Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> You must be one of them as well then mrbill is a freemason working for Halliburton. My tin foil hat is tingling.
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#52Weird. 137 points, posted 2 hours ago... and already it's moved off the front page on HN.
Again, what's up, admins?
This and the Kim Dotcom / Snowden / NZ spying story both appear to have been hastily removed from the front page.
In fact, the NZ story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8317617) appears to have been hidden entirely.
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#53Poor Usenet. It was so beautiful, once.
Yeah, but the last time it really was was circa 1998.
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#54I 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...
Clearly, there is a cabal at work here...
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#55Having 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"…
I just looked at all of the "leaked" files and realized he dumped the personal contact info of all the employees. NOT COOL. It was bad enough when I had an unlisted phone number in 1996 and got phone calls at 3am from IRC script kiddies.
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#56This 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 -…
Not 100% false.
"The Giganews/Data Foundry admins Philip Molter and Mike Smith disciplined me for removing the child porn groups and didn't trust me to keep working there afterwards. They made subtle references to jeopardizing criminal investigations IN PROGRESS then threatened me with a bad reference for removing the child abuse junk. No big deal, a bad reference from them after doing that is good, but Philip restored the cp content from a backup I didn't have access to."
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#57Weird. 137 points, posted 2 hours ago... and already it's moved off the front page on HN. Again, what's up, admins? This and the Kim Dotcom / Snowden / NZ spying story both appear to have been hastily removed from the front page. In fact, the NZ story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8317617 ) appears to have been hidden entirely.
It's getting flagged, probably because it's of dubious veracity and the author doxxed GN employees.
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#58i stopped believing when he claimed the police detective also had a full time job as an undercover sysadmin. lol.
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#59As a thought experiment, let's assume at least parts of this story are true. I would actually be very happy if the FBI was plugged into a USENET feed, sifting through the crud and fighting crime. This isn't like the NSA privacy incursions — USENET is public. Whatever you post is out there for everyone to see.
Yes, I agree - the only potential concern here is just that they can grab this connection data without probable cause and could easily decide to go after... most of the customers for piracy which could not otherwise be caught.
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#60This 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 -…
Sorry, but this seems to be your attempt at character assassination. There's nothing linking those blogs and twitter accounts to the cryptome author. VERY suspicious behavior.