Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
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Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#2"Hey [redacted] the Feds are interviewing my close friends and associates."
So - who was interviewed? What questions were asked?
Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#3Anybody read through http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf already? My car-tech knowledge is way to rudimentary to get a better idea on that stuff.
Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#4Have they confirmed the body in the car is his?
Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#5Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations.
Obviously I'm not saying that's the case, but the extremely irrational driving goes fits a theory of paranoid delusions (brought on by any number of mechanisms), just as the hacked car system goes with about to uncover something big.
Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#6Have they confirmed the body in the car is his?
According to the AP, yes they have.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/la-coroner-ids-body-journalis...
Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#7Have they confirmed the body in the car is his?
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Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#8"Hey [redacted] the Feds are interviewing my close friends and associates." So - who was interviewed? What questions were asked?
That's classified!
Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#9So.... what? Is the implication here that he was assassinated?
The email doesn't really seem all that panicked to me - I didn't know the guy, so maybe is he being panicked, but it just sounds like a guy who's writing to let people he works with know about possible legal problems.
Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
#10Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations. Obviously I'm not saying that's the case, but the extremely irrational driving goes fits a theory of paranoid delusions (brought on by any number of mechanisms), just as the hacked car system goes with about to uncover something big.
Yeah, we really don't know. But I'm extremely uncomfortable by the fact that foul play is a real possibility. We already know that the federal government is operating largely in secret and without regard to the law (their insistence that are indeed following their own secret set of laws doesn't provide me much solace). We already know that various press organizations have been wiretapped. I feel like I've woken up into a country I no longer recognize. How long will it be before people no longer feel safe expressing opinions online?