May 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Hillary is an honorary c-punk?
by professor rat 23 May '22

23 May '22

YOU say " disgraced the FBI and humiliated the Press " like that’s a bad thing. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1528619475276337152/photo/1 Repsnots knot endives

1 0

Two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl: My friendship with Julian Assange
by zeynep＠keemail.me 23 May '22

23 May '22

carleytonoli.medium.com/two-lost-souls-swimming-in-a-fishbowl-my-friendship… <http://carleytonoli.medium.com/two-lost-souls-swimming-in-a-fishbowl-my-fri…> Two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl: My friendship with Julian Assange Julian Assange is my friend, confidant and inspiration. He was a friend to my husband Peter and I for more than 25 years. Regardless of time and distance, he always remained at the forefront of our minds and close to our hearts. He is protective, loyal, and has always offered unending kindness and support to those who matter to him. This was not only evident in our friendships with him, but in the other close friendships he has had along the way. Julian receives so much media attention for his role as founder of Wikileaks, together with his political and public life. As with all public figures, it seems people either want to put him on a pedestal or condemn him as a monster. Sadly, the reality of Julian as an actual person is lost in these simplistic assessments of his character and his work. This is true even more so, because, unlike many other public figures, Julian has autism spectrum disorder, which makes him even harder for many people to relate to. Julian is a wonderful and complex person, but like all of us, he is also a flawed and fallible man. He has a brilliant mind, a generosity of spirit, intense focus, a strong sense of justice, and a passion and drive to improve the world for his fellow human beings. Likewise, Julian is beautifully flawed: he can be aloof, stubborn, and, at times, impetuous; he can be socially awkward, is a terrible dancer, always late, and very messy. Julian also has his quirks. His favourite film is the Dr Strangelove, he can go days without sleep, he can drink more milk in a day than most people I know, and, above all, he thinks outside the box in ways I haven’t seen before. At the same time, he’s surprisingly ordinary: he loves Pink Floyd, board games, and Japanese food; he’s an avid reader, and he isn’t above a bit of harmless gossip about people in our social circle. The first time I met Julian, I visited his house with a mutual friend named Luke, who needed to help him with a server upgrade. It was the mid-1990s and at the time he hosted the Victorian arm of Suburbia.net — Australia’s first public access internet provider. From the outside, the house was just like any other boring old, white single-fronted weatherboard terrace in the leafy suburb of Hawthorn. But as soon as you crossed the threshold, you were met with the unmistakable sound of dial-up modems with their mysterious beeps, twangs, tings, pings, and, finally, a loud crash of static. Venturing down the long hallway to the far end of the house, you’d reached the dark living room and be greeted by a steel frame — one that housed at least 10 dial-up modems and a huge computer server. On any other day, Julian would be sitting in front of his monitor, the blue glow of the monitor whitewashing his already pale skin. It was often the only light in the room. On this day, however, he greeted Luke and I at the front door. He was tall and thin, with grey-blue eyes and long silver hair, and he wore faded blue jeans with ripped knees, and a plain white dress shirt. He had such remarkable presence, but his deep voice — which has always reminded me of Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam — was soft and quiet. He gave us a clipped ‘hello’ before he turned and walked down the hallway without gesturing for us to follow. By the time we made it down the hallway to the living room, it was clear that this man was not only socially awkward, but that he was nervous about having a stranger in his home with whom he was now forced to interact with. Small talk has never been his strong point. Eventually he thawed. He became enthusiastic and animated, as he explained how he’d come to host Australia’s first ISP and his motivations for doing so. Even then, he had such a strong belief in the public’s right know about and debate actions of large institutions, and to have access to the world of information that the internet had to offer. More than that though, he wanted to promote community within the burgeoning Melbourne internet scene and bring people together to discuss and exchange ideas. As our friendship grew over subsequent years, Julian was a major source of encouragement and support to me. To understand the true significance of this support, you need to understand a little bit about my background. I grew up in a home filled with domestic abuse. My parents had divorced when I was one-year-old and my mother had remarried a physically and psychologically abusive tyrant. These were the years where fathers couldn’t win custody and were lucky to get a weekend every other week. I was too scared of my stepfather to tell my dad about the abuse and his hands were tied regardless of his efforts to intervene. By the time I reached 12, both of my elder siblings had left home — one went straight into the state system with the other falling pregnant at 17. My mother was an alcoholic who was having an affair with her boss, and was not at all interested in raising a teenage daughter. When my stepfather finally left her, I made the call that it was time I left too. She and her new partner drank constantly, and I felt unsafe and abandoned. When I sat her down to explain that it was time for me to go, she gave me $50 for a cab. Over the ensuing years, I was in and out of halfway houses and spent periods of time homeless. By the time I hit my second year of high school, it became impossible for me to continue with formal education — especially with no guardian and no fixed address. So, I dropped out of high school and never returned. It was a couple of years later that I met Julian. By this point I was jaded and weary. I’d been told so many times that I’d amount to nothing, that I should give up trying, and that I was a write-off. Julian never treated me that way. He made me feel like I had potential. Throughout the early years of our friendship he built up my confidence and helped me develop my talents. In those early days of our friendship, I once asked him what someone as intelligent as him saw in an outcast like me, and he told me that he wanted to be there to see what I would become. His support, encouragement, and belief in me never wavered. When I had nowhere else to go, he would let me sleep on his couch. Whenever I doubted myself, he would use more than words to convey his belief in me. Instead, he would challenge me to think and try harder, teach me things and point out how quickly I learned, and that not everyone was capable of the skill I had acquired. He gave me the encouragement to rise above my beginnings and to confront the challenges the world had set forth. In addition to encouraging me intellectually, he would support me through relationships and break-ups by always calmly reassuring me there were better things to come — often as I curled up on his couch and cried. He was my confidant, a source of sage advice, and a role model in so many ways. During the early years of our friendship, Julian was engaged in a lengthy battle for custody of his young son. After being awarded custody, he was relentless in his quest to provide the life he envisioned for his child, and to provide every opportunity available to help him reach his full potential. I would watch him as he parented his young son in such a considered and attentive fashion. He always put his son’s needs before his own. He was never too busy to take time away from his own work to help him to grow and learn, to encourage his inquisitiveness and imagination. He would read voraciously on ways to be a better parent, applying the very best research to support his son’s development. His example continues to serve as an inspiration for my own approach to parenting. I have such a clear memory of the first time Julian held my first born, sitting in a Chinese restaurant in Box Hill. As with so many parents of newborns, the opportunities for uninterrupted meals was few and far between. Julian calmly sat and cradled my tiny little newborn daughter, patiently and gently rocking her until her red-faced screams subsided. He may be a tough nut to crack, but once you’ve become part of Julian’s circle, you’re in it for life. Several years after that initial meeting, we lost our friend Luke to suicide. Throughout this time Julian was steadfast in supporting Luke’s partner, Heather, and mother, Kim, in dealing with both the grief and the practical difficulties they faced in the wake of their loss. He was among the first to arrive at Heather and Luke’s house to help in sorting through Luke’s things, and preserving precious mementos that represented his long-time friend. He moved swiftly to secure Luke’s computers and hard-drives, preserving years of photos, personal documents and emails, and helped Heather learn how to operate and maintain Luke’s computer network, which meant so much to him. When my husband Peter lost his father, Julian dropped everything to be at his side, despite his many commitments and busy schedule. As always, he was running late, but he slipped in quietly and sat in the back row. He was sensitive to the fact we were grieving and recognised nothing he could say or do would ease the pain. Despite his clear discomfort with social situations and pleasantries, he joined us afterward for the wake, making a feeble attempt at small talk with my grandmother, and a few of the other socially awkward people in the room. It meant a lot to both of us. Earlier this year, I lost Peter to suicide. Despite the 14 years that has passed since I last saw Julian with my own eyes, he was among the first to express his condolences and deep sorrow at the loss of one of his closest friends. He told me how he wished he could be there with me and my children as we said goodbye. Despite not being able to communicate with me in anything but single sentence messages, he has let me know he will always do whatever he can. When I wrote to him in the weeks after Peter’s death, and asked him to once again act as my confidant, as a silent witness to my pain, grief, fears for my children, and frank reflections on my 20 years of marriage, he sent a simple but clear message: ‘keep writing’. In the seven months since Peter’s death, I have written him numerous letters, thousands of words, shared my desperate longing to change the past, spilled out every thought and feeling onto the page, no matter how dark or bleak, with absolutely no filter. In every letter, I implore him to tell me to stop if it all gets too much, to ask for a break when his own struggles are too much to bear, but he never does. Even in these past months, while he has faced his extradition trial, in the battle of his life, he has continued to shoulder the weight of my grief and selfish need for help. Through this love and support, he feels as present as ever. The last time Peter and I saw Julian was at our wedding, in the April of 2006. His tall thin figure was clad in hastily assembled wedding attire. He was entirely too conspicuous as he strode across the lawn to take a seat. Once again, he was running late, arriving just as I was beginning to walk down the aisle. Later, when the formalities were done, he beamed as he offered us his congratulations, danced with me in his stiff and demure way — not unlike a teenage boy at his high school dance lessons. That night, he shared his vision for a new project, one that he believed would change the world for the better. That project was Wikileaks. Weeks later, when we returned from our honeymoon, we spoke with him about the project at greater length over the phone. He was looking for volunteers to help him get it off the ground. He spoke so passionately and eagerly about what a difference Wikileaks could make. He believed that if the public knew about the grievous injustices governments committed in their name, they would surely be outraged and demand better. Peter and I had a long conversation following the discussion with Julian that day. We both supported the idea, but we could see the potential risks involved too. Governments and corporations would surely not take this lying down. The whole idea was premised on his faith in the ability of people to pay attention, demand change, and to back each other when the wealthy, elite, and, corrupt moved to suppress the truth. Peter and I had a young family, and despite our support for the idea, we weren’t in a position to devote ourselves to the cause in the way we’d have wanted to. We felt it was too much to risk. But one idea always stayed with me from the conversation we had with Julian that day. It was that information is power, because the decisions we make as citizens are only as good as the information that inform those decisions. Coupled with Julian’s unending encouragement, that idea has motivated and inspired me throughout my career. Shortly after that conversation, I decided to enrol in a Communications degree, majoring in Journalism. Afterall, I thought, if I couldn’t support him with his project, perhaps I could still make a difference by providing people with the information that was so crucial to their decision making and engagement in civic life. As I raised my children, and completed my degree, the journalistic landscape began to change. Jobs for fulltime staff journalists became few and far between, and freelancing became a precarious and cut-throat market. I realised I couldn’t give my children the time and attention that I wanted and develop a career in an industry that had begun to prize speed and frequency over quality and depth. I began to see that the partisan nature of so many publications would compromise my ability to generate the kind of journalism that would stay true to the values of honesty, transparency, and hostility towards bias in service of the truth. It was around this time that both Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden were engaged in grave battles for their freedom. Together with Julian’s own struggle, this made it clear that the championing of whistle-blowers was necessary to ensure the kind of transparency needed for the public to be able to make informed decisions. In turn, this inspired me to begin a Masters degree in applied ethics. My thesis focused on the US Drone War in Pakistan and the veil of secrecy afforded to governments by emerging military technologies — a project that was inspired by drone program whistleblowers like Lisa Ling and Cian Westmoreland. I completed my Masters in 2017, and am currently completing my PhD. My current thesis looks at how emerging technologies discourage us from engaging in moral and political life, influence our moral and political sensibilities, and allow our governments to further conceal the heinous acts they carry out in our name. When I think about my life today, I often feel like it’s not too shabby for the kid who was a homeless high school dropout and didn’t even make it past Year 8. I still think about that teenage girl who kept being reminded she would amount to nothing. But I especially think about the inspiration, encouragement, and support that Julian gave me every step along the way. Above all else, I remember his absolute conviction that I would amount to more than I could have imagined. It was his conviction that gave me the motivation and courage to try. I remember the countless conversations where Julian would gently encourage me to keep going, and convey his faith in my ability to think critically and deeply about things. Julian was never comfortable speaking about emotions, so on the occasions that he did tell you that you mattered — in his uniquely clumsy way — you knew that he meant it. I have remained a silent witness to Julian’s pain and suffering for too many years. Like many of our other friends, I have remained quite because I wanted to respect the tiny amount of privacy Julian has left. At any stage, during the years of relentless and deliberate character assassination, he could have asked us to speak out in support of him, but his first concern has always been to protect his loved ones from the fallout of his speaking truth to power. Instead, it was me who asked for his blessing to write this article, because I can no longer stand by while he is dehumanised and demonised for political gain. Julian has given up so much in his belief that we all deserve greater transparency and accountability from our governments. He has sacrificed the chance to have close relationships with his children and to watch them grow up. He has sacrificed his mental and physical health, and his freedom. He has spent more than one-fifth of his life in involuntary detention. He has missed out on so many important milestones and moments, both in his own life and in the lives of those he loves. I was filled with trepidation as I monitored my Twitter feed last night (AEDT) , like thousands of others, waiting for news of Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s verdict in Julian’s US extradition hearing. The Judge’s remarks, conveyed via tweet-streams from journalists covering the court proceedings, initially seemed to suggest she would rule in favour of extradition. And yet, she didn’t. Instead, she decided that ‘Julian the person’, was more important than ‘Julian the political pawn’. It was such a massive relief to see Judge Baraitser recognise the humanity in Julian. To hear that she shares in my own very real fear that we may lose Julian to suicide if he is extradited. Despite not agreeing with several aspects of her ruling, it was heartening to see her value Julian’s humanity and his life, over politics. No one is perfect or one-dimensional. Julian is a flawed person. He can be frustrating, quirky, and more than a little odd, but aren’t we all in our own way? So, for all his flaws, please recognise that he is also human. He has made such substantial sacrifices because he believed in the value of humanity, of community, and of protecting the integrity of the public institutions that ensure our flourishing. He believed in the people. He believed Wikileaks would help the people see the injustice and corruption committed in their name. He believed that once they knew the truth, they would rise up and help him make the world a better place. He was there when we needed him to uncover the truth, will you be there for him when he needs you?

3 4

Soviet relationship with anti-Semitism
by professor rat 23 May '22

23 May '22

Post-capitalist theory means physical extermination of the Jewish population need not remain a utopian fantasy but could actually be realized. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . . " " . . . even a government established on the principle of minority rights and national autonomy could not protect Jews from violence . . . " https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/rehearsal_for_genocide_the/91268542?p=,,… " . . . approaching the topic from within Soviet history, demonstrates that this amnesia is the result of the complex Soviet relationship with anti-Semitism—the early pogroms “made Jews Soviet” as the early pogroms forged a bond between Jews and the Soviet regime. But that bond frayed by the 1930s. After World War II, anti-Semitic attacks did not disappear. What did vanish were the decisive measures taken by the Soviet authorities against them. The memory of anti-Jewish violence became “universalized” not as motivated by anti-Semitism but as attacks against the Soviet state. The state itself began to target Jews, embracing the political power of anti-Semitism. . . "

1 0

Eats, roots, shoots and leaves
by professor rat 23 May '22

23 May '22

Wombat Soars to $40 Million in Total Value Locked While Still at Beta https://dailyhodl.com/2022/05/20/wombat-soars-to-40-million-in-total-value-… Reminds moi - I was a Beta tester for Leechnet!

1 0

Pharrell Williams sez a revolution is coming that will shake up the music industry, financial system, & government
by professor rat 23 May '22

23 May '22

Welcome to the crypto-anarchist infrastructure revolution! https://decrypt.co/101125/pharrell-williams-web3-is-scaring-the-system Reposts snot Norsemen Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em. Billy : Well, it don't make 'em runnin' scared. George Hanson : No, it makes 'em dangerous. Buhhhh! Neh! Neh! Neh! Neh! Neh! Neh! Swamp!

1 0

Counter-revolutionary Backstabber thick-as-thieves with Statist McCornhole
by professor rat 23 May '22

23 May '22

Why does Adam Back hate our anarchist freedoms? https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-are-bitcoin-forks-contentious Adman Backstabber has earned killing ( again ) My 20 sats.

1 0

Two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl: My friendship with Julian Assange
by professor rat 23 May '22

23 May '22

Going by this report Asshat has entirely renounced cypherpunk revolution and hates crypto-anarchism. He's now a registered journalist / publisher in a Military-Entertainment-Complex where the media are precisely half the problem. It might be different if he had expressed solidarity for jailed C-punks like CJ, Jim Bell and myself. We could then reciprocate with genuine emotion and moral power. But he washed his hands of the anarchist revolution. Maybe a hot scoop could have saved him. Something world-historical like the Watergate stories of Woodstein. All I see in that dept is some alleged CIA hacking tools files that he appears to be with-holding as a bargaining chip. A shabby testament to anything he once advertised as ' Cypherpunk Revolution ". Asshat could get some short-term, limited tactical support should he graymail the USG Otherwise there's no value proposition in supporting him. He's also a leech, a thief, a liar and sex-criminal - so that doesn't help. Sooner or later he will answer to us so probably the best way out is Jeff Epsteins way out. A quick death is preferable to ' the justice of the barbarians ". Wikileaks is also dead - untimely then - untimely now - untimely forever Good riddance

1 0

Russian government procured powerful botnet to shift social media trending topics
by zeynep＠keemail.me 22 May '22

22 May '22

https://www-therecord.recfut.com/russia-botnet-fronton-social-media-nisos/ A subcontractor for Russia’s Federal Security Service is accused of creating a powerful botnet that had the ability to not only launch damaging DDoS attacks but also manipulate trending topics on social media platforms, according to cybersecurity firm Nisos. In a report released this week <https://6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/fronton-report…>, the company explained that it analyzed documents, images and a video stolen from 0day Technologies, a Russian government contractor that was attacked by a hacktivist group named “Digital Revolution” <https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-fsb-contractor-and-leak-detail…> in March 2020. While initial media reports on the documents obtained by the hacktivists’ focused on how the botnet — named Fronton — could be used to “turn off the Internet in a small country,” a deeper analysis showed that it was primarily developed “for coordinated inauthentic behavior on a massive scale,” Nisos said. The company said the system included a dashboard named SANA that allowed users to “formulate and deploy trending social media events en masse” by creating fictitious social media accounts. “The system creates these events that it refers to as Инфоповоды, ‘newsbreaks,’ utilizing the botnet as a geographically distributed transport. SANA provides for the creation of social media persona accounts, including email and phone number provisioning. In addition, the system provides facilities for creating these newsbreaks on a schedule or reactive basis,” Nisos explained. The report explains in detail 0day Technologies’ ties to the Russian government and criminal underground groups, including infamous hackers like Pavel Sitnikov <https://therecord.media/an-interview-with-russian-hacker-pavel-sitnikov-the…>, who has connections to the hacking group known as APT28 <https://therecord.media/tag/apt28/> or Fancy Bear, and was arrested by Russian officials in 2021 <https://therecord.media/russian-hacker-pavel-sitnikov-arrested-for-sharing-…>. “We assess that he likely has extensive knowledge of the functionality of the Fronton infrastructure and SANA front-end systems,” Nisos said. At the time of the initial hack in 2020, the documents revealed that in 2017 and 2018, the Russian government was interested in building a large IoT botnet similar to Mirai. The specs laid out a plan to create a botnet out of a web of compromised internet security cameras and digital recorders. But in the documents obtained by Nisos, the researchers say the “primary purpose” of Fronton “is not to create Denial of Service attacks, but to lay groundwork for massively scalable coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The botnet “consists of a layer of compromised IoT devices that communicate with front-end server infrastructure. These servers then pass their data over VPNs or the TOR network to back-end servers,” Nisos explained. “While the system could not exist without this groundwork, it is not the focal point of the Fronton network. This base layer is then utilized by the SANA platform in order to coordinate inauthentic behavior and propagate disinformation at a global scale.” Digital Revolution even released a video showing how SANA would work. The platform is customizable based on whether it is used for social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter or blogs, media sites, forums and other websites. “It also allows an operator to configure how many likes, comments, and reactions a bot account should create, as well as how often it should create photos and interact with groups on a weekly basis. An operator can also specify a numeric range of the number of friends a bot should maintain,” the Nisos researchers noted. The documents show the tool was used throughout 2018 and that it was mostly centered around the “newsbreak” feature – which allowed users to create media attention and buzz around any topic of interest. SANA provided users with tools to select a group of botnet users with which to react positively, negatively or indifferently using one of the predefined reaction models. Twitter and Facebook did not respond to requests for comment. Management of likes, comments and reposts The tool allowed users to program the weekly frequency of likes, comments, and reposts while also providing a list of response patterns that could be used. Users could even set the minimum frequency of actions and well as the intervals between actions. 0day Technologies created a machine learning system that could be turned on and off related to behavioral trends on social media. “Groups are auto-generated sets of accounts created by the system that are organized by platform and country,” Nisos explained. “The operator can choose from a list of names and a dictionary of surnames. The operator can then select the SMS API platform to use in order to create a phone number to automatically respond to two-factor authentication requests and other platform text requests.” In recent years, several social media companies have begun releasing reports on inauthentic behavior, highlighting the global prevalence of fake accounts used for a range of political purposes. Last month, Facebook parent company Meta released an Adversarial Threat Report <https://therecord.media/meta-said-it-disrupted-a-network-of-fake-accounts-t…> that found a network based in Saint Petersburg, Russia that targeted Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with news critical of France’s influence across the African continent. Meta said it was able to tie the activity to the notorious Russian Internet Research Agency, an organization well-known for its role in interfering in the US presidential election in 2016 <https://intelligence.house.gov/social-media-content/>. The Meta report also highlighted a range of bot activity, espionage and coordinated attacks on Facebook and Instagram in a number of countries, including Azerbaijan, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Philippines, El Salvador and Iran.

2 1

xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC | Memo #1 - Potential SpaceX Interlocking Directors’ Intent to Manipulate Markets
by Gunnar Larson 22 May '22

22 May '22

May 21, 2022 BY ELECTRONIC MAIL SpaceX Corporation Board of Directors One Rocket Road Hawthorne, California 90250 Sales(a)SpaceX.com Re: Potential SpaceX Interlocking Directors’ Intent to Manipulate Markets Dear SpaceX Board of Directors: >From our New York headquarters, xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC embodies the notion that rather than a merry-go-round, the process of change and innovation is like a slide. Today’s memo aims to notify the SpaceX Corporation of concern of potential market manipulation that could impact cross-border digital asset innovation, free speech in the United States of America, the global ESG economy and Moon exploration. Please find the attached memo <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lv9Wt6y1ld4bNap0z3epIxttEGiP_oVpfxH0GTS…> addressed to SpaceX's board of directors. Respectfully, Gunnar Larson -- *Gunnar Larson * *xNY.io <http://www.xny.io/> - Bank.org <http://bank.org/>, PBC* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

1 0

Re: Russian government procured powerful botnet to shift social media trending topics
by zeynep＠keemail.me 22 May '22

22 May '22

I'd like to share Fronton open source code or my own review here. But the news I just shared has been upsetting me for a while.Because I want to tell here about a man I know. The XXxman I wrote downstairs is a nickname that I made up.XXman was a helpful and occasionally video conferencing guy who arranged a meeting in Moscow. I used to attend video conferences because I wasn't in Moscow at the time.XXman was arrested one day for sharing a malware's open source code and was sentenced to prison.That was a lie the Russian government told us and him. XXman shared the corruption of some government men in Moscow.In fact, that's why he was arrested, because a lot of people like XXman shared tools and malware, but no one was arrested like him.He went to jail, and we started raising money to get him out of jail.His lawyer said it wouldn't be possible.And then they threatened his mum in a mall. It upset and frightened us all.And he got out of prison about 2 months ago, which surprised me.And I found out he was the one who did a lot of things like Fronton “XxxMan is a prominent figure of the hacking underground who, under the alias XxxMan, brags about his connections to Russian hacking group APT28 aka Fancy Bear.”

2 3