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The Dark Overlord Decrypts More 9/11 Insurance Files
On New Year's Eve, Motherboard broke the news that a hacking group known as The Dark Overlord was threatening to release a cache of stolen insurance and legal documents related to the 9/11 attacks. After distributing a small preview set of files, the group has now publicly released a decryption key for more files, meaning anyone can download and read them.
[...] Twitter banned The Dark Overlord's account on Wednesday. Reddit followed suit shortly after. In response, The Dark Overlord is now publishing its announcements on Steemit, a blockchain-based and harder to moderate platform. The Shadow Brokers, a self-described hacking group that released a slew of NSA hacking tools, used the same platform for their communications.
The stolen data itself allegedly comes from a legal firm that advised Hiscox Group, a Hiscox spokesperson previously told Motherboard in a statement. The previously released documents included presentation slide decks, legal correspondence between law firms, and letters from a handful of government agencies. 9/11 conspiracy theorists have been particularly interested in the release of the documents, with internet commenters and several conspiracy-minded YouTubers making videos saying that they hope they will somehow reveal a vast conspiracy around the attacks.
[...] The group released the data after receiving 3 bitcoin, or around $11,000, as part of its self-announced crowdfunding effort.
Does anyone have a link to these documents yet?
Also at the Miami Herald.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:04PM (6 children)
That he really _is_ paranoid can be seen by his actively seeking out conspiracies. If there's a rational explanation for something and a conspiratorial explanation he'll always go for the conspiracy.
He's a great guy. This isn't Schizophrenia rather I expect it's Paranoid Personality Disorder. Such people don't fear conspiracies, rather to know that everything is a conspiracy comforts them as it enables them to make sense of their worlds.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:26PM (2 children)
MDC did 9/11.
MDC did NOT do 9/11 and then LIED about it.
Soggy Jobs was shitcanned. Soggy Jobs still exists.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 5, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 05 2019, @11:00PM (1 child)
Fuck MDC
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Sunday January 06 2019, @03:06AM
In the America that Donald Trump sold out to Russia...
MDC Fucks You!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:49PM
The reality that everybody in power is incompetent and nothing happens for any reason outside of the gut whims of whoever is currently in charge is a more shocking realization than any of the untold conspiracy theories in circulation, they're indeed all stories of comfort.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @05:14AM (1 child)
Most of the 'theories' are bunk. Every once and awhile it is 'waaaht they were right' But usually it is over boring junk like 'they were working on a spy plane' or 'they conducted experiments on unwitting soldiers'. The 'far out' ones take quite the leap of logic to think they are even close to true. I follow the things because it is mildly amusing. Are any of them true. No not really. Just mindless fiction for me. Where I draw the line is the ones that make poor choices in life because of these theories. For example the vaccination conspiracy theory guys really piss me off. We could easily go from 'that is eliminated and saved millions of lives' back to 'thousands die per year' all because of the fear they generate. Those need to end. However, for example 9/11. Who did it? That is easy. It was a bunch of pissed off Muslims from ex Saudi Arabia nationals hence us tearing up Iraq and Afghanistan because we stopped funding their 'jihad' in the 80s after the fall of the soviet union. There is no vast conspiracy there. It is just a bunch of richy riches trying to cover up what their brothers did and keep the trail of funding away from them.
I am of the bigger believer of the theory most of the people in charge are just winging it and doing whatever they feel looks good or they feel is good. No real logic here. Facts do not matter. They will just do whatever. They are not malevolent. They are just doing what they know best in a situation where they know nothing. It would be like handing me a scalpel and saying 'you are up for some brain surgery today on this guy with a tumor'. I would make a total butcher job of it. Ask me to debug what is wrong in your code and you can repeat it I probably can knock it out in a few hours to days (depending on luck). Ask the same of my wife and it would never happen. This is easy to prove. Just look at your boss then your bosses boss. Do you think they know what is going on? No not really. It is mostly the same everywhere. You have an exception here and there. But most people have no clue what the hell is going on. They try to glue it together with 'facts' which are little more than opinions that are disguised as them.. Hell even what I am saying is that. We do this all the time. It is called cognitive bias. We justify doing things because our lying brains told us to do something. We then make up some excuse why it was 'ok'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @09:27AM
Sounds like you know nothing about bio so easily believe random shit bio 'experts' say. Thats called the gellman amnesia effect.