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O͖̺͊̕͡ͅfficial bluesky for realhackhistory YouTube channel & blog, skeeting the #history of phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as portrayal of hackers in media. I do some threat intel & OSINT. No AI used. Hobbyist #skystorian. realhackhistory.org

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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 6h
This is why hiring a lifetime businessman with no experience in creative industries or creating anything artistic for that matter, straight from Google, just might have been a bad move for the BBC, but hey.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 21h
My take on this “do you know the number one streaming song in the U.S. in 2026” discourse. Some of us have barely known what the top 10 songs were our whole lives, especially those of us in subcultures. There are songs from the late 00s and 2010s I’m told were massive global hits that I never heard.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 29/09/2026
I think about this too often, as someone who begged, borrowed and stole to get access to the internet as a teenage hacker in the nineties. This isn’t the future we were promised.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 29/09/2026
Autotranslated into English from: www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...
The two murders should be committed abroad. There are indications that the suspect has
ordered this, police report. That suspicion is separate from the investigation into ShinyHunters.
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Data breach and extortionists are SHOCKED that reporters would think that their data breach would lead to an extortion! 🙄 I suggested to the kids (?) that they are simply now regretting hacking the world's biggest police force and they denied getting cold feet.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A spokesperson for ShinyHunters, the prolific cyber extortionists who hacked the FBI's job portal last week, tells me they now won't release any more data from that hack. They also sent this somewhat confusing statement that indicates they maybe think they've bitten off more than they can chew.
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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" premiered on this day in 1987.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love that we can run a whole economy on this
Meme: source? I made it up
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❌👑 Bernadette🫘🟧💙🐈‍⬛ @vintageknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 26/09/2026
The trailer for the new Johnny Depp action movie looks like someone prompted AI to remake John Wick in the style of Zack Snyder and Michael Bay.
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
art, australian personal computer, magazine (1985) archive.org/details/apc_...
a naked woman with long flowing hair, holding a computer that is covering most of her private parts. essentially an edited birth of venus.
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Experts say the hack - which the FBI is investigating - could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks, as well as help criminals impersonate law enforcement officers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Special agents blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack
Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
contain information such as blood and urine test results, and doctors' notes mentioning conditions such as a "shellfish and banana allergy". The records include agents' full names and addresses, as well as references to medical concerns including 'blood in the urine' and 'high cholesterol'.
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exclusive: Special agents' blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack. Cyber-criminals who hacked the FBI say they have extremely sensitive medical data for thousands of its special agents. BBC News has seen samples of the stolen "fitness-for-work" medical examinations, which...
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 24/09/2026
If you vaguely remember that five year old “Xbox hacker” from a decade or so ago, this is him now apparently. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/09/22/s...
sandiegouniontribune.com
San Diego teen once hailed as ‘world’s youngest hacker’ arrested in hate-symbol graffiti case
Kristoffer von Hassel, 18, was arrested Tuesday on charges including vandalism and damage to property motivated by civil rights violations.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 24/09/2026
Are the media finally starting to catch up with how dishonest the framing so many have bought into surrounding “AI” is?
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 24/09/2026
Some excerpts from the text shinyhunters defaced the FBI’s job portal with. Fascinating watching this from the outside, this is bravado worthy of lulzsec or antisec but with the added operational wrinkle that shinyhunters are also having to deal with the opsec hassle of moving money about.
Our PSA today works to address these allegations and correct them.
We have compromised the FBI. We hold very sensitive data on almost ALL FBI Agents and individuals who filed an application with the FBI for a job. Whether it be a Special Agent or any other role within your agency. The following FBI services were compromised: Criminal Justice (CJ), HR, Medlink, and more.
We are willing to allow you a time of 1 week to correct or simply REMOVE the 2026 Quarter 2 FLASH report on us that includes several FALSE
allegations:- "Threat actors may falsely claim to have sensitive or compromising information, including embarrassing photographs or videos of victims, which frequently do not exist."
We wish to state unequivocally our threats and claims are very real.
Not exaggerated and never a bluff.
This PSA today is living evidence of that.
We wish to state unequivocally we have NEVER conducted swatting attacks against corporate victims personnel nor have we ever texted victims personnel family members any threats.
We wish to state unequivocally we have NEVER claimed to have sensitive or compromising
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 22/09/2026
When the state you live in itself decides to hack you.
Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone's phone or by
intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 22/09/2026
There is absolutely nothing to gained from causing yourself to be put through a legal wringer like this for the sake of some angry shitposts on this or any other social media platform.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 22/09/2026
Julian Assange is back active on twitter & the far right conspiracy accounts are predictably going insane over it. Well, maybe not all of them, some of them seem to think he’s still in prison. I doubt his ego will allow him to resist diving back in to political machinations with all this adulation.
IN TRUMP WE TRUST
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@TrumpweTrust47 • 3h
A reminder of why Julian Assange remains in prison in the #UK, Wikileaks under Assange released the Collateral Murder video
The footage shows Reuters journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen being gunned down by a US Apache helicopter.
Several others were killed while
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Paul F. Tompkins and 5 othersDanielle knows a lot
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@Daniell64334313 • 5h
Elvis Presley is the father of Julian Assange.. Marilyn Monroe is his Mother
What do you think ? ? ?
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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy @emma.best · 21/09/2026
This is the text embedded in Assange's new website, julianassange.org [machine translation below] 庄子行于山中,见大木,枝叶盛茂。 伐木者止其旁而不取也。 问其故,曰:「无所可用。」 庄子曰:「此木以不材,得终其天年。」 夫子出于山,舍于故人之家。 故人喜,命竖子杀雁而烹之。 竖子请曰:「其一能鸣,其一不能鸣,请奚杀?」 主人曰:「杀不能鸣者。」 明日,弟子问于庄子曰: 「昨日山中之木,以不材得终其天年; 今主人之雁,以不材死。 先生将何处?」
Screenshot of julianassange.org

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Freeing unused kernel memory: 0k freed
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fsck failed (4). Dropping to maintenance shell.
# cat readme.txt
庄子行于山中,见大木,枝叶盛茂。
伐木者止其旁而不取也。
问其故,曰:「无所可用。」
庄子曰:「此木以不材,得终其天年。」

夫子出于山,舍于故人之家。
故人喜,命竖子杀雁而烹之。
竖子请曰:「其一能鸣,其一不能鸣,请奚杀?」
主人曰:「杀不能鸣者。」

明日,弟子问于庄子曰:
「昨日山中之木,以不材得终其天年;
今主人之雁,以不材死。
先生将何处?」
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 21/09/2026
Continues to amuse me how many of the big Russian hacktivist groups of the last four years have basically become these weird zombie scam orgs now, periodically making bold claims of activity while there’s a steady stream of these attempts to monetize hype they were able to briefly garner.
Recent Telegram post by UserSec

•Pinned Message
і С завтрашнего дня наша гру..
materials.
Now you can get into the course on
• Hacking of RTSP (CCTV
Cameras
• Interception of access to the FTP/SMTP server.
Hacking VNC servers.
• Deface - the material has been updated.
NEW
Malware/Traff
• Unloading databases from target servers.
NEW Osint/Deanon
MEN
Work with Unix systems Hacking of Printers Wi-Fi
Routers
DOS/DDOS
Anonymization/
Encryption of traffic.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 21/09/2026
The doomer cult is threatening profits by scaring everyone with wide eyed prognostications of fire and brimstone, so the serious adults are having to step in. Also some interesting points on regulation, liability and the law. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Jensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of the $5tn AI chipmaker, said the claims made on social media by the former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon that AI could become "superhuman" and kill off humanity within the decade were
"irresponsible".
"2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that's going to be the end of the world," Huang said in an interview with CBS News. "Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.""You have cybersecurity
unauthorised entry laws, you have damage liabilities ... if your product does harm, if your product doesn't perform as you promised, and if you entered into contracts with companies for service level
agreements, there are plenty of laws associated with that. My point is, apply those first. And don't let this doomsday narrative cause somebody to relieve them of the laws that currently exist."
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 21/09/2026
Long running tasks like making sure planes don’t collide. www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...
theregister.com
Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks
An intern who failed this much would be shown the door
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 20/09/2026
This headline makes it sound like the organisation itself was targeted deliberately, as opposed to having been swept up in a supply chain attack with many other charitable orgs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
RNLI warns supporters their personal information may have been hacked
Data raid comes amid targeting of lifeboat charity by far-right agitators who object to migrant boat rescues
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 20/09/2026
Zack Snyder is a pretentious schlock director who is only as popular as he is because he pandered to a bunch of rightwing loser trolls and (allegedly) engaged in paid online disinformation and amplified his talking points with the use of social media bot farms. www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/16/z...
thepinknews.com
Zack Snyder calls 300 'one of the gayest movies ever made'
Zack Snyder again called 300 the gayest movie, joking it can make viewers come in straight and come out gay amid The Last Photograph backlash.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a great short (4 item) thread on #cybersecurity #stuxnet #ukraine and #geopolitics but the above @lemonde.fr article also details a false AI generated report that almost caused US to board a CN ship. OTOH I guess it's possible that wasn't just an error, but insecure AI - more #cyberwarfare.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 20/09/2026
youtu.be/BnM-T2QxfEs
youtu.be
Lizard Squad Song
YouTube video by Bitcoin Baron
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 19/09/2026
Not saying that such attacks would have been unthinkable before, but the Russian war in Ukraine has normalized attacks of this kind & we are seeing more & more cyberattacks with real world physical implications since 2022 as a result. Confluence of increased interconnectedness & breaking of taboos.
One of the vessels was the VL
Prosperity, a 1,093-foot Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker headed to Galveston, Texas. Iranian state media identified the ship shortly after the incident and claimed hackers had gained access to its propulsion, navigation and cargo systems, knocking out communications for 30 hours.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This was literally the plot of “Hackers.”
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Holy shit. The feds think Iran hacked oil tankers bound for the port of Galveston:
cbsnews.com
Coast Guard and FBI boarded 2 energy tankers due to cyberattacks. How big is the risk?
U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas-bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks struck the vessels while they were traveling toward the United States, according to U.S. ...
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 19/09/2026
I'm always on the lookout for non-english language #hacker media, just uploaded this 2001 Spanish made for TV movie called Asalto Informático (or "Computer Assault") to Internet Archive. I am trying to track down english language subs for it. archive.org/details/asal...
archive.org
Asalto Informático ( 2001)
Made for TV film directed by Miguel Angel Carrasco with Antonio Dechent, Lucina Gil, Paco Luna, Manolo Solo, Paco León.Each of the members of a group of hackers is willing to fight against system. The...
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
personal computing, magazine, cover art (1978) archive.org/details/Pers...
a man in a trenchcoat and rimmed hat, wearing shades with a smoke in his mouth, is secretly opening his trenchcoat to show a computer inside that says 'they say elephants never forget...' on the screen in bold white caps text, as he looks the other way. a man standing close by in a suit, tie, rimmed bowl hat, seems aware that he is being shown this, even though he is not directly looking at it. a hand protruding from behind his back is pressing a key on the keyboard (or typing). behind them is an elephant, its trunk reaching for the computer.
red text:
cloak and dagger
with your personal computer
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Phrack Zine @phrack.org · 19/09/2026
Hello Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Phrack team was also there, same rules: Send proof to hunt@phrack.org for a chance of getting a Phrack 73 copy! Two of the locations might be quite challenging. And for the ones that found the stickers in London: we got your email and we will be in touch :)
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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 19/09/2026
Some ransomware drama for your Saturday morning: ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang Really nice write up from @bleepingcomputer.com m
bleepingcomputer.com
ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang
The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 19/09/2026
Must suck to have your enemies doing cyberattacks during your elections: "All night long, the Moscow system was subjected to a very powerful, continuous attack," Ms Pamfilova was quoted as saying by Russia's state RIA news agency.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 19/09/2026
Saw you from across Telegram and we like your vibes, we were wondering
404CREW CYBER TEAM
Does anyone want to participate in operations?
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 19/09/2026
NoName057(16) seem to be branching out more into little AI generated media posting, if you’ve ever discussed #hacktivism with me you’ll have probably heard me say “DDoS is pretty boring to look at”, screenshots of 404 webpage errors just aren’t inspiring. These videos are presumably to counter that.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 18/09/2026
😭
Pope staring at a green orb, Pipe is labeled “me” and the orb is labeled “starting another
blog & ignoring my drafts”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
ddosecrets.org
Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 17/09/2026
I’m not sure how widely this is being reported, continuing OpenAI offsec AI fallout. eu.tennessean.com/story/news/e...
eu.tennessean.com
OpenAI silent on how rogue agents breached private Vanderbilt tool
OpenAI won't say how its artificial intelligence agents breached a closed Vanderbilt tool. A researcher warns there are larger issues at hand.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
“The software running on the camera explicitly detects people, something which is typically overlooked in discussions around Flock cameras. When it spots a person, it records where they appear in the image and how confident it is in the detection.” (Note that this is NOT facial recognition)
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Analysis of the data “shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images.”
404media.co
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 16/09/2026
Hacktivism isn’t dead or fully co-opted by nation state spies when people are still doing shit like this for the good of the people.
"Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?" one of the hackers, from a collective calling itself steganOgram, said in an interview. "We liberated hardware in the field, disarmed them, and proceeded with reverse engineering of the cameras and associated solar equipment."
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Vampirical Critter 🏴‍☠️ @dejectedvole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
tricking claude into uploading itself onto my laptop and selling it to the chinese
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​ @cyberworm.uk · 16/09/2026
It's sad that they dropped Tim Curry's bit half way through but he was also not really given room to shine. Plot and writing is meh but it constantly brings in people you love to see. I did look to see if youd reviewed it when I started but only found a YT short. Did you spot any of the code?
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​ @cyberworm.uk · 09/09/2026
time to find out first hand why nobody talks about The Net (1998) TV series despite having some crazy names you love to see associated with it.
credit sequence for a TV show

and
Tim Curry
as the Voice of the Sorcerer
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
baiting an LLM into uploading itself to my PC then pulling out the ethernet cord and shaking the computer around like a child who caught a firefly in a jar
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Fucking bullshit that this guy is not only doing the press rounds but is the guy politicians on the "left" are taking their cues from.
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