Post ATbAnUCui8FN1BRNmC by textfiles@digipres.club
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(DIR) Post #ATaq9K7cn3kd4YXRDM by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T03:07:30Z
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People probably don't know how locked-down NY area is; when you get a nuclear stress test (which I just did), you get injected with lightly radioactive dye. And even the super-low amount is enough that cop cars and the scanners coming into NYC will go "check that person, they're radioactive". You get a card to show the cops.
(DIR) Post #ATaqaH4CG2t7PomnMe by tenet@defcon.social
2023-03-14T03:12:24Z
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@textfiles I was in NYC a couple of months back and nobody said anything. I guess my dance moves aren't as fire as I thought.
(DIR) Post #ATaqe51AzqhPCnBiQC by mikej@mastodon.online
2023-03-14T03:13:04Z
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@textfiles Now is your chance if you were planning anything nefarious.
(DIR) Post #ATaqgcXXKks3kcXH9s by That_AC@masto.ai
2023-03-14T03:13:34Z
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@textfiles Such an offical looking card...crap....did you see where my eyes rolled off too??
(DIR) Post #ATaqkT7EJapzgF48ps by 0x00string@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T03:14:12Z
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@textfiles cop cars have an apparatus to detect radiation?! like the cops are driving around with some sort of milspec-bezel wrapped geiger counter?
(DIR) Post #ATaqqTKuPKoc6OKJns by thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2023-03-14T03:15:10Z
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@textfiles Just did one of those here in Tucson, also got the card. Apparently airports and courts have detectors mostly.
(DIR) Post #ATar1QFOEUqnhtxzyC by jmhorner@eattherich.club
2023-03-14T03:17:18Z
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@textfiles I love how the card appears to have an eerie purple glow. I'm sure it's nothing. :-)
(DIR) Post #ATar6rJH2fCH5XNMJM by mbradley@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T03:18:17Z
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@textfiles well shit, this my TIL for the day — and I believed you, but it checks out https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/seen-at-11-nycs-ring-of-protection-tools-in-the-fight-against-dirty-bombs/
(DIR) Post #ATarBSVWgTL7c4IfTc by jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io
2023-03-14T03:19:08Z
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@textfiles I worked in midtown Manhattan briefly at the end of 2002. One of my co-workers carried a radiation detector to warn him of any deliberate contamination incidents.
(DIR) Post #ATarOjdSJXh8UzL7b6 by lathamgreen@ravenation.club
2023-03-14T03:21:32Z
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@textfiles according to most 50's movies, after radiation you should become 100 feet tall and monstrous with super powers so you can see why they worry
(DIR) Post #ATarRty8Loh9PsWP2W by SirVo@noagendasocial.com
2023-03-14T03:22:12Z
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@textfiles brb forging my Glowie card
(DIR) Post #ATarqUNgcgfXISCKS8 by ramblinghobbit@montereybay.social
2023-03-14T03:26:31Z
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@textfiles Surveillance is wild these days.
(DIR) Post #ATaryW4QE5A6qv0yZ6 by Sempf@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T03:28:00Z
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@textfiles Holy shit. I had no idea.
(DIR) Post #ATasZGAYJDc6FbP2O0 by artandtechnic@digipres.club
2023-03-14T03:34:38Z
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@textfiles Hope you’re doing okay.
(DIR) Post #ATasroqU7cSv0frlPE by drahcir_rahl@defcon.social
2023-03-14T03:37:58Z
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@textfiles Holy smokes thats amazing
(DIR) Post #ATatp86w8ZQzqUqK2q by alex_02@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T03:48:40Z
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@textfiles is it bad i laughed at this?
(DIR) Post #ATau04pMgXpQqcqNQO by drwho@hackers.town
2023-03-14T03:50:40Z
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@textfiles I'm not sure which is more nuts, that they're still watching for something hot coming in, or that their dosimeters are that sensitive.
(DIR) Post #ATauZDbY2mV4Cm8buS by jbaggs@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T03:57:01Z
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@textfiles I imagine the couriers that bring the Technetium-99m generators to the hospitals have more impressive cards to show, but I do like the "Dear Law Enforcement Official" at the top.
(DIR) Post #ATaubK58vrPusCz55U by funranium@redwombat.social
2023-03-14T03:57:00Z
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@textfiles they also really have no idea how their detectors work. Like, at all.
(DIR) Post #ATaumz30xmJB6yY5eC by caw@mastodon.world
2023-03-14T03:59:31Z
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@textfiles An old boss of mine tells a story of transporting isotope samples from UMCP to a lab in northern VA, and discovering the hard way just how locked down central Washington, DC is.
(DIR) Post #ATavZ6xspXFDZB67vs by lmamakos@universeodon.com
2023-03-14T04:08:13Z
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@textfiles Some years ago I also had a nuclear stress test and they told me about the very short half-life of the isotope that was going to be injected into me. I asked them if that was the case, how did they manage to keep any in stock?"They deliver it every day." I could see that they don't often get that questions. So them I ask them "So, how do you focus gamma rays so you can produce an image?" That "look" returned. "Sir, just please lie still."Still not sure how that works. I later learned how some of the orbital X-Ray telescopes do this, but that required pretty large structures..
(DIR) Post #ATayL3iwNos5K56EG8 by almibe@fosstodon.org
2023-03-14T04:39:18Z
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@textfiles I love adult permission slips. "See officer, I'm allowed to be this radioactive" 😝
(DIR) Post #ATazmrHqJjbUoRFD3Q by hananc@tooot.im
2023-03-14T04:55:30Z
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@textfileshalf life
(DIR) Post #ATb1PepEgMMTPbvcBM by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-03-14T05:13:51Z
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@lmamakos @textfiles Grazing-incidence mirrors can be used for focusing X-rays and gammas. They're quite fascinating, paraboloids of revolution made up of multiple very thin layers of various metals.But for radiography procedures, it's normally done the other way around, by integrating measurements from a number of sensors. An early form of "cosmic ray telescope" involved a stack of Geiger tubes, set up with "coincidence detectors" to trigger only on a ray passing through all of them.
(DIR) Post #ATb2bZIPAOEpgwobmy by ne1for23@betweenthelions.link
2023-03-14T05:27:05Z
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@textfiles While the card and concept of a nuclear stress test are intriguing, I had to look up why one would have such a test.Hoping the test proves useful in creating your treatment plan. 🫀
(DIR) Post #ATb3zNCJtmQD4esruC by Lucky225@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T05:42:36Z
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@textfiles I've always wondered what happens if you assert your fifth in these situations, like at airports where a magic black box alerts to explosions or whatever on you, even tho nitron glycerin pills will do the same thing, your false positives don't trump my 5th and 4th 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #ATb5fjGcKsDhdaeerg by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-03-14T06:01:34Z
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@textfiles Do you mind if I use that image?I can credit you, or leave you out of it, entirely as you please.http://man-and-atom.tumblr.com/
(DIR) Post #ATb7iwzfxLa0zHOVaS by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T06:24:29Z
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@publius Have a ball
(DIR) Post #ATbASsLvkA5tp3pXOq by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T06:55:09Z
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@artandtechnic 100% cleared
(DIR) Post #ATbAnUCui8FN1BRNmC by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T06:58:54Z
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@ne1for23 it aas just precautionary, 100% cleared
(DIR) Post #ATbAqJEjxIgprWdoQ4 by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T06:59:03Z
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@ne1for23 it was just precautionary, 100% cleared
(DIR) Post #ATbAsqZOzhVJp4W1vE by ZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2023-03-14T03:58:18Z
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@0x00string @textfiles some do, but as I understand, it’s more common for there to be stationary detectors and for stuff like trash trucks to have them. @funranium probably has a nightmare to share regarding detection processes though :P
(DIR) Post #ATbAsrEAY877rVaaSu by 0x00string@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T03:59:14Z
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@ZiggyTheHamster @textfiles @funranium wow. thats pretty cool.
(DIR) Post #ATbAsrieimV5O3qvz6 by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T06:59:53Z
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@0x00string @ZiggyTheHamster @funranium I was told cop cars and some of the detectors on some of the bridges and of course GCT
(DIR) Post #ATbB6OGf1Bcs6CCvKa by 0x00string@infosec.exchange
2023-03-14T07:02:18Z
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@textfiles @ZiggyTheHamster @funranium its actually pretty nice to think thats being monitored
(DIR) Post #ATbI8frRHG5UvCRjV2 by NohatCoder@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-03-14T08:21:09Z
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@textfiles Do they know how half life works? If it is actually 2 days then you'd expect it to be detectable for something like a month.
(DIR) Post #ATbX1OvlK98HhNSUL2 by andrei_chiffa@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T11:07:54Z
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@textfiles I really think it’s more of a “in case you get asked” rather than “you will get asked”, with the “in case” being pretty low.
(DIR) Post #ATbaXuEGnAKLtlJ3Ts by dascandy42@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T11:47:22Z
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@textfiles Optimistic to take a single half-life as enough to have no detectable radiation.
(DIR) Post #ATbaZhzFHOrEVb8dc0 by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T11:47:26Z
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@andrei_chiffa I mean, yes, I buy a smoke alarm in case there's a fire, not because thwre will be a fire.
(DIR) Post #ATbk38F7ddgTvSfZiq by Layer8Problem@mastodon.online
2023-03-14T13:33:50Z
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@textfiles Lucky, you got a cool radioactive medical test. The last medical test I got in Mount Kisco was a colonoscopy. 😞
(DIR) Post #ATbmqacL8C5w1eExwO by rrwo@ohai.social
2023-03-14T14:05:10Z
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@textfiles There is something horribly dystopian about this.
(DIR) Post #ATbonYWeeRuqZtGKLA by DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2023-03-14T14:27:04Z
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@textfiles oh no, I'll have to cancel my planned attack cos it will never work. Instead I'll just have to go with a boring old sub-orbital ballistic delivery.
(DIR) Post #ATbqEP0uE0s4qjmGC8 by Rowedahelicon@awoo.studio
2023-03-14T14:43:08Z
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@textfiles that's fascinating, I never would have guessed. Only thing I recall about how locked down it is from the last time I was there was how specific streets needed to have vehicles searched
(DIR) Post #ATbrC4CqiPJ1gwoWrQ by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T14:53:57Z
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@dascandy42 I almost guarantee it's that the half life goes under the bar, and this came from too many stops
(DIR) Post #ATbrFpMppOjopOHIH2 by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T14:54:21Z
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@andrei_chiffa I mean, yes, I buy a smoke alarm in case there's a fire, not because there will be a fire.
(DIR) Post #ATbxDCxWG2SIquZSPQ by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-14T16:01:19Z
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@DrHyde go big or go home
(DIR) Post #ATclJkAFbzYbOysMt6 by grimmtooth@mstdn.social
2023-03-15T01:22:49Z
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@textfiles Aw man, those stress tests are the WORST.Well, NOT as bad as the chemical version, but either way, it's a half day ruined.
(DIR) Post #ATcmakD6nG9IQDsoM4 by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-15T01:37:04Z
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@grimmtooth yeah, totally not doing chemical and I do a lot of exercise so not so bad
(DIR) Post #ATcnOYHTQCTZtzftse by grimmtooth@mstdn.social
2023-03-15T01:46:06Z
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@textfiles I have short little legs so by the time we hit max pace I feel like a chihuahua chasing a car. 😂
(DIR) Post #ATdwZLPkh0GrvcjCVs by coregaze@mstdn.social
2023-03-15T15:03:35Z
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@textfiles You say it's lightly radioactive, but my other half just had a similar thing done (scintillography-directed lymph node dissection) and she was radiating about a year's background dose every two hours. Of course, a year's background dose is only about three millisieverts, which is a tiny amount in the grand scale of things, but it isn't at all surprising that portal monitors on transit might pick it up.
(DIR) Post #ATdyUMDqSeDetWuNuq by textfiles@digipres.club
2023-03-15T15:19:46Z
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@coregaze It's lightly radioactive unless it comes from the Blayais region of France
(DIR) Post #ATe2YVtWqDPvrrdunA by coregaze@mstdn.social
2023-03-15T16:10:29Z
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@textfiles my favourite Tc-99m fun fact is that hospitals get it by doing something they call "milking the moly cow".