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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 - March 2025 (222 comments)

For more context: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-...

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/stanford-scholar-files-mo...

> A colleague of professor XiaoFeng Wang, the world-renowned cybersecurity expert who IU fired last Friday after federal law enforcement searched his homes, is filing a legal motion to unseal the warrants.

> “We have the right to know what our government is up to, in short,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a legal scholar and policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence.

> Wang and his wife Nianli Ma have not been heard from publicly since the searches last Friday at homes in Bloomington and Carmel. But Wang’s lawyer says the couple is safe and hasn’t been charged with a crime.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878395/wang-stateme...

https://wangxiaofeng7.github.io/ is far more interesting, but not as topical.

> Dr. Wang serves as Director and Lead PI of Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC), […] funded by the NSF. The project is a multi-institution effort [which] aims at laying the technological foundations for practical data-in-use protection based on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) […]

My money is on it being related to BL32s and not to FP8s. But we’ll see.

> My money is on it being related to BL32s and not to FP8s. But we’ll see.

Googling gave me an idea of what FP8 might mean (8-bit floating point format?), but didn't immediately help with BL32 (unless it is a reference to an air blower, which seems unlikely). Could you explain?

This is related to Trusted Computing on ARM platforms, i.e. what is cited related to Distributed Confidential Computing.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/arm...

Clearly Satoshi was doxxed and is now on the run.

I assume you’re being cheeky but… what if!

wasn’t there also a theory recently that Satoshi must be dead?

Hal Finney died when Satoshi disappeared, it's an old theory though, not recent. The thinking is either Satoshi died, lost the billion dollar keys intentionally or unintentionally, or beats to a different drum and is in it for the love of the game, not the money

How do you exfiltrate any portion of 80 billion dollars from Bitcoin without immediately making yourself a target for every criminal organization in the world?

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that is impressive. no wiki page about him though

When you’re an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an AAAS Fellow, you’re impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaofeng_Wang_(computer_scient...

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001

Not technically a dupe, but you're right in the sense that this is a follow-up, and we generally don't want split discussions on the front page.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

dang pls merge if you need to, thX

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