Any thoughts on anything his wife has said publicly? @adezero on x
Okay I'll bite, so I did the research on the case.
They posted nothing to prove he was arrested for refusing a deal with the FBI. What actually happened is he pleaded guilty to an offence in 2014 and violated the terms of his bond / probation. Unless they go forth and show more, it is horse shit.
Here is the individual pleading guilty:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.374280/gov.uscourts.mied.374280.1.1.pdf
He was arrested for not paying his bond, using a computer when he was forbidden to, ignored communications with his probation officer and more.
Here is the petition of warrant to see what violations of his Bond he used:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.374280/gov.uscourts.mied.374280.3.0.pdf
How could he have been operating Tor nodes past 2014 if he wasn't allowed to have computers?
I hate cops, but he deliberately tried to set them up. He refused to show up so they went to his door and so they arrested him. There were warrants out for his arrest.
Here is the arrest warrant:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.374280/gov.uscourts.mied.374280.20.0.pdf
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Thanks for the @, I saw a comment that linked an HN thread talking about the same findings. They said he was arrested for using a stale VPN access to connect to a company he was fired from and then disrupted their systems...
Let's say this isn't true because I don't believe comments... the violation of the CFAA, a cyber law, which obviously will restrict your computer usage - why even insist to continue operating, if you was? Why talk about him being a Tor operator when he shouldn't have been for over a decade? What happened today should be completely irrelevant.
He couldn't have been targeted for running nodes because he would have been found out, just like he was found to be using a phone when not authorised.