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Curious, then, that the author chooses to gender them. If the author used 'they' or rewrote sentences to be gender-neutral, it'd be one less bit of entropy.
By "arms dealer" do they mean "kind of sketchy online pharmacy entrepreneur"? Because I didn't see anything about weapons in this article. Perhaps that's still to come in part 2, but as of right now the title is extremely linkbaity. EDIT: title has been unlinkbaitified (previously "Truecrypt was written by a international arms dealer") EDIT2: title has been reverted to the linkbaity version (previously changed to the…
This article is actually part 3, the first two detail his arms dealing a little bit, but like someone else mentioned, he's a very well-known arms dealer with direct links to several murders.
Part 1: https://mastermind.atavist.com/an-arrogant-way-of-killing
holy shit.
more like holy fuck. This is so huge. It's huger than huge. This will surely rock the crypto scene for years to come.
Not to be pedantic, but you wrote "cutting out the middleman." Doesn't patreon take a small cut? Aren't they a middleman? (Though undoubtedly one taking a much smaller share than previous ones.)
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As a teenager in the US, it was one of my main activities, so I can believe the age. I'm not sure about how it would go in SA.
Teenager in the US at the same time. Yep, this is exactly what we did with our 8-bit machines and modems at the time. We were global even then. EDIT- LOL. I guess the HN downvoters have proof this isn't what we were doing back then???
By "arms dealer" do they mean "kind of sketchy online pharmacy entrepreneur"? Because I didn't see anything about weapons in this article. Perhaps that's still to come in part 2, but as of right now the title is extremely linkbaity. EDIT: title has been unlinkbaitified (previously "Truecrypt was written by a international arms dealer") EDIT2: title has been reverted to the linkbaity version (previously changed to the…
His name seems to be quite well known at this point, lots of stories about him cooperating with US feds in 2014-2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/in-real-life-ra... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/nyregion/us-reveals-crimin...
Probably would've made the same amount of money charging for TC premium support instead of building a pancontinental empire of mercenaries and arms trafficking.
Not to be pedantic, but you wrote "cutting out the middleman." Doesn't patreon take a small cut? Aren't they a middleman? (Though undoubtedly one taking a much smaller share than previous ones.)
(maybe 'cutting out a middleman' is pedantically accurate in this case. We seem to have identified at least two middlemen in this process)
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Teenager in the US at the same time. Yep, this is exactly what we did with our 8-bit machines and modems at the time. We were global even then. EDIT- LOL. I guess the HN downvoters have proof this isn't what we were doing back then???
I didn't vote, but my guess would be that this is a me-too comment, which the community discourages. If you wish to echo a parent comment, it's expected that you add a significant contribution.
Honestly, I'm outta here. Had enough of this. Changing my password to something I'll never remember.
Rage on, kids.
Original author of the story here... Just to add that 1. yes, the reporting on Le Roux's childhood is more tentative based on a family source (well backed up by docs and images sent to me). But the fact that the same Le Roux created E4M which formed the basis of TrueCrypt is something I think I've established definitively, company and site registration trails show it very firmly (and PLR himself admits it in court, b…
What's with the SOLOTSHI? Was that a nickname, an additional real name, or just a false name he threw in to the mix?
>>"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.
US Senators generally are not powerful enough to have people shot.