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Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by TD-Linux »

djsumdog wrote: post #33
sametmax wrote: post #13

The page makes my browser crash.

Mine too. Firefox, but only on my work machine. My home desktop is fine. I've had weird Firefox issues whenever there's video (like that banner at the top) and if I watch the output, it looks like GLX issues (my work laptop should just be either Intel integrated ... I wonder if the driver is crashing)

Check out about:crashes, you can submit a dump to the trace servers and get a backtrace that will tell you where it's crashing, and make it easy to file a bug report.

(if you're using a distro provided build, it might be more involved, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/How_to_get_...)

Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by durandal1 »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #39
cvwright wrote: post #29

This is fascinating. We live in the cyberpunk future that William Gibson and others wrote about in the 1980's. The former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer .

>> he former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer . I just started getting into Sci-Fi (particularly dytopian worlds) and my Dad recommended this book as a "must read". I'm halfway through it and love it so far.

The trilogy was formative for 14 year old me.

Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by 21 »

acqq wrote: post #42

Can anybody explain me if the online pharmacy business PLR had was legal or not and if not, why? Why was DEA after him? Thanks.

Obviously it was not. You could get prescriptions from corrupt doctors without actually seeing them or fulfilling the requirements for those drugs.

Basically you filled a form and they issued a prescription which then affiliated pharmacies filled.

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Post by acqq »

21 wrote: post #44
acqq wrote: post #42

Can anybody explain me if the online pharmacy business PLR had was legal or not and if not, why? Why was DEA after him? Thanks.

Obviously it was not. You could get prescriptions from corrupt doctors without actually seeing them or fulfilling the requirements for those drugs. Basically you filled a form and they issued a prescription which then affiliated pharmacies filled.

Why are doctors corrupt if they just fulfill the need of the clients? The clients know what they need, but having a "big visit" to the doctor would cost more. This is a compromise. The doctor spends less time, charges less but wins on the volume.

If the clients use the medicines legally (e.g. for themselves) and know what they need I don't see a problem.

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Post by nathannecro »

acqq wrote: post #45
21 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously it was not. You could get prescriptions from corrupt doctors without actually seeing them or fulfilling the requirements for those drugs. Basically you filled a form and they issued a prescription which then affiliated pharmacies filled.

Why are doctors corrupt if they just fulfill the need of the clients? The clients know what they need, but having a "big visit" to the doctor would cost more. This is a compromise. The doctor spends less time, charges less but wins on the volume. If the clients use the medicines legally (e.g. for themselves) and know what they need I don't see a problem.

What if the clients are wrong? What if they think they need something, but it turns out that they have a bad interaction with the drug?

There is a reason doctors undergo training and are held legally liable for mis-prescription.

The service may not have been illegal when only looking at the patients being served (I have no idea) but it was certainly illegal from the doctor's side. Not to mention...highly unethical from the medical side. All the doctors involved should have had their licences revoked.

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Post by justinclift »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #39
cvwright wrote: post #29

This is fascinating. We live in the cyberpunk future that William Gibson and others wrote about in the 1980's. The former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer .

>> he former US soldier in this article even sounds a bit like Gibson's character Armitage from Neuromancer . I just started getting into Sci-Fi (particularly dytopian worlds) and my Dad recommended this book as a "must read". I'm halfway through it and love it so far.

Another good "must read" is this:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasm_City
The entire "Revelation Space" series is excellent too, if that one grabs you. :)

Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by Spooky23 »

venomsnake wrote: post #30

Couple of thoughts - I feel that those complicated stings are almost entrapment. And cannot help but feel just sad about some of the guys. The skills that they learn in the military are hardly marketable in the civil society. And the series fail to deliver - it started promising, but it lacks the big crimes and operations outside of the pill business. It is serialized novel of "Pivoting Bad with Mediocrity."

It's an unfortunate consequence of this never ending war stance. These guys end up getting damaged and discarded, and end up in bad places.

I think the overnight creation of these powerful mercenary orgs will be a long lasting negative force with all sorts of ill effects.

Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad

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Post by 21 »

acqq wrote: post #45
21 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously it was not. You could get prescriptions from corrupt doctors without actually seeing them or fulfilling the requirements for those drugs. Basically you filled a form and they issued a prescription which then affiliated pharmacies filled.

Why are doctors corrupt if they just fulfill the need of the clients? The clients know what they need, but having a "big visit" to the doctor would cost more. This is a compromise. The doctor spends less time, charges less but wins on the volume. If the clients use the medicines legally (e.g. for themselves) and know what they need I don't see a problem.

So if I declare that I need a powerful anesthetic like Propofol, the doctor should just give me a prescription like that? What's the point of requiring a prescription then?

The previous article said that those forms were rubber-stamped. No matter what you declared, you got your prescription.

And regarding clients using the medicines legally, that's like saying that sellers of explosives shouldn't check their clients, because it's the clients responsibility to use them legally.

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