Awesome story
He Always Had a Dark Side
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#302Original 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…
Absolutely excellent reporting and writing. I'll start reading the other 2 parts now.
It's light years away from the New Yorker, in style, facts, and content.
I would not be surprised if it's a false alarm, like the Satoshi "exposure".
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
well then wouldn't the blades be the middleman
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#304Please make movie with Gerard Depardieu
Cast a nutter to play a nuttier nut. Perfect.
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#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://stallman.org/articles/exxon.html April 1 2013
Does he really think he can just imagine things, and then convince other people they are true? Wikipedia says: > The company initially planned to change its name to "Exon", in keeping with the four-letter format of Enco and Esso. However, during the planning process, it was noted that James Exon was the governor of Nebraska. Renaming the company after a sitting governor seemed ill-advised, and the second "x" was adde…
Convincing other people of things that are false is standard practice every April 1. I believe that whole Exxon article is an April Fool's joke.
...although looking at it more carefully, the doxing article is not dated April 1, and it has the same claim in it. Maybe he forgot what he was doing and successfully trolled himself. I don't know. But yes, the Exxon thing is obviously, demonstrably false.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a real shame that a bunch of people were tricked into reading an excellent piece of long-form journalism because someone singled out why it might interest them. The HN front page has a context, and the new title is completely incoherent there. Do better .
The previous title was factually incorrect: it did not match the claims of the article. Even the OP admits it was a mistake. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382412 The new title may not be great (as it's copied from the article, where it exists in the context of a larger series), but it's at least an improvement over one that was simply wrong.
Are you joking? The new title would barely be an improvement over a blank line. At best, it's poorly written clickbait (who is "he"? Why do we care?), but really it doesn't even qualify as a "title" except for where it's placed on the page. It might seem like anything would be better than a title which exaggerates the claims of the article (no, the article does not prove that he was involved in the creation of TC -- it does, however, hypothesize it), but we've somehow arrived at one which if not worse, is certainly very bad in a different way.
If dang wants to mangle the titles of articles into incoherency after they've already been on the front page for hours, that's clearly his prerogative, but let's not pretend that it's any kind of improvement. It would be easy to rewrite this title to both keep it in context and remove the factual inaccuracy. Instead, we get this.
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Arms dealer': one who sells arms. The point he is making is that, regardless of what is considered legitimate, both this individual and the U.S. government are, by definition, arms dealers. Or at least that the U.S. is an arms dealer.
No. 'Arms dealer' refers to illegal arms dealers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_trafficking#Notable_arms_...
Agree, US is not a "dealer" they're an "exporter" -- and no one selling weapons for a government would ever offically refer to themselves as an arms dealer.
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#309Original 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…
Brilliant writing; some of the better long-form I've discovered..
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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?
I personally give up once a person gets so defensive that they start excusing murderers. That a person will so quickly sacrifice their morals for their face on an internet forum, is disheartening.