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Original WinUAE author Mathias Ortmann arrested

Anonymous. @.

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According to the FBI, Mathias Ortmann apparently was the CTO and co-founder of a piracy exploiting gang led by well-known con artist Kim Schmitz (also known as "Kim Dotcom" and "Kimble"). Mathias Ortmann is said to have received 9 million dollars in 2010 alone in profits from Megaupload.com. He was arrested this week in Auckland, New Zealand, at the request of US officials.

http://static2.stuff.co.nz/files/MegaUpload.pdf

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(94.196.137.127) [94.196.137.127]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, Anonymous wrote:
> According to the FBI, Mathias Ortmann apparently was the CTO and co-founder
> of a piracy exploiting gang led by well-known con artist Kim Schmitz (also
> known as "Kim Dotcom" and "Kimble"). Mathias Ortmann is said to have
> received 9 million dollars in 2010 alone in profits from Megaupload.com. He
> was arrested this week in Auckland, New Zealand, at the request of US
> officials.
>
> http://static2.stuff.co.nz/files/MegaUpload.pdf
>

Shame that Mega upload is gone, I'd stashed no end of files on there for disaster recovery purposes. Was also handy for grabbing Android firmware images too. As for "piracy exploiting gang", I'll wait and see what the trip brings out before rushing to vilify anyone.

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(89.187.142.72) [89.187.142.72]
> images too. As for "piracy exploiting gang", I'll wait and see what the
> trip brings out before rushing to vilify anyone.

The premise was "according to the FBI", with link to the source document. What is your problem with that?

More info:
http://vrritti.com

With photos:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom-arrested-in-auckland

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irc . m@f.

(86.125.12.8) [86.125.12.8]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, Anonymous wrote:
> According to the FBI, Mathias Ortmann apparently was the CTO and co-founder
> of a piracy exploiting gang led by well-known con artist Kim Schmitz (also
> known as "Kim Dotcom" and "Kimble"). Mathias Ortmann is said to have
> received 9 million dollars in 2010 alone in profits from Megaupload.com. He
> was arrested this week in Auckland, New Zealand, at the request of US
> officials.
>
> http://static2.stuff.co.nz/files/MegaUpload.pdf

"From the onset of the Conspiracy through to the present, ORTMANN has overseen software programmers that developed the Mega Conspiracy’s websites, and has handled technical issues with the ISPs. His particular areas of responsibility include setting up new servers, sending and responding to equipment service requests, and problem solving connectivity problems with the Mega Conspiracy websites."

I still remember scuz from early irc days.. and kimble, too. Although kimble never managed to stay long on a channel, before he got kicked. Never understood, how anybody ever did not notice, how stupid he was.

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(94.196.137.127) [94.196.137.127]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, . wrote:
> > images too. As for "piracy exploiting gang", I'll wait and see what the
> > trip brings out before rushing to vilify anyone.
>
> The premise was "according to the FBI", with link to the source document.
> What is your problem with that?
>
> More info:
> http://vrritti.com
>
> With photos:
>
> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom-arrested-in-auckland
>

The problem is that I have this silly, old fashioned belief that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Yes, the indictment looks pretty damning, but then they're supposed to look that way.

But until it goes to trial, all this is speculation on our parts and will almost certainly be one sided due to the nature of our media.

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(80.237.225.149) [80.237.225.149]
> > The premise was "according to the FBI", with link to the source document.
> > What is your problem with that?
> The problem is that I have this silly, old fashioned belief that a person
> is innocent until proven guilty.

We all share this belief I hope. But the quoted text didn't say that he was guilty. It said "According to the FBI". Do you have a problem with quoting the FBI?

And why store important personal data on a "piracy" (file _sharing_) site like Megaupload, instead of doing like honest people do and use something like Dropbox?

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jb@w0rk. #.

(50.75.82.41) [50.75.82.41]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, . wrote:
> > > The premise was "according to the FBI", with link to the source document.
> > > What is your problem with that?
> > The problem is that I have this silly, old fashioned belief that a person
> > is innocent until proven guilty.
>
> We all share this belief I hope. But the quoted text didn't say that he was
> guilty. It said "According to the FBI". Do you have a problem with quoting
> the FBI?
>
> And why store important personal data on a "piracy" (file _sharing_) site
> like Megaupload, instead of doing like honest people do and use something
> like Dropbox?

What's the difference?

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(82.145.208.171) [82.145.208.171]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, . wrote:
> > > The premise was "according to the FBI", with link to the source document.
> > > What is your problem with that?
> > The problem is that I have this silly, old fashioned belief that a person
> > is innocent until proven guilty.
>
> We all share this belief I hope. But the quoted text didn't say that he was
> guilty. It said "According to the FBI". Do you have a problem with quoting
> the FBI?
>

In of itself no, but at the same time the authorities have come out hard trying to prejudice public opinion against these people by releasing all manner of information about their spending and personal lives.

> And why store important personal data on a "piracy" (file _sharing_) site

Didn't say it was important or personal. In this case it was an offsite backup of some rather large documents as well as a couple of hard to find programs that were no longer for sale that I'd previously purchased. Disks degrade, CDs scratch but having a place I could quickly get that stuff back was useful.

> like Megaupload, instead of doing like honest people do and use something
> like Dropbox?
>

Firstly I object to the implication of dishonesty. I use box.net for more private docs, but that comes with a 10mb filesize limit. Some of the manuals were quite a bit bigger than that.

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(82.145.208.171) [82.145.208.171]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, jb@w0rk wrote:
>
> What's the difference?
>

In his eyes anyone and everyone using Megaupload is dishonest. I believe the term is poisoning the well.

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thebilgerat. ..

(50.53.200.253) [50.53.200.253]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, Anonymous wrote:
> According to the FBI, Mathias Ortmann apparently was the CTO and co-founder
> of a piracy exploiting gang led by well-known con artist Kim Schmitz (also
> known as "Kim Dotcom" and "Kimble"). Mathias Ortmann is said to have
> received 9 million dollars in 2010 alone in profits from Megaupload.com. He
> was arrested this week in Auckland, New Zealand, at the request of US
> officials.
>
> http://static2.stuff.co.nz/files/MegaUpload.pdf
>

Here's what the real anonymous thinks:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/anonymous-strikes-back-against-justice-universal-sopa-supportersattack-on-whitehousegov-underway.ars

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koft. asdflkjh.

(98.66.57.177) [98.66.57.177]
Anyone who thought MegaUpload was a reliable and trustworthy place to archive important information is a fucking moron.

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megol. .@..

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On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, koft wrote:
> Anyone who thought MegaUpload was a reliable and trustworthy place to
> archive important information is a fucking moron.
>
...
Strawman anyone?

Anyone who thought X is a reliable and trustworthy place to archive Y information is a fucking moron*

(* Multiple backups at multiple locations using heavy duty encryption with the same, secure key is the only "safe" way)

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koft. asdflkjh.

(98.66.57.177) [98.66.57.177]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, megol wrote:
> On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, koft wrote:
> > Anyone who thought MegaUpload was a reliable and trustworthy place to
> > archive important information is a fucking moron.
> >
> ...
> Strawman anyone?
>
> Anyone who thought X is a reliable and trustworthy place to archive Y
> information is a fucking moron*
>
> (* Multiple backups at multiple locations using heavy duty encryption with
> the same, secure key is the only "safe" way)
>
>

How is this a straw man argument? Megaupload was a warez trading post founded and run by a well known criminal/scam artist. I'll reiterate. Anyone who thinks that their data is in good hands on a warez trading post run by a convicted criminal is a fucking moron. That's not a straw man argument, it's common sense.

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On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, . wrote:
> > > The premise was "according to the FBI", with link to the source document.
> > > What is your problem with that?
> > The problem is that I have this silly, old fashioned belief that a person
> > is innocent until proven guilty.
>
> We all share this belief I hope. But the quoted text didn't say that he was
> guilty. It said "According to the FBI". Do you have a problem with quoting
> the FBI?
>
> And why store important personal data on a "piracy" (file _sharing_) site
> like Megaupload, instead of doing like honest people do and use something
> like Dropbox?
>

As Dropbox is in the USA it means all the data on it is managed by the NSA. Using it for company or sensitive personal matter is asking to be hurt.

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GK. m@t-ol.de.

(93.207.28.248) [93.207.28.248]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, irc wrote:

> Although
> kimble never managed to stay long on a channel, before he got kicked. Never
> understood, how anybody ever did not notice, how stupid he was.

One funny thing, he started his career as "Hacker" with a BBS/Mailbox system. Paying users could download software. He used Amigas for his BBS. His systems ran on Amigas equipped with custom made multi ISDN cards.

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(94.197.21.60) [94.197.21.60]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, megol wrote:
> On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, koft wrote:
> > Anyone who thought MegaUpload was a reliable and trustworthy place to
> > archive important information is a fucking moron.
> >
> ...
> Strawman anyone?
>
> Anyone who thought X is a reliable and trustworthy place to archive Y
> information is a fucking moron*
>
> (* Multiple backups at multiple locations using heavy duty encryption with
> the same, secure key is the only "safe" way)
>
>

My thinking in a nutshell. Backup early, backup often, backup multiple.

Encryption manditory. Just ffs don't forget the password/where you stored your encryption keys...

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megol. .@..

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On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, koft wrote:
>
> How is this a straw man argument? Megaupload was a warez trading post
> founded and run by a well known criminal/scam artist. I'll reiterate.
> Anyone who thinks that their data is in good hands on a warez trading post
> run by a convicted criminal is a fucking moron. That's not a straw man
> argument, it's common sense.
>

As no-one have claimed that storing important data there is a good idea: yes, this is exactly what a strawman argument is all about!

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Don Cox. jkjjkkjjk.

(86.30.11.220) [86.30.11.220]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, koft wrote:
> Anyone who thought MegaUpload was a reliable and trustworthy place to
> archive important information is a fucking moron.
>

Relying on a server that belongs to somebody else and is situated who-knows-where is a bad idea.

The new Millenniata archival DVDs look promising.

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Don Cox. gjhgjhgj.

(86.30.11.220) [86.30.11.220]
On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, . wrote:
> On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, megol wrote:
> > On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, koft wrote:
> > > Anyone who thought MegaUpload was a reliable and trustworthy place to
> > > archive important information is a fucking moron.
> > >
> > ...
> > Strawman anyone?
> >
> > Anyone who thought X is a reliable and trustworthy place to archive Y
> > information is a fucking moron*
> >
> > (* Multiple backups at multiple locations using heavy duty encryption with
> > the same, secure key is the only "safe" way)
> >
> >
>
> My thinking in a nutshell. Backup early, backup often, backup multiple.
>
> Encryption manditory. Just ffs don't forget the password/where you stored
> your encryption keys...
>
I wouldn't say it is mandatory. None of the stuff I need to archive is confidential. The great bulk is photographs.

Business data certainly should be encrypted.

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(82.145.209.57) [82.145.209.57]
On Sunday, Jan 22, 2012, Don Cox wrote:
> On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, . wrote:
> > On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, megol wrote:
> > > On Friday, Jan 20, 2012, koft wrote:
> > > > Anyone who thought MegaUpload was a reliable and trustworthy place to
> > > > archive important information is a fucking moron.
> > > >
> > > ...
> > > Strawman anyone?
> > >
> > > Anyone who thought X is a reliable and trustworthy place to archive Y
> > > information is a fucking moron*
> > >
> > > (* Multiple backups at multiple locations using heavy duty encryption with
> > > the same, secure key is the only "safe" way)
> > >
> > >
> >
> > My thinking in a nutshell. Backup early, backup often, backup multiple.
> >
> > Encryption manditory. Just ffs don't forget the password/where you stored
> > your encryption keys...
> >
> I wouldn't say it is mandatory. None of the stuff I need to archive is
> confidential. The great bulk is photographs.
>

living in a fairly rough area, I've gotten into the habit of encrypting everything unless its something I intend to immediately share with someone else, its fast and trivial once you've set it up. On megaupload it also meant that even should someone stumble onto my stash, they'd not be able do do anything with it.

> Business data certainly should be encrypted.
>
>

As I said, anything truly important got put elsewhere.

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(188.216.232.242) [188.216.232.242]
Here is a photo of Mathias Ortmann in the UAE days:

http://www.amigaforever.com/news-events/19970920uae/

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