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A Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks
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- aw3c2 9y agoWarning, this "website" eats 100% CPU every time you dare to scroll to read text.
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- metaphorm 9y agoas long as they respond to DMCA takedown requests they are not legally liable
- metaphorm 9y agonot on my browser. probably ad-block related, i.e. I'm using ad-block and the page doesn't eat all my CPU.
- BoorishBears 9y agoI have Ad Block and it spikes to 60% CPU
- bradknowles 9y agoHave you tried uBlock Origin?
- squarefoot 9y agoUblock Origin here and no problems. That page needs some CPU when opening it, but then CPU usage drops significantly to less than 5%.
- amiga-workbench 9y agoChrist that's janky, takes a good half a second to begin scrolling after I pull down on my trackpoint. Javascript was a mistake.
- Terr_ 9y agoI have all JS disabled by default. Site looks fine. :)
- ttctciyf 9y agoSame. Loads quickly too!
- mi100hael 9y agoSame, and the scrolling is horribly laggy. Using Reader-Mode in FireFox works, though.
- tracker1 9y agoUsing uBlock Origin and Ghostery, seems to cut the vast majority of that... I do allow the comment services and media options though.
- peterwwillis 9y agoI remember when this happened. I didn't get to talk to Katz for a year or more after the server got taken down. He confirmed later his move was basically due to fear of the feds trying to come down on him however they could while collecting scalps in response to the Wikileaks/Manning leaks. All of this wouldn't have been possible without Lamo feeding virtually useless information to the feds to try to score brownie points with them, and Strutt doing absolutely nothing to protect the server he hosted for his "friends" in the hacker community. It was a sad wake-up call.
- yownie 9y agoHeya Jason here, have we talked in the past? I was actually already in the process of my way out of the states when all this went down. In a general sense Fedz rely on disrupting the support networks (familial and friend) of those persons whom they deem targets. It's a common pattern when they've got a high profile case and they're being pressed by administration for somebody, anybody to prosecute.
- cf 9y agoHey this is cf. I had no idea this was all going on, and I appreciate you trying to shield me and other people from getting pulled into this. You dropped off Jabber and I worried if you were alright. I'm glad to see you thriving in Iceland.
- yownie 9y agooh hey! yea I definitely cut contact with a lot of folks without explaining to them that it was to keep them out of a position where they might inadvertently lie to LEO and themselves then be coerced into helping. I don't think many people understand that lying to Federal officials, even innocuous ones can be prosecutable, depending on zealous they want to be.
- cf 9y agoI appreciate it. Anyway all my old email addresses still work if you want to get back in touch.
- ElijahLynn 9y agoUnfortunate the clickbait headline says it was a "mistake". A mistake is something you wish you hadn't done. "I don't regret my actions, because they led me on a really interesting journey."
- ssully 9y agoIt's not click bait, what you are defining is regret and regret is not needed for something to be a mistake. I have made many mistakes in my life - some I regret, others I do not.
- pg_is_a_butt 9y agoyour mother obviously made a mistake. you're an idiot.
- ElijahLynn 9y agoI disagree.
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- cmdkeen 9y agoA systems administrator downloads a random zip file and a password cracker onto his work computer, when he works for the Department of Energy, gets caught and fired. The first part of the article is surprising only in that he found it so easy to get a good job in finance afterwards. To be honest I'm not entirely sure what the point of the article is at all. He freely admits that the FBI had cause to be suspicious about his travel to Iceland, it coincided with a massive breach of information and he definitely fit the bill to warrant investigation. He and his associates all were afforded the right to counsel etc, in terms of US law enforcement stories this is more of an example of how things should be done within the context of the law as it stands.
- davidgerard 9y ago> To be honest I'm not entirely sure what the point of the article is at all. To throw mud at Wikileaks, as if there aren't substantive criticisms they could be making.
- belorn 9y agoI think the article has several points: 1: Downloading controversial data on a work computer is a bad idea. 2: When a agency like the FBI is targeting a person its very likely to cause significant harm. They do not harm minimize and can/will go after everyone you know, have meet, scare a company to fire you, ectra. The movie version where a single investigator is asking people nicely and discreetly can be a far cry from the real thing. 3: Because of the way those government agencies operate they are likely to push people into polar opposite political activity of the very goals the agency is trying to reach. Katz could likely been a tech founder here on HN, but because of the way FBI operated he now instead founded a large foreign political party with some very strong feelings about the US and the FBI.
- yownie 9y ago3. I actually went on to work for a few startups here in Iceland and got stock in one of them so this didn't completely kill that trajectory, but yes the harassment certainly made certain future choices for me.
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- micheljones 9y agoFared better than Seth Rich: http://archive.is/dENLR http://archive.is/dENLR http://archive.is/SjbhF http://archive.is/SjbhF https://our.wikileaks.org/Seth_Rich_Murder https://our.wikileaks.org/Seth_Rich_Murder https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6cox1j/seth_rich_plot_thickens_seth_rich_rundown_may_22/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6cox1j/seth_ric... https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6cct6z/his_name_was_seth_rich_and_his_case_will_not_go/ https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6cct6z/his_name... https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6coush/the_dnc_are_panicking_about_seth_rich_story/ https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6coush/the_dnc_... http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/bombshell-donna-brazile-probing-seth-rich-murder-says-private-eye/#xredDjBUDfVOlY17.99http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/bombshell-donna-brazile-probing-seth-rich-murder-says-private-eye/#4ckuU3sQ8SxlZUFm.99 http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/bombshell-donna-brazile-probing-s... https://pastebin.com/Fz8KdLgN https://pastebin.com/Fz8KdLgN
- knowaveragejoe 9y agoUgh, why do people peddle this stuff?
- micheljones 9y agoIt's got more proof than the fabled 'Trump-Russia' connection.
- knowaveragejoe 9y agoAssuming your standard for evidence is really that low, I find it disheartening that you think the connection between Trump and Russia has little or none. I'm forced to conclude that you are not weighing all the evidence for either with an open mind, and are starting from an existing conclusion on both.
- mowenz 9y agoWhat? Has any evidence of the Russia Election Interference/Hacking become available in the public domain?
- seppin 9y agofuck. off.
- micheljones 9y agoWow you totally told me bro!
- daxorid 9y agoHas dang simply not seen this, or are the standards for incivility moderation significantly relaxed in cases where the sentiment is popular? edit: disregard this.
- krapp 9y agoI don't know, what did he say when you contacted him?
- sctb 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14404829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14404829 and marked it off-topic. We've asked you before not to post like this. We ban accounts that won't stop.