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| DATE | 2017-04-07 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout of NYLXS] For this we have time for Life in Prision
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 10:05:50PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
>
> > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/29/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-sentenced
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Until I noticed the datestamp in the URL, I was really confused, since
> I couldn't find any mention of any Ross Ulbricht story in today's news
> coverage. But it turns out it's not news. Important of course, but...
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/daysuntil
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Type the future date in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) format."
> read futuredate
> echo $futuredate | tr -s '-' ' ' | awk '{dt=mktime($0 "00-00-00")-systime(); print int(dt/86400+1) " days";}'
> $ daysuntil
> Type the future date in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) format.
> 2015-05-29
> -675 days
> $
>
bash mangling aside, what makes it news to me is my renewed interest in
the darknet with the ending of much of the privacy laws, which were
being end run arounded anyway
I'm getting very serious about taking control and ownership of my
personal data.
> ...675 days old, thus coming up on its second anniversary. Hey, that's
> toddler talking age!
>
> Which makes one wonder, is there also, y'know, _news_ on this case as well?
> https://www.wired.com/2016/10/judges-question-ulbrichts-life-sentence-silk-road-appeal/
>
> (Update on the story from October of last year.)
>
> Today Ulbricht returned to court to face a panel of judges to appeal
> his conviction -- but it was his harsh sentence that seemed to most draw
> their focus.
>
> [Snip details that include prosecution suggesting during trial
> that Ulbricht had paid to have six people killed, but that
> prosecutor knew all of these were faked in a couple of ways, not
> real.]
>
> Ulbricht is described therein as seeking legal remedies that might
> include a new trial. Dec. 1, 2016 semi-update:
> http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/01/a-dread-pirate-roberts-was-using-a-silk
>
> Article reports on evidence that tainting of evidence against Ulbricht
> was 'not properly presented to' the defense team. Also, defense team
> claims it has evidence that someone logged into the Dread Pirate Roberts
> login 1 1/2 months after Ulbricht's arrest, making clear that there was
> at least one other 'Dread Pirate Roberts' operating, and casting doubt
> on evidence of Ulbricht's responsibility for claimed deeds attributed to
> him at trial. Says there's a fundraiser at https://freeross.org/ ,
> which site says the appeal is still pending.
>
>
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