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Re:WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:10PM (#13812200)
They changed the headline: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/839161021369573378

edit: A new tweet referencing the article: "WikiLeaks release said CIA managed to bypass encryption in mobile apps by compromising the entire phone"

Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @06:27PM (#9000779)
To you, there might be "literally nothing" suspicious about it, but when that user's previous post on the forum discussed Silk Road, likely for the first time ever, a law enforcement officer, having few leads to go on, might feel inclined to investigate that individual further. Again, there's also the tiny detail about a package with nine fake IDs being sent to Ulbricht in July 2013. DHS agents confronted him about it around that time: "The photos also matched his Texas driving license, which the DHS investigators asked to see. All of this happened around the same time that Dread Pirate Roberts was discussing obtaining fake IDs on Silk Road, the FBI affidavit said. The FBI put the final piece of the puzzle in place by pulling Ulbricht's Texas driving license and comparing it with the license that Ulbricht showed the DHS. The numbers matched. At this point, it must have considered that it had enough evidence." http://www.coindesk.com/ross-ulbrichts-silk-road-head-smacki...
Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @05:34PM (#9000480)
He was possibly the first person to ever post about Silk Road. A few months later, that same user is recruiting for a "lead developer in a venture backed bitcoin startup company" conveniently avoiding specifics. If you recall, they also seized a package sent to Ulbricht containing nine fake IDs with different names in July 2013 (he was arrested three months later). Cumulatively, that's probably enough to merit suspicion/the issuance of a warrant to search his e-mail.
Re:Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @05:11PM (#9000335)
Actually, an IRS agent found Google search results that tied him to Silk Road:

"That search led him to a thread on bitcointalk.org called 'A Heroin Store.' One of the posts there was from a user named 'altoid' who gave instructions on how to access Silk Road.

'You guys have a ton of great ideas. Has anyone seen Silk Road yet?' altoid wrote. 'It’s kind of like an anonymous Amazon.com. I don’t think they have heroin on there, but they are selling other stuff. They basically use bitcoin and tor to broker anonymous transactions.'

Once Alford had the username, the rest was as simple as clicking around. In a separate thread, altoid posted that he was looking for an IT pro. 'If interested, please send your answers to the following questions to rossulbricht at gmail dot com.'

That’s all Alford needed to get a warrant to gain access to that email. By comparing the data found in the email to the data found on Ulbricht’s laptop, the government has created an even more convincing argument that Ross Ulbricht is, in fact, Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts."

http://insidebitcoins.com/news/silk-road-trial-irs-special-a...

Re:Defense in Silk Road Trial Says Mt. Gox CEO Was the Real Dread Pira... on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:56PM (#8895980)
From The Verge article (http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/silk-road-trial-ro...):

"One of Karpeles' companies had registered 'Silkroadmarket.org,' leading investigators to consider him as a suspect."

Silk Road launched in February 2011: that's the same month Karpeles (or his associate at Mutum Sigilum) registered the domain

https://who.is/domain-history/silkroadmarket.org

Re:Prison Map on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:22AM (#8878803)
Yeah, I posted this a couple months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565019), and it got very little traction. Glad it is this time around!
Re:British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:52AM (#8878633)
I completely relate to what you're saying, and I'm sure a lot of us here are burdened by the painful feelings you've expressed. Thank you for sharing. I think the primary cause is the 24/7 news cycle bombarding us incessantly with negative and depressing information. It's extremely unpleasant to bear, particularly when you're sensitive or vulnerable to the sufferings of humanity. I've found it's best to take vacations from it all--to tune it out completely for intervals--and focus entirely on work or the things you love. If you perchance have trouble avoiding news sites or social networks, as I have in the past, I've found an extension like StayFocusd to be really helpful (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...)
Re: on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:22PM (#8575413)
Looks like many servers are still using an earlier version of Mailman that included a "security feature" of storing passwords in plain-text and e-mailing them to you in a welcome message after you confirm a subscription. See https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Re: on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:44PM (#7649528)
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..." - Albert Einstein
Re: on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:43PM (#7649523)
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity embodying in splendid edifices the passionate aspiration after the perfect from which all great work springs. Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell as in its natural home, and where one, at least, of our nobler impulses can escape from the dreary exile of the actual world." - Bertrand Russell
Re: on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:43PM (#7649522)
"I was sitting on the seashore, half listening to a friend arguing violently about something which merely bored me. Unconsciously to myself, I looked at a film, of sand I had picked up on my hand, when I suddenly saw the exquisite beauty of every little grain of it; instead of being dull, I saw that each particle was made up on a perfect geometrical pattern, with sharp angles, from each of which a brilliant shaft of light was reflected, while each tiny crystal shone like a rainbow.. The rays crossed and recrossed, making exquisite patterns of such beauty that they left me breathless.... Then, suddenly, my consciousness was lighted up from within and I saw in a vivid way how the whole universe was made up of particles of material which, no matter how dull and lifeless they might seem, were nevertheless filled with this intense and vital beauty. For a second or two the whole world appeared as a blaze of glory. When it died down, it left me with something I have never forgotten and which constantly reminds me of the beauty locked up in every minute speck of material around us." -- George Russell
Re: on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:39PM (#7092858)
Actual link to Alex Dragulescu’s interactive map: http://ekisto.sq.ro/
Re:Yogaglo Patent Issued on Thursday December 12, 2013 @07:07PM (#6898220)
No problem. I am as well. I believe you need to include prior art with the re-examination request. I will be submitting yoga videos, at least from the 90s, such as (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUgtMaAZzW0) that certainly raise questions whether the patent is valid or not.
Re:Yogaglo Patent Issued on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:48PM (#6898124)
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/Reexamination_Information...

"Filing Compliant Reexamination Requests"

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/Best_Practices_and_FAQs_for_fil...

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