So... Not only were the guards "sleeping" the day the Epstein was murdered, only a few cameras were working, and when it was time to bring the evidence to court the tapes were mysteriously "corrupted" to the point where the judge couldn't view them. Also on the Chans a guard who worked at the facility posted how they came and killed Epstein and didn't log a military vehicle who came to their post.
Now, if you have the balls to call any of this a "conspiracy" or that the US government isn't as corrupt as a run of the mill crack-pot tyrant, come have a word with me. The audacity. Acosta told them Epstein couldn't be touched because he's "intelligence". Fucking corrupt to the core.
Every day, I ask my self "are the laws that impact me negatively even worth following?" I think I've found my answer.
Alternative theory:
He was facing life in prison and was going to have his awful secrets exposed in detail in court so he just took the easy way out since he was going to die in prison anyway. His life was already over.
I assume most people in his situation would prefer to just kill themselves.
It's not really a stretch to imagine why he would want to kill himself. It's much more of a stretch the imagine a vast conspiracy to kill him. I'm going to prefer the simplest explanation 9 of 10 times. But hey, who knows?
He became the first person to do that, in a building filled top to bottom with people with as much or more reasons to kill themselves, in thirteen years. And, he did so at the precise moment there would be no witnesses or observers, human or electronic.
When you are done using it, please clean off Ockham’s Butterknife and put it back in the drawer.
Well of course he did at the precise moment there were no observers or witnesses or he wouldn't have been able to do it, they'd have seen him and stopped it.
If there was some vast conspiracy, why wouldn't they have just killed him before he was in custody when it would have been far easier?
That doesn't really explain everything else does it? The guards, the cameras, etc. And if he was the type to kill himself, wouldn't he have done so the first time he got caught?
> It's much more of a stretch the imagine a vast conspiracy to kill him.
For normal people, but not a guy who had "awful secrets" that many people in power don't want revealed.
> I'm going to prefer the simplest explanation 9 of 10 times.
Except occam's razor isn't on your side here. The simplest answer here is a conspiracy. Not suicide. Occam's razor says he was killed.
The guards not looking after him while he was on suicide watch. The cameras not working. Didn't medical examinations also show trauma rather than suicide.
People who don't know much about suicide prevention think these are important points, but anyone who works in suicide prevention can tell you that observations don't work; staff don't pay attention to the cctv monitors; staff lie about what they've done; people attach ligatures in ligature-point free rooms etc etc.
People kill themselves all the time, even when supposedly on 1:1 obs and in special wards.
> People who don't know much about suicide prevention think these are important points, but anyone who works in suicide prevention can tell you that observations don't work;
You are being intentionally misleading here. I'm not saying that they could have or should have prevented the suicide, but the guards should have been there to monitor. The cameras should have been there to record/document. It's not the prevention I'm concerned about, it's the convenient lack of documentation/monitoring/etc.
> People kill themselves all the time, even when supposedly on 1:1 obs and in special wards.
But how many cases as important as epstein, where he was being monitored via guards and camera, and being watched for suicide have both the guards and cameras fail?
Arguably the most important inmate in US custody ( maybe in history ) and the guards are sleeping and the cameras are not working? Give me a break. Even the most naive person has to admit things aren't kosher here.
> but the guards should have been there to monitor. The cameras should have been there to record/document.
Yes, but we know that guards do not monitor. We know cameras frequently aren't working.
> It's not the prevention I'm concerned about, it's the convenient lack of documentation/monitoring/etc.
You say "convenient", I say "sadly all too familiar".
> But how many cases as important as epstein, where he was being monitored via guards and camera, and being watched for suicide have both the guards and cameras fail?
Honestly loads. Fred West, Harold Shipman, were both notable serial killers who took their own lives when in prison. West murdered 12 people and was on remand. Shipman, who murdered over 200 people, had previously expressed suicidal intent and gave a reason for wanting to die.
> and the guards are sleeping and the cameras are not working?
You keep saying this, as if it's some kind of smoking gun. The thing I'm trying to tell you is that it's very common and that it's not in anyway surprising that a person, even a very high profile person, dies by suicide.
Were either of those serial killers allowed to take their own lives while they were still awaiting trial, and while their testimony was reasonably and widely believed to have the potential to implicate a large number of the ruling power elite?
Did either of them commit suicide within mere weeks of a previous attempt?
I just think it would require much less for a single guy to kill himself than for a vast conspiracy to have killed him in a secure facility. Stuck a conspiracy would have to have involved a great many people, many of whom are not rich and powerful.
It woyld have been far easier to just kill before custody, then they could have even just made it look like an accident.
They don't need to be rich or powerful - they just need to have something to lose or be believers in the 'it's for national security'. You don't need to ask the guards to fall asleep. You just need to ensure the doziest guards are put on the schedule.
Why do it in the prison?
A controlled environment where they have access to the cameras and all recording devices, not to mention all technology(access logs etc.) as well as no members of the public being around.
Out in public, you run a massive risk of some random noticing something/some camera inadvertently recording something.(or some random/some camera noticing/capturing something from the time leading up to it).
It's an avoidable mess.
Plus, a death in jail - people can rationalise it away - for the exact same reasons I listed above - 'oh, it's a controlled environment - $authorities control who goes in and out - they're not going let a random person walk around'
If I don't reply to this comment in 5 years, it is a sure sign that I have been targeted.
There was even one alleged suicide attempt several weeks before Epstein got his ticket punched! So any idea that this caught the jail by surprise is totally dishonest. Any idiot could (and many did!) see Epstein's death coming as long as they weren't wedded to pseudo-clever notions like "there's no such thing as conspiracies" or "they'd never do something so obvious and in-the-open."
Why are people so wedded to the notion that there is a conspiracy here? What if there isn't? What does it mean then?
I find that those who are strong believers in conspiracy theories never consider that they might just be wrong. No, anything that might suggest they're wrong is just further evidence of a cover up. I guess being wrong in this case would mean all the famous people who've been villainized for alleged participation in Epstein's trafficking aren't actually worthy of all the mud that's been thrown their way. He's actually more valuable as a political tool dead than he is alive so certain political groups can slander their opponents with connections to him and he can't refute anything. Here's an alternative conspiracy theory: right wing groups killed him so they could start a conspiracy theory that a powerful Democratic cabal that doesn't actually exist had him killed and dirty left wing politicians with association to him. Prove that didn't happen.
I'm not saying it's not true, maybe it is, but in absence of additional evidence it just seems most likely that the guy just killed himself to avoid being prosecuted for sex trafficking of children, which he was almost certainly guilty of.
But seriously, I still think any investigations should continue and any associates of his, whoever they are, should be brought to justice.
There is zero reason to think Epstein didn't at least entertain the possibility that he would get away with another slap on the wrist. Before the trial started the possibility was already being raised that his 2007 plea agreement would get him out of any legal consequences this time around.
The guy had such delusions of grandeur he wanted to freeze his head and penis and impregnate dozens of women simultaneously at his New Mexico ranch to "seed the human race with his DNA." He would have at least waited to see how the trial turned out before offing himself.
If you are a male, online dating will be full of scams and very costly. Men don't always get the better end of things in life, especially in today's screwed up world.
Seriously, this is why I strongly encourage people to find alternatives to Signal. The program even ties an unique short identifier which cannot be changed at will by the user, a phone number, to the account. There are alternatives.
You don't need any type of accounts is the beauty, I don't want to take time digging up the details but I'm sure if you search it you will find the service.
That's not the use case here. The process you are describing leaves us vulnerable to the government and state actors who can access your bank accounts, see the records, and steal your money. We have absolutely no reason to allow government in to our finances, so we must do things like this.
With crypto, the only way the govt is doing that is if they coerce you. Try that with a "bank account".
Right, I could care less about this Wuhan flu crap we need to focus on getting the world's economies back on track. Many more people are suffering from economy issues than the flu.
The (real) reasons for it shutting down were never given.
However, at the time it was theorized that in the event the maintainers had found a fundamental flaw, disclosing that flaw by issuing a patch would immediately jeopardize all preexisting truecrypt containers by revealing a method for breaking them. That would be untenable, and so the only alternative would be to shut down the entire project and recommend no further use of the software - as was done.
A subsequent audit did not identify any such security flaw, so the prevailing theory is now that the maintainers were forced to stop work by a governmental agency. It's considered safe and now known as veracrypt.
However, the question I have is whether a single crowdsourced security audit would be capable of finding a flaw that it took the developers themselves years (decades?) to identify.
As others have mentioned, there is speculation about coercion from a certain 3 letter agency. Some have even suggested that the maintainers of TC left an encoded message to users:
> Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.
Not Secure As. Whether this holds any weight, only the maintainers would know.
Since Truecrypt is mentioned, I am going to use this place to highly recommend the book Mastermind. The that Truecrypt was based on named E4M was written by a man with quite an insane life story. He created a massive criminal enterprise.
> In 2019, Evan Ratliff—who wrote a series of articles about Le Roux for The Atavist Magazine—published The Mastermind, a 446-page account of Le Roux's ventures.
Truecrypt was mysteriously shutdown out of nowhere. Rumours abound that it was because of a national security letter or some other governmental interference. TC was never proven to be fundamentally insecure, but the original developers abandoned the project with the incident and the project was forked by others as VeraCrypt, which is now the recommended solution for local encryption (on Windows at least).
Uh no. I'm literally just saying the things I know about Truecrypt. Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things. Am I wrong?
You are incorrect. TrueCrypt was audited and passed, and lives on in multiple forms under multiple maintainers, the most well known being VeraCrypt.
If you are unsure of a fact, you can always do some quick research using your web browser before posting incorrect information in a way that may be misunderstood.
Now, if you have the balls to call any of this a "conspiracy" or that the US government isn't as corrupt as a run of the mill crack-pot tyrant, come have a word with me. The audacity. Acosta told them Epstein couldn't be touched because he's "intelligence". Fucking corrupt to the core.
Every day, I ask my self "are the laws that impact me negatively even worth following?" I think I've found my answer.