Long Reads Thread
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Long Reads Thread
Here's a really good one to start off with :
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind
And this horrific and bizarre tale:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-a ... -1.3929570
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind
And this horrific and bizarre tale:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-a ... -1.3929570
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It might be best if these posts to links of Long Reads contained some inkling of what exactly the Long Read was about.
May a quote or excerpt of the article, coupled with the posters own thoughts on the subject.
May a quote or excerpt of the article, coupled with the posters own thoughts on the subject.
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TLDRLucky Lucan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 12:27 amHere's a really good one to start off with :
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind
And this horrific and bizarre tale:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-a ... -1.3929570
"Not my circus, not my monkeys" - KiR
TL;DR.
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To be honest, the very title of this thread put me off looking at any of the links.
Who wants to spend several hours of their life that they will never get back reading something that is totally irrelevant? Much better to spend the time in meditation over a cold one.
Who wants to spend several hours of their life that they will never get back reading something that is totally irrelevant? Much better to spend the time in meditation over a cold one.
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^^I'll agree actually, I don't have a lot of time to read, so just a few clickable links aren't going to do anything for me. It's like all the books my friends have bought me that I never read, I just haven't been able to get around to them.
I would however, read a post by someone here who summarizes in their own words something they've read that was long (link included), for what it's worth. I can deal with a few paragraphs at a time.
I would however, read a post by someone here who summarizes in their own words something they've read that was long (link included), for what it's worth. I can deal with a few paragraphs at a time.
You know for a mod you’re very precious.
Is it beyond your scope to see we were just yanking your (very short) chain?
Just think “What would Migs’ do?” before you splurge your nonsensical idiocy forth.
(I’ve used some big words tonight, and things. I feel goooood)
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From LL's first link'
here I found another Paul Le Roux, from another time—one who’d left his trace in archived copies of long-dormant websites and message boards. This Le Roux had been famous among a small community of hackers and privacy geeks in the early 2000s as the author of an important piece of encryption software. Before encryption was a mainstream idea, before Apple defied a U.S. government request to provide a method to unlock our phones, this Le Roux had written the underlying code of a program that, a decade and a half later, the National Security Agency still could not break.
The question was: Could the Le Roux who politely answered jargon-laden posts about encryption software be the same one who ordered the murder of a real estate agent over a bad deal on a beach house? At first I thought I would never know. The former Paul Le Roux seemed to have disappeared from the Internet in 2004. Encryption experts I contacted had no idea what had become of that Le Roux, and there was no evidence linking him to the man known for drugs and gun running.
One night in October, I had been at the computer for hours when I finally found the missing link. It was a website once registered to the encryption Le Roux, in the early 2000s, and later transferred to a Philippine company controlled by the crime-boss Le Roux. My immediate reaction upon discovering this connection was a sudden and irrational fear: Le Roux was something new, a self-made cartel boss whose origins were not in family connections but in code. Not just any code, but encryption software that would play a role in world events a dozen years after he created it."
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