FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

> The email’s authenticity (or otherwise) has indeed been considered by Elbakyan who says that after examining the metadata, has concluded that “it is too complicated and useless to be a spoof.” Indeed, the Sci-Hub founder also posted the email’s headers which at first blush do suggest that the email is genuine.

Has the founder confirmed whether or not Gmail reports DKIM and SPF passed?

Existing journal publishers.

Also the FBI are sort of infamous for going after foreign, easy targets in order to make their numbers. Sci hub is run by a guy in one of the -stans as a non profit community type org I believe?

For-profit subscriptions publishers, to be clear. Not all journal publishers. An increasing number are open-access and have no interest in bringing down scihub (and the feeling is no doubt mututal!)

Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman

>“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...”

When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations couched with ten ton weasel words like may and suspicion...

But now they “have cause” and that’s all they need to go to town on her.

And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case?

In the interests of accuracy:

Yes, a woman, Kazak by birth, though AFAIK she's been residing in Russia of late. Her precise whereabouts are generally kept vague.

Sources:

My name is Alexandra Elbakyan, I'm a web developer who created this website. I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan and I'm 32 years old. I'm a native speaker of Russian, know English very well, and some German and ancient languages.

https://sci-hub.st/alexandra

Her academic work has been at Satbayev University (in Almaty, Kazakhstan), internships and work in Italy and Germany, from 2005--2010.

She returned to Kazakhstan in 2011:

I was 23 and I returned to Kazakhstan and started working as a freelance programmer.

... and has since done academic work in Russia.

2017 started a masters program in Linguistics · Biblical Languages Saint-Petersburg State University in Russia

2019 graduated from masters program · with huge troubles suspected for being Russian spy by US authorities

Applied for Russian citizenship but was rejected (in 2016).

See: https://sci-hub.st/alexandra#bio

Elbakyan identifies as multiracial with armenian, slavic, and asian roots:

https://nitter.cc/ringo_ring/status/700626318124134400#m