Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

Post by chinchilla2020 » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 11:27 PM UTC

tpmx wrote: post #214

marcus0x62 wrote: post #209

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Quite a bit more boring, but a co-worker once paid a contractor to install some blinds in his house, for a few thousand dollars. Dude took a down payment and then never delivered/installed the product, wouldn’t return their calls, etc. My coworker went to the local police, who wouldn’t do anything, but then his lawyer advised him to go to the postal inspector (he had mailed the check to the contractor.) The contracto…

The US justice system seems very odd to this European. Then I realize that if the EU project ever were to reach its presumed goals (by some), we'd probably end up with something pretty similar in terms of "oddness complexity".

Post by __loam » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

lkjalsdjklkj wrote: post #17

LOL I used to belong to "alternative asset" investor circles and saw that picture. They were looking for investors to buy/sell IPv4 addresses. Glad I noped out of that one

Post by TacticalCoder » Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 12:00 AM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #236

marcus0x62 wrote: post #230

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Oh, it is absolutely wild, which I don't think is a very good characteristic for a legal system, especially one where the rule is that 'ignorance of the law is not a defense'.

I think we need a new take on that phrase, something like "ignorance of the law must not be a reasonable defence" — when the law is too complex for most people to understand, it is vulnerable to capricious enforcement, malicious compliance, and unwitting everyday violations being held against the politically undesirable. Not only do I have absolutely no idea how to get from here to there, I also assume the degree of…

Post by exabrial » Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 12:47 AM UTC

floren wrote: post #55

overgard wrote: post #47

Honest question, why are we not all just on IPV6 now? It seems like at this point almost all the underlying hardware and software should support it? It seems like the only argument for sticking with IPv4 is NAT, but I can't think of a technical reason we couldn't do NAT with IPv6?

NAT is a strong argument against IPv4 -- it's an absolute pain in the ass for bidirectional communication. Yeah, NAT acts as a defacto firewall, but you can just... use a real firewall.

Post by donatj » Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 12:57 AM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #219

WD40forRust wrote: post #207

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Sounds like I need to target wire fraud as well, with drug cultivation/sales, firearm manufacture/sale/possession (even by a felon), and tax evasion to my list of charges to jury nullify on...

So you're in favor of letting people (usually rich people) commit wire fraud?