On January 15, 2020 8:34:10 PM UTC, John Newman <[email protected]> wrote: >I heard something on NPR in the car, part of their "This is Think" >series, about an article on Harpers about ... Assassination Politics! > >The NPR story referenced Jim Bell and cypherpunks a bunch of times, and >rehashed a bunch of shit that is in the article (which I wasn't >familiar with). It also talked about scammers with fake AP markets. >One of the things that struck me is that it seems most (none) of the >intended victims were *not* being killed for being part of the >government or being cops or anything remotely as Jim has idealized it. >They were people being targeted for the same old stupid reasons idiots >are always killing each other: unrequited love, jealousy, rage, etc. > >Link below: > > >https://harpers.org/blog/2019/12/click-here-to-kill-online-murder-markets-dark-web/ >
Seems the correct link for the story is - https://harpers.org/archive/2020/01/click-here-to-kill-dark-web-hitman/ Although it was easily found from the first link I sent ;) >Couldn't find the NPR bit online, I imagine it will show up here in the >next day or so (it seems to be a couple days behind): > >https://www.npr.org/podcasts/478859728/think
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