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He Always Had a Dark Side

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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akhilcacharya wrote: post #22
djloche wrote: post #6

>>"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.

He was born in '72, it's reasonable to assume that his birth grandmother was born around 1930, and that either she was of Rhodesian citizenship or her daughter was a missionary. If this is part is legitimate that is.

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by svenfaw »

cantrevealname wrote: post #99
myrbergs_army wrote: post #59

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…

The birth certificate says, "Paul Calder Le Roux", but the diplomatic passport names him, "Paul SOLOTSHI Calder Le Roux". What's with the SOLOTSHI? Was that a nickname, an additional real name, or just a false name he threw in to the mix?

Am I the only one who first read it as "Satoshi"?

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by jessaustin »

maxerickson wrote: post #83
digibo wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is starting to sound dangerously close to doxing (esp. if anything found is shared), even if it's out of pure curiosity.

There's a pretty big difference between speculating about what information to look for and actually tracking it down and publicizing it.

I don't think this really contradicts what 'digibo said. That comment seems to refer to the latter as doxxing.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by clinta »

tptacek wrote: post #105
mirimir wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't you nervous about doxxing someone like that so thoroughly?

Isn't "doxxing people" the actual job of a journalist?

Does that make it okay? Do the reasons we find it socially unacceptable in other instances apply to journalists?

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by distracted_boy »

svenfaw wrote: post #113
cantrevealname wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The birth certificate says, "Paul Calder Le Roux", but the diplomatic passport names him, "Paul SOLOTSHI Calder Le Roux". What's with the SOLOTSHI? Was that a nickname, an additional real name, or just a false name he threw in to the mix?

Am I the only one who first read it as "Satoshi"?

You are not.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by pklausler »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #22
djloche wrote: post #6

>>"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.

He was born in '72, it's reasonable to assume that his birth grandmother was born around 1930, and that either she was of Rhodesian citizenship or her daughter was a missionary. If this is part is legitimate that is.

It took me five minutes on Wikipedia and NNDB to narrow the possibilities down to only four senators; the rest are women, too young, married too late, or only had sons.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by jonquark »

svenfaw wrote: post #113
cantrevealname wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The birth certificate says, "Paul Calder Le Roux", but the diplomatic passport names him, "Paul SOLOTSHI Calder Le Roux". What's with the SOLOTSHI? Was that a nickname, an additional real name, or just a false name he threw in to the mix?

Am I the only one who first read it as "Satoshi"?

No - I read it like that too - before a double take. Now that would be a story :)

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by EliRivers »

Negative1 wrote: post #48

tl;dr: the article describes the origin of one of the 'masterminds' of the truecrypt collective (the group that programmed truecrypt). It describes how his upbringing led to his viewpoints on privacy, hints at a conspiracy to eliminate public cryptography and talks about something called a 'cryptoparty', which I'm still scratching my head about. The article also hints he may have been involved in the illegal drug and…

Back in my youth, I recall a "crytoparty" being a meatspace event in which people handed out and signed each others keys in order to create a web of verified trust.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by rincebrain »

tptacek wrote: post #105
mirimir wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't you nervous about doxxing someone like that so thoroughly?

Isn't "doxxing people" the actual job of a journalist?

There's a difference between learning private information and disclosing it.

Publishing information on a particular private individual because the public's benefit is sufficiently great is a hard line to even vaguely pin down - a home address, all private contact methods, and enough personal data to forge their identity on a passport application is probably never warranted to publish, but you're going to acquire that information while researching private citizens for any reason, and then pare it down to the minimum required to establish whatever story you're reporting on.

One might distinguish "doxxing" as "publishing all the information you can retrieve", without any filter or goal other than making the information as public as possible.

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