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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 acqq »

br1b wrote: post #348
acqq wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please quote the exact part where we can see that PLR was one of the TrueCrypt programmers? I somehow missed that what you claim while (admittedly) speed-reading, namely, I've got only this in the article: "Indeed, even today the question of who launched the software remains unanswered . “The origin of TrueCrypt has always been very mysterious,” says Matthew Green". And also as Mahn writes: https://news.ycomb…

Paul Le Roux stole E4M source from SecurStar... I surely don't dispute that PLR wrote E4M....

Writing something is not equal to owning. The topic here is the source in ownership of SecurStar which apparently PLR produced while working for SecurStar.

Just like if you'd work for Microsoft and then the code you produced while working there, under the contract that you've signed that the code belongs to them, you put into your own program. You wrote the program but the code you've put there is stolen.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by JonoBB »

kieranhunt wrote: post #82
mchaver wrote: post #23

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I also thought it was interesting to learn that South Africa did not introduce television until 1976 (assuming this article is correct). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_South_Africa

I can confirm. My gran still has (she's not using it) her original TV bought around the time. From the stories my parents tell the SABC (think BBC) initialy broadcast a test signal and the early adopters would crowd around their TVs just to watch that.

I can confirm first hand - I was one of those watching that damn TV signal for hours :)

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by akavel »

tptacek wrote: post #105
mirimir wrote: post #66

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

Isn't "doxxing people" the actual job of a journalist?

Personally, I interpreted the question as a shorthand for: "Aren't you afraid LeRoux could see that as doxxing, and of potential dangerous consequences to yourself?"

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by dijit »

poofyleek wrote: post #273

First McAfee http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/john-mcafee-belize_... . Now Le Roux. What is up with the security software guys? Are they destined to be evil geniuses?

the curse of government looking over your shoulder constantly, the mental wear of being harassed.If you're unhinged it's easier to paint you the villain, especially if you do end up doing some questionable things.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by GFK_of_xmaspast »

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

That's an unorthodoxx opinino.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by mirimir »

akavel wrote: post #354
tptacek wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't "doxxing people" the actual job of a journalist?

Personally, I interpreted the question as a shorthand for: "Aren't you afraid LeRoux could see that as doxxing, and of potential dangerous consequences to yourself?"

Yes, that's what I meant. But I do also consider the distinction between doxxing and journalism to be highly subjective. The judgment typically comes down to ingroup vs outgroup. Once someone is identified as "other", they're fair game.

This all occurs to me as a show trial. They're making an example of him, as authoritarian systems tend to do. And one aspect of that is being dragged through the mud. Being slandered. It's dog pack behavior, and I find it disgusting.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by langseth »

jessaustin wrote: post #24
maxerickson wrote: post #16

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It'd be the daughter having the child in another country in the early 1970s. I guess there is a good chance that there is no paper trail and a very small number of people that know any details and are still alive (because it happened 40 years ago, not because of anything nefarious).

If one were actually interested, maybe one could just look at all Senator's wives' daughters who traveled internationally in that timeframe?

I suspect this information would actually be really hard if not impossible to track down. The actions of D-list celebrities, and I am not even sure a senator's daughter would qualify that high, in the 1970s is not reported like it is in today's 24/7 news cycle.

And, I can't imagine international flight passengers were tracked that closely either, much less stored for over 40 years.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by kenshaw »

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…

Ok -- this is badly tripping me out. A former employee of mine in the Philippines is (was?) his wife. I'm pretty sure I met this guy while I lived in the Philippines. Even though I haven't seen her since 2008 (I think?) her family contacted me about 2 years ago wondering if I had spoken to her (I hadn't of course).
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