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“Giganews is an FBI Operation”
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Usenet was basically the last bastion of relatively open to the public (but hidden by being obscure) piracy, but over the last couple of years even Usenet has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests, at least as it pertains to US-based providers.
"has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests" For top 40 pop music and hollywood movies released within maybe 6 months of todays date. For the rest of the cultural universe, no not really.
Also, HBO TV series, which is all.. er "my friend"... cares about, since HBO refuses to offer "my friend" any way to pay for their content that doesn't involve getting a full-blown oligopoly-supporting cable TV subscription (while also not putting much of their content on alt services like Amazon Prime streaming for months to a year after initial air date).
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#33This is a hoax. These allegations are 100% false.
Unfortunately, since his termination, the poster has periodically posted versions of this information online. Sometimes, he tries to misrepresent himself as our CEO and sometimes he posts as himself. Here are some examples of his previous writings over the last 18 months:
Nuclear Reactors? Our third CEO is Baal? Illuminati? "The Giganews logo is a red colored shield - subtle homage to the legendary Rothschild family"
http://pastebin.com/gM9mN7gS http://ronyokubaitis.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/i-am-ron-yokub...
In addition, we believe he runs a Twitter account (@AngelicPsalms) that accuses random companies, including Giganews, of being controlled by demons and governments:
https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/510175616352923648
@Golden_Frog @VyprVPN & @Giganews servers are run by FBI Special Agent Scott Kibbey. Do you really want FBI to handle your internet privacy?
https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/510599892373614592
Angel Yeiazel counters the demon who steals from King's houses, destroys cities & honors, &reveals past&future. Eg:#Credit reports, @Equifax
Hey even, Harley Davidson isn't safe either:
https://twitter.com/AngelicPsalms/status/499732005350031360
Angel Yezalel counters the demon on a pale horse w/trumpeters seen 1st as fierce/after as an innocent girl;Eg:Jeffrey Dahmer,@harleydavidson
We know Cryptome welcomes documents that expose secret governance, but that's not the case here. These allegations are sadly from someone who needs help.
We posted more links and info on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Giganews/status/511587414683291648
Thanks, Giganews
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#34My biggest surprise is that Usenet is apparently still that big of a thing. I guess I've been out of the loop, the last time I heard about Usenet was 10 years ago, with people talking about pirating from Usenet because torrents were being blocked. I don't think I've used Usenet since I had dial-up.
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#35In addition, Kibbey offered me a new name and identity, with a new drivers license and everything, if I were to go back to work at Giganews. What? Why? The whole story seems disjointed.
That made no sense to me when I read it.
It would be a great bit on SNL though:
Coworker: "Hey Nick, when did you color your hair. . .and. . get glasses?"
Nick: "You must have me mistaken with some other employee, I'm not Nick Caputo, here, look at my ID."
Coworker: "Nick, dude, I know its you, you're the only guy I know who has a Zelda tattoo on their wrist."
Nick: "Like I said, you have me confused with someone else" hurries away in opposite direction
I was actually starting to believe this story, then he hit me with that little diddy and it was all downhill from there.
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#36Unless something is verifiably true/false it should not be voted to the top. The conversation is the only valuable thing to the Hackernews community.
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#37I was employee #3 at Texas.net (Datafoundry's predecessor) back in 1995. While Jonah Yokubaitis (Ron's son and texas.net co-founder) was a bit of a hot head and we had a few quarrels back when we were both young and dumb, the Yokubaitis family are good people. Ron Yokubaitis, in particular, is a good person. I knew him as a staunch Libertarian. In fact, he was the first Libertarian I ever met and what he told me about the party later influenced my own political views. While I have no evidence or knowledge to support or disprove this man's claim, I don't believe for a second that this is true. DataFoundry/Texas.net was quite the cowboy operation--literally and figuratively--and they employed some colorful and hot-tempered characters over the years, including my younger self. This Nick Caputo character sounds like sour grapes to me.
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#38My biggest surprise is that Usenet is apparently still that big of a thing. I guess I've been out of the loop, the last time I heard about Usenet was 10 years ago, with people talking about pirating from Usenet because torrents were being blocked. I don't think I've used Usenet since I had dial-up.
Usenet was basically the last bastion of relatively open to the public (but hidden by being obscure) piracy, but over the last couple of years even Usenet has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests, at least as it pertains to US-based providers.
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#39Having worked at Texas.Net before it became DataFoundry, and being one of the people who built up the original Sun E450s that were used as the Usenet servers when the separate Giganews product was developed, I find this hilarious. I know a good number of the GN/DF employees mentioned in the article, and think this sounds more like a disgruntled ex-employee trying to badmouth his former employer. As for the "gigauth"…
You must be one of them as well then. /wink Overall, this doesn't seem credible. FBI detectives will not be doing run of the mill OS installs and what not. Also there isn't a need for fake identities just to be a system administrator in a usenet company. This sounds like delusions from a paranoid schizophrenic.
> FBI detectives will not be doing run of the mill OS installs and what not.
Why not? The only cyber security SAs I've met would not consider an OS installation to be run-of-the-mill work. (I guess their heavy education requirements leave little time for computers?)
I'm even more inclined to think that such work is not beneath them if, as implied, there were some kind of secret sauce being added to the recipe.
NB I'm only picking at a subset of your comment; I don't have an opinion about the rest.
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#40Does it really matter what he says? Giganews might keeps logfile "gigauth". I might not.
But still people have not understand at what scale the internet is broken. It does not matter weather they log. The NSA logs anyway.
Even if it's not a CIA op, the NSA will know everything as well, just as if it was a CIA op. Payments, traffic, everything.