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While publishing the data, he also published part of his home folder (containing his personal files). Although he cancelled the torrent before anyone could down

While publishing the data, he also published part of his home folder (containing his personal files). Although he cancelled the torrent before anyone could download the full version, the partial torrent could still have data extracted https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/alleged-extortioner-of-psychotherapy-patients-faces-trial/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/alleged-extortioner-of-p...

robertlagrant 2y ago
It might be technically unprecedented, but it doesn't sound particularly complicated.
- mock-possum 2y ago
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  - romwell 2y ago
    >Typical self-aggrandizing copaganda. They got a guy who was personally blackmailing thousand of people in therapy, threatening to leak their therapist notes. I'll let the cops have all the aggrandizing they want for this one. Also, way too many solutions are obvious in retrospect. Many problems in life are NP-ish.
    - Teever 2y ago
      That's not how this works. Successfully doing your job isn't a free pass on not speaking to the media about your job in an unprofessional manner.
      - romwell 2y ago
        >Successfully doing your job isn't a free pass on not speaking to the media about your job in an unprofessional manner. Oh how dare these cops do something important, useful, and not at all straightforward for once and then feel good about it. How very unprofessional of them. >That's not how this works That is how it works in reality. You may not like it, but that's just how it works.
        Teever 2y ago
        Not everywhere. It's important to remember that there are places where police conduct themselves much more professionally. It's important to remember that because we must not normalize deviance.
      - emchammer 2y ago
        There was a TV show I watched 30 years ago already, NYPD Blue. When a criminal clearly abused children, Detective Andy Sipowicz, "a drunken, angry, racist goon with a heart of gold", would smack the perp around a bit, while his partners looked the other way. Somebody committed suicide because of this hack and extortion. That is a tragedy. How the tens of thousands of persons who were attempted to be extorted felt, how can you even measure that? Don't you think that there is a bit of grey area in a case like this?

robertlagrant 2y ago

It might be technically unprecedented, but it doesn't sound particularly complicated.

mock-possum 2y ago
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- romwell 2y ago
  >Typical self-aggrandizing copaganda. They got a guy who was personally blackmailing thousand of people in therapy, threatening to leak their therapist notes. I'll let the cops have all the aggrandizing they want for this one. Also, way too many solutions are obvious in retrospect. Many problems in life are NP-ish.
  - Teever 2y ago
    That's not how this works. Successfully doing your job isn't a free pass on not speaking to the media about your job in an unprofessional manner.
    - romwell 2y ago
      >Successfully doing your job isn't a free pass on not speaking to the media about your job in an unprofessional manner. Oh how dare these cops do something important, useful, and not at all straightforward for once and then feel good about it. How very unprofessional of them. >That's not how this works That is how it works in reality. You may not like it, but that's just how it works.
      - Teever 2y ago
        Not everywhere. It's important to remember that there are places where police conduct themselves much more professionally. It's important to remember that because we must not normalize deviance.
    - emchammer 2y ago
      There was a TV show I watched 30 years ago already, NYPD Blue. When a criminal clearly abused children, Detective Andy Sipowicz, "a drunken, angry, racist goon with a heart of gold", would smack the perp around a bit, while his partners looked the other way. Somebody committed suicide because of this hack and extortion. That is a tragedy. How the tens of thousands of persons who were attempted to be extorted felt, how can you even measure that? Don't you think that there is a bit of grey area in a case like this?