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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 :)
Satoshi Nakamoto: Arms Dealer
Coming to a theater near you, this Summer.
He Always Had a Dark Side
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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"?
There are some interesting circumstantial connections to Satoshi:
Considered to be a "brilliant" programmer with a strong C++ background - Most people would call you crazy if you attempted to put a 6 billion dollar prize behind an internet facing application without memory safety
Author of crypto/privacy software - E4M and possibly TrueCrypt written in C++
Experience hiding identity both online and off
Millionaire - Satoshi never converted any of his btc fortune
Anti-authoritarian
Understands the benefits of digital currency - Has millions of dollars stacked in boxes
Understands the payment problem - Illegal prescription drug marketplaces
Has an interest in internet gambling software - The first version of btc actually had some code for a marketplace and poker: http://imgur.com/a/NPiIs
Multifocal - Satoshi vanished around April 23 2011 to "move on to other things"
South African spelling/phrasing - analyse, colour, defence, bloody hard
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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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8_jgiNqUc&t=1m25s
"PILATE: What's so... funny about 'Biggus Dickus'?
CENTURION: Well, it's a joke name, sir.
PILATE: I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called..."
(And he really did have this friend! Heh. Comedy, one way or another)
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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?
Germany has the concept 'people of public interest' for which different rules concerning media appearance and photographs apply. Politicians are an example. You could argue that it applies in this case as well.
Wrong country of course, but the idea as an ethical code is out there, that the public has some right for information on some, and only some, people.
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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.
> gratipay offers bitcoin payments, which, if they implement it right, would eliminate the middleman [...] when the financee cashes out using bitcoin And tell me, how does one cut out the middleman when they convert their Bitcoin earnings to US dollars or whatever currency they prefer?
Jesus Christ why don't you people just start mowing the guy's lawn for Christ's sake
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#186Of course by some legal interpretations, distributing Truecrypt on the Internet would satisfy the very definition of international arms dealer.
Indeed. Google ITAR. I remember 90s web page protests.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I might feel upset, I guess. If you don't want that to happen, don't do anything newsworthy.
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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?
Are moral rules situationally dependent on the personal feelings of the person subject to those rules? I would hate to be in jail, but I think it's morally and ethically valid to put people in jail in certain circumstances. Similarly I think that politicians and public figures should be subject to a high degree of scrutiny and transparency about their personal lives, even though I personally wouldn't enjoy such treat…
By "feel", I meant more what you might feel justified in doing about it. The key "moral rule" for me is to only mess with people who have messed with me. I don't get into third-party stuff, and I have little sympathy for those who do.
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Are you me? I subscribe to Applied Science, AvE, Signal Path, and W2AEW. I'll have to check out Mikeselectricstuff and Mr Carlson's Lab. EEVblog is missing from the list, but arguably that one goes without saying :-)
Another addition to the above excellent list is "bigclivedotcom". Lots of teardowns of cheap Chinese electronics with an eye towards what exactly makes them dangerous. https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos
Clive is really awesome! Re-ignited my electronics flame :)
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#190Wow. Thank you for the support. Donations are always appreciated!
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