He Always Had a Dark Side

Post by afreak » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

adrusi wrote: post #80

jonknee wrote: post #78

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Visa would also be a middleman. Or even the post office if you only accepted mailed cash.

There's also gratipay, which doesn't take a cut. Still the credit card's cut, but gratipay offers bitcoin payments, which, if they implement it right, would eliminate the middleman (unless you count miners as middlemen) when the financee cashes out using bitcoin. If they implemented it wrong, then coinbase is the middleman.

Post by jrochkind1 » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #127

mirimir wrote: 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

Post by nxzero » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

spacehome wrote: post #164

nxzero wrote: post #156

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Clearly the US makes a massive amount of cash selling weapons; yes, US is not an "arms dealer" - but likely comparable.

> US is not an "arms dealer" > the US makes a massive amount of cash selling weapons DOES NOT COMPUTE

Post by richardw » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:41 PM UTC

RyanZAG wrote: post #35

spullara wrote: post #25

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To run a BBS you need nothing more than a C64, a 300 bps modem and a phone line. Also, I'm not sure if you know anything about phone phreaking but in the 80s it was pretty much the preferred method of connecting to BBSs internationally.

Yes but from a teenager in Krugersdorp? And South Africa did not have such easy access to the international telephone market. The country was in the middle of economic sanctions at the time - international calls had to be placed through a switchboard with the government run telecom monopoly provider - Telkom. They also cost a literal arm and a leg for a couple minutes and were heavily monitored by the Apartheid regim…

Post by landryraccoon » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:45 PM UTC

mirimir wrote: post #165

myrbergs_army wrote: post #121

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As tptacek says, I don't view reporting like this as "doxxing." As the series hopefully shows, Le Roux was a hugely newsworthy figure for many different reasons, so reporting his background and how he got there is part of understanding where he is now. As for being nervous, many of the major players in the story are in US custody, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively a lot of people involved want to tell their par…

To me, it's just semantics. Let's say that someone published this much information about you. And let's say that they had whatever justifications. That there was widespread agreement that it was OK. Whatever. How would you feel?