Copypasta because I'm too lazy to update my original comment:
Alright, where to start...
Kape technologies, previously known as CrossRider founded by Koby Menachemi, ex spy from unit 8200.
"Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200, Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps and is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU)."
A lot more info here, both the article & comments are relevant. Notice the owner of PIA being the on the top.
The Mt Gox (member them ?) CEO was hired as CTO despite his criminal conviction in Japan.
Ok, so now on to Voat.
In the past XX months we went from Putt keeping us informed of his work & being very active in the community. X months ago a first wave of ddos, Putt still being himself. X months ago a 2nd wave of ddos, the "Now Hiring" followed by the "Where We Find Ourselves" post and nothing more.
Redacted -
Now for the interesting bit. Out of the blue a goat discovered an inactive page, https://voat.co/about. The regular page is https://voat.co/content/about. The 2 important things are on the bottom of that page, what's the contact email & who owns the Voat mascot?
So... shady as fuck (((Kape))) buys PIA (LTM), they rebrand as Imperial Family and suddenly Edon appears as one of their projects. The inactive page links to the same site, it's in the code & Putt is MIA.
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Copypasta because I'm too lazy to update my original comment:
Alright, where to start...
Kape technologies, previously known as CrossRider founded by Koby Menachemi, ex spy from unit 8200.
"Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200, Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps and is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU)."
A lot more info here, both the article & comments are relevant. Notice the owner of PIA being the on the top.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682
Now PIA pre acquisition :
Known to sponsor servers for projects such as Snoonet (Reddit IRC), FreeNode, and much more.
https://freenode.net/ <--- Get back to that at the end.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/private-internet-access-partners-reddit-irc-hub-snoonet/
They also aquired projects they only started as sponsors for, ie :
What they said in 2018 :
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/private-internet-access-creator-london-trust-media-acquires-linux-journal/
What happened in 2019 :
https://www.linuxjournal.com/
Hmmm...
What other projects and people are under PIA ?
Well, there's Karpeles lab
https://klb.jp/l/en-US/
https://www.cnet.com/news/mt-gox-bitcoin-exchange-former-ceo-karpeles-lands-new-job/
The Mt Gox (member them ?) CEO was hired as CTO despite his criminal conviction in Japan.
Ok, so now on to Voat.
In the past XX months we went from Putt keeping us informed of his work & being very active in the community. X months ago a first wave of ddos, Putt still being himself. X months ago a 2nd wave of ddos, the "Now Hiring" followed by the "Where We Find Ourselves" post and nothing more.
Redacted -
Now for the interesting bit. Out of the blue a goat discovered an inactive page, https://voat.co/about. The regular page is https://voat.co/content/about. The 2 important things are on the bottom of that page, what's the contact email & who owns the Voat mascot?
[email protected] & Edon ---> http://Edon.Garden
That name has been in the code for some time now, at least X months. The "new" contact email's domain was registered in March & updated mid June.
Guess who's chaperoning that project ?
Imperial Family, the new London Trust Media, post merger with Kape Technologies.
https://imperialfamily.com/
So... shady as fuck (((Kape))) buys PIA (LTM), they rebrand as Imperial Family and suddenly Edon appears as one of their projects. The inactive page links to the same site, it's in the code & Putt is MIA.