Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Pleads Guilty for North Korea Presentation

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The criminal government got its way again.

The sanctions in place are easy to refer to.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

It’s still ridiculous

Unless you see the big picture, they want his blood, he humiliated them:" (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.Griffith said he developed WikiScanner “to create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike (and) to see what ‘interesting organizations’ (which I am neutral towards) are up to.”

I want my government to give a stern warning and reclaim conference fees.

Prison time isn't appropriate, assuming the presentation really was public information at a public conference.

But it is not easy to see the context: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1... Virgil has hurted them big time:" WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly overwhelmed with searches.

The program allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the popular Internet encyclopedia where anyone can submit and edit entries.

WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class.

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