One of humankind’s stranger traditions is to not speak ill of the dead. To invoke this custom for the late Doug Spink, founder of Cryptostorm, would leave me nothing to say. And there are a few things that need to … Continue reading Yes, Cryptostorm's Doug Spink Is Dead
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 near a gun. And Claire Spink, Doug’s mother, convinced the court to drop 3 of the felony charges that involved her. Claire is the poster child for enabling and denial. She said “He never threatened me or assaulted me or whatever. … Continue reading Cryptostorm Founder, Doug Spink, Sentenced To Prison… Again
“Justice is a dish best served with popcorn” – Zile Ohai A lot of the characters that appear on Iron Troll blog have court cases coming up so I thought it would be a very good idea to make a list of who’s who and when they go to court. As a celebrity, I also decided it would be very nice of me if I also held a fund raiser for … Continue reading UpComing Court Cases; Trump, Camp, Spink, Rauhauser. Spina et al
Founder 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 trial is scheduled to begin September 19th. Prison time for Doug could be hefty so officials in Whatcom county in Washington state will have to wait their turn to get a hold of Doug. Spink fled Washington to avoid … Continue reading Cryptostorm’s Doug Spink Formally Charged, Jury Trial To Begin In September
Today 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 docket: a status conference and a judicial conference. This would indicate that Doug will be going to trial. And most likely he’ll be kept in jail until the trial begins. Continue reading More Court Time For Spink
AllSquareCat 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. Continue reading Crickets From CryptoStorm
Via 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 him and while it was on the internet he was a proud zoophile and wasn’t hiding his identity. Continue reading The Infamous Fausty, Inside Doug Spink
Next 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 of for how many years. According to the Pennsylvania guidelines for sentencing, and taking into account Doug’s prior history with the prison system, Doug could be serving decades. Doug is charged with 5 first degree felonies for a total of … Continue reading Doug Spink Faces 182 Years Worth Of Charges Next Week
Doug 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, his supervised release wasn’t all that well supervised so he got away with a lot for a couple years. During his 5 year supervised release, Doug traveled out of state to be a guest speaker at the Last HOPE conference without permission … Continue reading The Parole Violation By Spink That Nobody Noticed
HOPE (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 HOPE was Doug Spink, who gave a lecture on holding companies that 2600 posted on youtube. That video is below. In attending the conference, Spink was violating the conditions of his supervised release.Coincidentally, also at the Last HOPE was former … Continue reading Doug Spink Violates Parole At Last Hackers On Planet Earth; July 20, 2008