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He was arrested last November. When he was arrested, he more or less immediately confessed to running Silk Road2 so the chances are that he is trying to work out some kind of deal and as a result there are likely going to be less pre-trial motions filed.
Considering how bad his operational security was (based on what was in the complaint against him), it does not take very big of a tinfoil hat to believe that he was somehow involved with law enforcement (aka SR2 was a honeypot)
Considering how bad his operational security was (based on what was in the complaint against him), it does not take very big of a tinfoil hat to believe that he was somehow involved with law enforcement (aka SR2 was a honeypot)
I worked with the guy and while he was an anathema, I don't think he was running a honeypot, especially with the way he was spending his money near the end.
He was a really good guy and we worked together for about a year or more. At a legit firm. I thought his programming was decent but he did NOT pair well with others so I am told, even though we all know pairing is for pant's shitters anyway!
He domineers projects and shit like that so he made some enemies, but that is just what people said.I am sure they were a little jealous too because he got shit done FAST. I did his DevOps stuff on Chef for him, set up shifting keys, tripwire, as well as other security hardening (that is pretty much necessary for VPCs in AWS) so he didn't really have those skills since I was doing it for him. I think he was young and idealistic. While he eventually spent the money, I think he was into it for either the lols of stickin it to the man. He made great pay doing software so I don't see why he would risk it or SR2 unless he really wanted to do it for politics. Has he asked me to do "private consulting for him" i don't know if I'd have peeked or not, but I certainly would not want to go down doing that shit! NO WAY NO HOW!
