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Most of the people here on HN don't remember when the far left hated computers, but I do. To me the most famous case is when Adobe's Chuck Geschke was kidnappe
by rmason 4y ago
Most of the people here on HN don't remember when the far left hated computers, but I do. To me the most famous case is when Adobe's Chuck Geschke was kidnapped and held for ransom.
I've been to meetings at Adobe HQ and the security there is still tighter than a lot of other Valley headquarters and a lot of even their employees don't know the reason why.
- vt85 4y ago[dead]
- jleyank 4y agoThings like Alexa and other talk-to/monitor life gadgets would give the old radicals fits. “Big brother, please order me some paper towels.” People used to be concerned re being tabulated, now they facilitate it.
- pixl97 4y agoAnd may regret it again soon when their AI overlords fall under authoritarian control.
- andrewfromx 4y ago"On the morning of May 26, 1992, as Geschke was arriving for work in Mountain View, California, he was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot by two men, Mouhannad Albukhari, 26, of San Jose, and Jack Sayeh, 25, of Campbell. A spokesperson for the FBI reported that the agency had monitored phone calls that the kidnappers had made to Geschke's wife, demanding a ransom. The spokesperson added that Albukhari had been arrested after he had picked up the $650,000 ransom that Geschke's daughter had left at a drop-off point. An FBI agent explained that, "after a gentlemanly discussion", Albukhari had brought them to a bungalow in Hollister, where Sayeh had been holding Geschke hostage. Geschke was released unhurt after being held for four days, although he stated that he had been chained. The two kidnappers were eventually sentenced to life terms in state prison." wow. I had no idea. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke
- pyuser583 4y agoTed Kaczynski had (has?) a flowing among the far left.
- yucky 4y agoAnd far right. He's referred to affectionately as "Uncle Ted".
- green_man_lives 4y agoEh I'd say he's just popular among the edgier anti-establishment people of all shades. He was pretty explicitly anti-progressive in his manifesto and also would most likely be labeled as a reactionary by the "far-left", since he targeted technology as the source of society's ills and not the ownership of capital.
- cafard 4y agoI don't see anything in the Wikipedia article on Geschke to suggest that the kidnapping was politically motivated. Was it?