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Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut... by srbl on Thursday May 04, 2017 @11:44PM (#14270976)
For what it's worth, Ross Ulbricht also paid to have 5 people killed. (They of course were not killed, because it was part of the larger sting, but that's irrelevant to his repugnant behavior)
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Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut... by orblivion on Friday May 05, 2017 @12:36AM (#14271128)
From the story I've vaguely heard, he considered them ideologically defensible. But, at that point I guess it's not particularly civil. (or maybe I missed the meaning of the word "civil" here)
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Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut... by xiphias on Friday May 05, 2017 @12:14AM (#14271067)
No, he didn't pay. It was a fake chatlog created by the investigators to make him look worse than what he did.
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Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut... by Jweb_Guru on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:40AM (#14271354)
Do you have any actual proof that it was fake? I wasn't aware of any, and I can't find any, so this just looks like wishful thinking on your part.
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Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut... by memmcgee on Friday May 05, 2017 @02:26AM (#14271495)
The investigators scamming him doesn't change the fact that he did it. Additionally, there were two instances where he paid to have someone "killed". While the second case is rather sketchy, the first case is much clearer. They even staged the murder for him.
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