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According to Reddit, he was just an ircop on the server where the lulzsec channel is: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/i568z/19yearold_suspected_of_being_mastermind_behind/c20zhi1

True, but there's a good reason for this.

So much as it is a MTGox story.

About a week ago the first rumors of MtGox being compromised by a SQL injection exploit began to circulate.
Here's one of the original claims from someone calling themselves Buttsec from June 14th. Others which I'm too lazy to dig up were more specific and named MtGox explictly:
http://pastebin.com/4NPemHfz

On that very same day, MTGox implemented a $1000 dollar withdrawal limit. Suspicious, right? For the past 3 days, there have been offers to sell MTGox's database of usernames and password hashes. Here's an example:

http://pastebin.com/ui0nusuZ

Today, there is this:
http://pastebin.com/hN7PxRhc
http://pastebin.com/w06pa2mB (there are many of these, the first link gives you the urls if you want to see them all)

This confirms MTGox was indeed hacked. One of the hackers offering to sell this database that came out today had even specifically mentioned that the hole he had used was CLOSED by MTGox a couple of days ago. Today, FINALLY, MTGox admits they were hacked and has sent out emails to all their users. Here is a copy:
http://pastebin.com/9Cx94wzs

In light of all of the evidence (more of which I'm sure you can find on your own), I find it very hard to believe that MtGox was not aware they had been hacked, and yet they've been denying it and operating normally (aside from the newly added withdrawal limit, which they even boast about in the linked press release). In fact, I found one reddit page of many where MtGox users were complaining there accounts had been compromised (There have been many over the past week) and the employee flat out denies that they have ANY reason to suspect they've been compromised:

Here's one such complaint among many: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i17jd/i_just_got_ripped_off_on_mtgox/
And here's one with an employee denial: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i2dkn/mt_gox_has_some_serious_issues/
Here's all that (purported) employees posts: http://www.reddit.com/user/MtGox_Adam

Long story short: For the last week (5 days at least), I've been wondering if MtGox had been truly hacked or if someone was just trying to depress the price of bitcoins by spreading rumors. Today I don't have to wonder anymore. What I do have to wonder about is why has MtGox kept silent for the past week when ALL indications were that they KNEW. They fixed the hole, added the withdrawal limit, and yet kept on denying they had an issue when dozens of users complained of account compromises. Rather than admit the issue and try to have it fixed, they apparently tried to keep it a secret. How can we trust any company that handles security issues in this manner?

So much as it is a MTGox story.

About a week ago the first rumors of MtGox being compromised by a SQL injection exploit began to circulate.
Here's one of the original claims from someone calling themselves Buttsec from June 14th. Others which I'm too lazy to dig up were more specific and named MtGox explictly:
http://pastebin.com/4NPemHfz

On that very same day, MTGox implemented a $1000 dollar withdrawal limit. Suspicious, right? For the past 3 days, there have been offers to sell MTGox's database of usernames and password hashes. Here's an example:

http://pastebin.com/ui0nusuZ

Today, there is this:
http://pastebin.com/hN7PxRhc
http://pastebin.com/w06pa2mB (there are many of these, the first link gives you the urls if you want to see them all)

This confirms MTGox was indeed hacked. One of the hackers offering to sell this database that came out today had even specifically mentioned that the hole he had used was CLOSED by MTGox a couple of days ago. Today, FINALLY, MTGox admits they were hacked and has sent out emails to all their users. Here is a copy:
http://pastebin.com/9Cx94wzs

In light of all of the evidence (more of which I'm sure you can find on your own), I find it very hard to believe that MtGox was not aware they had been hacked, and yet they've been denying it and operating normally (aside from the newly added withdrawal limit, which they even boast about in the linked press release). In fact, I found one reddit page of many where MtGox users were complaining there accounts had been compromised (There have been many over the past week) and the employee flat out denies that they have ANY reason to suspect they've been compromised:

Here's one such complaint among many: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i17jd/i_just_got_ripped_off_on_mtgox/
And here's one with an employee denial: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i2dkn/mt_gox_has_some_serious_issues/
Here's all that (purported) employees posts: http://www.reddit.com/user/MtGox_Adam

Long story short: For the last week (5 days at least), I've been wondering if MtGox had been truly hacked or if someone was just trying to depress the price of bitcoins by spreading rumors. Today I don't have to wonder anymore. What I do have to wonder about is why has MtGox kept silent for the past week when ALL indications were that they KNEW. They fixed the hole, added the withdrawal limit, and yet kept on denying they had an issue when dozens of users complained of account compromises. Rather than admit the issue and try to have it fixed, they apparently tried to keep it a secret. How can we trust any company that handles security issues in this manner?

So much as it is a MTGox story.

About a week ago the first rumors of MtGox being compromised by a SQL injection exploit began to circulate.
Here's one of the original claims from someone calling themselves Buttsec from June 14th. Others which I'm too lazy to dig up were more specific and named MtGox explictly:
http://pastebin.com/4NPemHfz

On that very same day, MTGox implemented a $1000 dollar withdrawal limit. Suspicious, right? For the past 3 days, there have been offers to sell MTGox's database of usernames and password hashes. Here's an example:

http://pastebin.com/ui0nusuZ

Today, there is this:
http://pastebin.com/hN7PxRhc
http://pastebin.com/w06pa2mB (there are many of these, the first link gives you the urls if you want to see them all)

This confirms MTGox was indeed hacked. One of the hackers offering to sell this database that came out today had even specifically mentioned that the hole he had used was CLOSED by MTGox a couple of days ago. Today, FINALLY, MTGox admits they were hacked and has sent out emails to all their users. Here is a copy:
http://pastebin.com/9Cx94wzs

In light of all of the evidence (more of which I'm sure you can find on your own), I find it very hard to believe that MtGox was not aware they had been hacked, and yet they've been denying it and operating normally (aside from the newly added withdrawal limit, which they even boast about in the linked press release). In fact, I found one reddit page of many where MtGox users were complaining there accounts had been compromised (There have been many over the past week) and the employee flat out denies that they have ANY reason to suspect they've been compromised:

Here's one such complaint among many: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i17jd/i_just_got_ripped_off_on_mtgox/
And here's one with an employee denial: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i2dkn/mt_gox_has_some_serious_issues/
Here's all that (purported) employees posts: http://www.reddit.com/user/MtGox_Adam

Long story short: For the last week (5 days at least), I've been wondering if MtGox had been truly hacked or if someone was just trying to depress the price of bitcoins by spreading rumors. Today I don't have to wonder anymore. What I do have to wonder about is why has MtGox kept silent for the past week when ALL indications were that they KNEW. They fixed the hole, added the withdrawal limit, and yet kept on denying they had an issue when dozens of users complained of account compromises. Rather than admit the issue and try to have it fixed, they apparently tried to keep it a secret. How can we trust any company that handles security issues in this manner?

Adrian Lamo == LulzSec

Adrian Lamo could be LulzSec.

A-FUCKING-HA.

I only put that to disarm the Astroturfer Defense Brigade (of which group I'm a proud member), not to brag. Lots of people post more, and have been longer than me. But we can't delete our comments so any subscriber need only dig back through that bulk of output and find a comment where I said that before to prove me a liar - and they can throw it in my face ever after. But they can't, because it didn't happen. I'm really, really not a Microsoft fan. I don't like their business practices at all. I haven't used Microsoft products on my personal PC ever, and I've owned a personal PC since 1983. I was a Unix guy until I was a BSD guy until I was a Linux guy, where I've been ever since. And Dammit but writing your own serial print drivers in Linux early on was a pain in the butt. Yeah, I work Windows for money, but it has never been my choice. BTW, I'm nearing 2^8 +5 posts as well. OK, that was bragging.

I may have had a role in killing the Kin, if that's any evidence of my anti-Microsoft credibility.

So when I ask, out of the depth of my experience and with the strength of my reputation here for people to look at this it's against my better judgement. It's against my experience. It's alien to me. But this one time I think it's so important to foil this particular trap and extract the bait that if we lose a few in the trap, it was worth it. This bait is that good.

Despite the name, the "Go Pro" code was never intended to be an example of idiomatic or efficient Go. Robert asked me to take a look at his code and I hacked on it for an hour to make a little bit nicer. If I had realized that he was going to publish it externally I would have put a lot more time into making it nicer.

I'm told that the program as compiled by 6g is significantly faster now than it was when Robert did his measurements.

So yeah, in general a fairly floored benchmark, see the threads I linked for more details. I'm sure there's equivalent Java and Scala biased threads floating around as well!

not "so much on the mining"

Maybe I'm a bit of an alarmist, but is he trying to distract us from the fact that the earliest (very few) miners own 19% of total available BTC, which is 2/3rds of currently available BTC?

As discussed here this is a rather large elephant in the room. Since he is a developer actively working on BTC projects I cannot imagine how Amir Taaki would not hold a sizeable (early adopter?) stake in BTC. In light of that, it would seem he is telling us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

There will be actually no porn to download for free if not enough people pay for it.

Maybe (NSFW link, BTW).

Plain stupid idiots like you make me very angry! I could beat the hell out of your stupid face.

Maybe you should take a stress pill and lie down.

I get "local news" from aggregator's such as Reddit. And you know what? Reddit: Politics makes me truly sad every day. The reason I find aggregators so effective is that of all the local news stories across the nation: they find the ones that stick out enough that people, actual people who could be your neighbor, vote them up.

The source is given for every item, I never click on ones that go to blogs. Someday, perhaps, blogs will be effective just not yet.

I get "local news" from aggregator's such as Reddit. And you know what? Reddit: Politics makes me truly sad every day. The reason I find aggregators so effective is that of all the local news stories across the nation: they find the ones that stick out enough that people, actual people who could be your neighbor, vote them up.

The source is given for every item, I never click on ones that go to blogs. Someday, perhaps, blogs will be effective just not yet.

I still remember this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/hh9h6/damn_you_apple_apple_macs_as_little_as_three/

Funny that you mention this. About two days a go I posted a question in Reddit asking for legal alternatives to Hulu, Netflix-stream and iPlayer in Germany.

Unfortunately the only replies suggested using a VPN.

A redditor to be more precise.

I am getting tired of reading these news articles about antibiotic resistance. We have the solution to dealing with antibiotic resistance from nature. Bacteriophages are viruses that only attack bacteria and can be used to treat patients or food for bacterial infections. They evolved with bacteria as new strains appear. For each type of bacteria and their different strains there are phages that will work against them. I made a post on reddit about my ordeal with an antibiotic resistant infection I had and how phagetherapy saved me. Feel free to pm me on either site if you have more questions. http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/hr0gk/hey_redditrscience_just_so_you_all_knowwe_have/

Congratulations Slashdot, on stealing the reddit frontpage article a week later.

Like seriously, what the fuck.

And your politicians betraying you isn't?

In case you haven't noticed, the last decade in the US is all about a creep towards fascism. I'm not there so I don't know what it's like on main street but: just read Reddit: Politics for a week or two straight - just to see what goes by. I've hardly ever seen things there covered on mainstream national - facing the international community - sites but if 1% of the local coverage there is to be believed: Fuck.

... but there's an evolutionary reason why.

When a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get vital evolutionary information that acts as a fairly accurate indicator of overall health.

My anaconda don't want none unless you have a high likelihood of producing healthy offspring with a minimal chance of genetic disabilities, hun.

My homeboys tried to warn me, but that butt you got makes me so confident of your current well-being and future child-rearing potential

So ladies (yeah!) ladies (yeah!) You wanna advertise fertility? (hell yeah!) Then turn around, stick it out, even other women have to admit that you appear to have the necessary physical attributes to produce many healthy offspring.

[ Copypasta from this Reddit, all credit to original authors: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gibxk/i_like_big_butts_and_i_cannot_lie_but_is_there/ ]

This is the biggest feature I've missed from Symbian — it never made sense to me why the permissions system didn't put the user in control from the first release.

So an addition of a permissions functionality to a mobile OS that maybe half the readership has and maybe ten percent of them are willing to flash with the particular mod makes the frontpage now ... because the editor misses this functionality from Symbian?

When you install or update an app, Android already tells you what permissions it's asking for.

Funniest part of the article:

Via: Reddit

Reddit is down more than any other normal website, and seems something to do with some *magical words here* from Amazon.

No, it usually has to do with *f words here* bad programming and serious IT underhiring from Reddit. During at the time the most serious outage at the Amazon Cloud at least both Netflix and Heroku had almost nil trouble keeping their services up, while Reddit was down for around three days. This is because when designing infrastructure that scales on the cloud you must defensively design and code each component. You can find more about this particular way of designing scalable infrastructure by googling about a testing metodology netflix calls "chaos monkey". Reddit fails because its poorly designed and doesn't account for the reduced uptime that comes naturally together with "infinite" and cheap "just in time" scalability.

This is a well known fact and openly discussed by any engineer I know about that is seriously into AWS. It was even admitted in part by Reddit themselves here. You can also read more about that particular outage and how to design infrastructure that can resist it and keep scaling from netflix, and also google for deeply technical blogposts like this one that explain this in layman terms or in a technical way.

As a 30 year old engineer that has at least some experience with AWS and GAE I am completely baffled by how many of my peers still fail to understand what "the cloud" is about deep down to the bare metal. We are supposed to be trying to keep up with how technology changes, and mocking and downplaying new technologies we don understand with petty excuses such as "reddit goes down because AWS sucks" seems like really backwards excuses to stay behind.

DISCLAIMER: I'm posting AC because I'm involved with at least one of the businesses I mention (it's not Amazon BTW).

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/hfydw/macdefender_just_had_a_mac_checked_in_for_it_will/

Any further questions, Applefags?

That guy has ZERO certifications *I know him personally* and he just owned your entire paid-for support team.

Enjoy buying useless services that Apple can *NEVER* live up to.

Reddit has a system to base comment display and positioning on estimated asymptotic upvote rate, rather than raw scores or raw quotients. Randall Munroe from xkcd outlines the thinking here. This enables comments that are late to the party (like this one :) to gain traction and get displayed more prominently, if warranted by vote/moderation patterns.

Such quality estimators might be less important in a system with restrictive moderation caps a la Slashdot, but it illustrates a good point to consider in designing moderation systems.

Another thing Reddit does right is that "best" is not the only way to sort comments. Those who enjoy debate can choose to browse "controversial" posts instead, for instance.

In effect, Reddit recognizes that different readers have different preferences, and provides mechanisms for browsing and interaction that can accommodate these differences. This has the potential to reduce groupthink, or at least let several groups coexist and exchange information on a single site. Catering better to each individual may thus give a better site for all.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this_mean_the_fbi_is_after_us/

Relevant, recent:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/comments/gsp7o/where_does_good_come_from_edward_o_wilson_tries/

I was motivated enough to do a google search for "dried out weed" and came up with a digg discussion, the first few posts indicated it wasn't as good. I'm not going to read that for very long, so I'm concluding that it makes it bad if it's dried out too much. http://www.reddit.com/r/cannabis/comments/a9b4y/does_weed_get_better_the_longer_its_dried/

The Amazon cloud not working? Already has happened at least once: http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html

How timely:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gtssu/drain_all_the_energy_in_one_aa_battery_into_a/

reddit had a long discussion on black holes, which answered questions like these.

Yes, it actually shows the results of a patched ROM. There is a (short) analysis of the patch at: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ggeac/security_advisory_plumber_injection_attack_in/c1nefj4

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/bhv8h/i_am_skeleton_jelly/c0munal

Finance pays extremely well. Why make $100,000 at Google when you can make $300,000 at Goldman Sachs? But here's the thing: revenue per employee at Goldman is $1.1 million. At Google it's $1.2 million. At Apple it's $1.3 million. Divide net income by revenue and you get a similar margin for all three businesses.

This all suggests that tech companies can, and perhaps should, be salary-competitive with finance for engineering-heavy jobs.

But big tech companies like Google aren't hurting for talent. Plenty of bright young computer scientists would far rather than work at Google than on Wall Street, even with a lower salary, simply because they consider it more interesting and fun. It's startups that are being drained of talent by finance, and that's what the author of the article is concerned about.

Shouldn't google at least have far more non-salary related costs than Goldman?

According to Wikipedia, Google's profit margin last year was 29 percent ($8.5B profit on $29.3B revenue) and Goldman's was 21 percent ($8.4B profit on $39.1B revenue). You're probably right that Google has more non-payroll costs, but at least last year, Google had a much bigger slice of its money left after all costs, payroll and otherwise.

They could be salary-competitive with Goldman and still have a >20 percent overall profit margin. The reason they just pocket the money instead is that even with their meager-compared-to-finance salaries, they still basically have their pick of the finest employees. I think they simply don't feel that finance is stealing all that many good candidates. But if Google et al start to have a measurable "Shit all the people we want are ditching us for Wall Street" problem, you can expect to see their engineering salaries go way up.

Like most, this article attacks investment banks in the wrong way. Investment banking is not quantitative finance. It's core business is M&A, underwriting and asset management.

Keeping engineers out of finance is good for both parties IMO. Engineers and mathematics majors became "must haves" for financial firms beginning in the 70's and 80's, but really seemed to hit full throttle in the 90's, with the emergence of hedge funds, such as LTCM. Many hedge funds and I-banks saw arbitrage opportunities and needed quant guys to come in and build models to exploit these quickly, especially due to the rapid technology shift and speed.

Engineers and mathematicians don't really understand some of the key issues with finance and their models never are able to properly measure risk or build the proper safety nets against things that happened in the Wall St. collapse of '08, the Asian Crisis of '97, Russian Crisis of '98, etc.

I agree with the author to the point that engineers are best served in other industries. But, I also feel it would benefit the banks, as well.

You can't blame someone for taking the sure bet, especially when they're so burdened with debt. Crippling student loans are issue number one to address if new graduates are to be persuaded to be entrepreneurs instead of I-bankers.

Besides, there are way more PhDs in physics and math than there are professorships; the fact that financial firms hire them is actually a gain in their case, because otherwise you'd have a bunch of really bright people doing data entry or teaching high school, and not using any of their trained skills.

I'm just quoting, don't give me karma, give it to the reddit posters.

What numbers have you looked at?

This guys analysis suggests that you would have received the equivalent of at least 10 CT scans just by being at the front gate since the beginning of this incident:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/g6h3l/real_data_from_the_fukushima_daiichi_power_plant/

(Be sure to pick up the updated graph, the error is explained in a comment: http://i.imgur.com/kSXLy.png )

I don't have the knowledge to critique what he has done, but he is using the numbers published by the power company and it at least has the appearance of being reasonable.

A lot of that exposure is from the various steam ventings and fires and has been mostly local to the plant, so the only real concern is if things do not continue to move towards stability.

http://i.imgur.com/mZYW5.jpg from http://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho

WTF don't the management here clean out all the sock puppet troll armies?

Guys like this don't build pageviews. They (and their) posts make people realize they got on the shortbus by accident. And then they leave... ...not like it is hard to find someplace else to waste time on the web.

off to reddit I go..

Extensive discussion already: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g7zlw/google_engineer_releases_open_source_bitcoin/.

> Am I the only one who gets absolutely frustrated that people are still proposing the possibility of time-travel?

Am I the only one who gets frustrated that people still propose the possibility of lighter-than-air travel?
Oh wait, balloons and airplanes proved that one true.

Am I the only one who gets frustrated that people still propose the possibility of breaking the sound barrier?
Oh wait, the supersonic airplane also proved that one true.

Am I the only one who gets frustrated that people still propose the possibility that nothing faster then can move faster than light?
Oh wait, gravity proves that true too. (See: http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/speed_of_gravity.asp )

Am I the only one who gets frustrates that people still propose the possibility that the arrow of time is actually bidirectional?
Oh wait, Feynman and QED showed 'backwards' in time makes sense. (i.e. Positrons are electrons going "backwards in time.", and "And what about photons? Photons look exactly the same in all respects when they travel backwards in time, so they are their own anti-particles. You see how clever we are at making an exception part of the rule! (Feynman, 1985)." Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocausality

Your frustration with time travel is failing to learn from history -- assumptions have proven to be incomplete, pardon the pun, time and time again. Scientists (and Science) are still CLUELESS on the fine-structure constant*, what an electric charge is, what a potential is, what gravity is, etc. You are complaining about not understanding meta-physics when we are still struggling to understands basics?!?! At the risk of being a jerk, methinks your priorities are messed up!

As a mystic I have a different perspective of what time is -- your understanding of space and time is incomplete. If you practiced meditation eventually you would realize that you don't have to _physically_ move to either:
a) travel faster than the speed OR
b) to time travel
you _already_ can, because of 2 truths the scientific community does not yet understand:
1. At the highest level, the past, present, and future is really "one now" -- they are simply _interpretations_ and perspectives.
2. Time is simply a dimension of mind. Obviously that begs the question: WHICH mind, but I'll leave that fun question up to you to explore.
(Note: If you are _serious_ about expanding your consciousness and understanding of meta-physics you will want to start with Lucid Dreaming, and eventually practice Out-Of-Body / Astral Travel specific forms of meditation WITHOUT DRUGS. Reddit has a good forum: http://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/ that I would recommend.)

To quote a famous scientist:

"The scientific community has always been this way, in its fierce resistance to really innovative developments.

* Resisted Mayer's original statement of energy conservation; hounded him so much that he attempted suicide and was institutionalized.

* Laughed and slandered Ovshinsky on his "insane" amorphous semi-conductor. "Everybody knew" a semiconductor had to have a crystalline structure. The Japanese who funded Ovshinsky are still laughing all the way to the bank.

* Made Wegener's name a synonym for "utter fool" because of his continental drift theory. Why, imagine continents floating and moving! Insane!" (NOTE: Madame Blatavsky predicted continental drift even before the concept existed!)

* Refused to accept the Aharonov-Bohm effect for 25 years (as pointed out by Feynman). Prior to the MEG, the AB effect appears never to have been applied for COP > 1.0 from "two-energy reservoir" electrical power systems.

* Uses an EE model that assumes every EM field, EM potential, and joule of EM ene

Also, American McGee.

You should have more sympathy. He probably lives in the type of place where the national investigatory authority is liable to attach a GPS tracker to your car for being the wrong kind of person or thinking the wrong kind of thoughts.

a few weeks back there was this story of a kid who was told by ford that he had infected his parent's car stereo with a virus by playing a pirated mp3 through his ipod.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/fj04r/reddit_the_dealership_told_me_that_pirated_music/

apparently there was a kernel of truth in that mechanic's bullsht.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_for_tv_shows_like_csi_and_numbers/

here's a list of great cringeworthy scenes (top comment)
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/g041n/ncis_technical_writers_hard_at_work_trolling_pc/

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_for_tv_shows_like_csi_and_numbers/

here's a list of great cringeworthy scenes (top comment)
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/g041n/ncis_technical_writers_hard_at_work_trolling_pc/

Back in 2009, there was a Reddit IAmA by someone who did that.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9lsp2/i_create_those_fake_fbi_screens_and_crime

Any relation to this? Though I'm smelling BS from both stories. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/fj04r/reddit_the_dealership_told_me_that_pirated_music/

Yeah and if you make a mistake or anyone screws up then you can lose your whole library. Read this thread and the comments about people that had similar things happen.

Good luck is all I say say. They can lock you out of your giant library at any time. Fuck Steam, EA, and anyone else pulling this bullshit.

He made a comment on Reddit about how easy it actually is to bomb shopping malls
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ciiag/so_if_my_deodorant_could_be_a_bomb_why_are_you/c0sve5q

I'm sure I've done the same. I have a pet (completely hypothetical) theory of where in Birmingham, UK, you could plant a car bomb to have a catastrophic effect on the whole nation's transport, and I'm bound to have discussed it on some mailing list, newsgroup or forum at some point in the last 20 years.

I don't think it would justify bugging me.

ALSO:
a post he made in which the FBI cite as a reason(probably the only one)
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ciiag/so_if_my_deodorant_could_be_a_bomb_why_are_you/c0sve5q