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Date: Thu Jun 29 02:09:23 2006 From: gluttony at gmail.com (Andrew A) Subject: The truth about Rob Levin aka Lilo of irc.freenode.net Searching for Rob's SSN on PACER yields interesting results. I will give Mr. Levin a couple days to explain to his users what landed him with Federal charges in 1992 before I do: Northern District of Texas (Dallas) CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 3:92-cr-00369-1 Case title: USA v. Levin Date Filed: 08/28/1992 Assigned to: Judge Joe Kendall Defendant: Robert Levin On 6/26/06, Slotto Corleone <slotto@...il.com> wrote: > > > Yes, Slotto Corleone has returned. However, this is only a message I've > been given to relay to the list: > > > Eyeballing Rob Levin > > Odds are you've at least heard of Rob Levin (aka lilo), the director of > Texas 501(3)(c) corporation Peer-Directed Projects Center. He's been aptly > mentioned in the Register as a "professional online beggar"[1] and the > incompetence with which he runs the Freenode IRC network has been aired many > a time on popular blogs like Slashdot. In the past week, a group of hackers > took over the Freenode IRC network by sniffing lilo's *@...ound oper block > password off the wire, a gaping security issue that could have been resolved > via many different means-- an SSL port on a single freenode server for lilo > to use, lilo sshing to a server and IRCing from localhost, or the binding of > his oper block to his home host. This was proof enough for me that lilo is > an idiot that wasn't capable of running an IRC for a small group of friends, > much less one hosting hundreds of open-source projects. > > But what of lilo himself? Is he really this benevolent, though sometimes > incompetent dictator he makes himself out to be? After the Freenode fiasco, > I decided to poke around lilo's personal life and get a glimpse of his > character. The results are quite hilarious. > > Everyone knows lilo lives in a trailer. He flaunts his existence as white > trash with glee and twisted pride, playing the part of a martyr for the > cause of open source software. He constantly talks about how poor and beaten > down he is, despite having the leisure time to spend eleven hours a day > chatting on the Internet. The address listed on the PDPC.us domain is > indeed a trailer[2]. Poking around the Texas State Comptroller of Public > Accounts shows the truth[3], though. That address is an office to which the > business is registered, and the registered agent is Robert Levin of 9212 > Burdine St, an apartment building in Houston.[4] > > For a man who claims to be such a martyr for open source development he > has done almost nothing to advance it. He has never made any notable commits > to open source projects. He has done almost nothing at all. The man is in > his fifties and has nothing notable on his resume -- a long history of > manual labor and office tasks for monkeys. The truth about Rob is that he > cannot code. His support of open source is limited to idly chatting away on > IRC. > > Rob and his wife both suck at the teat of the federal government by > collecting disability. They both claim to have ADHD so intense that it > prohibits them from holding a job. During the day, they go to the PDPC > trailer to chat on IRC and answer phonecalls. Two disability checks and PDPC > donations add up. Enough to pay for not only a reasonable apartment and the > PDPC trailer, but for a Hispanic nanny to take care of their son and clean > their house during the day.[5] Not only do they not feel it fitting to work > at any task whatsoever, but they can't even raise their child and clean up > for themselves. > > Personally I have supported open source with my blood, sweat, and tears. I > work at least forty hours a week in a cubicle much smaller than Rob Levin's > trailer and go home to spend several more hours coding for projects that I > feel are worthwhile. I do this not for personal gain, but to fight against a > system of intellectual property law which I find overzealously rewards the > rich and powerful. I'm not going to mention my name, but a good many of you > know it. I've put commits into major operating systems and household name > daemons. > > Lilo is a fraud. He is a huckster that steals money that could be going to > legitimate open source development. There are countless programmers with > real, valuable talent who choose to work hard for the greater good rather > than spending all their time selling their talents to the highest bidder. > Lilo has no talent and epitomizes the kind of vile, undisciplined leech that > I spend my time working against. > > To the FOSS world: Do yourselves a favor and move to EFnet, Undernet, > OFTC, anything but Freenode. EFnet now has chanfix and has not been a > lawless packeteer playground for several years. The days of channel wars on > EFnet are over. It also handles three times the traffic of Freenode without > major incident. > > Don't believe me about Rob Levin? I pulled all his information from public > record in the past twenty-four hours. Poke around his life and see for > yourself: > > Rob's federal employer identification number is 74-3033697 > The address officially listed for pdpc is 10100 main street #31 houson tx > 77025. > Phone number for pdpc officially listed is 713-589-5863. > Rob's ssn is 462 13 0351. > PDPC's 11-digit texas state taxpayer number 32004514421 > Rob's apartment is at 9212 BURDINE ST. #1005 HOUSTON, TX 77096. > 12-16-1955 is Rob's birthday > > [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net/ > [2] http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=10000+Main+St,+Houston,+TX+77025&ie=UTF8&ll=29.676278,-95.430105&spn=0.001643,0.002717&t=k&om=1 > > [3] http://ecpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/servlet/cpa.app.coa.CoaGetTp?Pg=tpid&Search_Nm=Peer-Directed%20Projects%20Center%20&Button=search&Search_ID=32004514421 > > [4] http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=9212+BURDINE+ST+Houston,+Texas&ie=UTF8&ll=29.677741,-95.481952&spn=0.001643,0.002717&t=k&om=1 > > [5] I would cite the name, phone and address of the nanny but I do not > feel it fitting that she should be harassed. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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