[Cryptography][Law] Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography

[coderman]

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:36 AM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
> ...
> At a HOPE panel on informants, several hackers disclosed
> those pressures to rat, some succumbed and were let off,
> Emmanuel Goldstein admitted it, some refused and were
> jailed, Bernie-X, Kevin Mitnick. All agreed it is far worse to
> go through than you think. Goldstein estimated 25% of hackers
> are rats.

Jim Bell's exhortations to deny all pleas a hard sell considering that
one in four rolls over completely under pressure. :/



> Barrett Brown is on the hot seat right now, being offering deals
> to rat, as customary, with three (!) trials postponed to maintain
> pressure. Shit, even his mom was used as a fed provocation to
> misbehave then as a persuasion club as were Sabu's nephew
> and niece.

it would be interesting to see a survey of the carrots and sticks used
by federal prosecutors.



> Anybody with a high profile is targeted, so beware publicity
> hounds crowing of derrying-do and urgings by high profilers
> who may or may not be in the grips of the feds, and if not,
> will soon be due to their publicity narcosis, and then used
> as clubs or head to jail for obstruction and recidivism or
> some other nut-squeezing -- even in jail they are offered
> deals to rat and sentence reduced.

good thing JYA stays under the radar!



> In or out jail the pressure to rat continues, as with Adrian
> Lamo. Ex-cons never know if an overture is an LE sting or a
> an honest request for advice, so they rat to be safe -- recall
> they are obliged -- forever -- to report overtures, just like
> ex-spies remain under the gun to rat for life. If you haven't
> been there don't imagine you know what it's like.

what do you mean by "obliged -- forever -- to report overtures"?  i
would be very interested to know if there are clauses compelling
disclosure in these agreements for unrelated activities.  is this
"soft" pressure, or legally binding?



> Don't imagine this list and others like it, chats, OTRs, TOR,
> are not being spied for easy targets.

this opportunistic spying even has a code name: EPICFAIL