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Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by mruts on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:30PM (#19829793)
I was on an IRC channel hosted by this guy. Maybe 5-6 people all 13-15 back in 2007. They were/are my best friends. For over 10 years we talked. The guy who ran it worked for the CIA and got arrested as the person responsible for the Vault7 hacking tools leak. Now the server has been taken by the FBI and I had to have a very interesting conversation about all the shit we said over the years. Now he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Hits me hard everytime I think about it...

Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by orhmeh09 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:12PM (#19830471)
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by jacksproit on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:52PM (#19830608)
I could find very little information about that website. First time I've seen it referenced before. Seemed like a very strongly worded article to me.
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by bredren on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:11PM (#19830893)
How do you have this different view of the world and work deeply for the CIA. Is talent that hard to attain rn?
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by mruts on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:06PM (#19834387)
People change over time. Working for the CIA probably makes you change faster than most jobs.
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by mruts on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:07PM (#19834389)
Yes.
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by theNJR on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:55PM (#19829909)
Well you win for the most epic paragraph on the internet for this month.
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by craftyguy on Saturday May 04, 2019 @08:40PM (#19830352)
It's easy to make up stories on the internet for fake internet points.
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by dang on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:04PM (#19830650)
Yes, but it's just as easy to reject true things that people say because they violate preconceptions. We see at least as much of that as the other on HN. And don't forget that the site guidelines include "Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by craftyguy on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:14AM (#19831590)
Right, I'm sure all of the repeditive HN frontpage content about facebook, tesla, shitcoin, etc is posted "in good faith" and not to accumulate fake internet points.
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by dang on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:39AM (#19831662)
The mind reels at that subject leap! But sure, I think most articles are posted in good faith, and we gain more by assuming good faith than by not.

It's not only about which assumption models reality better—it's also about the change it makes in ourselves.

Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by mruts on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:18PM (#19834816)
It's easier to dismiss true stories as fiction because of your world view.
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by quake on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:22PM (#19830719)
I read about that! Knights of Something or other. Didn't he caught by having it on a ftp server or something?
Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 by mruts on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:05PM (#19834379)
IRC Knights. He got caught by having a a truecrypt image inside a truecrypt. He had the passwords on his cellphone.