#boris the bullet dodger

[knoxious-and-devoted]

do you know what nemesis means?

Generally, people who are scared of farm animals are scared because they're not familiar with them, don't know how to properly handle them, and don't know what they are like.

Except for pigs. People who aren't scared of pigs aren't generally familiar with pigs.

[blastonbury]

Tagged by @eccentricwearsgoggles to list my top 10 comfort movies. I'm not a big cinema-head, so these aren't all relaxing movies. They're what I would slam on the breaks while flipping through TV channels to watch no matter what else is on. Mostly comedy.

1. Snatch (2000) - starring Boris the Bullet Dodger and 32 other extremely important characters

2. Gran Torino (2008) - racist old man becomes not so racist

3. Cashback (2006) - guy with insomnia discovers he can stop time, so he strips women naked in supermarkets (it's NOT sexual)

4. Clerks (1994)

5. Airplane! (1980)

6. Whiplash (2014)

7. Digimon: The Movie (2000) - the OST is very good

8. Shaolin Soccer (2001)

9. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) - local man wants to become a serial killer, but how...

10. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - also very good OST (DeVotchKa hard carries)

I'll tag @treeky @laprau @rararibbon @stigswayze @mortuaryschool if any of you are interested in sharing your personal tastes

[dragons-ire]

#15 - Thunderous

Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it. -Boris the Bullet Dodger, Snatch.

Music

Reference/Continuation from Here.

The Garlean artillery thundered outside the dug-in encampment at haphazard intervals, day in and day out. The rains washed mud into everything. Every crevice of armor and bit of gear that wasn't well-stowed oozing with it. Whenever he was out of this contract, he knew he'd be washing it off for weeks.

At least he had the luxury of this not lasting.

He was hunched over a crate reading a fragment of report over a muddy and rough-scrawled map when a crack of gunfire of thunder pierced the air. A second later, a massive furred hand slammed down a brown bottle half full of the rajika they passed around in the trench when there was nothing else to do.

Artemi Amarya was grinning when he looked up. The Hrothgar always seemed to be grinning - though it might have been the deep scar curving up one side of his mouth. He draped a long row of packed ammunition over the map a moment later.

"Try again?" He asked, with a tone that always seemed somehow pleased.

"You know last time we tried this it took out half the trench wall back there."

"Yes, but Garleans with it. So good." The bottle got nudged in Breandan's directon. He reluctantly picked it up to take a swig.

The strong alcohol tasted like sour plums with the aftertaste of tank fuel. Maybe part of it was tank fuel. 

Who knew if plums even grew in Bozja anymore.

The bottle passed back and forth more times than seemed possible with the amount of liquid that had been there to start with. Maybe the tall Roegadyn woman Artemi had clapped on the shoulder had brought another one when she came back to chat, swap little bits of stories that Breandan listened to while they drank.

Until he had to brace one hand on the side of the crate for support as he listed forward.

"..try again?" Artemi's voice came drifting in through the haze.

Breandan looked up, and looked down. Dimly, he thought about Xiaohu and her papers, all laid out on the table in his office.

"Sure. Anyone seen my lance?"

"No need for lance."

"..I told you, Artemi, I'm not a damn gunbreaker"

"Then...why come with gunblade?"

The Hrothgar was still smiling when Breandan looked up, but there was a prickle of something in his gaze that had started when he'd glimpsed the grip of the weapon somewhere in the elezen's gear. Hadn't pressed when there wasn't a great explanation of why or how, but let it roll.

Breandan looked to his left and saw the Roegadyn was sitting so that he couldn't get up and walk away without pushing his way out, so he looked back down at the table. Nudged the bottle aside. Focused on the ammunition.

The rough tap of one claw on his temple broke his concentration.

"Not here." Artemi cautioned. Tapped his sternum. "From here. And from..."

"Okay, I get it, give me a moment." Breandan swatted the low-wandering demonstration, then folded his arms to settle.

He had very little head or sense for aether (..anymore? Had he once? Had he ever?), but if he closed his eyes, he could almost see it. Rent in him like a levinbolt, his own natural volatility smoldering in the core of him like always. His potential honed to pierce dragonhide, that could tear through machina like wet paper, burn hotter than gunpowder.

Dragon Within, they called it. The fury in him that never quite left, wound him tight with tension he couldn't quite ever shake. A thousand years of it with nowhere to go.

He took a moment to think about what it might look like fired out of a revolver barrel instead. What it might do on impact. What he did, whenever he impacted against something.

And he clumsily pulled one bullet from the holster to hold up close enough to breathe on.

@sea-wolf-coast-to-coast

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Hackers stole a US Customs and Border Patrol facial recognition database

Data from facial recognition scans performed by US Customs and Border Patrol on travelers crossing at an unnamed lander border point (an anonymous source says it's a US-Canada crossing) have been stolen by hacker or hackers unknown.

The CBP doesn't know how many records were leaked, but estimates the number at less than 100k. The CBP refused to state which contractor breached the data, but the memo it sent to the Washington Post about the breach was titled "CBP Perceptics Public Statement" and since Perceptics is a CBP contractor that does facial recognition (as well as license plate cameras and other forms of surveillance), it's a good bet that Perceptics is the culprit -- especially since Perceptics had hundreds of gigs of data breached and dumped last month by a person or persons going by "Boris the Bullet-Dodger" (it's possible that the facial recognition database was part of that dump.

The CBP says the stolen facial recognition data isn't circulating, so maybe it wasn't part of the Boris the Bullet-Dodger dump, or maybe they're just lying or incompetent (see above, re: a memo entitled "CBP Perceptics Public Statement").

As Brian Barrett points out on Wired, the fact that this was a contractor breach shouldn't make you feel any more secure -- the most sensitive data being collected by US government agencies is being stored insecurely by grifty Beltway Bandits who are leaking it all over the fucking internet.

CBP collects tons of facial recognition data at border crossings, airports, etc, both overtly (by making you scan your face) and covertly (using CCTV footage to feed its databases).

You can always opt out by simply not having a face.

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/11/facial-decognition.html

[scumtrout]

Relationship status: sometimes I refer to myself as ‘Boris the bullet dodger’.

[welanabananaworld]

Snatch and the unintelligible voice

Every accent tells a story; a story of geographical, cultural and social belonging which can inspire authors in the writing of film characters. But sometimes, an accent happens to go beyond the mere reflection of national identity. More than a territorial delimitation, an accent or a dialect is a phonetic phenomenon that possesses its own melody, phrasing and rhythm. These particular features make it an easy target for caricature. Either strong, distorted or exaggerated, an accent, as a comical device, is always effective. In Snatch (2000) by Guy Ritchie, Brad Pitt’s portrayal of the Irish Traveller accent is so extreme that his language becomes undecipherable, and consequently absurd. 

It is said that Brad Pitt’s unintelligible language was a narrative bias meant to counter criticisms about the thick accents of the characters in Guy Ritchie’s previous film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Indeed, by sharpening the roughness of the northern way of speaking and by caricaturing the Pikey language, the director  probably wanted to play the provocation card but also to assert his filming style that places emphasis on a very British humour. It is also said that this particular way of speaking was born from Brad Pitt’s inability to mimic accents and Guy Ritchie’s ensuing decision to let him improvise. 

In either way, Brad Pitt gives such an extraordinary performance that today the film is mostly remembered for it. Mickey O’Neil, also called « one punch » Mickey is an Irish Gypsie known for being a bare-knuckle boxing champion. First approached by a boxing promoter, Tommy, and his mentee, Gorgeous George (Adam Fogerty), sent to purchase a caravan from his people, Mickey gets quickly involved in fixed fights but seems unable to go down when supposed to. He is a crazy, unpredictable, restless and uncontrollable man but also a mama’s boy who is deeply committed to his community. 

However, Mickey O’Neil is a character who strikes less by his extravagant behavior than by his linguistic attributes. Literally shaped by his baffling language, Mickey is identified from the beginning as not understandable by Turkish’s voice over : « You can’t really understand much of what is being said. » This does create hilarious scenes in which Tommy (Stephen Graham) and Turkish (Jason Statham) hardly understand a word he says. The «caravan talks» perfectly portray the Pikey language in all its linguistic uniqueness. It is characterized by a mumbled and inarticulate enunciation whose effect is made worse by an extremely quick and rushed diction. It feels like they all swallow words up in a jerky way. The result is that one can only catch bits of conversation. 

This language exaggeration might be due, in part, to the community’s suspicion towards outsiders. Victims of numerous prejudices (theft, fraud...), Irish Gypsies are known to be in the habit of muddling their speech, making terse utterances and speaking quickly to conceal meaning from others. Unsurprisingly, the term « Pikey » is actually a pejorative, slang word for Shelta, Cant, Pavee or Gammen. The way it is described by Turkish even suggests that it is no more than a weird dialect, something in-between as if it was not a legitimate language: “It’s not Irish, it’s not English, it’s just, well... it’s just Pikey.”

Thus, Mickey is « tagged » as talking gibberish in addition to knocking his adversaries out in one blow. In Snatch, every character is labeled and acts as such throughout the film: « Brick Top »’s speciality (Alan Ford) is to smash people. He is a sadistic mafia boss who keeps threatening and killing people. Boris « the Bullet Dodger » (Rade Serbedzija) is tough. He doesn’t die easily. 

The characters’ itineraries are shaped by this stereotyped identification. What is also interesting is that these distinctive features are both a strength and a trap. Brick Top’s violence serves him well until he gets killed and Boris seems invincible until he gets riddled with bullets. As for Mickey, he is punished for his recklessness as his mother perishes in an arson attack orchestrated by Brick Top, but ironically enough, Mickey is the one who has the last say in all this. To everyone’s surprise, he puts an end to Brick Top’s reign of terror by trapping and killing him after a boxing fight. He does get his vengeance, free Turkish and Tommy and leave with the diamond everyone was fighting for. 

Though not taken seriously and laughed at for his gibberish, yet Mickey is the one who clears the whole mess up, which makes him a much more central character to the story than expected. One could even argue that Mickey’s funny accent and the ensuing comical situations were meant as a narrative diversion in order to mislead the audience (and also the characters) and create a twist ending. 

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[voicesbyzane]

Boris the Bullet Dodger’s death in Snatch is the height of comedy

[ilovethisfilm]

Avi: "Why do they call him the bullet dodger?"

Bullet Tooth Tony: "[Gives Avi odd look] Because... he dodges bullets, Avi."

Boris the sneaky fucking Russian.

Snatch (2000)

http://bigronfilmreviews.tumblr.com/post/25194218732/brfr-snatch

#BigRonFilmReviews

[mostlysignssomeportents]

HACKED: Perceptics, license plate reader provider for US Border Patrol at Mexico border

Hackers have breached Perceptics, which sells border security technology and license plate reader systems and the like to governments and other entities. The U.S. government uses their readers, including along the US-Mexico border.  

“The hacker known as 'Boris Bullet-Dodger' has published what appears to be internal data belonging to Perceptics, which provides license plate reader technology for the Mexico border,” reports Motherboard.

Perceptics has contracts with U.S. Customs, The government of Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

Motherboard confirms the breach, and reports that hackers have dumped data online.

https://boingboing.net/2019/05/24/hacked-perceptics-license-pl.html

[vvanpiss]

boris the bullet dodger scene

[al0has0ha-blog]

Class -- CCJ4933.796U19 Blog 8

Podcast: Cyber Motherboard.

Website:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/7KOIKBQjaD8mYSDOCGhZWk?si=7wB14AcFTdCP3-FswXaNgQ

  In May of 2019, a reporter names Joseph Cox from Cyber Motherboard stated that a hacker by the name of Boris the bullet dodger stated that he hacked Perspectics, which is the company that is used by Customs Border Protection (CBP) to record and store travelers information (in this case from Pennsylvania). Later on CPB issues a statement stating that a breach of data occurred and that none of this information is on the web. According to this podcast however, the information that was stolen is currently on the Dark Market. The data consists of Vehicle license plates, traveler’s pictures, and even sensitive information that are taken from the travels while going through the border.

This is a very concerning issue for the public, imagine giving all of this information willingly and then out of now where it is being sold on the dark web and you have no idea who is doing what with your information.  Even though the CBP didn’t make a big deal about this it differently caused an outrage because its statements were not specific. It stated that a data breach of travels occurred; it didn’t state what exactly happened, or what information was stolen to allow the public to keep an eye on their records and activities.  

[terabitweb]

Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S. border point have been stolen by hackers.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S. border point have been stolen as a result of a cyber attack.

The Customs and Border Protection agency did not reveal the name of the company that was involved in the incident. According to media outlets, hackers broke into the computer network of an unnamed subcontractor, many experts believe the incident could be linked to the hack of Perceptics.

At the end of May the company Perceptics, a leader in license plate readers (LPRs), license plate recognition systems and vehicle identification products, announced to have suffered a security breach. The attackers stole data and offered business plans, financial documents, and personal information for free on the dark web.

LPRs manufactured by Perceptics are installed at all land border crossing lanes for privately owned vehicle traffic (POV) in the United States, Canada, and for the most critical lanes in Mexico.

A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘Boris Bullet-Dodger’ reported the hack to The Register and shared with the journalists a list of files as proof of the attack.

A Customs spokesman revealed that fewer than 100,000 people have been impacted, hackers accessed to photos of travelers in vehicles entering and exiting the United States at a single land-border port of entry over one and a half months.

CBP said that stolen data are not available online or in the Dark Web.

“Initial information indicates that the subcontractor violated mandatory security and privacy protocols outlined in their contract,” reads a statement published by the CBP.

Anyway the subcontractor was not authorized to transfer copies of the images to its infrastructure without CBP’s authorization.

The Customs and Border Protection learned of the security breach on May 31, 2019, it pointed out that hackers did not compromise its network.

“The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, noted with alarm that this is the “second major privacy breach at DHS this year.”” reported the AP.

“We must ensure we are not expanding the use of biometrics at the expense of the privacy of the American public,” he said in a statement.

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Go to Source Author: Pierluigi Paganini Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirms hack of a subcontractor Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S.

[heckyeahlucilleballilovelucy]

Cyberattack Compromises US Customs and Border Protection Photo Database

Photos of people crossing the US border, taken over a month and a half, including images of their faces and vehicle numbers, were compromised in a malware attack on a subcontractor working with the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), writes the Washington Post.

The agency was alerted to the data breach on May 31, officials said Monday, claiming that fewer than 100,000 people were exposed. It’s unknown how many were US citizens, nor the entry point compromised. There’s no evidence to suggest the data has been put up for sale on the dark web or other online marketplaces, but that doesn’t mean it’s not available in a closed circuit.

 “CBP learned that a subcontractor, in violation of CBP policies and without CBP’s authorization or knowledge, had transferred copies of license plate images and traveler images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s company network,” reads an agency statement.

“Initial information indicates that the subcontractor violated mandatory security and privacy protocols outlined in their contract.”

CBP did not name the hacked federal subcontractor, but sources say it may be Perceptics, a license plate reading service company employed by the government to monitor checkpoints, as well as in domestic surveillance. Perceptics was, in fact, breached in May, when internal documents were allegedly leaked on the dark web. The alias responsible for the attack is “Boris Bullet-Dodger.” The DEA had also been collaborating with Perceptics and may have been affected by the data breach.

Perceptics has not made any comments.

from HOTforSecurity http://bit.ly/2MTXz3Z

[shirlleycoyle]

What Happens When a US Border Protection Contractor Gets Hacked?

Every day, 1.1 million people travel through American points of entry, according to statistics from US Custom and Border Protection (CBP). Of those 1.1 million, almost 700,000 are people coming in by land, and of those almost 300,000 come in by privately owned vehicles.

Depending on their way in, CBP gets fingerprints, photos, biometric data, passport IDs, and the license plate numbers of all the millions of people who cross the border by car.

In May, Motherboard reported that a hacker known as “Boris the bullet dodger” said he had hacked a license plate reader company called Perceptics, then posted a large cache of the stolen data on the dark web. Now, less than a month later, CBP issued a statement confirming a data breach at one of its contractors. Earlier this week, Motherboard was also able to download images of drivers from the Perceptics hack that were posted to the dark web.

On this week’s episode of CYBER, we’ve got Joseph Cox and Motherboard Editor in Chief Jason Koebler to discuss what the hack tells us about government data collection and the use of private companies to collect that data.

Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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