Kenny Klipz has the goods. This is the real thing, most likely.

BTW it's not behind paywall so do our guy some good and give him some traffic for the scoop.

  • miz [any, any]
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    1 month ago

    “To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

    • miz [any, any]
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      1 month ago

      some elementary social engineering

      I'm imagining him calling five or six midtown hotels pretending to want to make changes as Brian Thompson before he hit on one where the desk agent let slip that there was a reservation

      EDIT: apparently the CEO was staying in a hotel "across the street", so it may have been the first or second one he called. judging by the map there's really just the Warwick and The Luxury Collection Hotel Manhattan Midtown that's that close by

    • miz [any, any]
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      1 month ago

      it seems a little strange to me, before getting caught, to write in a voice where you assume you are already caught instead of addressing the public

        • Babs [she/her]
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          1 month ago

          3d files for glock frames are very easy to find. You don't need CAD for this, unless he's just trying to sound cool and savvy. He certainly didn't design the gun.

      • ByteFoolish [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Computer Aided Design. Probably for 3D printing the gun parts

        • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 month ago

          TBH I wouldn't be surprised if he like mapped out the area of the city in CAD to figure out where the target would be visible from, where he could hide the bicycle, and what his route to the park would look like, or some shit like that. It's definitely not beyond the galaxy-brainedness of this kind of techbro (assuming it really was this guy, of course).

          EDIT: NVM, I guess. I see the gun allegedly found on him at McDonald's is claimed to be a 3D print.

      • turtle [he/him]@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        I wondered that too. Computer Aided Drafting or Design? Huh?

        Oh, wait a second, it just clicked! He's probably referring to using CAD for 3D printing the gun!

      • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
        hexagon
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        1 month ago

        I'd guess this is reference to the gun? However, it's possible there's some other usage I'm unaware of? Is the acronym Computer Aided Design?