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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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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.

That's how I read it too, I just don't think we are dangerously close to doing it.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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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…

Did I miss the place in these stories where the author published the subject's home address?

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Fucking hell Welles, just tell us that was the sled's name!

>just tell us that was the sled's name! It's literally the first word that's said in the movie. Of course at that point you have no idea that it's the sled's name ;-)

Rosebud....

On a total segue from the topic of this post; two of the earliest memories of movie scenes that are etched into my brain are: a) The snow globe falling down and breaking from Citizen Kane and b) Slim Pickens riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove

I have no idea at what age I watched them but those two scenes seem to have captivated me and are forever with me.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

#145

So 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.

The article is unclear as for whether he was still involved with TrueCrypt by the time they got him though. It sounds like he had quite a lot going on to even care for TrueCrypt at that point.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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post #66

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

Why should they be nervous about doing their job? Also, one X, not two: https://stallman.org/doxing.html

> Thus, we usually have to write the name of the oil company as "Exxon", though its proper spelling is "e exx o n". (Don't make the mistake of pronouncing "Exxon" like "exon"; you will appear unsophisticated.)

The development of the Exxon exx is shown here:

http://www.logodesignlove.com/exxon-logo-raymond-loewy

It's clearly a double-x rather than any more exotic character, the styling is just that - styling.

The Wikipedia article has it as /ˈɛksɒn/ and that's the pronunciation used in their commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s80Hbac2b8

So that's way off-topic. But what he says about "dox" vs. "doxx" is as much a preference as "focused" and "focussed", or "busing" and "bussing" - there's no "correct" way, not even if it is the original way.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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post #122

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This is what I'm wondering. Is this simply going to turn into another Satosh hunt?

Paul LeRoux is probably Satoshi. Consider: his latest known posting is from Mar 2014. http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour... , two months before Truecrypt shut down. (/sarcasm)

I did a bit of more research, and found http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1997/02/msg01715.html citing Le Roux on digital cash.

(It's not him, by the way, found an active twitter account for that person. Just having some fun creating a conspiracy theory.)

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Really the only "big" information presented is that Paul Le Roux, a man arrested recently by the DEA, is very very likely the same person who was the early leader of TrueCrypt. It discuses his background a lot - he was an extremely intelligent child and teenager, who started shady business practices as early as 16 when he was arrested for selling porn. He was rather poor and led a shaky life in his early twenties, an…

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Thank you

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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> 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…

Any story featuring a character called "Randy Bush" should be taken with a pinch of salt...

Why's that? Do you know who this particular Randy Bush is and his history with regard to the Internet?
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