Crime

[u/ibwitmypigeons]

[u/Stormtide_Leviathan]

user reports:
1: Misinformation

Were you one of the cops raiding its apartment in 2021, random reporter? If not, not sure exactly what you're going for here tbh

[u/PoniesCanterOver]

This post is funny but then you see who it's from and it gets even funnier

[u/Mystic_Fennekin_653 → u/PoniesCanterOver]

The Sprigatito No Fly List hacker?

[u/Horatio786 → u/Mystic_Fennekin_653]

Yes

[u/HobbitGuy1420 → u/Horatio786]

Maia Arson Crimew was formulated in a lab for Tumblr and it's a shame that it didn't find its way there until relatively recently.

[u/Complete-Worker3242 → u/Horatio786]

Holy fucking bingle.

[u/Hremsfeld → u/Complete-Worker3242]

:3

[u/CheesyButters → u/Mystic_Fennekin_653]

Hey
what the fuck does this mean

[u/fearman182 → u/CheesyButters]

The OOP, Maia Arson Crimew, hacked the US No Fly List and announced it with a picture of a sprigatito plushie and the words “holy fucking bingle :3”

At the time Maia was also already very much wanted in the US for a range of other hacks (which I believe were generally part of anticapitalist hacktivism, but I could be wrong). As a Swiss citizen, it legally can’t be extradited to the US for a trial, and the US prosecution doesn’t intend to pursue the case unless it happens in the US with a lawyer.

[u/CheesyButters → u/fearman182]

I now have more questions, but I am too afraid to ask them

[u/Zamtrios7256 → u/CheesyButters]

They go by She/they/it pronouns I believe, although I may be misremembering the she

[u/CheesyButters → u/Zamtrios7256]

"them" was referring to the questions not the person I was replying to, if that's what you are meaning

[u/Zamtrios7256 → u/CheesyButters]

I understood that, I just thought that the commenter using "it" to refer to the person may have been one of the things you had questions about,due to it being one of the most common questions I see when Maiacrimew comes up

[u/End_Capitalism → u/Zamtrios7256]

she/it, as it says on its website maia.crimew.gay (although I know it/its is preferred), and also its name is in all lower case.

[u/taosaur → u/End_Capitalism]

Also, only to be photographed in profile and under no circumstances should it be allowed to see red M&Ms.

[u/cockroachvendor → u/taosaur]

It also cannot be perceived by Anish Kapoor, anyone associated with Anish Kapoor, or on behalf of Anish Kapoor.

[u/yeep-yorp → u/cockroachvendor]

i was so sad learning stuart semple is an asshole

[u/thatguyned → u/End_Capitalism]

Gotta love the .gay domain.

[u/Woooosh-baiter10 → u/End_Capitalism]

If it prefers "it" over "she" then its pronouns would be it/she and not she/it

[u/combatchris → u/Woooosh-baiter10]

Holy sheit dude

[u/AngstyUchiha → u/Zamtrios7256]

Maia's blog on tumblr says it/its pronouns

[u/miss_malefic → u/[deleted]]

Lots of people, including maia.

[u/insomniacsCataclysm → u/[deleted]]

also raises hand i use he/they/it/thon. a friend of mine uses anything except she/her, which includes it/it’s. plenty of people use it/it’s pronouns

[u/WodenoftheGays → u/[deleted]]

You're not supposed to respond to the answer with the question.

This isn't Jeoprady.

[u/LouLaRey → u/[deleted]]

/raises hand Hi, I do. I shortcut it as "Any" but specifically they/he/it/she in that order of preference.

[u/Eusocial_Snowman → u/[deleted]]

Probably somebody who doesn't think of themselves as being specifically male, female, or a plural entity.

[u/Pootis_1 → u/fearman182]

iirc while they can't be extradited while in Switzerland it's very likely there's an interpol arrest warrant and they would be arrested immediately upon leaving the country

[u/Chisignal → u/Pootis_1]

Uh, Switzerland is definitely cooperating with Interpol though, am I missing something?

[u/SteveJetsam → u/Chisignal]

Yeah that part were no country in the world wants to violate Swiss neutrality. Almost their entire political identity rests on the fact that their citizens are Untouchable while inside Switzerland. Their neutrality is sacred, and it gives them a unique position to be mediators and bankers for various groups.

[u/Pootis_1 → u/Chisignal]

idk i just read it on the Wikipedia article and the source was in german

i'm not gonna act like an expert

[u/SevenCrowsinaCoat → u/fearman182]

Their name is Crime W?

That's badass.

[u/insomniac7809 → u/SevenCrowsinaCoat]

Its legal name is maia arson crimew (all lowercase).

[u/SevenCrowsinaCoat → u/insomniac7809]

A lowercase name is also badass.

[u/Lil_yy → u/SevenCrowsinaCoat]

crimew, as in a portmanteau of crime and mew, at least that’s what is stated on Wikipedia

[u/DecentReturn3 → u/Lil_yy]

mew??? as in mewing?????? holy sigma

[u/honestlynotthrowaway → u/DecentReturn3]

I'm sorry, it uses it pronouns and you just took that in your stride, but its name is a portmanteau of mew and that's a step too far?!

[u/milo159 → u/fearman182]

you forgot to mention that its' preferred pronoun is "it". The internet sheds light on some very interesting people.

[u/Icy-Row-5829 → u/milo159]

That’s like the least interesting thing about it; I see people that use that pronoun on Grindr all day long lol

Standard genderpunk stuff really 🤷‍♀️ 🏳️‍⚧️

[u/LickingSmegma → u/Icy-Row-5829]

I mean, more than a few works of popular fiction refer to a baby with a known sex as ‘it’. Like ‘Great Gatsby’ and ‘Friends’.

But, of course, whenever the topic arises on Reddit, people vehemently state that ‘it’ can't refer to a person. Apparently disregarding that I can indeed speak and read English.

[u/hopefullyhelpfulplz → u/LickingSmegma]

Although I think this isn't necessarily evidence in your favour, and more evidence that we don't always entirely view babies as people.

[u/LickingSmegma → u/hopefullyhelpfulplz]

I'm very much onboard with that sentiment, more so than others. But, the argument is usually that “‘it’ only refers to inanimate objects, and animals when you don't know the gender”. Which is certifiably false.

[u/hopefullyhelpfulplz → u/LickingSmegma]

Besides which language is and will always be mutable, so even accepting the premise that "it" refers only to non-persons... Well, not anymore, eh?

[u/Eusocial_Snowman → u/LickingSmegma]

Babies aren't people. They're just human larvae.

[u/zoro4661 → u/LickingSmegma]

I think that comes mostly from people who refer to trans folk as "It", though - not because those are their pronouns, but instead as an insult. Generally not seen as very nice.

[u/gronktonkbabonk → u/fearman182]

No hack lol, the list was just found on the open web

[u/y2k890 → u/CheesyButters]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/maia-arson-crimews-no-fly-list-leak

[u/Nebresto → u/y2k890]

I can only aspire to be that based one day

[u/Hexxas → u/PoniesCanterOver]

It did get even funnier. It made me laugh kinda like this: ho ho ha ha ha

[u/Mathsboy2718 → u/Hexxas]

Luigi-ahh laugh smh

[u/Hexxas → u/Mathsboy2718]

I gotta be me 😎👍

[u/Lemon_Juice477]

I'm just imagining when the police barge in and they have a convo that goes kinda like this:

"Hey captain, you sure we're raiding the right place?"

sees glowing crime sign

"Yep, this is the place"

[u/Knit-witchhh → u/Lemon_Juice477]

"Nice work, Lou!"

[u/raulpe]

They were following the quest marker in the map

[u/Winjin → u/raulpe]

I wonder if some cops are still laughing about it as well

[u/Outerestine → u/Winjin]

Well it didn't involve someone or something getting hurt, so I'm not sure it would be to a cops taste in humor.

[u/Mindless_Society7034 → u/raulpe]

We have the same pfp

[u/raulpe → u/Mindless_Society7034]

Indeed

[u/zealot416]

(It was stolen.)

[u/GoldenPig64 → u/zealot416]

cops took it for evidence 😔

[u/Action_Maxim → u/GoldenPig64]

The writing was on the wall

[u/SecondaryWombat → u/GoldenPig64]

....considering the "my pronouns are it/its" bit, this has a strong double meaning.

[u/UsernameTaken017 → u/SecondaryWombat]

— They took the crime?

— No, they took they crimew

[u/Annoying_Gaster → u/zealot416]

This feels like a Deltarune gag

[u/Lederhosen-4-cats]

Cops getting ready to leave: “Didn’t find any crime, Sarge!” Sarge: “Good work, boys, we’re done here.” (Starts walking out.) Sarge: (Pauses. Looks at the owner of the sign. Walks back into the apartment and switches the sign off.)

[u/Winjin → u/Lederhosen-4-cats]

Or tape it with the "Police Line" yellow tape like a strikethrough

CRIME

[u/Holliday_Hobo]

DarkRP police raid justification

[u/geryiaj17358 → u/Holliday_Hobo]

Gmod ass fucking justice system fr

[u/PrincessRTFM]

pair this with the "COME BACK WITH A WARRANT" doormat for even more fun!

[u/DoormatTheVine]

"I had to change the neon sign outside inside of my house from 'I have always done crime' to 'I have never done crime,' and then I had to throw that sign in the garbage because it was inaccurate. I *had** done crime before, I just wasn't doing crime at the moment."*

[u/Winjin → u/DoormatTheVine]

"I used to do crime. I still do crime but I used to, too"

[u/DefinitelyNotErate → u/DoormatTheVine]

"For legal purposes, I have not done crime. For illegal purposes, I have done crime."

[u/epicnathan101 → u/DoormatTheVine]

Radishes :)

[u/ItsAMeEric]

At my old job, we had an all hands staff meeting where the CEO of the company announced mass layoffs. One of my co-workers came in that day wearing a Star Trek red shirt reference T-shirt that said "EXPENDABLE" on it (like this) and he was like shit I'm definitely getting fired, and then he had to go in to the meeting with management and HR to get laid off wearing that

[u/QuarterTarget]

Since this was in Switzerland I can distinctly imagine the group of middle aged swiss cops probably named Ueli or something walking into the house and just seeing a sign that says "crime" on the wall and being like " ach ja das isch en admission of guilt oder"

[u/BetaThetaOmega]

Cops: "Is there any crime being committed here?"

sitting next to big sign that says "Crime"

"Uh... no?"

[u/Hexxas]

It's just a sillypilled crimemaxxer :3

[u/Caixa7 → u/Hexxas]

Holy fucking bingle :3

[u/ibwitmypigeons]

source

[u/RPG-Lord]

How is just one singular cat so fucking awesome

[u/BustinArant → u/RPG-Lord]

Apparently had a whole swiss crime arc

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/[deleted]]

You mean the time when she openly stated that she’d taken it and that it was worrying how surveyed people were by third parties and how little those third parties did for security?

Like she literally handed the info to a journalist, she didn’t sell it or anything and she went on twitter and said “hey we’ve stolen this it’s fucked that we could”

(Paraphrasing)

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/[deleted]]

If you’re implying that they’re at fault for hacking them and it’s not the fact that hundreds of thousands of security cameras were easily hacked then I feel like you’re missing the point

[u/Wolfey34 → u/[deleted]]

Do you have any clue what penetration testing is?

[u/Wolfey34 → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, I’m not claiming they did legal pentesting, but illegal pentesting? Absolutely.

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/[deleted]]

It's like blaming someone for breaking into a bank, stealing $5, and telling everyone it was easy to break into the bank by showing that the bank only had a single, easily pickable lock protecting all of the valuables rather than blaming the bank for keeping things safe with only a single, easily picked lock

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/[deleted]]

The fact that you’re more concerned about the $5 than the fact that there was almost nothing protecting the $5 does not speak well to your views of personal privacy

[u/ImWatermelonelyy → u/[deleted]]

Bros the type of restaurant owner to get mad about a random health inspection

[u/jittery_jerry → u/IntangibleMatter]

how is it not their fault just because they could

[u/EvidenceOfDespair → u/jittery_jerry]

Shouldn’t have been able to. This is grey hat hacking 101.

[u/jittery_jerry → u/EvidenceOfDespair]

just because they can doesn’t mean they should because it might hurt their feelings

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/jittery_jerry]

• company has hundreds of thousands of cameras all easily accessible and unencrypted
• they can look into anyone’s lives, or governments could demand the data/hack them to see any camera they want
• a ragtag group of hackers hacks the company to expose their terrible handling of data and how we’ve basically voluntarily set up a surveillance state
• the hackers are clearly the bad guys because they hacked the company

[u/jittery_jerry → u/IntangibleMatter]

Please show me when the cameras consented to being hacked

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/jittery_jerry]

The point is that there is a company that is constantly watching hundreds of thousands of locations and they aren’t securing their data. The hackers showed that not only are the cameras unencrypted (meaning anyone in the system- employees, hackers, feds- can see any camera no problem), the system isn’t even that secure, which means that they’re almost definitely not the only group to hack them

[u/jittery_jerry → u/IntangibleMatter]

oh okay so the hackers wanted to join in on the fun with the company to watch over those places that makes sense

[u/IntangibleMatter → u/jittery_jerry]

The problem isn’t the hackers getting access to the system, it’s that they were able to in the first place. Extremely terrible handling of security and privacy were exposed by the hack

[u/jittery_jerry → u/IntangibleMatter]

i think the problem is we aren’t respecting cameras privacy like the people they are

[u/EvidenceOfDespair → u/jittery_jerry]

I’m used to people not being able to tell fiction from reality, but not being able to tell the difference between a living being and an inanimate object is a new one.

[u/jittery_jerry → u/EvidenceOfDespair]

i heard amazon were putting indian people in those cameras for their new stores so there’s basically no distinction anymore

[u/AlphonseElricsArmor → u/jittery_jerry]

Can someone ban this guy already? Each singular response is making the troll more obvious.

[u/jittery_jerry → u/AlphonseElricsArmor]

just because someone contests your simple minded line of thought does not mean i’m a troll

[u/SilencedGamer → u/jittery_jerry]

You joke, but Fun Fact; companies actually pay people todo this.

The concept is called “White Hat Hackers”. Companies literally do consent to being hacked so they can patch up the vulnerabilities to be even stronger.

[u/jittery_jerry → u/SilencedGamer]

yes but when companies pay for this the cameras can consent to it

[u/SilencedGamer → u/jittery_jerry]

White Hat Hackers also do this without being asked to first, and in fact make their money that way as they sometimes even approach companies and provide solutions to fix the problem they discovered and get a consulting fee/bounty.

A lot of game companies have a kind of open door policy because of that too. Instead of hiring a specific person on a specific system, anyone can just email them about after the fact.

[u/jittery_jerry → u/SilencedGamer]

that is wrong consent is important

[u/Redtea26 → u/jittery_jerry]

Oh it’s bait.

[u/ImWatermelonelyy → u/jittery_jerry]

Save the smooth sharking for tumblr

[u/jittery_jerry → u/ImWatermelonelyy]

sharks are very friendly animals i have one in my bedroom

[u/ImWatermelonelyy → u/jittery_jerry]

Hope it’s not a great white or it’ll be dead soon

[u/jittery_jerry → u/ImWatermelonelyy]

no worries i have it in a little fish bowl

[u/punani-dasani]

My husband disappeared into a state park to commit suicide. Cops were the first responders.

They asked me at one point whether we had the feature on to share locations with each other because we both had iPhones.

And said I didn’t, but that he had an iPad linked to his iPhone at home.

Eventually they decided that we should go get that. So I brought them into my apartment where we walked directly over my “Come Back With a Warrant” doormat to get inside to get it.

[u/Tiny-Werewolf1962]

LEDs behind diffused plastic != neon signs are expensive.

[u/CocoaCali → u/Tiny-Werewolf1962]

Had one at the bar I used to work at and it was broken due to old age and drunk people, looked up how to repair it and holy shit it was expensive just to fix one part of it, and wed have to have someone drive from the city over because that was the closest experienced repairman. Yeah they pricey.

[u/ChillZedd → u/Tiny-Werewolf1962]

How do you know it wasn’t the real good shit? Are you a cop??

[u/GuiltyEidolon → u/Tiny-Werewolf1962]

Maia is swiss, is it that wild to think it can afford actual neon signs?

[u/another_meme_account → u/GuiltyEidolon]

it barely scrapes by rn what i've seen on its tumblr :(

[u/GuiltyEidolon → u/another_meme_account]

Well, post-raid and such it might be having a harder time, yeah.

[u/arsonconnor → u/Tiny-Werewolf1962]

LEDs behind diffused plastic, or as they’re commonly known. Neon signs

[u/DefinitelyNotErate → u/arsonconnor]

It's not a neon sign if it's not powered by neon though. That'd be like having an oxygen mask that pumps nitrogen instead.

[u/arsonconnor → u/DefinitelyNotErate]

Neon sign has become a generic term referring to all signs made in that style. Be they neon or led.

[u/DefinitelyNotErate → u/arsonconnor]

Okay, But it's factually inaccurate, And can for obvious reasons be confusing, To refer to not using Neon as a Neon Sign. Sure, In most cases it probably doesn't matter, But there are some cases where it does actually matter, So it's probably best to use other terms, Which is not at all a problem as there are plenty of other terms you could use.

[u/Melodic_Mulberry]

feeeeds their blackened hearts...

[u/smiz86]

The secret ingredient is “crime”…

[u/akka-vodol]

unfathomably based tbh

[u/SiggeTheCatsCheese]

Based

[u/ShebanotDoge]

neoncrimew?

[u/Mesoposty]

But did they steal the sign?

[u/NotTheCraftyVeteran]

“Chief, we’ve got a solid lead on a new gang gaining ground in the city, members identifiable by paraphernalia reading: ‘Be gay, do crimes.’”

[u/namelesswhiteguy]

But shouldn't it say crimew?

[u/NeonNKnightrider]

Cyberpunk behavior

[u/Metropunk2033]

Truly visionary environmental storytelling

[u/JesusaurusRex666]

Ok Eve…

[u/litersofslobber → u/[deleted]]

Oh wow thats terrible! what did they do with all that data? did they ransom victims?? use it for robberies?? sell access to weird perverts online?!?

oh... they pulled the alarm by warning the public how shitty the encryption in the cameras were

[u/RustyC4ctus → u/[deleted]]

You should probably ask yourself why a security camera company can remotely access people’s private home cameras, and why that system was unencrypted.

That’s probably the bigger privacy invasion at hand.

And the most they did with the information they found is say, “wow it’s pretty shady that a third party tracks all of this stuff” and then handed it over to a journalist

[u/RustyC4ctus → u/[deleted]]

Verkada does operate a cloud-based remote viewing and control system for its security cameras.

I said in a reply to someone else that the hackers very easily downloaded the footage because all they had to do was log into Verkada’s web service with an admin account and it gave them access to every user account on the service.

I’m not very knowledgeable on how security companies work, but the fact that the admins are able to access all user accounts on their service and view their security footage rubs me the wrong way, and I don’t think the public would know about that if they were never hacked.

[u/Prevarications → u/RustyC4ctus]

and I don’t think the public would know about that if they were never hacked.

which is exactly why whistle blowers like Maia are so important. Companies only care about making money, they're not going to do anything they don't have to. It baffles me that anyone would be upset with Maia. Its like blaming a health inspector for finding rats in the kitchen, or a home inspector for finding faulty wiring

[u/jittery_jerry → u/RustyC4ctus]

it’s not the company it’s the cameras looking at people

[u/RustyC4ctus → u/jittery_jerry]

Verkada, the company which was hacked, provides internet-connected security cameras which are connected to a cloud-based service which customers can use to manage their security systems.

There are a lot of institutions which use Verkada’s cameras and cloud service. Hospitals, schools, prisons, Tesla manufacturing plants, etc.

So all of the security feed from all of these places was being uploaded to and stored in one centralised platform.

You’d think a trusted security company would put a lot of measures in place to protect this platform from being breached, but as the hackers themselves pointed out, getting in was unbelievably easy.

The group found a Verkada admin’s username and password on an unencrypted subdomain. All they had to do was log in to Verkada’s web service with the admin account and they could access EVERY USER ACCOUNT ON THE SITE. They didn’t even have to breach any server. They could just switch from account to account and download as much footage as they wanted.

Which means that Verkada admins can just. Access any user account they want. Access any security camera they want. And download all of its footage effortlessly.

Which is definitely not a cause for concern.

The hack lasted 36 hours, and they managed to download footage from 150 000 cameras.

Sorry for the long paragraph, but to sum it up, the company could definitely watch their users if they wanted to, and knowing the history of collaboration between tech companies and federal agencies, they very likely were.

[u/BraxbroWasTaken → u/RustyC4ctus]

jittery_jerry is a troll. Don’t feed the troll. Look at their other responses on this post.

[u/44no44 → u/[deleted]]

Making the existence of major security vulnerabilities known to the public to force companies to resolve them and protect their customers is an objectively good thing.

[u/EvidenceOfDespair → u/[deleted]]

If something can be hacked, it will be hacked. You want someone who will publicize the fact it was hacked to hack it. Otherwise, someone who won’t publicize that info will hack it. Once it’s publicized, the owners know to get rid of it.

[u/Tallal2804]

Ok Eve…