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TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew > In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the

• jcq3 4y ago
  How such supposedly talented hacker end up to be doxxed? It's not that hard to become 99.99% anonymous online...
  • implements 4y ago
    Technically easy, operationally virtually impossible - everyone will slip up eventually. Also, the need for recognition often drives any human endeavour - and that leads hackers, criminals, etc to boast of their exploits to at least someone … who might be under observation, or under pressure to give up information to escape severe punishment for their own activities.
    • jcq3 4y ago
      Prolly the need for recognition because if you hack from public wifi with tails tor mullvad, brand new laptop with specific hardware and so on I don't see how you can get caught up
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      • cduzz 4y ago
        Don't forget the time machine to go back to warn past self about the one time they slip up just prior to when they decide to really go all in on the haxoring. Some parts of the internet never forget, and the anonymous graph is only anonymous if all of it is anonymous. 99.999% isn't good enough.
  • dvdkon 4y ago
    No doxxing was necessary, Tillie did it all publically, publishing on a home server, making announcements on Telegram under their real name. I don't quite get it either, but they specifically didn't want to hide in (pseudo)anonymity.
    • p410n3 4y ago
      Can Confirm. I was big into telegram communities at that time and joined when her group was public. I have nothing to prove because I delete all my stuff but the indictment shows screenshots and transcripts from the group. She literally posted selfies on Twitter sometimes. I don't agree with most of her more radical views and find her methods to be too extreme, but she clearly stood behind them and didn't hide
  • the_af 4y ago
    crimew's stated viewpoint and goals are "radical transparency". Hiding her legal name would go against this goal. It has nothing to do with competency and everything to do with her worldview.
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• japanman425 4y ago
  What a Wally. What purpose did it serve doing this?
  • komali2 4y ago
    Are you asking, what purpose was there in bringing the hammer of the American Justice Department and down onto a random grey hat hacker? The same as always: enforce rigid authoritarianism and blind bureaucratic SOP. Remember kids, clicking the "next page" button on court document websites is legal, doing it with javascript is a felony, off to jail with you, join the rapists and murderers!
    • dekken_ 4y ago
      > doing it with javascript is a felony Wut
      • danuker 4y ago
        I suspect they're talking about circumvention of technical DRM measures. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
        • some_furry 4y ago
          They could also be talking about the Apple email leak caused by incrementing an UUID. There's probably other notable cases with the same failure mode. One of the things you learn working in computer security: history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
          • dekken_ 4y ago
            > history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. I do like Mark Twain
            • some_furry 4y ago
• c7DJTLrn 4y ago
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  • jcq3 4y ago
    What autism has to do with that?
    • homero 4y ago
      Some are savants
  • AYBABTME 4y ago
    To be fair, the skills required to do what is written about here are basically fancy-googling, not exactly "most capable hackers" level. The author walked around town and turned the knob on all the doors they could see. Some doors weren't locked.
• brador 4y ago
  “Jan 19, 2023” — OP article date.
• xyst 4y ago
  Laws are written to protect multibillion corporations and billionaires. Prove me wrong. If we truly lived in a sane society, companies with lax security and god awful security policies would be punished.
  • Scoundreller 4y ago
    Depends on the country. Mine was founded by some overseas family that can still come over and start telling us what to do as they please. So uhhh, yeah, can confirm, Canada’s laws basically revolve around keeping old money wealthy without providing any value to anyone.
    • ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
      The British Crown hasn't had real power since 1649, but please continue complaining about nothing.
      • notch656c 4y ago
        No you just (by constitution) have to swear allegiance to the crown to become a lawmaker, which makes you a perjurer if you don't acknowledge their power. Also is the monarch not commander in chief their armed forces? I thought being under the command of the queen / monarch was part of their oath. If your soldiers are sworn to do what the queen says that seems like a lot of potential power.
        • pbhjpbhj 4y ago
          Yeah, it's crazy to me that the UK has no armed forces, the military are all personally bound to the monarch. The king has interfered in politics too, so arguments based on royalty not being active are off to a bad start.
          • notch656c 4y ago
            It's hilarious that even though I think my comment was misread, it turns out I think we both are right. You read it as me talking about the military in the UK. No I was talking about the Canadian military. They are bound to the queen and swear an oath to such, you know the one that lives in the UK. It really illustrates the absurdity of the situation.
• neonsunset 4y ago
  There is very little if anything similar between the subject and Aaron Swartz
  • aj7 4y ago
    Exactly. There is a whole infrastructure of sympathizer-nuts, similar to US politics.
• hot_gril 4y ago
  Wonder if she's on the no-fly list now.
  • westhom 4y ago
    Doubt it. The US would very much love it to fly pretty much anywhere outside Switzerland so it can be extradited.