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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
- belter 2y ago[flagged]
- userbinator 2y ago[flagged]
- dfc 2y agoWhat is cleared up?
- userbinator 2y agoNSA is probably involved. Edit: the voting pattern in this item is itself unusual.
- tptacek 2y agoNSA doesn't do criminal investigations.
- avs733 2y agoAnd to further this point - the fbi is domestic counter intelligence agency who they would work with.
- orochimaaru 2y agoIt doesn't but if he was a US Citizen (which I'm guessing he is a naturalized citizen) he may have consulted for them.
- mrtesthah 2y agoYou're downvoted because you imply a conspiracy exists but cannot articulate what it is.
- userbinator 2y agoIt should be obvious to anyone that what this guy was doing and/or knows is something that governments are extremely interested in.
- mrtesthah 2y agoLook, this wouldn't be a story in the first place if there weren't multiple highly suspicious things going on.
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- packetlost 2y agoThe university would likely not have scrubbed them from their site if they were merely being deported. There are either espionage concerns or this guy solved prime factorization.
- wolfi1 2y agoprime target gone real? seriously doubt that
- hypeatei 2y agoI think both things can be true: this involves espionage and the FBI collected what it needed then "disappeared" them.
- packetlost 2y agoI wouldn't discount deportation, but if the FBI is involved it's more likely they would detain them, especially if the charges are espionage. The reality is we don't know what's going on and it would be even weirder if information does not come to light sooner or later.
- outer_web 2y ago> Neighbors say the agents announced "FBI, come out!" over a megaphone. A woman came out of the house holding a phone. Then they are really selling the ruse that they don't know where he is.
- raverbashing 2y agoTBH I don't think there's anyone to deport in this case anymore (And prime factorization has been cracked already ;) it's factorization of composite numbers that's a pain)
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- tptacek 2y agoThe fact pattern doesn't fit well with ICE, because Indiana University cooperated with the investigation (and struck him and his wife from their pages). The track record of espionage investigations against people of Chinese origin is not great, so it's not a defense of this investigation to say that that the details rhyme with that rather than immigration.
- whatshisface 2y agoSpies don't get "vanished," at least not historically. They're caught, imprisoned and tried in huge public media-heavy trials. The USSR even did huge public trials for American spies, because there's no incentive to forgo the nationalist boost to public opinion when collaborators would be aware of the disappearance either way.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoMedia-heavy espionage cases are the exception, not the norm. "Diplomats" routinely get declared persona non grata and just put on the next plane home. Neither the U.S. nor the other country wants to make a fuss.
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- aerostable_slug 2y agoThat's generally because those diplomats can't be tried for their activities in the host nation, and also because said diplomats are running spies, not stealing secrets themselves. In other words, they aren't the traitors, their agents are. And those agents are the ones who get tried in the media circuses we're all so familiar with.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoMedia circus doesn't appear until the trial, which hasn't happened in this matter yet either. The feds execute warrants every day without making the news.
- _kava 2y agoSound scary but when looking at the facts, it is probably reasonable. Both the university, the court, and the lawyer seem to not raising any fuss yet, signaling that whatever this is, it likely all legal and severe enough to warrant absolute silence. The employer was likely contacted far in advance for detail not available to the public, and very likely they complied and realized there are serious issues that can tarnish the university's reputation, so they erased his name from their payroll. This indicated court order and sufficient evidences for multiple parties to be concerned. So... best guess? National security matter. Like it or not, espionage is a thing and under this administration, all foreigner, naturalized or not, are under extra scrutiny. And the US is not above applying stereotypes.
- raverbashing 2y ago[flagged]
- gopher_space 2y agoProbably being downvoted for the deadpan naivete. Nobody wants to hear "let's just trust the government" right now.
- raverbashing 2y agoI do agree that the level of trust right now is very low > Both the university, the court, and the lawyer seem to not raising any fuss yet, signaling that whatever this is, it likely all legal I'm not a lawyer to say if it's legal or not, but to me it seems that the university is being cooperative and with due reason
- croes 2y agoFear of getting their funding cut.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoNobody wants to hear it, but I don't think it's right to call it naivete. The source article says that local media were able to reach a lawyer representing the family, who did say they're not sure what the investigation is about but didn't say anything like "my clients are missing and I don't know where they've been taken". If the FBI hasn't filed formal charges yet, and the targets of the investigation aren't interested in talking to the public or the media, the only options are to wait for more information or engage in wild speculation.
- sitkack 2y agohttps://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/iu-professor-bloomington-carmel-fbi-search https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/iu-professor-bloomin... https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-details-on-situation-at-indiana-university https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-details-on-situati... https://bsky.app/profile/ncweaver.skerry-tech.com/post/3lljlet4gyc26 https://bsky.app/profile/ncweaver.skerry-tech.com/post/3lljl...
- sitkack 2y agoFrom bsky, he is the Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) https://www.sigsac.org/ https://www.sigsac.org/
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- casenmgreen 2y agoProblem is, with things as they are now in USA, when you see stuff like this first question is : is this the ongoing, developing oppression, or is there is a real issue here?
- avs733 2y agoWhile the question is not unreasonable, it is worth remembering that the FBI is not just a criminal investigation department. They also are the nations internal intelligence - I.e. anti foreign intelligence- leads.
- mschuster91 2y ago> They also are the nations internal intelligence - I.e. anti foreign intelligence- leads. And they are still bound by whatever who is in charge of the FBI wants. Always remember how the FBI was used in the Nixon era to target Black people and hippies [1]. [1] https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past...
- avs733 2y agoYou aren’t wrong but there is no evidence of that here, at least for now.
- loeg 2y agoLet's wait for further details to emerge before jumping to conclusions.
- vessenes 2y agoFBI + Client Attorney present + University's data scrub + nothing on the public docket likely means FISA court, which is in theory reserved for espionage and terrorism in the US. Most University cryptographic research happens in public these days, so I have a hard time imagining a sequence of events strictly bounded by cryptography research + chinese origin that yields FISA court motions. The real thing to say here is that we will probably never know what's alleged, much less what's happened. Interesting would be if he were a skilled enough cryptographic theorist to have gotten a backdoor into a NIST approved algorithm; new ideas in this field are almost always appreciated.
- tptacek 2y agoNo? FISA isn't an adversarial court that hears espionage cases; it exists solely to handle applications for surveillance. Espionage and national security cases are handled by ordinary federal courts.
- giantg2 2y agoWhat kind of court was Drake tried in?
- tptacek 2y agoI have no idea, but nobody is "tried" at FISC. FISC has no jurisdiction over any criminal case and is strictly ex-parte.
- dragonwriter 2y agoDrake who? Whoever, it wasn’t FISC, because FISC doesn’t have jurisdiction to do any trials.
- irundebian 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake
- perihelions 2y ago- "None of this is in any way normal," Matthew Green, a professor specializing in cryptography at Johns Hopkins University, wrote on Mastodon. He continued: "Has anyone been in contact? I hear he’s been missing for two weeks and his students can’t reach him. How does this not get noticed for two weeks???" Prof. Green also posted about the vanishing of Prof. Wang here on HN the other day, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518196 (That's where I first heard of it). But HN is an increasingly difficult place to discover such stories, what with the systematic flagging brigades.
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- yieldcrv 2y agoI’m missing the chronology here So he was missing for two weeks already and then the FBI raid occurred Friday? Who was the woman at the house if not his wife
- dcrazy 2y agoThe woman was at their second home, which I am guessing she was renting as a tenant.
- lurk2 2y ago> But HN is an increasingly difficult place to discover such stories, what with the systematic flagging brigades. What stories are getting flagged?
- jaredklewis 2y agoA lot of stories with a political angle get flagged. I also don’t want the site to become all politics, but it feels weird to me that stories like this with overt overlap with tech and SV still often get flagged.
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- refulgentis 2y agohttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-details-on-situation-at-indiana-university https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-details-on-situati... Exclusive with more info on the timeline, but nothing substantive enough to clarify entirely. TL;DR: Professor was placed on leave which was announced to colleagues around 3/14. "What’s still unclear is whether the University investigation lead to the federal law enforcement actions or whether early stages of a federal law enforcement investigation led the University to place Wang on leave and take these other actions. What’s clear though, according to my information, is that the law enforcement searches two days ago did not lead to Wang being placed on leave." "One additional detail, it’s not clear that Wang has been fired. That was not what colleagues were told in mid-March and there does not appear to have been any update on that front to the contrary to colleagues."
- nothrowaways 2y agoFBI might have their reasons and they are doing their job, so no objections there. But the university data scrab is stupid, you can't undo history. Universities should stay neutral.
- tptacek 2y agoThe university scrub precedes the FBI raid by two weeks.
- dathinab 2y agopredates known FBI actions does not necessary predate FBI involvement, a university "silently" scrubbing someone is most times due to there being something which could cause heavy reputational damage to tangentially related to that person (or secret orders/pressure from courts or other agencies) for example someone gets caught doing something bad by the university but not yet outright criminal, the university puts the on leave and investigates further maybe informs police or FBI too, which then start investigation but not yet without any public actions. The person knows when put on leave that they likely will find more things and disappears themself (issue with that story is the woman at on of the houses and her being let go by the FBI and coming back with a lawyer and her being not identified as his wife, which just doesn't fit in at all)
- mmooss 2y agoTwo weeks isn't much. The government could have been working on this issue and talking to the university for much longer than two weeks.
- rolph 2y agoif you look around, you can find, reconstruct a c.v. this guy is someone you dont want the badguy to get ahold of. AI research in an adversarial context is dual purpose tech, and could easily awaken ITAR
- mimsee 2y agoSo if AI research is dual-use tech, would an AI researcher be dual-use human, and get travel restricted because of weapons export controls. Dude is a weapon!
- rolph 2y agoin a manner of speaking that is a feasible concept [e.g. paperclip]
- echoangle 2y agoAre the humans working on current dual-use tech dual-use humans? The current ITAR-restricted algorithms are also developed by humans.
- dathinab 2y agoyou might try to make a joke but US courts had done rulings which where basically like that
- greenavocado 2y agoA popular T-shirt among computer scientists featured the RSA algorithm, along with the label "WARNING: This shirt is classified as a munition and may not be exported from the United States, or shown to a foreign national."
- nosmokewhereiam 2y ago...then there's the tattoos of rsa lines that were non-exportable (ITAR)
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- tibbydudeza 2y agoPerhaps they left and are already in mainland China ???.
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- RajT88 2y agoHard to say what's going on, but if he was a spy that is a plausible response. I've known ex-govvie infosec folks who get calls periodically from their contacts in government about Chinese state-sponsored spies embedded in big tech companies. It's a thing. If this was just another "let's screw over an immigrant for saying something we didn't like", we'd have some clue as to the professor's politics. But of course, anything is possible.
- dathinab 2y ago> It's a thing. so is China threatening, blackmailing and disappearing Chinese ethic people (and/or their children) even if the people in question have US citizenship and/or have not grown up in China at all like we can't really say much about this case without additional information
- secondcoming 2y agoYes, China operates covert ‘Police Stations’ internationally
- suraci 2y ago> China threatening, blackmailing and disappearing Chinese ethic people (and/or their children) that's true, so be careful, the child of your chinese coworker is likely kidnapped by CCP so that the chinese coworker has no other choice but to work for the CCP
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- Animats 2y agoThis hasn't hit mainstream media yet. It should have by now. Disappearing people is not something the US government is allowed to do. Here's Xiaofeng Wang's bio on the Indiana University site.[1] Google Scholar.[2] Archived version of home page at Indiana University.[3] If anybody has a PACER account, please check there. [1] https://alliance.iu.edu/members/member/8580.html https://alliance.iu.edu/members/member/8580.html [2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pONu-5EAAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pONu-5EAAAAJ&hl=en [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20240930195057/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/xw7/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240930195057/https://homes.lud...
- cma 2y agoUnlike the other recent disappearances and deportations to the concentration camp in El Salvador, this one does say it was with a court order.
- lucubratory 2y agoGreat! Can you provide a link to the court order so we can see?
- dcrazy 2y agoThe article author attempted to get the court order but could not find one. This is common when the order is made as part of an ongoing investigation, or else criminals could just watch for their names in PACER to know when to fire up the shredders.
- lucubratory 2y agoSo how do we know there is a court order?
- cma 2y agoWe don't know 100% for sure, just from their claim. In the other high profile cases recently it was a different agency and they were open that there was no amount of due process.
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- Fricken 2y agoIt sounds like the China initiative is back: >Two bills introduced by the Republican Party that passed the House of Representatives on September 11, 2024, have been described as reviving the China Initiative. The bills are part of "China Week", a House Republican-led effort to advance China-related legislation >The China Initiative was a program by the United States Department of Justice to prosecute potential Chinese spies in American research and industry, in order to combat economic espionage. Launched in November 2018, the program targeted hundreds of prominent Chinese-American academics and scientists, of which an estimated 250 lost their jobs. Many more had their careers negatively impacted and the prosecutions also contributed to at least one suicide. >According to a Bloomberg News analysis of the 50 indictments displayed on the China Initiative webpage, the program had not "been very successful at catching spies." Most of the cases listed by December 17, 2021, involved individual profiteering or career advancement by the accused, rather than state-directed spying. Despite this, many of these indictments portray the alleged crimes as for the benefit of China. Seton Hall University law professor Margaret Lewis described this as "a conflation of individual motives with a country’s policy goals" that has led to the criminalization of "China-ness." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative
- jimmydoe 2y agoYes, it’s not surprising, considering the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which is significantly more severe, is also being revived.
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- jimmydoe 2y agoKnow little about this case, but given what happened with China Initiative in Trump I, I’m genuinely surprised there are still Chinese professors not leaving or preparing to leave US. 200+ lost jobs, at least one suicide, if that still not ring alarm for these Chinese-born professionals, their IQ may not match up the tenure I assume.
- luyu_wu 2y agoIt's not easy to leave a tenured position you worked half your life to get to I suppose...
- lucubratory 2y agoFrom what I understand the PRC tries pretty hard to provide a lot of incentives to academic returnees. I do wonder if they have a tenure match program, where if you have tenure at an American university of a given calibre you are automatically granted tenure at a Chinese university of a similar calibre if you return to China. They probably should.
- Andrex 2y agoIf that's true, then that seems to be the simplest explanation for what happened here? (Honestly asking.)
- Ar-Curunir 2y agoIt is extremely bad form to leave your students stranded and move to another university with no communication. It also wouldn't warrant FBI action; plenty of people have moved back to their home countries from academic positions in the US.
- lucubratory 2y agoOh, no. I'm not talking about alleged espionage, I'm talking about people moving universities. Moving university doesn't mean disappearing off the face of the Earth.
- jillyboel 2y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527154
- rglover 2y agoCharles Lieber [1] or Houston Chinese Consulate vibes [2]. [1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/harvard-university-p... [2] https://abc13.com/fire-chinese-consulate-documents-being-burned-houston-us-and-china-tensions/6328284/ https://abc13.com/fire-chinese-consulate-documents-being-bur...
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- generationP 2y agoHis old website: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415075438/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/xw7/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240415075438/https://homes.lud... An app he wrote: https://web.archive.org/web/20240304061200/https://sit.luddy.indiana.edu/en/2015/09/11/app-guardian-oarland/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240304061200/https://sit.luddy... or https://web.archive.org/web/20240727022112/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/xw7/project/appguardian/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240727022112/https://homes.lud... A news (probably PR) article about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20220622001223/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2924842/researchers-create-app-to-stop-rig-attacks-on-android-and-android-based-iot-devices.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220622001223/https://www.compu... None of these sites is available any more. This looks suspicious, even given the regular bit rot of American college servers. The app is supposedly downloadable at https://apkcombo.com/app-guardian/edu.iub.seclab.appguardian/ https://apkcombo.com/app-guardian/edu.iub.seclab.appguardian... . Anyone around with a disassembler and too much time?
- testplzignore 2y agoApp YouTube channel is still up: https://www.youtube.com/@appguardian6684 https://www.youtube.com/@appguardian6684
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- lazyeye 2y agoPicking flowers, making honey https://www.aspi.org.au/report/picking-flowers-making-honey https://www.aspi.org.au/report/picking-flowers-making-honey
- ctrlp 2y agoIf it turns out that he was somehow repatriated to his home country under compulsion that would not be terribly surprising. Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent. The FBI raiding his home suggests that he was somehow implicated either as a foreign agent or as a compromised intelligence asset, and one side or the other wanted him back.
- mmooss 2y ago> Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent. It would be very surprising. How many spies and 'double agents' are there?
- forrestthewoods 2y ago> It would be very surprising. How many spies and 'double agents' are there? Talk to anyone who deals in sensitive matters and attends conferences and they will tell you the number of people trying to pry information is overwhelming. So the answer to your question is lots. A tremendous number of people, especially in academia, feed information to foreign governments. Not only is it not rare, but it's obnoxiously common for those who have to deal with it.
- BirAdam 2y agoEven “friendly” and “allied” nations spy on each other.
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- Lerc 2y agoSo what's going on here then? https://github.com/wangxiaofeng7/wangxiaofeng7.github.io https://github.com/wangxiaofeng7/wangxiaofeng7.github.io Someone making a homepage in the last few days, but to what purpose?
- loeg 2y agoDo you have any reason to believe this brand new github account is the same person?
- Lerc 2y agoI think it was the bit that said Dr. XiaoFeng Wang is the Associate Dean for Research and a James H. Rudy Professor of Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University at Bloomington and an ACM, IEEE and AAAS Fellow. At IU, he is also a Co-Director of Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing and Engineering, and was the Director of the Master of Science in Secure Computing (MSSC) program. But maybe I'm reading too much into it.
- userbinator 2y agoHis original page on the university's site (since taken down, archive links in a different comment here) also uses the "7" suffix.
- neuroelectron 2y agoEither Xiaofeng Wang is a common Chinese name or there is a lot of well poisoning going on.
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- brcmthrowaway 2y agoClearly Satoshi was doxxed and is now on the run
- protocolture 2y agoGlad to see I wasnt the only one thinking of this angle. But I still hold its Nick Szabo
- sanex 2y agoSeems like you're getting downvoted but I remember a paper that suspected Satoshi was from Indiana.
- csense 2y agoThis doesn't have to be geopolitical or cryptography-related. He could have committed some ordinary crime -- say, he had a hobby stealing Legos -- then someone at the university said "Why is this closet in your lab stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Legos?" University isn't the police, so he's not arrested -- he's just put on leave until they figure out WTF is going on with this bizarre situation. Removing contact information might be SOP for any university employee placed on leave for this type of investigation. (Note, I have absolutely zero reason to believe this man is stealing Legos. This is just a hypothetical example of a slightly bizarre but not entirely implausible crime that has nothing to do with politics, geopolitics or computer science.) Of course in this situation, being placed on leave by the university has thoroughly tipped him off that the cat is out of the bag, and it's only a matter of time until he's arrested. So he skips town before the police get involved. Why's the FBI involved? - (1) Maybe it's a FBI relevant matter (e.g. there's a whole Lego theft ring) - (2) If he told his family where he went, the court system could force them to reveal that information to the police, under threat of jail time. It'd be safer for his family if he didn't tell them where he's going or why. So he ends up as a missing person, which triggers FBI involvement. - (3) Maybe the FBI is just as confused as we are. They get involved it's thinking it might be national security related because of the international intrigue or cryptography research angles. They don't know it's merely an "ordinary" crime (or at least they didn't when they decided to get involved -- maybe they've investigated enough to figure it out by now.)
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- Havoc 2y agoLots of blanks left in this story. Hopefully in half a year this crops back up with more available then And of course hoping everyone is safe and doing legal stuff
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- mattmaroon 2y ago"No one knows why..." "Xiaofeng Wang" I have an idea.
- NotYourLawyer 2y ago[dead]
- dralley 2y agoEh. The FBI has made mistakes w/ unsubstantiated espionage accusations even during the last administration, and I have severe doubts that this one is less trigger happy.
- mattmaroon 2y agoOh yeah, certainly wasn't saying the government was right. I have no idea. But we can take a guess as to what they're raiding him for.
- _lvbh 2y agoJumping to conclusions with just a name is crazy. Everyone from Southeast Asia with Chinese-sounding names should really change them asap
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- thewileyone 2y agoHi I'm Steve Austin from Dallas, are you interested in an extended warranty for your Tesla?
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- mlissner 2y agoI run CourtListener.com, which aggregates Pacer data. So far nothing there, but I created an alert for his name, and I’ll post here and to Dan Goodin (the author of the article) if anything pops up.
- mlissner 2y agoOK, here's the first thing popping up in court about this. There's a motion to unseal search warrants filed by a security researcher at Stanford that was just filed: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69834044/in-re-motion-to-unseal-search-warrants/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69834044/in-re-motion-t... This doesn't mean there are search warrants, necessarily, but this case might be the next place something pops up. If anybody wants to follow the case, you can do so with this link. : https://www.courtlistener.com/alert/docket/new/?pacer_case_id=220897&court_id=insd https://www.courtlistener.com/alert/docket/new/?pacer_case_i...
- sagarpatil 2y agoThis is the plot for ‘Prime Number’ on Apple TV.
- tday1 2y agoDid you mean 'Prime Target'? https://www.apple.com/au/tv-pr/originals/prime-target/ https://www.apple.com/au/tv-pr/originals/prime-target/
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- sitkack 2y agohttps://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/xiaofeng-wang-aaup-iu-bloomington-policy https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/xiaofeng-wang-aaup-i... https://fox59.com/news/iu-faculty-protests-firing-of-professor-in-fbi-probe/ https://fox59.com/news/iu-faculty-protests-firing-of-profess... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/fbi-searches-xiaofeng-wang-homes-indiana-university-cyrptography-computer.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/fbi-searches-xiaofeng-wang-h... https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/after-fbi-raids-on-homes-union-defends-iu-professor-xiaofeng-wang-indiana-university-carmel-bloomington-termination-provost-letter/531-3c9b9625-c4f9-4f6a-ac80-1325f1da491d https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/after-fbi-raids-on-h... https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jnl64l/fbi_raids_home_of_prominent_computer_scientist/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jnl64l/fbi_rai... Letter from his Union to the Provost of IU Rahul Shrivastav https://aaup.sitehost.iu.edu/reports/AAUP_March_31_Letter_Shrivastav.pdf https://aaup.sitehost.iu.edu/reports/AAUP_March_31_Letter_Sh...
- runjake 2y agoPeople here keep claiming he was disappeared but what evidence is there? In the absence of evidence and since the FBI is handling it, and with the secrecy, it seems more likely espionage-related. Xaiofeng could had fled to China for all we know. It’s certainly important to question our government though.
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- inverted_flag 2y agoNo direct evidence that he was "disappeared" yet, but that won't stop the America haters from spreading their propaganda.
- yahoozoo 2y agoEither espionage for China or he criticized Israel.
- thewileyone 2y agoThe South China Morning Post reports that he was fired by Indiana U after letting them know that he was moving to Singapore in the summer. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3304767/us-cyber-expert-wang-xiaofeng-took-singapore-job-fbi-raids-university-letter https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3304767/us-c... So he gets fired, goes away on a vacation or whatever, and the govt starts investigating him of malfeasance?