“Giganews is an FBI Operation”

Post by _kst_ » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 7:55 PM UTC

georgemcbay wrote: post #12

freehunter wrote: post #9

My 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.

Post by chrissnell » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:00 PM UTC

mrbill wrote: post #41

chrissnell wrote: post #37

I 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 abou…

Hey, Chris. :) People are going to say the ex-Texas.Net Mafia is showing up now...

Post by mrbill » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:05 PM UTC

chrissnell wrote: post #44

mrbill wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, Chris. :) People are going to say the ex-Texas.Net Mafia is showing up now...

Howdy, Bill. :) Good to see you around here. I'm interested to see if anybody else shows up. It's hard to believe that this was almost 20 years ago. I wonder what happened to everybody. Ed, Mo, Mikedoug, etc.

Post by ParkerK » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:18 PM UTC

giganews wrote: post #33

This 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 -…

Post by darkstar999 » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:28 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #13

mrbill wrote: post #2

Having 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.