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Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by celticninja »

6stringmerc wrote: post #16

Glad to see this keep getting attention by way of this site. I saw Vice News also has a long-form piece, and even interviewed and referenced the author and the Atavist piece! This looks like the definitive write-up and account. I hope the potential film rights are lucrative. However, if Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant's screenwriting bible is any indication, the Hollywood system will most definitely find a way to m…

It's a 7 part series I believe,not sure if you were saying this article is the definitive account, perhaps you meant the whole series.

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Post by adolph »

uiri wrote: post #22

Hunter earned both a National Defense Service Medal and a Global War on Terrorism Medal. I just want to point out that these medals just mean that he was a soldier at some point between September 11, 2001 and now. Service medals are given out just for showing up.

[Hunter's] home state named him a Kentucky Colonel, an honorific reserved for Kentuckians “unwavering in devotion to faith, family, fellowman, and country.”

Wikipedia:

The honor has been given to a broad variety of notable people . . . . It has also been bestowed upon various people who are not generally considered especially notable – they have been people from "all walks of life". . . .

Under Governor Steve Beshear in 2008, so many commissions were being issued that state budget cuts led to a major change in the design of the commission certificate. The certificate was downsized from the 10-by-15-inch (25 by 38 cm) size to 8.5 by 14 inches (22 by 36 cm).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_colonel

Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by djsumdog »

sametmax wrote: post #13

The page makes my browser crash.

Mine too. Firefox, but only on my work machine. My home desktop is fine. I've had weird Firefox issues whenever there's video (like that banner at the top) and if I watch the output, it looks like GLX issues (my work laptop should just be either Intel integrated ... I wonder if the driver is crashing)

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Post by djsumdog »

Fastidious wrote: post #25
sametmax wrote: post #13

The page makes my browser crash.

Time to switch browsers. Chrome v51 (dev) under OS X renders it flawlessly.

..or you could file a bug report and fix what's causing the browser crash.

Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by tlack »

probablypat wrote: post #23

I've met this guy. I used to live in Subic in the Philippines. I always thought he was a drunk that was lying about his past. Teaches me...

Tell us more! That's very interesting. Little quotes and details are fine, no long form journalism required :)

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Post by gestirn »

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #12
monkeyshelli wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

feels like reading a script for an upcoming action based spy-movie. But I guess truth is stranger than fiction

The difference is that in spy movies it looks cool and glamorous, not a bunch seedy dysfunctional ex-military types pretending life is like a james-bond flick. Maybe if someone like Tarantino got their hands on this.

It's interesting how life imitates art.

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Post by at-fates-hands »

cvwright wrote: post #29

This is fascinating. We live in the cyberpunk future that William Gibson and others wrote about in the 1980's. The former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer .

>> he former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer.

I just started getting into Sci-Fi (particularly dytopian worlds) and my Dad recommended this book as a "must read".

I'm halfway through it and love it so far.

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Post by at-fates-hands »

altotrees wrote: post #27

Another great installment. It is more mind-bending to me each week, the level of planning, the number of ties Le Roux has to so many different places and people with varied histories and interests. Even assuming conservatively that only 50 percent of what is written is fact, it is still crazy to think about. It is quite a story, Le Roux going from a gangly teenager hunched over his computer to a man who is able to am…

I wonder if you could call this guy a kind of a criminal renaissance man. The amount of criminal activity he was involved with and the things he did are mind bendingly complex.

How you go from raising an army to invade a country, operating shady call centers in a myriad of countries, and ordering hits on reporters and real estate agents is anybody's guess. The crazy thing is he was running all of this by himself. I'm still puzzled how he managed to do it for so long.

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