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Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

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post #89

For whatever it's worth, the Reddit story here says that the federal courts used "fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again". Maybe! The other side of that story, via PACER, is a detailed parole violation warrant (you can hear the marshal refer to it in the video); the violations in that warrant: 1. Admitting to using cannabis during supervised release 2. Failing to make scheduled restitution payments and to coope…

You forgot to mention that in the hearing linked on the Reddit post it is shown that he made a search about a pedophile association as well right before downloading Spice.

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Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

#102
post #89

For whatever it's worth, the Reddit story here says that the federal courts used "fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again". Maybe! The other side of that story, via PACER, is a detailed parole violation warrant (you can hear the marshal refer to it in the video); the violations in that warrant: 1. Admitting to using cannabis during supervised release 2. Failing to make scheduled restitution payments and to coope…

This needs to be higher up, it is very damning

Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

#103
post #29

This is unbelievable! How in the world! Why they do that ?! Because the police were frustrated????!

You clearly never seen police dashcam videos in the US. Besides the corruption and stops for "hunt missions", a lot of times it's simply because you shattered their ego, even with a simple laugh: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NqJdt9_1XSw

The court did reject qualified immunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYZoFrIeo0

However, the poor guy only defeated criminal charges on appeal!

Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

#104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> By this logic, anyone who has had a Google Pixel and or is running GrapheneOS is guilty by association, right? Yup. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crim...

The source for that article was a single cop in a single country (Spain) making an off-handed comment. The way it’s been spun as a universal concept in Europe by all of the Android blogs is misleading.

Would you predict that GrapheneOS will still be completely legal in 10 years in Spain?

Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

#105
post #89

For whatever it's worth, the Reddit story here says that the federal courts used "fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again". Maybe! The other side of that story, via PACER, is a detailed parole violation warrant (you can hear the marshal refer to it in the video); the violations in that warrant: 1. Admitting to using cannabis during supervised release 2. Failing to make scheduled restitution payments and to coope…

OK, I think I found the original thing Rockenhaus was convicted of.

Back in 2014, Rockenhaus worked for a travel booking company. He was fired. He used stale VPN access to connect back to the company's infrastructure, and then detached a SCSI LUN from the server cluster, crashing it. The company, not knowing he was involved, retained him to help diagnose and fix the problem. During the investigation, the company figured out he caused the crash, and terminated him again. He then somehow gained access to their disaster recovery facility and physically fucked up a bunch of servers. They were down a total of about 30 days and incurred $500k in losses.

(He plead this case out, so these are I guess uncontested claims).

Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

#107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The part that should really enrage you is the way people will selectively understand this based on whether they agree or disagree with the context. If some electronics repair guy repairing vehicle ECUs in bulk who doesn't ask questions but has an inkling that they're gonna get used for emissions laws violations got rolled up on by the feds for refusing to go out of his way to help them out HN would find all sorts of…

As someone who works in this industry: we do ECU modification and repair and as such, have regular contact with the EPA. Our products all align with all required emissions regulation and testing, which is why we're allowed to continue selling them. If the EPA says jump, we ask how high. I say this because this cultural vibe of government agencies kicking in your door for doing innocuous shit needs to die already, tha…

You, you are an instance of the problem.

For any given issue, subject, industry or niche there is always a you. And you are the enablers. Multiply by every equivalent idiot and niche and that's how you get the world in which some guy gets whacked for running a tor node.

If not that it would be some other niche, maybe some guy importing gray market power equipment to the chagrin of the branded dealers would be getting whacked. If not that then it's the amish farmers getting whacked over one of their many "in letter but not spirit" compliance measures.

Yeah, in every case the letters of the law are broad enough to nail these sorts of people but that's not an outcome the general public wants except for the occasional zealot on any given subject. And the equivalent enablers would be endorsing it just as you are now.

And at the end of the day your behavior (you plural) undermines the legitimacy of these institutions and the government they serve because these are outcomes that nobody wants, but single industry enforcement enough of a back burner issue that elections mostly don't get won and lost over them so the fire just keeps smoldering year after year (fed by our tax dollars, of course).

>As someone who works in this industry

Perfect illustrative example for one of HN's favorite quotes:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

>Our products all align with all required emissions regulation...the relationship, therefore, is not adversarial.

You might as well compare a medium company with an encrypted file share service to some 1-man package maintainer for software that does the same. Who is law enforcement gonna try and abuse?

>While we're at it, fuck coal rollers with a cactus.

A bunch of reactionary yokels are a symptom of the degree to which your ilk has undermined the legitimacy of the laws they violate and enforcement agencies they thumb their nose at, not the root cause. If society solves people like you the yokels will mostly go away on their own. That is what I seek.

Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

#109

I certainly sympathise, but actually don't find it at all surprising. Tor is totally used for criminal activity. That doesn't mean it is inherently a bad thing, or that it is this guy's fault, but he can't completely wash his hands off it. If bad guys use the postal service, it's not the postman's fault, but he has to cooperate with law enforcement if they demand that. I don't know about the US, but contempt of court…

Idk the punishment just doesn't match the crime. Can't they just confiscate the computer? Or pressure the ISP to cancel his account? Tbh I get that the Feds are going route around and through anything that stands in their way.

Instead we're left up to state thuggery.

Re: Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

#110
post #89

For whatever it's worth, the Reddit story here says that the federal courts used "fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again". Maybe! The other side of that story, via PACER, is a detailed parole violation warrant (you can hear the marshal refer to it in the video); the violations in that warrant: 1. Admitting to using cannabis during supervised release 2. Failing to make scheduled restitution payments and to coope…

This always happens though. Every time someone is thrown in a cage unjustly, the state tries to redirect us (yes, us, here in this forum and others like it) to look at other details of the situation, whether it's details of the person's political or personality or, in this case, details of this (also seemingly unjust) probation violation.

Who cares if he smoked weed or installed a VM or evaded a government keylogger? Those are all really shitty reasons to put someone in a cage, whether it's couched as "probation terms" or not.

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