Anybody hear about this?

[larsIU]

@Marvin the Martian @UncleMark

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

arstechnica.com

Um……..

 

[Mark Milton]

uh oh.

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

Espionage?

 

[twenty02]

@Marvin the Martian @UncleMark

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

arstechnica.com

Um……..

Wtf?

Is he a US citizen or on a visa?

 

[Mark Milton]

Espionage?

That's what I think. FBI isn't there for immigration...

 

[Marvin the Martian]

@Marvin the Martian @UncleMark

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

arstechnica.com

Um……..

Under the advice of attorneys, I cannot comment...

It is bizarre. The guy has been "missing" for a couple of weeks. IU began removing him from their website. According to bylaws, a tenured faculty member can't be fired without going before a certain board, which hasn't happened. So expect yet another no-confidence vote from this whenever we know what it is.

The Institute he leads is funded through NSF.

It is going to be interesting to see what happened. Making a guy disappear for two weeks, then raiding his homes (one in Bloomington and one in Carmel) and quietly removing his information from IU sounds like a suspense movie.

 

[Mark Milton]

Under the advice of attorneys, I cannot comment...

It is bizarre. The guy has been "missing" for a couple of weeks. IU began removing him from their website. According to bylaws, a tenured faculty member can't be fired without going before a certain board, which hasn't happened. So expect yet another no-confidence vote from this whenever we know what it is.

The Institute he leads is funded through NSF.

It is going to be interesting to see what happened. Making a guy disappear for two weeks, then raiding his homes (one in Bloomington and one in Carmel) and quietly removing his information from IU sounds like a suspense movie.

Unfortunately, he sent this .gif out to faculty prior to St. Patty's day:

 

[larsIU]

Wtf?

Is he a US citizen or on a visa?

No idea.

However, the author of the article notes he had spoken wtih him on three occasions for background on articles. Here are the articles.

Hmmmmm

Serious iOS bug makes it easy to steal users’ iCloud passwords

Researcher publishes proof-of-concept code demonstrating how attack works.

arstechnica.com

iOS and Android weaknesses allow stealthy pilfering of website credentials

Scientists call on Apple and Google to mitigate “origin crossing” attacks.

arstechnica.com

Flawed sign-in services from Google and Facebook imperil user accounts

Using a single username and password to log in to third-party sites can have …

arstechnica.com

One one journo but probably why he published the most recent article (eg. he had knowledge of professor's sudden disappearance).

Do with this what you will.

 

[UncleMark]

No idea.

However, the author of the article notes he had spoken wtih him on three occasions for background on articles. Here are the articles.

Hmmmmm

Serious iOS bug makes it easy to steal users’ iCloud passwords

Researcher publishes proof-of-concept code demonstrating how attack works.

arstechnica.com

iOS and Android weaknesses allow stealthy pilfering of website credentials

Scientists call on Apple and Google to mitigate “origin crossing” attacks.

arstechnica.com

Flawed sign-in services from Google and Facebook imperil user accounts

Using a single username and password to log in to third-party sites can have …

arstechnica.com

One one journo but probably why he published the most recent article (eg. he had knowledge of professor's sudden disappearance).

Do with this what you will.

Dude must have pissed off the Google and Apple billionaires.

 

[iuwclurker]

He’s spreading the Blooton virus.