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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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Post by pwnna »

acqq wrote: post #247
pwnna wrote: post #238

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OP of this post here. Not sure why you're downvoted and tried to upvote it to rebalance. I also realized after reading the article for the second time that it did not say that PLR is TC's author directly, but rather that it is unclear if he is. I made a mistake while first posting as my reading made me believe he's the author of TC. I tried to point it out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382412 Additiona…

Thanks to you and lvs. At least I see the title was just changed to the original article's from the linkbaity one to which I've complained. Now it's finally "He Always Had a Dark Side"

I'm not sure if that accurately reflect why this is relevant either. I think it is fairly significant that PLR is very much connected to TC (and it is suspected that he is involved with TC financially).

I do not have a better title suggestion at this point, however.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by Nadya »

dominotw wrote: post #243
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…

> 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. Wasn't this Gawkers main argument in their defense against the hulk.

No, not quite. Their main argument was that it was newsworthy and "it", in particular, was the video and not the article. The article itself could exist, but without the video. The video couldn't as there was a reasonable expectation of privacy.

They were sued because they refused to take down the video and their defense was absolutely terrible in every regard including joking in legally binding statements without going through and marking them as jokes/sarcasm: so they are taken at face value in the court of law.

Making jokes about child porn ("newsworthy if the actor is over the age of four") isn't how you win over jurors.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by Obi_Juan_Kenobi »

cellularmitosis wrote: post #161
jjoonathan wrote: post #73

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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 the best. Sometimes the cheap eBay gadgets get a little repetitive, but he does mix in a lot of different stuff. I really enjoy his videos on printing circuit boards and making his little 'nixie' lamps. He's just fun to listen to.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by skynetv2 »

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…

really well written. i have to read the other two yet

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by [deleted] »

tptacek wrote: post #250
dominotw wrote: post #243

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> 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. Wasn't this Gawkers main argument in their defense against the hulk.

I do not understand the comparison you are trying to make. Gawker was sued for releasing a clip of the actual sex tape. Everyone involved stipulated that a detailed story about the tape would have been fine.

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by RandalSchwartz »

zzleeper wrote: post #210

On a slightly related question, what are you guys using instead of Truecrypt for virtual encripted disks? I use a bit of confidential data for research, and keep the identifiers on a TC container, but since it is no longer maintained I wonder when will it stop working and if VeraCrypt/CipherShed are good or not. I don't access the data that often, so speed is not that big of a deal, but the ability to cover my back i…

VeraCrypt is being very actively developed, including fixing a number of bugs that were found in TrueCrypt. Watch my interview with the main developer here, including some analysis of the code showing that perhaps different people worked on it over different time periods:

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/340

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by acqq »

pwnna wrote: post #251
acqq wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks to you and lvs. At least I see the title was just changed to the original article's from the linkbaity one to which I've complained. Now it's finally "He Always Had a Dark Side"

I'm not sure if that accurately reflect why this is relevant either. I think it is fairly significant that PLR is very much connected to TC (and it is suspected that he is involved with TC financially). I do not have a better title suggestion at this point, however.

Please see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by throweway »

lawpoop wrote: post #185
afreak wrote: post #171

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> 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

That can be taken more than one way

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by toyg »

mirimir wrote: post #248
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #198

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Are you essentially positing that the only relevant consideration to whether publishing information about someone is ethically defensible is whether or not the subject feels good about having that information revealed? It seems to me there is a material difference -- and a vast one at that -- between "I have done serious investigative work and wish to present evidence that Joe Foobar is a criminal kingpin who can be…

The concept of "criminal kingpin" is entirely based on "a group I identify with". In this case, some nation or government or whatever. So, as I see it, there's arguably no fundamental distinction between your two examples. It's arguably all about power.

Dude, please. Laws are abstractions and relative and whatnot, but Really Bad People do exist and the public has a right to know. Otherwise, why have journalists or even laws at all?

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by austinhutch »

genericacct wrote: post #223

Fantastic read, but... looping a video by reloading it off the server everytime it's finished? You should be giving bandwidth to the poor!

I thought this was happening to me on another site, but it turned out I had developer tools on (disabling cache). Might be what you're seeing.
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