a collection of curious characters and interesting events
Doug Spink was originally scheduled to go to trial on November 10th but the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania decided to ignore Spink’s history of drug smuggling, bestiality animal abuse, intentional parole violations, and arson. They dismissed the fact that in his latest escapade he had a gun and fired it when, as a convicted felon, he isn’t supposed to be anywhere
Read moreI can’t imagine why Neal Rauhauser is writing about Cryptocurrency again. Despite his bad reputation, no credentials, no expertise or experience in the Cryptocurrency field, Neal got a job writing for CryptoCoinsNews.com. At the same time he was also working for BadBitCoin.org (notorious Paycoin shill) and Cryptostorm. Neal wrote articles on the virtues of Paycoin and Cryptostorm VPN. Conflict of
Read moreFounder of Cryptostorm, Doug Spink, was formally arraigned in a Pennsylvania courthouse yesterday. Three of the original charges against him have been dropped out of the original 21 misdemeanors and felonies. Surprisingly, none of them involve having sex with dogs or horses. But this leaves Doug facing prison time on 12 Felonies. Jury selection begins September 8th and the jury
Read moreToday Doug Spink had his formal arraignment where he was to be charged with 20 assorted felonies and misdemeanors that add up to 182 years jail time. I haven’t heard what went on in court for Doug, whether any charges were added or modified or how Spink pleaded but I did see that he has two more items on his calendar
Read moreAllSquareCat aka Lyndsey Hawkins was a guest on AnonUkRadio recently to talk about the VPN service, Cryptostorm, that she works for. Though she discussed Cryptostorm for at least 10 minutes, there was no mention of its creator, Doug Spink, being in jail and facing over 20 felony and misdemeanor charges.
Read moreVia the magic of the Wayback Machine here are pages from Doug Spink’s deleted blog, Fausty.org. Fausty was Spink’s online handle for many years and was often used by him on Bestiality themed forums. In later years, Doug has denied he was Fausty but then he’s denied a lot of things that are facts. The Fausty website was registered to
Read moreNext week on Tuesday (May 31st) Doug Spink will be in court for his formal arraignment to enter his pleas to the assortment of felonies and misdemeanors he incurred during a bizarre series of incidents in April. He’s been charged with an assortment of 20 felonies and misdemeanors and will certainly be going back to prison. It’s just a question
Read moreDoug Spink claims he’s been the target of government harassment because of his work with encryption and VPN networks like Cryptocloud and Cryptostorm. Doug claims a lot of things and some of them contradict each other.Spink’s battles with the courts over the last decade are not persecution but due to his violating the conditions of his supervised release. As it was,
Read moreHOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is a biannual conference sponsored by 2600: The Hacker Quarterly that consists of lectures of interest to the hacker world.Originally the conferences were always held in New York at the Hotel Pennsylvania. In 2008, the hotel was facing demolition so 2600 labeled the conference that year the Last HOPE. One of the speakers at Last
Read moreThis transcript of the hearing that revoked Doug Spink’s parole has some interesting information in it, clearing up some things you may have heard and revealing some you may have not. Anyone using Cryptostorm should probably do some delving into Mr Spink and his past. Trusting a former government informant who can’t keep himself out of jail is probably not
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