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FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years (old.reddit.com)

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[–] bort@piefed.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From tptacek on ycombinator:

OK, I think I found the original thing Rockenhaus was convicted of. Back in 2014, Rockenhaus worked for a travel booking company. He was fired. He used stale VPN access to connect back to the company's infrastructure, and then detached a SCSI LUN from the server cluster, crashing it. The company, not knowing he was involved, retained him to help diagnose and fix the problem. During the investigation, the company figured out he caused the crash, and terminated him again. He then somehow gained access to their disaster recovery facility and physically fucked up a bunch of servers. They were down a total of about 30 days and incurred $500k in losses. (He plead this case out, so these are I guess uncontested claims).

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, not surprised. The original poster clearly “forgot” to mention some critical details in order to make themselves look like victims.

I wouldn’t doubt the FBI did some unethical things, but let’s not pretend the claim is trustworthy.

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Seeing that CFAA charges almost always lead to convictions (proving a minor TOS violation seems pretty easy) pleading guilty often looks like the best way.

Not going to dispute you, allegedly deleting the whole backbone of a company is not a "minor workplace dispute". But Police conduct seems weird, too. Not unusual, just weird and a tad too many coincidences. Not sure we are seeing the whole picture.