Hackers have stolen the online accounts of the family of Ross Ulbricht. Ulbricht is in jail for life pending appeal on the charge of founding and operating the Silk Road dark web marketplace. His mother Lyn Ulbricht has worked tirelessly raising funds to pay for his legal defense and to raise awareness of how the legal issues facing her son affect the rights of everyone. Now hackers have compromised the Free Ross email addresses, phone numbers, social media accounts, paypal account, and bitcoin account.
There are few details available at this time but obviously do not donate to the Free Ross effort at this time until new accounts are established and the whole story is available.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Sunday January 01 2017, @10:20PM
Fucking psychopathic savages we let run the world...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:03PM
> In jail for life for operating a web site
In jail for telling store owners what a shame it would be if something happened to their store
In jail for telling their friends that Joey Gallo [wikipedia.org] is a really annoying person
In jail for being on the sidewalk when some things fell off a truck
We can debate whether or not what he's convicted of should legitimately be a crime or not.
But to pretend that he was convicted of just "operating a web site" is to deny reality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:19PM
Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker weren't just running a site, either. They should be locked up too. We almost lost Metallica.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:51PM
Joey Gallo was murdered 12 years before he was born. Unless the silk road was selling time-travel Ulbricht had nothing to do with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @12:28AM
Yeah and nobody is accusing Ulbricht of extorting store owners either.
Its called an analogy.
Quit being a dumbfuck. Or at least quit posting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @01:08AM
Indeed, we all know that Aristarchus has the market cornered on dumbfuckery.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by fustakrakich on Monday January 02 2017, @01:37AM
But to pretend that he was convicted of just "operating a web site" is to deny reality.
"convicted of creating and running the Silk Road website"
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @01:49AM
Jesus.
Fucking.
Christ.
Are you seriously claiming that some hyperbolic commentary is the actual charges he was convicted of?
Puhlease tell me you aren't that stupid!
There has got to be something more intelligent going on in that brain, right?
For the record, he was convicted on a total of 7 counts:
The seven charges include three drug counts: distributing or aiding and abetting the distribution of narcotics, distributing narcotics or aiding and abetting distribution over the Internet, and conspiracy to violate narcotics laws. He was also convicted on a fourth count of conspiracy to run a "continuing criminal enterprise," which involves supervising at least five other people in an organization. in addition, he was convicted on conspiracy charges for computer hacking, distributing false identification, and money laundering.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/ulbricht-guilty-in-silk-road-online-drug-trafficking-trial/ [arstechnica.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @02:10AM
bla bla bla... a conviction on trumped up bullshit doesn't make him guilty of any real crime. Otherwise every politician you elect would be in prison also.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @06:24AM
Most of those shouldn't be crimes at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @04:53PM
Maybe so.
But you know what none of them are?
"Operating a website"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @02:01AM
Except that isn't what he was convicted of. You merely quoted someone providing a very simplistic version of the convinction. Try harder dipshit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @02:16AM
Nothing there that deserves a life sentence. Prison is for people that are actually dangerous. This guy isn't. At worst he's a successful bureaucrat. He's only in jail for insufficient funds. Try harder asshole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 03 2017, @10:21AM
Oh, I like that! He can cuss me out and not get down modded, but self defense is... No bias there, right?