So ross ulbrich used ubuntu for his worldwide enterprise. agents jumped on him before he could shut it down

so ross ulbrich used ubuntu for his worldwide enterprise. agents jumped on him before he could shut it down.
is ubuntu that secure? what if he managed to power off? would they be able to crack it?

blockbuster worthy read:
antilop.cc/sr/

Other urls found in this thread:

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/sunk-how-ross-ulbricht-ended-up-in-prison-for-life/
mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side
github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill
cryptome.org/2016/07/ulbricht-appeal-122-121.pdf
youtube.com/watch?v=OE8WzYNRPNU
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspect-jailed-for-7-months-for-refusing-to-decrypt-hard-drives/
nytimes.com/2016/05/06/technology/former-officer-is-jailed-months-without-charges-over-encrypted-drives.html?_r=0
sciencemag.org/news/2012/12/homosexuality-may-start-womb
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

Do you think they'd bother jumping him when all his shit is decrypted if they thought they could break it?
He was just using dmcrypt/LUKS

need sauce on that
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/sunk-how-ross-ulbricht-ended-up-in-prison-for-life/

Also, this guy Variety Jones is far more sinister than Ross was.

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this kills ubuntu.

>frosty
>not starting from scratch
i'm sorry for his demise

not ubuntu fault

nice trips.
And tx for the link

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Thank you for this OP

>variety jones


that is james bond tier bad guy you got there.

SHIT!
now we have skeletals because of this thread.

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bumping for security reasons

>Sup Forums will not resbond on this one
well, fuck you Sup Forums

Variety Jones was in deep but you haven't seen shit, look up the guy that allegedly coded Truecrypt, he was a legit international mobster/drug lord with businesses all over the world.

>look up the guy that allegedly coded Truecrypt
source?

Please provide legit source.

I'll warn you, it's a long read but it's well worth it.
mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side

thin. also, veracrypt has been audited i this day and age. and using ubuntu for this kind of business is shitty.

This is 1st serious Sup Forums thread in years. Thank you OP.

>thin
what?

I remember reading the agents report a while back, something like they got a plant into the staff, then post something ridiculous like hey buy 2000 lbs of coke from me, capture someone and make it look like betrayal, then tell him they gotta kill/torture the guy with fake evidence of it, ross tries to act like more of a mobster than he is, like "it had to be done see". I think the ars article got it wrong as far as the "mastermind" thing goes, like that they went to the vpn he went through and pulled the server and compared log in times/got users. Fucked up thing is then after all this one of the fbi agents ended up trying to launder the proceeds too. The guy was kindof an idiot for how big he was.

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funny thing is none of those charges stuck. it was textbook entrapment.

dude got prison for life ONLY because he sold drugs. the law had no precedent for a case like this and therefore equated running a darknet with being a fucking Hugo Chavez tier drug kingpin. and of course the prosecution abused this.

for fuck's sake America.

Ross apparently encouraged one of his mates to use Pidgin. Wrong [insert trump mouth here]

>using ubuntu for this kind of business is shitty

why? what would be better?

Hi faggots, since I'm involved in research of SilkRoad case I am, and all of you my dear readers, from now on in murifats spy program. Wat do? There is no point if you dich your hdd or install neckbeardian encrypted os... Just get another comp, linux, and interweb provider.

Bump for Sup Forumsreat thread.

well shit on me.

SUSE, RedHat, off the top of my head. they provide everything that Canonical does and are generally better.

and to be 100% honest, Windows. not because it's inherently better, but because you don't have to train anybody to use it and have way more software at your disposal.

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>To prevent Ulbricht from encrypting or deleting data on the laptop he was using to run the site as he was arrested, two agents pretended to be quarreling lovers. When they had sufficiently distracted him, one of the agents took his computer away and inserted a USB flash drive that cloned all the data on the hard drive.[20] Agent Chris Tarbell presented Ulbricht the warrant for his arrest.[21]

That's pretty badass...

this kind of threads should be sticky. this is tech board after all.

Sup Forums is low tier compared to this. Just neckbead autists trying to be somebody.

yeah, its fucked, its passed off as if its about ridding the world of evil or something, but its all a lie, the reason ross got sentenced the way he did was to make an example out of him. desu its hard to tell whos the good guy in any of it, when some agents do more evil than the criminals, and some criminals do good, but loose sight of whats important, but i guess everyone has their reasons.

nothing to do with murica. you miss the point.

Windows is a terrible os for that. From potential backdoors, to the possibility of malware, to the amount of security vulnerabilities, to logs and temp files windows creates. Regular Linux distro's are probably vulnerable to most of these things to, but to a lesser extent.

Way better to use something tails, qubes, whonix etc

This problem has been solved - github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill

Nsa helped develop ubuntu. What do you expect

cryptome.org/2016/07/ulbricht-appeal-122-121.pdf

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bad opsec not ubungus fault.

YOU WANT MIRRION DORRAR?! TOO BAD! HERE BOMB! FUCK U!

Hey fury fucko, feed yourself on drumpf semen for a cumload before you post here. nomnomnomnom.

numa-numa song just to keep you hype

linkme:faggy numanuma crap

Say no moar senpai:

youtube.com/watch?v=OE8WzYNRPNU

I thought he got caught for having shit opsec and not due to any vulnerability in Ubuntu

Qubes, whonix

lel

Qubes is a functional abortion.

interesting read

>when all of his shit is decrypted
>if they thought they could break it
>decrypted
>break into it
Can't tell if slow or retarded.

this is why i come to this board.

hey fagetty mods, make it happen.

I concur

I laughed when they locked him up. He should have been sent to a private prison so he could experience his libertarian delusion first hand.

>allowing any usb drive to do this without a user login authorizing it
His own ass fault

Ulbricht was arrested in a library

A lesson to stay comfy in your house tbqh

>Not hacking from a hacking camp hundreds of miles from civilization deep in the forest

It's almost like you want to be caught.

How would you get internet?

>he doesn't use FM radio internet in his mountain cabin

Here's the thing I don't understand about this case... So you created/run a totally decentralised website that resides in the Tor "network". You have secured the website so well that no one can figure out without breaking the law where this server is located. You take so many god damn precautions to remain "anonymous"..

And yet... you keep actual data on your laptops storage???!?question mark!?!?! Who the fuck does that? I am concerned enough about spyware/ransomware and random accidents with "oops windows/linux fucked up and your partition is no longer readable" to not store shit in the computer. And this faggot running a multi million dollar business keeps everything in his laptop? Ever heard of I don't know, a fucking dropbox.com/onedrive/google drive?? Or even better, keep it all on the fucking server you already own, jesus christ.

he should have used gentoo

>i don't know anything about computers or technology

If only this was available at the time > github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill

If they caught him with his machine up and running encryption wouldn't matter, unless the files he was trying to hide were unencrypted.

Then again, the first rule of security regarding encryption is "if someone has physical access to your files, consider them compromised".

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Explain what's wrong with keeping shit that could incriminate you on VPS??

I think keeping incriminating evidence to begin with is the source of the problem. It doesn't matter where it is kept, you're still fucked.

i believe that encrypted laptop is more secure then cloud. prove me wrong please.

anybody?

If the incriminating evidence has no way to become attached to a name belonging to anyone, then it, sitting on a server anywhere would never be incriminating to you.

If it is in your possession, then yes you are fucked

it has everything to do with murica. this guy gets more jailtime than fucking Anders Breivik. your country routinely shits on human rights and you ought to be ashamed of it.

there's nothing "libertarian" about decriminalizing drugs. it's merely a reaction to the failed war on drugs. prohibition is a failure and a pointless, destructive endeavor. better to spend that money on research, keeping youths informed and providing support for those afflicted by addiction.

>arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspect-jailed-for-7-months-for-refusing-to-decrypt-hard-drives/
>nytimes.com/2016/05/06/technology/former-officer-is-jailed-months-without-charges-over-encrypted-drives.html?_r=0

not proof, but compelling.

there's no plausible deniability anymore as mentioned

if you absolutely need data to be stored locally you better have a contingency plan. you absolutely have to make sure that nothing is on that laptop once the investigation begins.

then you can comply and say "see? nothing. just muh animes". and then you hope they don't have a ton of dirt on you like they had on Ulbricht.

there you go, a fucking pedos should be requred to give their passwords by law

Read the constitution please. We break it then we can go to take away freedom of speech.

>there you go, a fucking pedos should be requred to give their passwords by law

Guilty until proven innocent. Nice way of thinking there fellow.

Its facinating seeing the whole operation unravel however the fellow Sup Forumstard got life not because he fucked with computers but basicly because he was seriously involved in drug dealing. Drugs are degenerate, people who sell them are evil and should be taken out back and shot.

>fellow Sup Forumstard

any proof of that?

it was bad user name selection.

Sup Forumstard doesnt actually have to frequent Sup Forums, using linux, tor, encryption, being edgy faggot paranoid about nsa/fbi is pretty much the defimition of g/tard

>paranoid
Just because you're crazy and say there's people after you doesn't mean you're not right.

doesn't look like he was paranoid to me..

there will be a method to identify pedos soon. and i'm looking forward to that day

Thought police?

Do you believe being a faggot is a choice?

will thoughts be illegal in you're fantasy?

this

You're asking the wrong user. My point is that if homosexuality is nature not nurture, then the attraction to children is also nature not nurture. And persecuting people for that seems wrong.

I quoted the wrong guy.

>homosexuality is nature
we are talking about subhumans who destroy other lives over a fuck.nobody gives flying fuck about your mangled anus. kys faggot.

source?
inb4 systemd

>who destroy other lives over a fuck

Because looking at porn is the same as having sex. Just because they watch porn doesn't mean they go out and actually fuck a kid you faggot. The porn may actually keep them from doing so.

There is evidence homosexuality is nothing more than a testosterone imbalance either in the womb before birth, or when someone reaches their teens (again, hormonal imbalance)

sciencemag.org/news/2012/12/homosexuality-may-start-womb

Meaning it's not a fucking choice. you faggot.

I never said it was you complete fucking reactionary, brain dead, cunt. That was my first post in this thread. This is my second and last. Fuck you, you shirt-lifting poof-nigger.

I'm saving this thread just for yo and you will do shit about it. Know why?

Because you'd be in jail.

>RedHat
CentOS says on the last step of installation that it will monitor your usage of the OS.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

oh cut the crap sonny.
hang 'em high