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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange : On 20 August 2010, Swedish police began an investigation into two sexual encounters involving Assange. Assange has said allegations of wrongdoing are "without basis", describing all the sexual encounters as consensual. In December 2010, Assange, then in Britain, learned that the Swedish authorities had issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) to extradite him to Sweden for questioning. Assange appealed the EAW, and a District Judge (Magistrate's Court) in England ruled that Assange should be extradited. Assange has appealed the extradition decision.

There is even more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Judicial_Authority_v_Ju...

Conspiracy theories are fun and all that, but...

Assange was arrested due to rape charges and then refused to show up for preliminary hearings. But maybe Sabu's stuck in a filterbubble.

I use NoScript for a reason. I temporarily whitelist pages which I (after a quick glance), deem trustworthy. I have been known to whitelist Disqus on occasion, but I'd rather not. In this particular case there were a whole slew of external domains that were blacklisted, there's just no way I am going to enable them one by one to see which ones are needed for a few user comments to load.

I know, it's my loss. But I suspect that website owners would have an interest in showing off all the good comments their users post. I'm probably a minority, but using NoScript instead of all the adblockers out there makes me feel like I'm a "friendly user" to website owners. I will see their ad's as long as they don't depend on external JavaScript. There might be a tiny niche market here (ad-network with reliable stats hosted without external dependencies), but I wonder if it'd be worth going after.

On a tangent: I'm just waiting for the day when GitHub will hit me with something nasty, since I have them fully whitelisted.

Maybe I should have written a blog entry instead.

Why would you post this? If someone really wanted to pair them up, they could have but that at least would have taken -some- determination.

Obviously you knew you were pushing it since you even went out of your way to create a new handle. For the "lulz"? Troll.

Your machine -> TOR -> hacked home user or server -> your target.

This way you only transfer the files between the target and the hacked server, and from there on to a torrent, and heck, why not let that machine seed it too.

Chances are that they even used a chain of hacked machines to get to their target. It gets pretty complicated pretty quickly if you (as in FBI et al) have to raid several companies to get your hands on machines to do forensics on.

I doubt these files (or much of anything else) ever touched the criminal's physical machine. Unless, of course, they fucked up by, say, posting to pastebin or a tweet or something else that is seemingly insignificant (at the time) using their own IP.

Most tend to.

This was a "test account" that had no real user attached to it. After all, if the trade is internal on MtGox, it's just a double in a database.

If that is the case, then hell yes, I can see why MtGox would want this rollback.

The guy is from UK and linking to some content in the US, additionally he says:

  the server was not based in the US

Are there relevant details missing in the story? Could it happen because the content he linked to is copyrighted in the US? Anyone with insight know what is going on here?

It's not easy to back trace when you have to send in someone to do forensics on a computer.

I wanted to send an email to thank you instead of cluttering this thread but it was not in your profile.

Thanks again. :)

(why I reply to this comment is entirely random)

Turns out it's a bunch of mysql-dumps in txt format, some admin passwords and server logs. I am guessing there's a lot of pain in there, but I only had a quick glance.

The packed file was ~15MiB. No code or art in there as far as I could see.

In the demo when he switched to the "desktop" it looked pretty much like any desktop OS to me.

Google "helvetica monospaced".

I realize I'm not answering your question entirely, but what I read between the lines is you're wondering whether WebGL will be able to replace "native" applications, performance-wise in the future. The ball is in the air on that one, and it's about to be caught by Intel/AMD/nVidia. And I bet you they are already cuddling with the browser-developers (or at least rubbing their hands in glee).

I guess the quick and dirty test for the state of things right now is to simply check the CPU/GPU performance on this one and compare it with current top of the month here: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=56871 (note that this is a 64KiB demo -- in comparison, the background picture of http://romealbum.com/ is three times bigger).

A more fair comparison would be: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=56900 (also released this month, it seems)

Do let me know if you come to any kind of conclusion :)

Personally I haven't been involved in the demo-scene for some 15 years but every now and then I indulge myself in the latest releases at http://pouet.net and find myself having lost a whole evening. That said, from what I have seen, and if this was indeed cutting-edge, we still have quite a bit to go... But yeah, we are definitely getting there. Not sure whether to jump for joy, though. :)

At the end of the day, this Bitcoin hype is getting slightly tiresome. I do apologize for being negative here, but the only thing I take away from this whole spectacle is that investing in energy is a wise move. The amazing thing is, that was news a long, long time ago.

Why that is, I can only take a stab at: I guess we see a lot more from you guys on the other side of the pond than you see from us. :)

[1] Comma overload -- my English teacher would kill me.

In fact, I'd be peeing my pants if I saw that in the SQL-dump I just downloaded through a couple of proxies.

And, ironically, something which I think Sony forgot here. :)

How does this become spam? Or, let's say you used the wrong word and didn't mean "spam" -- how is this article or its author somehow bad for HN right now? I add "right now" because I think the answer would be different if the user had been around for a year or two.

I am not looking to prove anything here or argue. I am really curious why you think I should not upvote a submission I found interesting.

On the other hand, it's a bit hard to believe that IBM Security Systems would miss that... So while perhaps plausible, doubtful.

I don't mind the odd guy sneaking in a shameless plug here and there, but this was just a bit too forced and you just made yourself look silly. :/

PS: The original article is apparently here: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php - I get some encoding errors, though.

Maybe. Personally I stopped using it when they started throwing pop-unders at me.

Or maybe it was because it jumped on to the whole "portal" craze and other SE's that were cleaner felt quite refreshing.

A business model for Facebook that just might: Offer insurance companies to pay for repeated privacy option changes which you have to opt out of.

Or heck, just sell a feed to the firehose to them.

Yeah, I guess this is a troll. But I must say I'm getting pretty damn fed up with all this Facebook noise everywhere right now.

I was talking to a friend of mine who stopped using Facebook a few weeks back, only to sign up for a new account (throw-away) a few days later in order to implement something Facebook related for a client.