The narrative is quite, eh.. tentative. Nevertheless a entertaining read, start at the beginning here: https://mastermind.atavist.com/an-arrogant-way-of-killing
He Always Had a Dark Side
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#12So he dropped TrueCrypt and told everybody it was insecure when he was picked up by the feds, fearing that they would try and force him to open a security hole? Wow.
This may be true. If you look at the timeline of his arrest and when TrueCrypt ceased development, they are around the same time.
Matthew Green also tweeted about this correlation on twitter: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/71481367667133644...
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#13> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online.
This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There's almost no way a guy at home would have had that kind of access in Apartheid South Africa to the internet back then. There was access, but it was through big companies or academia and on a very controlled level.
Here's a quick rundown of internet access in South Africa during that time period from Wikipedia. From experience, it is accurate.
> The first South African IP address was granted to Rhodes University in 1988.[1] On 12 November 1991, the first IP connection was made between Rhodes' computing centre and the home of Randy Bush in Portland, Oregon.[2] By November 1991, South African universities were connected through UNINET to the Internet. Commercial Internet access for businesses and private use began in June 1992[3] with the registration of the first .co.za subdomain.
You might bring up stuff like BBS, but that was not around in South Africa until after 1990 also. You could technically have imported hardware and connected to a BBS in USA, but the costs involved and control of the only Telecoms operator allowed in Apartheid South Africa (Telkom) would have been unaffordable. Especially for Krugersdorp. I doubt you'd get some kind of USA led local police raid for pornography in Apartheid South Africa either. The whole thing would need some serious evidence.
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#14>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.
This doesn't seem like it'd be incredibly hard to prove if true. Senator's wives are a pretty limited group of people to look into for a connection.
But adoption records are probably hard to get.
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#15Can we please have a little less narrative and a little more information sources?
Has anyone confirmed any affirmation in the article?
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#16>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.
This doesn't seem like it'd be incredibly hard to prove if true. Senator's wives are a pretty limited group of people to look into for a connection.
It'd be the daughter having the child in another country in the early 1970s.
I guess there is a good chance that there is no paper trail and a very small number of people that know any details and are still alive (because it happened 40 years ago, not because of anything nefarious).
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#17Could someone post a one or two paragraph TL;DR for people in here who don't have the time right now to read the entire piece? You can reasonably assume we do already a) know what tcrypt is, and b) know about the discontinuation annoucement almost two years ago.
May the upvotes then be with you.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
This doesn't seem like it'd be incredibly hard to prove if true. Senator's wives are a pretty limited group of people to look into for a connection.
But adoption records are probably hard to get.
The mother's name is redacted from the birth certificate shown in the story.
It's the link from that name to a Senator that is missing.
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#19> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online. This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There's almost no way a guy at home would have had that kind of access in Apartheid South Africa to the internet back then. There was access, but it was through big companies or academia and on…
"On-Line" might mean on a Bulletin Board System, some of which did do pornography.
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#20>He was, in other words, a troll: the kind of person you might find on Reddit
I think it's funny that reddit is the go-to example of an internet shithole, instead of something like 4chan.