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scenicBulimic
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scenicBulimic
13y ago
No, I am not suggesting that.
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scenicBulimic
13y ago
Yeah, I get it. He ran a drug ring. A mail order drug ring on the internet, with real world consequences. I get that. What I'm saying is this: There was no murder-for-hire skull duggery, until the sting provoked him into it. There were
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scenicBulimic
13y ago
Specifically in response to number 3: I contend that it is easier to coerce a machine than a witness, that forged bits can be perfectly identical whereas forged letters might not. Machines need to be held to different standards for differen
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scenicBulimic
13y ago
A screen name on the internet, possibly a sock puppet, may or may not be tied to a real world person. He didn't have the capacity to visit this person in real life. He couldn't have possibly been sure whether it was a real person
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scenicBulimic
13y ago
I'll readily entertain the possibility of tangible artifacts over some bytestream any old day of the week. If he's busted with a bunch of fake IDs on his person, I'd consider that to be evidence proper. But anything transpiri
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scenicBulimic
13y ago
So, as an armchair juror, 3 enourmous questions spring to mind: 1. Why would a man, who allegedly built an extremely profitable empire using robust cryptographic software, not have enough expertise to employ powerful encypted countermeasure
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scenicBulimic
13y ago
TOR is bullshit because it's a festering pile of assholes all trying to pretend that no one knows what no one is doing, without knowing who's doing the pretending not to know. C'mon, guys, I'm serious. Please don