At 09:49 PM 11/14/2007, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
The hack of the year
Patrick Gray November 13, 2007
To give Patrick a little credit, he didn't come up with the headline for that "hack of the year" story, and was a bit rueful about it. To my credit, I didn't think it referred to the author. I questioned a few assumptions also, but it isn't any worse than the average mainstream press story on Tor. denoument: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/swedish-researc.html The plot sickens. I have just gotten to the point, personally, where I don't consider DE a credible source. Without going back and triple checking, but from memory... First he says he set up filters for his content but didn't examine it, then he reflects on how much of it was porn and apparently examined it closely enough to see that people were fetching it to their offices. He said earlier that he hadn't violated wiretap laws because none of his servers were in the US; now apparently at least one was. *shrug* I have no idea how to judge his account of his arrest, or how credible nods about Hong Kong might be. I am sorry that happened to anyone, though. <personal bits snipped...> Yrs, -- Shava Nerad shava@efn.org --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'