I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".
Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name
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Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name
It costs 2.50 to check the names of the owners of these companies at the chamber of commerce if that makes you doubt whether or not it's actually the name. This means that the owners were effectively outed by the publication anyway.
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#23I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".
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#24I love how they don't tell the full name of Marco B. and Angelo K., but do tell that they companies were called "Bos IT Holding BV" and "Kreikamp IT Holding BV".
Possibly the newspaper didn't even notice at first, though the abbreviation of the name is usual (and mandatory) in Europe.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Possibly the newspaper didn't even notice at first, though the abbreviation of the name is usual (and mandatory) in Europe.
It is NOT mandatory. This is courtesy of the press but there are no laws or regulations.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kill switch? Maybe just LUKS with dropbear. Then: # cryptsetup luksRemoveKey /dev/mapper/foo
Check your local laws on cryptography and destruction of evidence before trying this. You may still be legally obliged to decrypt the material or go to jail.
But parent was talking about hosting servers for a client. If the client executed that command, I don't see how the provider could be responsible.
The client could be. But they'd need to extradite him, from Russia, which might not be so easy, these days.
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#30I was in elementary school with one of the suspects. He was always a troubled kid. Very sad how that turned out.