Are they looking for people outside Russia that may be helping her?
There's not much they can do while she's living there.
FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
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#22I'm somewhat positively surprised that there was a notice at all. This means that even non-US citizens enjoy some rights for being informed about data sharing. Silver lining.
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#23That's why I decided dropping iCloud backup and enable locally iPhone encrypted backup.
Realize also that communication you have with others, for example via iMessage, may be stored at Apple if they have iCloud backup enabled.
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#24Alexandra Elbakyan is a hero. Nothing less than that. Let's celebrate her and the memory of Aaron Swartz. Swartz was pushed to suicide because this oppressive system. Let's fight against this. Let's put our money and time to sustain Elbakyan's effort to open science.
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A short term problem with long term benefits. The great gift of Trump to the world was to, at least partly, flush out the substrate that actually runs things. If at least part of the population becomes sensitive to that it was all worthwhile.
Given our mutual swirling down the drain of a total surveillance society any hesitation in the process is a godsend.
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#25For some reason I thought iCloud was encrypted in such a way that only the user could gain access.
Apparently this is not the case.
FBI was able to access even Rudy Giuliani's iCloud for over a year, while he defended Trump as his lawyer. With no repercussions for doing so.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-feds-got-rudy-iclou...
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#26Science Publisher Elsevier's reported profit margin is 38%, compared to Apple's 21% – there's lot of cash at stake for them and a big warchest to defend it
For anyone looking to understand the background on the science publishing industry, how it ended up this way and why they will fight Sci-Hub so aggressively, I found this discussion really informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo&t=8s&ab_channel=...
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#27Given the provenance of most (all?) of the material on Sci-Hub, the copyright issues here seem laughable to me.
Fruitless speculation about the FBI aside, you do have to wonder about the future of IP generally in the world. There's a sort of evolutionary pressure going on right now between different countries' approach to the matter and I can't say that the US-style rules will hold (or more realistically, be imposed).
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#28Sounds like she's been in hiding since 2015[0]: > Following a 2015 lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan remains in hiding due to the risk of extradition; Elsevier was granted an injunction against her and $15 million in damages. Elbakyan and Sci-Hub were again involved in a US lawsuit in 2017, this time with the American Chemical Society. ACS sued the site for copyright and trademark violatio…
> and prohibiting search engines and domain name registries from "facilitating access" to Sci-Hub.
I just searched for "sci-hub" on DDG, Google and Bing, and the sci-hub.st or sci-hub.se domain was the top result on each. I wonder what happened to the prohibition.
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#29“What Happens on your iPhone, Stays on your iPhone” - they said
Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
#30Sounds like she's been in hiding since 2015[0]: > Following a 2015 lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan remains in hiding due to the risk of extradition; Elsevier was granted an injunction against her and $15 million in damages. Elbakyan and Sci-Hub were again involved in a US lawsuit in 2017, this time with the American Chemical Society. ACS sued the site for copyright and trademark violatio…
She lives in Russia and attends some local events. There is no reason to hide if you don’t travel outside of Russia.