fit its priorities.
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The company's motivation for dropping device encryption here might be no more nefarious than a desire to try to improve the performance of cheap, low power hardware (the 7-inch Fire slate can cost as little as $50 new).
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There is no word yet about Mr. Wertkin's motivation for undertaking a course of action that now looks almost laughably amateurish, but the silliness may indicate that it was the product of desperation and not a more nefarious plan.
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While her name's been in music news headlines lately for significantly more nefarious reasons, when she's not singing in pop duo YACHT, Claire L. Evans works as a science and technology journalist, in addition to being an editor at VICE's Motherboard.
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That's because as the online ads industry has grown, another more nefarious one has flourished with it: an underbelly of fraudsters who game ads with automated "bots" that mimic human movement and generate fake clicks for which advertisers unknowingly pay.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential campaigns face threats from hackers bent on espionage and other activity more nefarious than mere political mischief, the office of U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper said on Wednesday, but did not provide details on specific intrusions.
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Sometimes, when there are reports that someone in the White House told someone else to do something, it may be more nefarious than is being reported, based on the limited sources that people have, or it may be less nefarious.
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The underlying theme throughout their careers has been centered on one thing: that there's something incomprehensible and unfair about black athletes beating stellar — sometimes they'll be mythologized as being superhumanly strong; other times it's something more nefarious, like being on steroids.
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Critics took Najib's declaration of dietary preference as evidence of something more nefarious: that he's disastrously out of touch with the lives and tastes of ordinary Malyasians, engendering suspicion that he may be, in fact, unfit to lead the country.
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All of which suggests that other judges would follow suit if presented with the Trump Tower scenario: a meeting where no actual money may have changed hands, but where something more nefarious, coordinated, and potentially criminal may have taken place.
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B. A Twitter account associated with 20173chan's vile /pol/ board tweeted a photo of a woman in a niqab next to a drag queen on the New York City subway, implying something nefarious (more nefarious than the drag queen's manspreading).
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Gif Credit: Facebook AI ResearchThe bots were never doing anything more nefarious than discussing with each other how to split an array of given items (represented in the user interface as innocuous objects like books, hats, and balls) into a mutually agreeable split.
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Whether it's all part of an elaborate scheme or he just kind of stumbled into it, Donald Trump has proven to be a sleight-of-hand master who knows how to throw out something shiny while more nefarious stories are at play.
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In the eyes of most conspiracy theorists, there's always going to be an Osama Bin Laden or a Timothy McVeigh or a Lee Harvey Oswald, somebody who takes the blame for spectacular crimes or injustices while more nefarious forces remain in the shadows.
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Sure, maybe his feelings are really hurt, but given the fact that Trump and others have brought up strengthening libel laws multiple times — the old "you can't take what you dish out" syndrome — it could be setting up more nefarious actions to come.
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While it took "a lot of internet legwork" to track down contact information for the more nefarious of these groups, Koelsch and his wife did sometimes succeed, perhaps because the scammers they reached were trying to stay off the radar of authorities.
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More nefarious are the ticket brokers, usually a small group of people who utilize bots to buy up as many tickets as possible—sometimes thousands at a time—and then immediately start reselling them at markups as high as 1000 percent above face value.
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While Clinton wants to blunt any inroads that Trump might make with minority communities, she was also making the case for her candidacy on Thursday to moderates, independents and Republicans who are alarmed by Trump's associations with the more nefarious elements of the internet.
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Although Uber is said to have 80% of the ride-hailing market share in the US, both companies frequently offer heavy subsidies in an effort to woo both new drivers and passengers, and have even resorted to more nefarious tactics to beat one another.
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Previously, the Army Research Laboratory announced it created an advanced drone the size of a fly complete with a set of "tiny robotic legs" — a major achievement since it presumably might be capable of entering a building undetected to perform surveillance, or used for more nefarious actions.
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Krugman then suggests Sanders may be up to something more nefarious: Is Mr. Sanders positioning himself to join the "Bernie or bust" crowd, walking away if he can't pull off an extraordinary upset, and possibly helping put Donald Trump or Ted Cruz in the White House?
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While they were primarily concerned with rising crime rates and finding ways to tamp down violence in their communities, they joined with others -- who seemingly harbored more nefarious goals -- to push tough-on-crime laws that led to harsher penalties for crack cocaine than the powdered version.
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But in a way, the most intriguing implication of the email thread—connecting Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort to the subversion campaign—is that it points to a number of under-discussed, second-order lies, which in turn suggest deeper, more nefarious behavior.
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Previously, the Army Research Laboratory announced it created an advanced drone the size of a fly complete with a set of "tiny robotic legs" — a major achievement since it presumably might be capable of entering a building undetected to perform surveillance or used for more nefarious actions.
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It leaves a legacy: It single-handedly brought back the Guy Fawkes mask as a true symbol of civil disobedience, was the obvious inspiration for the hit TV show Mr. Robot, and is also associated with all sorts of more nefarious and negative aspects of trolling culture.
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The structure of insider trading cases makes it easy to find a violation because they involve transactions that are often so well timed and lucrative that there is a visceral appeal to jurors asked to decide whether it was just investing acumen or something more nefarious.
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The found-footage film classic centered on a documentary team who set out from Burkittsville, Maryland so that they could track down important sites related to Rustin Parr, a man who had killed a number of years previously under the rumored influence of more nefarious forces.
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"His doing that in this context tells you something about the purpose of the system, potentially, and what was going on and whether it was a good faith issue — a matter of just folks making honest mistakes — or something more nefarious," Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch's head, told The Hill.
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While Twitter has suffered the most high-profile attacks, Facebook, Snap, Microsoft's LinkedIn and Pinterest rely on similar security measures, leaving their sites open to SIM hijackers who sometimes just want to wreak havoc but other times have more nefarious intentions, such as accessing a victim's banking credentials.
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"Although Ms. Yang's activities may only be those of an unscrupulous actor allegedly selling access to politicians for profit, her activities also could permit adversary governments or their agents access to these same politicians to acquire potential material for blackmail or other even more nefarious purposes," the lawmakers wrote.
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"Although Ms. Yang's activities may only be those of an unscrupulous actor allegedly selling access to politicians for profit, her activities also could permit adversary governments or their agents access to these same politicians to acquire potential material for blackmail or other even more nefarious purposes," the lawmakers wrote.
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While it took perhaps half a day for Scalia's death to dramatically reshape the ongoing presidential election — Republicans want to block any Obama nominee so the next president can make the pick — it took mere hours for the conspiracy theorists to raise the alarm that something more nefarious was afoot.
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So Owen, Claire and a couple of new but equally poorly written characters (Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda) are drafted to embark on a mission to help transport the dinosaurs off the island, which, alas, only takes up about half of the movie, before a more nefarious plot kicks into gear.
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Both men are underwriting the whitening of American nationalism, and the re-centering of white lives as lives that matter most in the U.S. Duke is happy to own the white supremacy of his statements, while Lilla's op-ed does the more nefarious background work of making white supremacy respectable. Again.
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And by not explaining the forces behind Trump's rise — the socio-political trends, the recent behavior of the parties, the interference and hacking from foreign governments — the film does something even more nefarious: it gives off the impression that it was just some unknowable, Trump-ian magic that led to the election results.
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"Although Ms. Yang's activities may only be those of an unscrupulous actor allegedly selling access to politicians for profit, her activities also could permit adversary governments or their agents access to these same politicians to acquire potential material for blackmail or other even more nefarious purposes," the Democrats wrote in the letter, dated March 15.
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But you can bet that if China is finding enough profit in pursing such actions, you can imagine just how worthwhile it would be for even more nefarious state- and non-state actors like North Korea or ISIS to either weaponize such data or sell it to finance activities that place others in harm's way.
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Balasubramaniyan noted that it can be something as innocent as a little girl ordering an expensive doll house while playing with Alexa (Pindrop is also now starting to work with Amazon, too, as it happens), or something more nefarious like a fraudster calling your answering machine to command your smart home hub to unlock your front door.
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Trump seized on Barr's letter as disproving allegations of "collusion" and clearing him of obstruction, taking an extended victory lap over the results before the release of Mueller's report laid bare more nefarious details of the president's behavior that may have crossed the line into obstruction as well as details on his campaign's contacts with Russians.
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Every day we learn of more nefarious activities in China, such as industrial espionage, successful hacks, expropriation of property, theft of trade secrets, selling technology to our enemies, $300 billion a year of stolen intellectual property from American firms, jailing of political dissidents, building its military in ways that threaten all our allies in Asia circa Japan in the 1930s.
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And the Saudis aren't "taking the kind of steps that would be required to really get serious about setting up a civil nuclear-energy infrastructure," says Tristan Volpe, a fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Others suspect the Saudis are up to something more nefarious because of the U.S.-led nuclear deal with Iran.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE told a confidant this week that he aimed "to brand" an FBI informant on his campaign a "spy" because he thought it sounded more nefarious, according to The Associated Press.
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Asked if he would consider a rematch with former welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre now that his suspension is over, Diaz not only reiterated that their first fight, in 2013, was rigged in GSP's favor and that the champion had been given room to miss weight, he also claimed that an even more nefarious conspiracy had unfolded before the fight to ensure a GSP victory.
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This allows us to have a huge level of granularity, whether it is basic bits like URLs that are put together as format strings, or more nefarious uses such as building the string "LSApplicationWorkspace" and dynamically loading that API in order to view the list of installed apps on an iOS device (bad privacy invasion for casual users, potentially even more damaging for enterprises who are using internal and/or unreleased apps on their devices).
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"Although Ms. Yang's activities may only be those of an unscrupulous actor allegedly selling access to politicians for profit, her activities also could permit adversary governments or their agents access to these same politicians to acquire potential material for blackmail or even more nefarious purposes," the March 15 letter from House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY), House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA), Senate Judiciary Committee Vice Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) reads.
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