I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
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Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#2The Silk Road reference--is he saying he was working for Chinese interests? Where was the sensor data coming from?
I understand it's probably a painful story to tell, but a lot of little details are missing here, and they'd probably help both the author's friends and new readers like me understand what happened.
Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#3The lawyer was correct. If you have reason to suspect the FBI is watching you, they already have what they need. The men-in-black routine is meant to alter your behavior, to cause you to do something rare like empty an account or contact a distant friend. This was federal investigation 101.
Walk past the car and photograph the driver. They really love that.
Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#4The Silk Road reference--is he saying he was working for Chinese interests? Where was the sensor data coming from? I understand it's probably a painful story to tell, but a lot of little details are missing here, and they'd probably help both the author's friends and new readers like me understand what happened.
He's talking about the Silk Road marketplace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#5The Silk Road reference--is he saying he was working for Chinese interests? Where was the sensor data coming from? I understand it's probably a painful story to tell, but a lot of little details are missing here, and they'd probably help both the author's friends and new readers like me understand what happened.
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Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#6The lawyer was correct. If you have reason to suspect the FBI is watching you, they already have what they need. The men-in-black routine is meant to alter your behavior, to cause you to do something rare like empty an account or contact a distant friend. This was federal investigation 101. Walk past the car and photograph the driver. They really love that.
I would love to hear more about this. Both you and the lawyer in the story recognize it as true, but is this something you're taught ... or learn officially ... or learn unofficially?
Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#7The Silk Road reference--is he saying he was working for Chinese interests? Where was the sensor data coming from? I understand it's probably a painful story to tell, but a lot of little details are missing here, and they'd probably help both the author's friends and new readers like me understand what happened.
He's talking about the Silk Road marketplace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
Thanks, so it sounds like the SpaceX pitch was just the client wanting to build up a really cool cover story while he worked on(?) Silk Road in secret. Right?
Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#8The lawyer was correct. If you have reason to suspect the FBI is watching you, they already have what they need. The men-in-black routine is meant to alter your behavior, to cause you to do something rare like empty an account or contact a distant friend. This was federal investigation 101. Walk past the car and photograph the driver. They really love that.
Is there a book or something that I can read to get this type of insight? I'm interested in this stuff!
Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's talking about the Silk Road marketplace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
Thanks, so it sounds like the SpaceX pitch was just the client wanting to build up a really cool cover story while he worked on(?) Silk Road in secret. Right?
Presumably yes, and the datapoints being visualised would have presumably been transactions. The admin in question would have been Blake Benthall, not Ross Ulbricht who'd already been caught by then.
Re: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
#10The lawyer was correct. If you have reason to suspect the FBI is watching you, they already have what they need. The men-in-black routine is meant to alter your behavior, to cause you to do something rare like empty an account or contact a distant friend. This was federal investigation 101. Walk past the car and photograph the driver. They really love that.
I have a PI friend (retired) who pretended to be a cable guy as one of his go-to methods, even had a van with the right paint job. In that context, what you're saying sounds about right--why would you make yourself more obvious if you didn't have to?