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James Dolan, Co-Creator of SecureDrop, Dead At 36 (gizmodo.com)
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is reporting that James Dolan, former Marine and co-creator of the whistleblower submission system SecureDrop alongside Aaron Swartz and Wired editor Kevin Poulsen, has died at age 36. He reportedly took his own life. Gizmodo reports: First deployed as StrongBox with The New Yorker, organizations such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and Gizmodo Media Group have all come to rely on SecureDrop -- which allows highly secure communication between journalists and sources in possession of sensitive information or documents. As an industry tool, it has become invaluable for reporters. Dolan joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation to maintain SecureDrop after co-creator Aaron Swartz took his life in 2013 at age 26, as pressure mounted in a federal investigation against him that many felt was overzealous. Memorial services have not yet been announced, and presently the circumstances of Dolan's death are not known.
People who annoy governments tend to kill themselves, isn't that strange?
Circumcision is child abuse.
You know we're all thinking it.
Yeah I might believe that if the other creator of SecureDrop had not also "taken his own life".
Truly the Deep State protects its own. Good luck to the next person to take over maintenance! Maybe you'll make seven years if you only drink water you purify yourself from random streams.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm starting to think that a lot of this feels like government sanctioned murder against individuals trying to help society by revealing the truth of matters.
This whole thing stinks.
I don't always wear a tinfoil hat, but when I do...
Smart people are usually more prone to depression that dumb ones.
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Good riddance to that piece of trash. The world is now a better place with one more scumbag dead.
I really thought we were done mourning and worshiping that kid. More likely than not we will find that their two deaths are not connected.
More so, Swartz is not worthy of being idolized and worshiped the way he is here and so many other places. His ideals were good but his methods were fucking stupid. He intentionally made a really stupid decision - when he literally had a safer option sitting on his own desk - for what reason? Charges were being brought against him because he physically broke in to a wiring closet that he had no business going in to. Had he instead been reasonably intelligent in his methods there would be almost no chance of charges ever having been brought against him; people share copyrighted articles online all the time.
As for Swartz's death? He took his own life. He wasn't pushed out a window or given poison by the government. He couldn't handle the stress that he brought upon himself, and there is reason to believe he had an underlying undiagnosed mental health issue as well. It's a shame that he took the coward's way but that was his own choice. Again, he deserves exactly zero praise for this.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Same thing with Gaydar. Both founders fell off high balconies, several years apart. Coincidences can seem significant. Usually, they're not.
So obvious.
The Internet doesn't have very much to say about James Dolan; he was apparently a very private person. I was surprised not to find him on Wikipedia. I found a Twitter comment, but it was deleted before my eyes as I was reading it. I hope the suicide was not connected to his job, but I fear it may have been. Interesting it happened the same day Nancy Pelosi "leaked" the Fusion transcript. Just shows how important it is to keep free and open conduits to combat the spread of untruths.
He stabbed himself in the back 20 times?
He did himself in the quickest and most painless way possible with three gunshot wounds to the back.
I don't know what happened in real life, but these things always look suspicious.
Curious about the details of his death. Anyone have a link to a police report or article with specifics about the suicide (where/when/who reportedhim/any note found)?
And if you believe that was an accident, you'll believe James did himself in.
Cold War III
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harsh!
Besides even that, the US veteran community is well known to have struggles with depression and suicide in their civilian lives. Given a lack of evidence pointing to anything nefarious, I'd be more likely to assume issues related to that.
I noticed the same thing. Suspicion level ratcheting up here... :-)
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Did the Grumman satellite hit him?
I am a former Marine, sadly suicide is a common end result of PTSD.
People who annoy U.S. gov tend to suicide or die under odd circumstances. I don't for a second believe he willingly took his own life.
The foil-hatted crowd tends to assume that there is some shadowy consiracy of "men in black" types who go around killing people who are troublesome, but there are alternate explanations that require no such paranoia.
Consider the Cliven Bundy case (whether you support him, hate him, or ignor him, the CASE is worth consideration).
When you do something that offends elements of a massive powerful government, your life can become to some degree miserable, and not everybody is cut out to withstand that level of stress. The Bundys (who I personally find annoying) ended up finding surveillance devices on their property (not on the disputed grazing lands) eventually found themselves in an armed standoff with government agents, and then in jail. Their case is a public display of a basic fact: in ANY conflict with government, guns are involved - the only questions are [1] will the individual will back down before the government pulls its guns, [2] will the individual pull a gun, [3] will the government or the individual pull the trigger. If you do not do what the government demands, and then you keep resisting as the government tries to punish you, you will eventually be facing a loaded gun. In the Bundy case, the standoff reached the point where both sides pulled guns, and eventually both sides pulled triggers. Most Americans cave in long before the government unholsters its ever-present guns. In the aftermath, one person associated with them crumbled and made a plea deal, but Cliven and sons eventually were let out after a judge was outraged to discover the extreme misconduct of the federal prosecutors who hid and manipulated evidence and lied to the court about it. That process dragged on for YEARS, and the Bundys will have crippling legal bills even though they have prevailed. Faced with that level of stress, some people will take their own lives. Others who are not yet in as deep as the Bundys were can begin to worry that they might end up in such a situation and, in a moment of depression aand quiet desperation, choose what seems to them to be the only way out.
We may never know what drove Mr Dolan to his demise, but it would not be shocking to discover he saw a lot of darkness in his future, did not want to face it and did not see a clear happy way out. Work in areas like encryption can lead to a lot of thinking about very negative possiblities, so it would not be surprising if this was a contributing factor.
Incidentally, our government is not supposed to be so big and powerful and intrusive that we end up feeling the need to encrypt stuff. Our founders understood encryption; George Washington used encryption to communicate with his spies during the revolutionary war. Our founders did not include an escape clause from the Constitution to allow the feds to bypass the prohibition on unreasonable search and siezure, or to bypass the requirement for a warrant, if encryption is involved. They also understood war and the timeliness of information in time of war and yet still included no exception to allow government to engage in blanket spying on the population, siezure of communications, and decryption without warrants.
Instead of getting clever or snarky, people should consider the misery this man's family is currently experiencing; their lives are forever altered. Fot the rest of their lives they will be expecting to see him at meals, then remebering he will be absent. They'll thinking of things they need to remember to tell him when they see him, then remebering they'll not be seeing him again, etc.
He probably suffered from a deep depression or was bipolar. That is fairly common in the industry. He will be missed.
Your no-nonsense portrayal of a gruff engineer in Star Trek will never be bettered.
Nobody will give a shit
yup
Wow. Did he piss off the Clintons? Because that's what happens to people who piss off the Clintons: they "commit suicide"
Loosen libel laws or expect more of the same. #MAGA
Remember when the government has Hans Reiser framed as a way to get back at him for developing ReiserFS? It seems a lot of Slashdot does, because they're posting basically the exact same shit for this story as they were for that one.
Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997.
Something to wrap your corpse in.
Thousands of sealed indictments.
Hillary indicted and now wearing ankle tracker.
Podester in Gitmo.
Rothschild castle helicopter crash.
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Taken from Gary Webb wikipedia page :P
Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office.
Apparently in real life and crime, pros know which jurisdictions have the most incompetent MEs and coroners.
Why assume something logical when we can blame it on a government conspiracy plot?
Exactly! Logic was invented by circumcising Reptilians to keep us confused about disreality. The only answer is to misinterpret the evidence.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
REMEMBER THE MURDER OF IAN MURDOCH, creator of Debian Linux and leading member of the Free Software community, killed Christmas 2015 by the notoriously corrupt San Francisco police department.
They are brave souls
They fought the system, and helped source / deliver sensitive info to the journalists
Ends up? Journalists betrayed them
Instead of reporting the news, journalists themselves become the 'power broker' in the dangerous game of power tug-of war
Journalists played them like pawns, and then abandoned them to die
The NSA did nothing wrong.
The NSA are our best friends! As are the TSA and CIA. Everyone who doesn't believe that *all is good* and that we should all smile in joy and decrypt and strip naked for checking and upload all our lives to the cloud and most of all *smile* and be *cheerful* and sing and dance in unison, is a Putin sock puppet conspiracy theorist nutjob.
Have you been living behind the moon? Snowden leaks never happened?
Jeez, fuckin anticonspiracy theorists. Will believe every bullshit, as long as it allows them to keep up a comfortable delusion. You're no better than regular conspiracy theorists.
Was it the CIA? NSA? AP? Wikileaks? Trump, Hillary, or Russia's FSB? Swap your tinfoil hat for your betting beanie and put your money where your mouth is!
Here's the backstory. Julian Assange founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation as a front for Wikileaks so he could continue to get donations from Americans while the feds had suspended his official accounts. After Micah Lee and Xeni Jardin got onto the board, the Freedom of the Press Foundation cut funding to Assange and denounced him.
This "suicide" was a Freedom of the Press Foundation member. He probably knew a lot about who did what and why.
But when both founders commit suicide, it... looks somewhat suspicious.
co-creator of the whistleblower submission system SecureDrop alongside Aaron Swartz and Wired editor Kevin Poulsen,
The article is about someone dying but don't miss a chance to plug fellow attention seeking journalist worm and federal snitch Kevin Poulsen.
The way the press assholes suck each other off is fucking shameless.