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Michael David Crawford wrote about airplane software and computers and safety but was arrested by the police because he wrote it at Grove Beach McDonalds and wa

Michael David Crawford wrote about airplane software and computers and safety but was arrested by the police because he wrote it at Grove Beach McDonalds and was charged with being a nuisance. Soon after these plans like Flight 370 started to happen. He was the first one to discover the bugs in Boeing's software and never got credit for it, just a year in jail with time served.

a9h74j 5y ago
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- pjerem 5y ago
  what ?
quickthrower2 5y ago
Is there a link to that story? Isn’t that a 1A violation?
- cable2600 5y ago
  It was on his website because he self published, he killed himself a few years ago and his website is down forever. https://twitter.com/soggymike?lang=en https://twitter.com/soggymike?lang=en Because he had schizoaffective disorder nobody took him seriously. He has a degree in physics and tons of experience in programming and software engineering he worked on Mac System 7.5.X as a contractor for Apple. His name is in some Easter egg on some version of it. It is a 1A violation, but nobody cared about it at the time and he only posted to Kuro5hin which is down forever as well now. It worked they shut him up and hid the evidence. Here is an interview with him on CNN to prove he exists and CNN sees him as an expert on software engineering: https://youtu.be/pv9_M_a0uIg https://youtu.be/pv9_M_a0uIg It is on YouTube because CNN banned it.
  - WalterBright 5y ago
    > CNN sees him as an expert on software engineering CNN has zero expertise in engineering.
  - jacobwilliamroy 5y ago
    Don't let the paranoia overwhelm you. A lot of your conclusions regarding this man are bordering on delusional. You might be catching what he had.
    - cable2600 5y ago
      You cannot catch schizoaffective disorder it is rare and affects 1% of the population.
      - jacobwilliamroy 5y ago
        You don't need to be a schizoaffective to develop paranoid delusions about being persecuted by hidden forces that don't exist.
jjulius 5y ago
I am having trouble finding anything about this; Google results bring up nothing. Can you provide a source?
- cable2600 5y ago
  All sources are downed websites that have been taken off Google. It has been covered up. The main space for it was Kuro5hin which was taken down a few years ago.
shakna 5y ago
It doesn't really seem like his year in jail was related to any bugs in Boeing's software that he discovered [0]. Do you actually have anything that suggests that? His site was archived. For example this [1], but I can't find anything about what you've suggested. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164 [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190326051854/http://www.warplife.com/jonathan-swift/books/software-problem/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190326051854/http://www.warpli...
- cable2600 5y ago
  He was writing the article at McDonald's and the police arrested him for saying "If I am not permitted to save this document, an airplane might fall out of the sky." when they wanted to arrest him for being homeless in the McDonalds. It was all on Kuro5hin and K5 users sent him money and items and books in jail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570 He published a lot of stories and articles at K5.
  - shakna 5y ago
    > He'd headed south from the Portland area, wrecked his car in SLO, and was arrested for being a nuisance at McDonald's -- probably for helping himself to free ketchup. > They dropped the charges and released him the day after my jail visit. He'd been locked up for several months, also spending time at the Atascadero mental hospital I don't see anything about that, at that link - it provides a very different explanation for the arrest. Nor do I see anything similar to your suggestion at any of the linked backups of K5 posts inside that link. So again... Is there anything to confirm this claim, at all?
    - cable2600 5y ago
      No nothing left to confirm this claim. Anything that does has been removed from the Internet.
      - shakna 5y ago
tw04 5y ago
>Michael David Crawford wrote about airplane software and computers and safety but was arrested by the police because he wrote it at Grove Beach McDonalds and was charged with being a nuisance. This reads like he was arrested for writing about airplane software, when it appears he was arrested for having a schizophrenic episode in a McDonald's and was likely asked to leave and refused. >Soon after these plans like Flight 370 started to happen. He was the first one to discover the bugs in Boeing's software and never got credit for it, just a year in jail with time served. How exactly did he get the software in the first place?

a9h74j 5y ago

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pjerem 5y ago
what ?

quickthrower2 5y ago

Is there a link to that story? Isn’t that a 1A violation?

cable2600 5y ago
It was on his website because he self published, he killed himself a few years ago and his website is down forever. https://twitter.com/soggymike?lang=en https://twitter.com/soggymike?lang=en Because he had schizoaffective disorder nobody took him seriously. He has a degree in physics and tons of experience in programming and software engineering he worked on Mac System 7.5.X as a contractor for Apple. His name is in some Easter egg on some version of it. It is a 1A violation, but nobody cared about it at the time and he only posted to Kuro5hin which is down forever as well now. It worked they shut him up and hid the evidence. Here is an interview with him on CNN to prove he exists and CNN sees him as an expert on software engineering: https://youtu.be/pv9_M_a0uIg https://youtu.be/pv9_M_a0uIg It is on YouTube because CNN banned it.
- WalterBright 5y ago
  > CNN sees him as an expert on software engineering CNN has zero expertise in engineering.
- jacobwilliamroy 5y ago
  Don't let the paranoia overwhelm you. A lot of your conclusions regarding this man are bordering on delusional. You might be catching what he had.
  - cable2600 5y ago
    You cannot catch schizoaffective disorder it is rare and affects 1% of the population.
    - jacobwilliamroy 5y ago
      You don't need to be a schizoaffective to develop paranoid delusions about being persecuted by hidden forces that don't exist.

jjulius 5y ago

I am having trouble finding anything about this; Google results bring up nothing. Can you provide a source?

cable2600 5y ago
All sources are downed websites that have been taken off Google. It has been covered up. The main space for it was Kuro5hin which was taken down a few years ago.

shakna 5y ago

It doesn't really seem like his year in jail was related to any bugs in Boeing's software that he discovered [0]. Do you actually have anything that suggests that? His site was archived. For example this [1], but I can't find anything about what you've suggested. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164 [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190326051854/http://www.warplife.com/jonathan-swift/books/software-problem/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190326051854/http://www.warpli...

cable2600 5y ago
He was writing the article at McDonald's and the police arrested him for saying "If I am not permitted to save this document, an airplane might fall out of the sky." when they wanted to arrest him for being homeless in the McDonalds. It was all on Kuro5hin and K5 users sent him money and items and books in jail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570 He published a lot of stories and articles at K5.
- shakna 5y ago
  > He'd headed south from the Portland area, wrecked his car in SLO, and was arrested for being a nuisance at McDonald's -- probably for helping himself to free ketchup. > They dropped the charges and released him the day after my jail visit. He'd been locked up for several months, also spending time at the Atascadero mental hospital I don't see anything about that, at that link - it provides a very different explanation for the arrest. Nor do I see anything similar to your suggestion at any of the linked backups of K5 posts inside that link. So again... Is there anything to confirm this claim, at all?
  - cable2600 5y ago
    No nothing left to confirm this claim. Anything that does has been removed from the Internet.
    - shakna 5y ago

tw04 5y ago

>Michael David Crawford wrote about airplane software and computers and safety but was arrested by the police because he wrote it at Grove Beach McDonalds and was charged with being a nuisance. This reads like he was arrested for writing about airplane software, when it appears he was arrested for having a schizophrenic episode in a McDonald's and was likely asked to leave and refused. >Soon after these plans like Flight 370 started to happen. He was the first one to discover the bugs in Boeing's software and never got credit for it, just a year in jail with time served. How exactly did he get the software in the first place?