It makes sense that Ulbricht had more experienced ccoders supporting his efforts. I've always wondered how he built a multimillion dollar empire one StackOverlow question at a time.
Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road
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#12Variety Jones is one of those "fogotten architects", who alleges that a corrupt FBI officer is blackmailing him / feeding him inside information in order to gain access a password protected BitCoin wallet worth $70 million that the FBI agent stole from Ross Ulbricht: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/variety-jones-a-corrupt-fbi...
Forum post with a lot more info: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&star... (Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose)
Care to summarise any of the interesting parts, or is it worth holding on and checking this at home? I'm at work and I suspect clicking on "myplanetganja.com" will not go down well with our infra team. Also what does "Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose" mean?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forum post with a lot more info: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&star... (Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose)
Care to summarise any of the interesting parts, or is it worth holding on and checking this at home? I'm at work and I suspect clicking on "myplanetganja.com" will not go down well with our infra team. Also what does "Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose" mean?
This url leads to forum posts that is written by guy named "Plural of Mongoose". I skimmed it over and it reads like memoirs of main (bad?) character from Noir book. Definitely worth a read if you're into that.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forum post with a lot more info: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&star... (Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose)
Care to summarise any of the interesting parts, or is it worth holding on and checking this at home? I'm at work and I suspect clicking on "myplanetganja.com" will not go down well with our infra team. Also what does "Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose" mean?
simon aka Varity Jones aka Plural of Mongoose writes a very long, well written tale with many dubious elements about his life after Silk Road collapses. It supposedly involves high level corruption, $75M of stolen Bitcoin that needs a password, and a beach holiday. It's worth reading, he definitely has a nice style regardless of how much truth there is in the story.
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#15The people who wrote and compiled information for this article are engaged in speculative vigilantism and snitching. Maybe this info is already known to the feds, or maybe not, and maybe it is factual, or maybe not. Regardless, releasing it does nothing but harm people who don't deserve to be harmed. Stop snitching!
That is my initial reaction, as well. (well, not the "stop snitching" part).
They have basically hacked into these persons private accounts repeatedly.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forum post with a lot more info: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&star... (Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose)
Care to summarise any of the interesting parts, or is it worth holding on and checking this at home? I'm at work and I suspect clicking on "myplanetganja.com" will not go down well with our infra team. Also what does "Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose" mean?
Great example of panopticon-like surveillance leading to people self-censoring since they are afraid of being monitored.
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#17I wonder why the reporter ("Joseph Cox") decided to publish the (presumed) truenames of these hackers. That decision seems to undermine the political statement "he" makes when he refers to "the failed War on Drugs" — "he" has done the investigative work that the DEA and FBI needed done in order to deter hackers who might consider working on future sites like SR.
(Is there a difference between doxing and journalism?)
Or perhaps it's misdirection?
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#18I wonder why the reporter ("Joseph Cox") decided to publish the (presumed) truenames of these hackers. That decision seems to undermine the political statement "he" makes when he refers to "the failed War on Drugs" — "he" has done the investigative work that the DEA and FBI needed done in order to deter hackers who might consider working on future sites like SR. (Is there a difference between doxing and journalism?)…
It does seem quite nasty, and at odds with what I'd consider journalism. Regardless of whether or not the DEA and FBI knew.
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#19This does feel a little like doxxing/vigilantism, which makes me generally uneasy.
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#20This does feel a little like doxxing/vigilantism, which makes me generally uneasy.
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