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The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by ryanlol »

snet0 wrote: post #155
ryanlol wrote: post #35

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Unfortunately that relies on Joe Tidy as the source. I tend to refrain from being overly critical of journalists who write about me, but Joe Tidy is a special kind of idiot who wrote an entire book about me based mostly around interviews of people who aren't actually the people they claim to be.

Is there a perspective or analysis that you've read that does a good job, in your opinion?

I doubt such a thing exists, it's a difficult world for outsiders to penetrate.

I don't think we'll ever get to see it, these stories get less and less relevant as time passes.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by r_lee »

ryanlol wrote: post #134
bitbasher wrote: post #133

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> I do have access to excellent legal advice, strive to live by it. Says the guy that went on a news broadcast (unmasked) to brag about hacking Sony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPX8yCBdIZ8

I was 17 at the time :) And FWIW, the whole joke there was that neither me nor the other guy being interviewed had anything at all to do with the attacks on PSN and XBL.

Just wanted to say hi, I was pretty young at the time but I remember the whole thing with the PSN shit and the Keemstar interviews :DDdddd

good times man.

But the thing about not having any devices seized, is that real?

Some people I know have had run-ins with the NBI, and the first thing they do is seize your computers for like a year+?

If that's true then that's really weird...

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by galangalalgol »

antod wrote: post #161
galangalalgol wrote: post #59

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When a bridge fails, it is the professional engineer that signed off on that part. If you want someone to sign off on software or IT you will need to pay them quite a lot.

In my experience civil engineers get paid less than software developers of equivalent experience or responsibility.

Yes, but they are good at what they do. Software is more conplex and has a culture of fix it in production that would make it far more risky to sign.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by itsameputin »

ryanlol wrote: post #56
itintheory wrote: post #50

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You're the guy in the article? Could you elaborate and share more of your side of the story?

I am indeed the guy in the article. My side of the story is fairly boring, didn't do crime but got blamed for it anyway by desperate cops. The whole investigation has been bizarre, for example, no-one has ever searched my homes, or even attempted to seize my personal devices. Should find out within the next couple of months if the appeals court decides to acquit.

But you were strongly linked to the crime. Thus your opsec is terrible.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by ryanlol »

r_lee wrote: post #172
ryanlol wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was 17 at the time :) And FWIW, the whole joke there was that neither me nor the other guy being interviewed had anything at all to do with the attacks on PSN and XBL.

Just wanted to say hi, I was pretty young at the time but I remember the whole thing with the PSN shit and the Keemstar interviews :DDdddd good times man. But the thing about not having any devices seized, is that real? Some people I know have had run-ins with the NBI, and the first thing they do is seize your computers for like a year+? If that's true then that's really weird...

>But the thing about not having any devices seized, is that real?

It's real and just as bizarre as it sounds. You'd think that'd be the #1 thing you'd want in any serious investigation.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by ryanlol »

itsameputin wrote: post #174
ryanlol wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am indeed the guy in the article. My side of the story is fairly boring, didn't do crime but got blamed for it anyway by desperate cops. The whole investigation has been bizarre, for example, no-one has ever searched my homes, or even attempted to seize my personal devices. Should find out within the next couple of months if the appeals court decides to acquit.

But you were strongly linked to the crime. Thus your opsec is terrible.

For sure, just goes to show how important it is to really carefully consider your threat model.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by antod »

galangalalgol wrote: post #173
antod wrote: post #161

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In my experience civil engineers get paid less than software developers of equivalent experience or responsibility.

Yes, but they are good at what they do. Software is more conplex and has a culture of fix it in production that would make it far more risky to sign.

I wouldn't describe software as most people experience it as more complex.

And civil engineering projects are constantly fixing unforeseen design problems either during construction or afterwards.

I would distinguish the failure modes as different though eg analog vs digital. Real world engineering can absorb an awful lot of minor mistakes through safety factors etc. Failure can be gradual or just a matter of degree or even just interpretation of standards. Software failures are often more digital or only matter when "under attack"

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by quietbritishjim »

9JollyOtter wrote: post #107
quietbritishjim wrote: post #62

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In the UK, there is no crime "burglary". "Breaking and entering" it's a criminal offence, and walking through an unlocked front door back door doesn't count. If you are on someone's land but didn't have to break in then that's trespass, which is just a civil offense. Theft is a crime in any case (indeed even if you're not on their land e.g. snatching a phone off the street).

> In the UK, there is no crime "burglary". Yes there is: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9 https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/residential-burglary/... > "Breaking and entering" it's a criminal offence, and walking through an unlocked front door back door doesn't count. No breaking and entering is known as burglary. Also if you walk through the front door with the intent to commit a crime it i…

Well, I was wrong, sorry for claiming assertively when clearly I didn't know what I was talking about. Thanks for the correction.

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by abigail95 »

ryanlol wrote: post #169
abigail95 wrote: post #164

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This is worse than the SBF denial, do better, post a full on substack about how they didn't link you to a bitcoin address.

A LLM chatbot trained to deliver and debate the denials might be more on trend?

Your position is that none of your banking information was linked to this investigation?

Re: The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Post by Hoodedcrow »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #81
7777332215 wrote: post #32

This is why you should not go to a therapist who uses electronic records. This will happen to you at some point.

i guess you should never use banks that use “electronics” either, right? just cash and paper records?

to be fair - kind of yeah. I do have a bank card, but minimize its usage for privacy reasons, mainly using cash. As for electronics - I do keep most of my data local and use OSes that don't upload them on their own.

And yeah, as the previous commenter said - those are not quite comparable.

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