Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel 172
CWmike writes "A 43-year-old former Akamai employee has pleaded guilty to espionage charges after offering to hand over confidential information about the Web acceleration company to an agent posing as an Israeli consular official in Boston. Starting in September 2007, Elliot Doxer played an elaborate 18-month-long game of cloak-and-dagger with James Cromer, a man he thought was an Israeli intelligence officer. He handed over pages and pages of confidential data to Cromer, providing a list of Akamai's clients and contracts, information about the company's security practices, and even a list of 1,300 Akamai employees, including mobile numbers, departments and e-mail addresses. Doxer delivered the information to a dead drop box 62 times. His motivation: To help Israel and to get information on his son and estranged wife, who lived outside the U.S., prosecutors said in court filings. Doxer faces 15 years in prison on the charges."
Tumbled (Score:2, Insightful)
1) Find a an exploitable employee
2) Seduce them with hopes of seeing their child again this century
3) Collect incriminating evidence
4) Profit!
They'd be hard pressed to get a conviction out of me if they set this guy up. If he instigated this then I'll still be disinclined to convict as they could have smacked him down and gotten a felony.
So this wasteful agent spent how much time and how many millions of dollars building up this whoop de do case? Maybe they could have nailed the guy with the simple felony,
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There is, one presumes, a very long list of people who would really like something in their life fixed up, and you don't really want to get into the business of hav
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment [wikipedia.org]
We also don't know the details of exactly how the offer was made. Of course, not that it matters now, as he's pleaded guilty.
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Yeah, I don't understand how it couldn't be entrapment. What, do they have undercover agents sitting in places where peddlers of secrets will mistake you for a foreign intelligence operative or something? Yeah fucking right: you don't get approached by someone wanting to sell you secrets on accident.
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It's obvious (always assuming that what the article says is substantially correct), that Mr. Doxer had what the law calls a propensity to commit the first crime from before law enforcement entered the picture. The FBI didn't have to implant any ideas in his head for that to happen. But, what about the rest of the crimes? This guy was apparently looking for a contact with the Israeli government from the start. Maybe that's so he could get info on the estranged wife and child, but it also arguably could be be
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According to this Doxer offered, in an email to the Israeli consulate, to provide documents [boston.com].
And the Israelis contacted the FBI. Some spy masters they turned out to be.
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Or that they already knew everything they needed to about Akamai from other sources :)
Re:Tumbled (Score:5, Informative)
If the agent merely posed as the sort of consular person who the suspect was looking for, it's just a sting, not entrapment. If, on the other hand, the agent engaged in a prolonged campaign of grooming and cajoling to get otherwise upright and/or feckless people stirred up enough to do something, there would be a serious argument that entrapment was going on...
It would be interesting to know if the feds just have undercover people swarming around likely defection loci, just hanging out and looking shady and approachable, or whether Akamai is considered cool enough to get investigations focused on its employees, or whether the fellow in question has something else that flagged him.
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If, on the other hand, the agent engaged in a prolonged campaign of grooming and cajoling to get otherwise upright and/or feckless people stirred up enough to do something, there would be a serious argument that entrapment was going on.
Well, pretty much anything can be going when you're engaging in wild speculation. The case is pretty well documented and there is no indication of grooming or Akamai arranging to have employees spied on.
Anyway, let's get back to speculation. Maybe his wife was paid off by a rival of Akamai - knowing that Doxer in hus desperation would likely do something to harm is employer.
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"Apparently out of the blue, he decided to send an e-mail to Israel's Boston consulate on June 22, 2006, writing, "I am a jewish american who lives in Boston. I know you are always looking for information and i am offering the little i may have."
Seems his mail was intercepted or somesuch
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1) Find a an exploitable employee
2) Seduce them with hopes of seeing their child again this century
3) Collect incriminating evidence
4) Profit!
Again, as I also said in my original post, it doesn't matter, as he has pleaded guilty. Case over.
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1) Find a an exploitable employee
2) Seduce them with hopes of seeing their child again this century
3) Collect incriminating evidence
4) Profit!
FWIW he wasn't trying to profit. The article explicitly says that he was trying to contact his son and estranged wife.
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Um, the "profit!" (along with all the other points) were actions the GP attributed to the FBI agent, not the "exploitable employee" (the guy trying to see his wife/son). Also, the article explicitly says he asked for $3000, and dropped the hint that he'd be happy if his estranged wife turned up dead.
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It's clear the US government won't go to bat for it's citizens in these custody cases, especially in countries that allow dual-citizenship... A CRIME had already been committed and they were looking to take advantage.
His plea to the government for help from a position like this is probably what got him flagged in the first place... There's some entrapment argument.. Guy should have volunteered to be a "consultant" ... Seems to work for companies sending the same tech jobs to Israel!! There's companies like
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Re:Tumbled (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not about his profit.
It's about the fact that the world would end in a fiery wreck if anyone should get faster video over the internet without paying license fees.
We're talking profits here, man. What is the worth of a man's family in the face of lost shareholder value? Get your priorities straight!
I'm telling you this as a friend.
Plus, Akamai is an important part of the coming private Internet which is coming to replace the messy public internet. Don't you want a safer, more orderly Internet? And if Akamai's technology makes the new private Internet a "safer, speedier Internet" (as their marketing material says), obviously we can't have that technology falling into non-license paying hands. How can you have a "safer, speedier Internet" if a lot of people have access to technology that makes it "safer" and "speedier". That would be socialism, and you don't want socialism do you? Or do you, you filthy socialist? How would you like it if your family and employer found out that you were a filthy socialist who doesn't want a "safer, speedier Internet"? You wouldn't want that to happen. Bad things happen to filthy socialists who don't want a "safer, speedier Internet".
BS (Score:3)
Right, right. Because OBVIOUSLY Israel couldn't figure out something like setting up a bunch of servers and redirecting to a different server. It's not like they're designing half of what goes into those servers.
Try something more like customer data.
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You know that Akamai's been involved in delivering most of the high traffic/demand content on the internet for over a decade, right? This isn't like a new thing. It's a thing that's been in place for about as long as most people have been using the internet.
I don't know, at this point worrying about what it will do to the internet is like worrying about what those newfangled motorcars will do to our streets.
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The case IIRC isn't like that at all (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, we had this story before, when they caught him. And no, there was no entrapment and whatnot. The guy is simply a flaming asshat, and he WOULD get a conviction out of me and then some.
For a start, they didn't seduce him, he actually contacted the embassy on his own proposing to sell them some "secrets" they didn't ask for and didn't need. Those guys promptly tipped off the FBI.
Second the whole "distraught father" and "patriotism" BS is just that: BS. I WOULD believe either of that if that were his primary motivation. It pretty obviously ain't.
The first thing the guy asked for was money. He tried to sell his employers' customer lists and whatnot, for plain old money. And see again: there was no social engineering, no seducing him, bla, bla, bla, he actually went to what he thought would be a buyer and HE proposed to sell that stuff.
When they told him they're not interested in paying for that, he basically asked that something bad happens to his ex. And I don't know about you, but trying to get a hit on someone isn't exactly a moral high ground any way I want to slice it.
His son only entered his equation as an after-thought, as he just asked for some photos of him. It wasn't his first or second price, and, you know, it's not like he even wanted the son back or anything, just some photos.
So, yeah, we have an asshat who actually goes looking to sell on his own, for money, and failing that, hey, maybe he can get them to whack his ex. Proving more than amply exactly what his morals are. Sorry, he's just scum, plain and simple, and more than deserves everything coming to him.
Akamai Is An Expensive Waste of Electricity (Score:5, Insightful)
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Really?
If not for Akamai, we'd need 3x the number of servers. Probably more considering certain things that don't scale linearly. That's space, cooling and power. Possibly more employees to manager the extra servers.
Set up our own CDN? There's no way we could match the extensive network of edge servers Akamai has. And again, we'd have to employ people to make it work and manage these extra servers. Accountants too to pay all the different DC operators.
We get some security as well. Our name servers can hide and Akamai can front any DoS attempts. Additionally, if we so choose (I believe) we could restrict access to our servers to -only- Akamai.
Routing "strangeness" happens on the internet more often than you'd (well, I'd) think. With our local ISPs, we shrug our shoulders. Akamai it either doesn't happen, or in the rare case when it does, they "fix" it. "People from Singapore say our site is down" just doesn't happen anymore.
No doubt, it's expensive (REALLY expensive), but it's oh-so-nice to sit behind Akamai and deal with problems that don't involve stupid amounts of traffic.
Where have you been? (Score:1)
CDNs are a nickel a dozen these days. Akamai has certain advantages - they're absolutely huge and thus have presence in the ass end of noiwhere - but companies that actually need what Akamai offers? Those are very, very, very few and far between.
Everything else? DoS prevention? Restriction of access? You've just described every CDN provider, even the vast majority of the bargain basement, el cheapo mom-and-pops.
Simply put, Akamai is the commercial Unix of CDNs. Good luck with that.
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You are spot on. I deal with many CDN's and what I once admired about Akamai has now become a basic service.
That all said Akamai holds a special place in my heart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_M._Lewin
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Akamai is a waste of space, especially when they appear to throttle access in certain regions, such as the nordic countries(And then they report low download speeds... go figure...), while other CDN's, like for example LimeLight Networks run full-speed here. On a good day against an Akamai server, I might get 1.5MiB/s peak on an 8GiB file.... Average day against LimeLight Networks, 10-11MB/s sustained on a 10GiB file.
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You weren't big enough to need Akamai. They have caching servers at ISPs. If a single ISP main office has multiple customers your application benefits.
Re:Akamai Is An Expensive Waste of Electricity (Score:4, Interesting)
CNN dumped Akamai on September 10, 2001, for the exact same reasons as you list above. I kid you not.
They signed back up on September 12, 2001.
utter, complete hypocritical bullshit (Score:3, Informative)
we have moved just about every last fucking factory to China, along with all of the computers that control them. Then we sent the manufacturing of those computers to China too. All of the corporations made massive amoputns of money off of this. Do you think the Chinese PLA just sat back and didn't study anything? They are pulling the same game they did on the high-speed rail experts they 'contracted' to build the rail system.
And yet its all perfectly legal, because rich people are getting even richer off of it. Chinese workers arent getting rich - instead the government keeps the money and sticks it in Fannie and Freddie bonds and Treasury debt.
oh
but you want to possibly in theory sell a few secrets (like an email list... oh my god, how on earth did such a dangerous hacker acheive such a brilliant coup as an internal email list) to israel, which is a US ally... and youd think the world had come to a fucking end.
the whole country has gone ape shit, back asswards insane. people are just fucking stupid anymore. no fucking sense, not a drop left. sell the entire manufacturing and industrial base to China, a communist government that killed our own 'brave men in uniform' in the Korean War, but theoretically sell a few tiny corporate "secrets" to Israel and you get 15 years in the slammer.
how many secrets do you think are being funneled through our multinational corporations like , i dont know, chrysler? hummer? you know hummer is owned by the Chinese now right? the same hummers that our troops are driving around in Iraq and Afghanistan while they get blown up? Why dont we put the CEO of hummer in fucking prison for corporate espionage... he didn't sell a few email lists, he sold the whole fucking company!
Now don't get me wrong. I love China and it's culture, literature, people, etc. I'm just saying. Look at the fucking hypocrisy of these 'espionage' cases. Look who it benefits. the rich and the corporate elite. Look who it harms - the peons who want to give out information.
Now, I know this particular peon wanted to sell information, for money. But that is not what precedents like this get used for in the future. He is the 8th in history. 8th. The 8th guy is prosecuted for selling info. The 9th guy is prosecuted for thinking about selling info. The 10th guy is prosecuted for giving out info for free. The 11th guy is prosecuted for journalism.
That's the slippery slope of all this maniacal overcontrol of information, this obsession with secrecy... its not about secrecy, and it's not about protecting important information from espionage activity. It's about pure, blatant, bloody power, and who controls it, and who gets shafted. Espionage is a ruse. It's a red herring. The whole law is fucking corrupt to the point of banality.
Bradley Manning is being charged under Computer Espionage. For what? For "leaking" a gunship video. You know how many gunship videos are on youtube right now? You know there's a website that specializes specifically in gunship footage, all gunship footage all the time?
That's great. We now have three different kinds of Espionage - - - Plain old Espionage, Corporate Espionage, and Computer Espionage. How many more do we need? How many more can we invent? Well, just count the number of government agencies and power centers in the military industrial complex and then you will find out how many variations of thought-control law will be promulgated under 'national security'.
Its all a lie. Everything we see here is junk. It's all junk.
We have to save Toby.
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Re:utter, complete hypocritical bullshit (Score:5, Interesting)
Is it? Is it really? Do you know this?
I sure don't. I don't know that farming in China is worse than living in "corporate cities". It could be worse.
It could be better, but only because of social policies enacted by the Chinese government to ensure that they have a large population of workers desperate enough to take any work they can, a virtual slave class who are not allowed freedom of travel, who very well could have led a more happy and healthy and stable life as simple subsistence farmers. Of course, that wouldn't be as good for The State, so it's discouraged.
Don't ever underestimate the evil of the Chinese government. Their population, to them, is not people but a resource. Look at their treatment of other resources and you will see how they will treat their people-resource. Its only value is to be exploited as harshly as possible for the benefit of the State.
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Yes, and you can too if you walk down the street and talk to a former Chinese peasant. It's not as if they are hard to find no matter where you are on earth. I'm not saying China is ideal in any way and neither will they (they would have moved near you for an even better life), just that you are wrong.
Also China is so big that anything you've every heard of it is probably true somewhere. Slavery happens as does every other crime you can think of, just as it does in the USA
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A real-life Chinese version of "The Grapes of Wrath".
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I lived for a few years in China, and returned to the US a few years ago because I still see some economic benefit to my kids in their growing up as native English speakers. Here some observations, although perhaps people living in China should reply, as I realize my view is still that of a naive outsider.
The technical professionals in big cities in China live like US college students. Some have cars, most don't. They usually have TV's, DVD players, cell phones and sometimes older model computers. DSL i
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"you know hummer is owned by the Chinese now right? the same hummers that our troops are driving around in Iraq and Afghanistan while they get blown up?"
That's wrong. GM sold the hummer brand to a Chinese company
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/industrials/article6415642.ece
What you are thinking of is the Humvee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humvee
which is still being made by AM General which is still an American company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_General
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We may be allies with Israel but they also attract a lot of unwanted attention. Akami also does some work for the US government, giving reverse proxy destination IP's to a foreign government, ally or not, is a security risk - with the shit they are stirring up with Iran do you really think it would take long for that info to land in their hands? Besides, Akamai probably does a lot more than just reverse proxy for uncle sam.
Your argument about hummers is juvenile and asinine. I'm hoping that was your poin
Not from Israel (Score:2)
Since when spies (as in the one who contacted this crook) say truth about whom they really work for? It's in their benefit to be able to shove the responsibility onto someone else when caught. That "israeli" spy would really work for China or Iran... or, in this case, FBI.
calling this 'espionage' is biased. (Score:2)
i will admit i wrote it in the middle of the night on sleep deprivation. i did go a little alex jones / glenn beck there for a minute. i am sorry.
but calling stuff like this 'espionage' is the true bias, and the truly misleading, hyperbolic bullshit. they put a guy in prison for fifteen fucking year for chrissake -- i get blasted as a nutcase, but these guys are perfectly rational authorities? look, this is fucking insane. we cannot keep doing this. its like saying 1+1 = 5, and everybody worried about the
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A part of me agrees with you. A part of me is thinking "damn, I wonder if I could make his head explode...."
In any case, the Chinese mostly just make plastic utensils and stuff, no great loss. It frees us up for innovation. And although the law does protect a lot of secrets, I'm more comfortable trusting those in the know to do the right thing than risk having it fall into the hands of terrorists. Industrial secrets such as are going to China don't matter as much because technology changes so fast anywa
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Why don't you just admit that you are only interested in what's good for Israel and not what's good for the US or the rest of the world?
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you know hummer is owned by the Chinese now right? the same hummers that our troops are driving around in Iraq and Afghanistan while they get blown up? Why dont we put the CEO of hummer in fucking prison for corporate espionage... he didn't sell a few email lists, he sold the whole fucking company!
Um, wow, where to begin. Okay, how 'bout this... (1) Military HMMWVs ("hummers") are /not/ made by General Motors, who made the civilian Hummer and the laughable looks-vaguely-like-a-hummer-body-kit H2 (aka GM 2500) and H3 (aka Colorado). The military's M998 is, and always has been, made by AM General, which is still a U.S. company (Indiana).
(2) The (civilian, cheesy) Hummer brand was to be sold to a Chinese manufacturing company, but the deal fell through. http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/24/us-gm-hu [reuters.com]
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Well, partly right - but also gloriously wrong. The company that manufactures the *Hummer* is indeed owned by the Chinese - but our troops don't drive *Hummers*. They drive *Humvees*/*HMMWV*- which are manufactured by a different, US
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Simple difference: intent.
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Hmm, as opposed to our friendly relationships with Germany, Italy, and Japan (WWII was only a few years earlier). Through the 80s and early 90s it was Japan we were all afraid of, because they were taking all our manufacturing (becoming the #2 economy) and were going to buy out all the US corporations and take over.
Even Vietnam is our valuable trading partner these
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how many secrets do you think are being funneled through our multinational corporations like , i dont know, chrysler? hummer? you know hummer is owned by the Chinese now right? the same hummers that our troops are driving around in Iraq and Afghanistan while they get blown up? Why dont we put the CEO of hummer in fucking prison for corporate espionage... he didn't sell a few email lists, he sold the whole fucking company!
This is bogus.
The military doesn't drive "hummer." The military uses HMMWV, which stand
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"we have moved just about every last fucking factory to China, "
No. See CIA World Factbook.
admittedly (Score:2)
its true.
thanks for the advice.
racist, hate-filled, ignorant, paranoid (Score:2)
i encourage you to read it again, there is no racism, ignorance (except for the Hummer thing - totally blew it), or paranoia in there.
hate? well, you got me on that one.
Anyone else worried that this was a criminal case? (Score:5, Insightful)
The Uniform Trade Secrets Act makes trade secret "theft" a civil matter between the secret holder and the leaker. Apparently something went through in 1996 making it a Federal crime. The economy went fine for hundreds of years without the threat of jail for leakers -- why change? Especially since trade secret law can be and has been abused.
On another subject, there's a gaping gap in the story as we've seen it. How did the FBI know about his email to the Israeli consulate? Why did it take years before they followed up?
what worries me was that he "knew they wanted it" (Score:2)
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well, didn't it turn out that they didn't want it?
only one who wanted anything was the guy doing the leak, . and those secrets don't seem much like secrets, unless you're a recruiter.
but 15 years? couldn't he have gotten away with manslaughter for less?15 years for imaginary totally undefined damages? and espionage wtf? it's simple enough to see if some company is using akamai and akamai is itself exporting the technology so wtf does the usa government have to do with it.. except it was the usa government w
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so they forked him over to the feds to look like they don't Do That Sort of Thing...
The lesson: If you have nothing to offer but yourself, maybe you should keep it to yourself.
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I mean, Israel is second only to the russians and chinese for technology theft, but...good grief.
Uh, third?
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Seriously, this is scary and fucked up.
Ruin him financially, sure, but to put him in prison for 15 years for handing over some information on the company he worked for is ridiculous. If I had to choose, I'd rather see him walk away scot-free (and be reunited with his family) than to serve any time in prison for this.
Why I'm not sympathetic with Doxer ... (Score:2)
The article suggests that Doxer initiated contact, which is a solid strike against him and I think I agree with how the counter intelligence unit handled it because of that.
Now if Doxer had been contacted because he had a known weakness, that would be a different story. That is especially true since his weakness was knowing the condition of his son and to dig up dirt on his estranged wife. In that case, I would be concerned about a case of entrapment and how it would be easier to resolve the situation by
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But in these family cases you CAN'T even set foot in the country because the spouse flags you as a "stalker" and you're denied visas or turned away at customs. Unless you can get somebody in the other government to "accidentally" drive your spouse and child to the US Embasy where the FBI can detain them under the USA law that was broken you'll never see them again. You might also catch a break if the spouse leaves the country and your "friend" can get their plane grounded in a US extradition country for an
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Well if he was Jewish too then he wouldn't need to make backroom deals in the first place... He could just go there legally and appeal.
Considering Middle Eastern view of spousal abuse is generally a family matter, and generally "one punch" before you kill her, you'd have a hard time time "crying to daddy" about your terrible husband.
Even if a US court denied him custody, leaving the country and missing visitation is kidnapping, open and shut felony.. Even in US JAIL your rights to see your kids dont go awa
Hague Treaty (Score:2)
And once again, the Hague Treaty on abduction [wikipedia.org] is ignored. Is it because the absconding parent is the mother? Or is it to avoid ruffling the feathers of Israel? Do I fucking care which it is?
Men, please, take the red pill [singularity2050.com].
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That second link was hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
That was possibly the whiniest rant I've ever read in my life.
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It's a bit over the top, but it's completely true.
Rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence, cancer, homelessness, those are all things for which society provides resources above and beyond what men receive. In the case of domestic violence, it's especially egregious seeing as women make up a full half of all abusers and yet are rarely targeted by public awareness campaigns.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPAT97046720080520 [reuters.com]
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013743521_domesticviolence26.html [nwsource.com]
Wha
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You sound like a lunatic. I have no idea what kind of fucked-up nonsense your schools are "indoctrinating" kids with, but that sure as fuck didn't happen when I grew up.
It's typical Slashdot: weirdo loser creeps out the women around him and makes up all sorts of crazy conspiracies for why he can't get the physical and emotional fulfillment he craves. Sometimes they even go so far as to say women are inferior and use the oppression of the woman as evidence of her inferiority. It's quite crass.
I can't identify well enough with his plight to explain because I'm charming, intelligent, and good looking, but I do know well enough to pity these nerds. Simone De Beauvoir discusses
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Care to provide an actual credible citation? The numbers that back my assertion are from precisely the same studies as the numbers that are deemed accurate enough to justify accusing men at large of committing domestic violence at a rate sufficient to call it an epidemic. If they're reliable enough when it's aimed at men, then why precisely are those same studies unreliable when women start to look bad?
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Unlikely, most folks don't realize that they're being indoctrinated. Chances are that you didn't know that the women's rights lectures were actually propaganda that were filled with half truths and outright lies.
Those are credible sources and I have other ones. The sort of ignorance you're displaying is not uncommon, unfortunately, nor is it unexpected.
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LOL! Awesome 2nd link... :)
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it's because she's a jewess.
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You have obviously done little reading on the topic. Given that he has a penis, odds are entirely random whether or not the child was legally living abroad.
The danger of the Mossad (Score:1, Troll)
Mossad agents are walking all over the USA unchecked and unchallenged, thanks to their Jewish buddies who controls all branches of Government, Federal Reserve, Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs etc etc.
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You don't have a clue, "catmistake". (Score:1)
"Unless the US starts killing Israeli olympians, I really doubt they'll be taking any action against the US ..."
Your personal doubt is not the sort of data which will convince an intelligent and impartial observer of anything relative to what Israel may or may not do to the US.
The truth is, you don't have any idea what Israel would do, and your set of beliefs about Israel causes you to be childishly naive with respect to what you imagine Israel might do to the US.
Israel doesn't give a damn about the US, and
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I knew there would be some paranoid anus who would make a comment like this.
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With the above racist propagand set aside, the Israelies take their data security very, very seriously. I've met several gifted Israeli mathematicians whose publications were halted in the US for security reasons, due to the US laws on publishing encryption technologies internaitonally.
18 months? 62 drops? (Score:5, Interesting)
How it should have happened:
After a few transactions, the FBI realizes this guy is zero threat. They refer the case to the Massachusetts Attorney General "for further joint investigation". Based on the evidence, the AG charges the guy with larceny or embezzlement or whatever, Akamai takes their civil remedies for breach of contract, etc, and the FBI declines to prosecute. The guy loses his job, pays $150K in fines and does 6 months in minimum security + probation. His life gets pretty hard.
How it actually happened:
After a few transactions, the FBI realizes the information sucks. No source code, no proprietary technology, no M&A data, no insider-level financials. It's client lists, contracts and internal employee information. The information is so weak, they can't even charge him with anything under existing Federal statutes. But there's a foreign government involved, so all sense of proportion is lost. They keep asking the guy for more information. And more. 18 months and 62 transactions later, they finally get to a point where:
Now they can charge him under the Economic Espionage Act and prepare to drop him in a very deep, very dark hole. Slam dunk. Promotions all around for stopping a 'grave threat to U.S. economic security'. The guy loses his job, pays $400K in fines and goes to Federal prison for 10 years. His life is over.
Insane.
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What do you expect? Law enforcement officials get paid and promoted based on how many lives they ruin. Of course they'll do their best to be as thorough as possible.
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Yeah, but that evil man shared secret customer lists AND email addresses!!!1!one!
It's not like he tanked the whole World's economy with junk investments, cost billions in bailout money and caused the unemployment of millions of people or anything...
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Sting operations are a slippery slope. It should be just a method to get good evidence against a dodgy suspect, not push him over the edge. Would he ever commit the crime if not for the sting? Certainly not
How many gullible/desperate/morally dubious people have been unjustly tempted by such schemes?
I don't have much simpathy for the morally dubious, but it is still a low, merciless blow.
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"The guy loses his job, pays $400K in fines and goes to Federal prison for 10 years. His life is over."
That's called "deterrence". Once he INITIATED the process his life is reasonably forfeit as an example. It doesn't matter why he did the deed.
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62 transactions later,
A good lawyer could make a good case entrapment.
Doubtful (Score:2)
LOL. Maybe if there was one or two transactions, you might argue entrapment. Sixty-two transactions suggest he was not an innocent victim.
Not to mention, according to the Jerusalem Post, Court filings show Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.
The idea didn't originate with the Feds, it originated with Doxer.
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What I'm saying is that if the first 61 transactions were legit, and the 62nd was not he could certainly argue that he was carefully led into breaking the law, thus entrapment.
Company Policy (Score:2)
I always thought Akamai was an Israeli company. I guess it's an "American company" co-founded by an Israeli.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.
The poor schmuck probably just thought he was carrying out company policy and making a quick buck on the side.
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LET ME GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY:
"Anti-Semitic", "Anti-Semitic", "Anti-Social", "Anti-Semitic", "Paranoid", "Anti-Semitic", "Go back to your Area 54 ideas", "Anti-Semitic", "Do we have a Godwin?"
Re:62 times? (Score:4, Funny)
what makes you think the engineer would do it for free?
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Ah, that explains everything.
No engineers have been caught because they are behind 7 proxies and only accept payment in bitcoins.
FTFY.
On a second thought... no, it can't be: engineers can't access data of any value, can they now?
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On a second thought... no, it can't be: engineers can't access data of any value, can they now?
That's a joke, right?
For you to sleep better: yes, it is... or at least an attempt to make one.
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On a second thought... no, it can't be: engineers can't access data of any value, can they now?
That's a joke, right?
On a second thought... comparing the salaries of MBA graduates with those of engineers, maybe is not so funny anymore?
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On a second thought... no, it can't be: engineers can't access data of any value, can they now?
That's a joke, right?
On a second thought... comparing the salaries of MBA graduates with those of engineers, maybe is not so funny anymore?
no, no, no, no, no! you're doing it all wrong!
Engineers, being by definition, members of the reality based community, are more honest, and take the trust and responsibility placed on them more seriously.
Whilst business graduates are all a bunch of sleazy fast-buck artists.
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In this case you're totally correct. They meddle in HIS marriage by allowing the wife to "jump citizenship" to get preferential treatment because of her RACE. the man's wife committed a CRIME and the Jew government is hiding her because she's a Jew and not honoring the LEGALLY BINDING contract she made in the USA with this man.
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Reality can't spell either, you f'ing bigot.
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You'd be surprised. There's a surprising number of people that will hand that information over to Israeli agents that would never do so to American agents. Additionally, neither the CIA nor the FBI would be willing to assassinate a couple nobodies just to collect that information.
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Lewin is an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, having served in the country's military for more than four years.
Service in the IDF, for men, is usually 3 years. Those in special forces might serve for 4, 5 years. Nothing really special to see here.