czemu tak mało osób to dostrzegło?
część przez emocje.
ale zajmowali i zajmują się tym spece za grube melony. przy grubych melonach emocje zwykle są niskie.
czemu osobą najbardziej lansującą tę tezę jest osoba wątpliwa moralnie? bo on sam jest wątpliwy moralnie. a w zasadzie to jest kawałem [bardzo inteligentnego] sawruksyna.

a co i kto? temat raczej prozaiczny.
że satoshi nakamoto to paul le roux.

#bitcoin #satoshi #paulleroux #solotshinakamoto #e4m #truecrypt #utinsaimcusi

Encryption software developer turning a boss cartel.

On February 2013, a young man was installing encryption software on his laptop to hide his doings - he was preparing himself for the biggest whistleblowing operation ever performed as he was going to reveal classified US Gov't surveillance documents which he copied from his recent employer - the NSA. As you probably guessed, the guy's name is Edward Snowden, and the encryption software he installed - and advocated for a while - was TrueCrypt, and this is the story of the program and it's unusual author.

In 1996, Paul Le Roux was a young developer born & raised in South Africa, trying to make a living developing PC software as few of us also did and most of us still do. Paul was interested with encrypting his digital information, and thus was very active at security newsgroups which were the main communication method at the time, but he was very frustrated by the low quality and poor performance of the current supply. So, as coders usually do on those situations, he sat down and started developing his own encryption software - E4M - Encryption for the masses, and early 1997 he released the first version of his software and published it on the relevant newsgroups.

Quickly it attracted a keen user-base as E4M offered some highly required functionalities such as full HD encryption and most importantly - it actually worked on the notorious Windows 95 (most software at the time was DOS based, and although Windows 95 was running it's own version of DOS, it introduced some new MBR techniques and better filesystem handling, both which effected encryption programs).

In the following years Paul continuously released new versions of it's E4M software and in 2001 he was contracted by another encryption software company, SecurStar, to assist them with their product. Little did they know they have just allowed a Trojan horse into their premises, as Paul was not only developing their software, but at the same time, allegedly, had also copied their code and applied it into his own software, a win-win for him, not so much for SecurStar. In 2004 Paul had released his new software which was based on E4M code, now called TrueCrypt, with no names on the developer credits but 'The TrueCrypt Team', for obvious reasons, which led to SecurStar pursuing legal actions against TrueCrypt which took a few years until in 2014 development has halted and discontinued ever since, although there is still an active fork called VeraCrypt which also works on Windows 11.

So who is Paul Le Roux, the main developer behind E4M and allegedly TrueCrypt? Well, lets start from the end this time - in June 2020 Paul was trialed and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the following criminal charges: murder, money laundering, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, organized crime & fraud, and that's only what the prosecution was able to prove. No wonder why this guy was so interested with encrypting his digital information way back at 1996. From Wikipedia: "Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)... [He was] given up for adoption. His birth certificate gives his first name as "unknown" and makes no mention of his father...Le Roux was arrested on 26 September 2012 for conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States, and agreed to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lesser sentence and immunity to any crimes he might admit to later. He subsequently admitted to arranging or participating in seven murders, carried out as part of an extensive illegal business empire."

If you want to read more about the evil programmer turning into a boss cartel, head on to https://magazine.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side/ and enjoy the complete story.

#story #history #software #E4M #truecrypt #snowden