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I was on an IRC channel hosted by this guy. Maybe 5-6 people all 13-15 back in 2007. They were/are my best friends. For over 10 years we talked. The guy who ran it worked for the CIA and got arrested as the person responsible for the Vault7 hacking tools leak. Now the server has been taken by the FBI and I had to have a very interesting conversation about all the shit we said over the years. Now he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Hits me hard everytime I think about it...

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Joshua Schulte? Here’s a recent story: https://www.cyberscoop.com/vault-7-joshua-schulte-wikileaks-...

I could find very little information about that website. First time I've seen it referenced before. Seemed like a very strongly worded article to me.

How do you have this different view of the world and work deeply for the CIA. Is talent that hard to attain rn?

People change over time. Working for the CIA probably makes you change faster than most jobs.

Yes.

Well you win for the most epic paragraph on the internet for this month.

It's easy to make up stories on the internet for fake internet points.

Yes, but it's just as easy to reject true things that people say because they violate preconceptions. We see at least as much of that as the other on HN. And don't forget that the site guidelines include "Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Right, I'm sure all of the repeditive HN frontpage content about facebook, tesla, shitcoin, etc is posted "in good faith" and not to accumulate fake internet points.

The mind reels at that subject leap! But sure, I think most articles are posted in good faith, and we gain more by assuming good faith than by not.

It's not only about which assumption models reality better—it's also about the change it makes in ourselves.

It's easier to dismiss true stories as fiction because of your world view.

I read about that! Knights of Something or other. Didn't he caught by having it on a ftp server or something?

IRC Knights. He got caught by having a a truecrypt image inside a truecrypt. He had the passwords on his cellphone.

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