The court of appeals found me guilty, despite the evidence clearly not supporting that conclusion.

I rather doubt it's because they're for sale, rather it would have been too damaging for the government to admit that they had framed me.

Linked to this investigation? Of course it was.

Linked to the crime? No, not really.

The cryptocurrency analysis in this case reaches absurd conclusions and doesn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny. At best their analysis establishes a low-confidence link between me and the hacker, as it's impossible to tell what if any transactions took place between us. Just that an unknown amount of money may have traveled between our wallets.

One thing is certain though, the relevant sum in this case was 0.1 BTC paid by the police. Their analysis shows me receiving significantly more than that, with no explanation as to where the rest of the money originated. Coincidentally, the other person who was later charged in this case received pretty much exactly the 0.1 BTC according to the police report.

It's real and just as bizarre as it sounds. You'd think that'd be the #1 thing you'd want in any serious investigation.

I don't think we'll ever get to see it, these stories get less and less relevant as time passes.

The leaked home folder data doesn't really tie that VM to anyone, which is natural given that it seems to have mostly been used to run headless hacking tools and inspect their output.

The idea that I'm linked to this VM comes from the ridiculous idea that lazy hackers would not share SSH key files in order to control access to groups of virtual machines. I.e. if a SSH key fingerprint is at one point tied to me, that key must also still belong to me even when used from a internet connection belonging to another person in another country with a similar track record as me.

In court we had long debates about whether or not hackers could actually be so lazy as to violate best practices by sharing private key material, the lower court rejected such an idea as incredible and found me guilty.

Nope

Not sure what the theory here is. Am I supposed to worry about the judges stalking me online and reading my HN comments professing innocence?

The prosecutors couldn't, and wouldn't even want to use anything I've written here, especially considering the trial is over and they can't just file new evidence.

The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha...

>Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically scour the internet in search of personal details.

I'm happy to take you up on this, but I feel like the stakes will need to be pretty high to justify all the effort involved.

>Something tells me he'll try to sneak out of Finland (which is easy due to Schengen), purchase a new passport, and leave Europe.

Why would I do that? I hold a valid Finnish passport, haven't had any trouble entering or exciting Schengen zone lately.

Should find out within the next couple of months if the appeals court decides to acquit.

I tend to refrain from being overly critical of journalists who write about me, but Joe Tidy is a special kind of idiot who wrote an entire book about me based mostly around interviews of people who aren't actually the people they claim to be.

If you choose to blindly believe what the prosecution claims, sure.