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on Sunday January 01 2017, @09:51PM
from the live-by-the-sword,-die-by-the-sword dept.
from the live-by-the-sword,-die-by-the-sword dept.
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.
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(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"