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Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

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tptacek ◴[16 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45261951[source]▶
For whatever it's worth, the Reddit story here says that the federal courts used "fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again". Maybe! The other side of that story, via PACER, is a detailed parole violation warrant (you can hear the marshal refer to it in the video); the violations in that warrant:

1. Admitting to using cannabis during supervised release

2. Failing to make scheduled restitution payments and to cooperate with the financial investigation that sets restitution payment amounts.

3. Falling out of contact with his probation officer, who attempted home visits to find him.

4. Opening several new lines of credit.

5. Using an unauthorized iPhone (all his Internet devices apparently have keyloggers as a condition of his release).

These read like kind of standard parole terms? I don't know what the hell happened to get him into this situation in the first place, though.

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tptacek ◴[16 Sep 25 13:33 UTC] No.45262053[source]▶
OK, I think I found the original thing Rockenhaus was convicted of.

Back in 2014, Rockenhaus worked for a travel booking company. He was fired. He used stale VPN access to connect back to the company's infrastructure, and then detached a SCSI LUN from the server cluster, crashing it. The company, not knowing he was involved, retained him to help diagnose and fix the problem. During the investigation, the company figured out he caused the crash, and terminated him again. He then somehow gained access to their disaster recovery facility and physically fucked up a bunch of servers. They were down a total of about 30 days and incurred $500k in losses.

(He plead this case out, so these are I guess uncontested claims).

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1. Molitor5901 ◴[16 Sep 25 14:43 UTC] No.45262976[source]▶
So the post is really click bait and does not tell the whole story?
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2. Aurornis ◴[16 Sep 25 15:16 UTC] No.45263466[source]▶
It’s a calculated appeal by a biased narrator (his wife) who knows how to exploit the anger and sympathies of a community that often doesn’t click links, read documents, or look for facts before passing judgment (Reddit)
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3. busterarm ◴[16 Sep 25 15:34 UTC] No.45263669[source]▶
This is why in some corners of the internet we adhere to the "not your personal army" mantra.
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4. NoMoreNicksLeft ◴[16 Sep 25 15:36 UTC] No.45263706[source]▶
This may be overly cynical. I suspect that she's getting her biased account from the only person she knows who is technically savvy: her husband. She accepts this uncritically, and that some very large fraction of the spin originates with him. Some stuff (like ignoring that the drug use violates probation) might be hers, but the rest probably isn't.
5. fkyoureadthedoc ◴[16 Sep 25 15:45 UTC] No.45263827{3}[source]▶
> "not your personal army"

4chan in 2010? Is this really ever even said anymore?

6. nodesocket ◴[16 Sep 25 15:56 UTC] No.45263988[source]▶
This is why Reddit has become a cesspool. Looking at some of the Reddit comments: “fascist, thank trump” without doing any bit of research on the story. Reddit harbors anger and frankly dangerous thoughts from the habitually outraged and poorly informed on details.
7. Freedom2 ◴[16 Sep 25 19:44 UTC] No.45267008[source]▶
I think that's why I enjoy using HN most of all. People generally dive into the article and don't make judgmental or charged comments, not mention then curious discussion to be found every day.