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   Hacker News 50 (hn50@social.lansky.name)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 04:11:56 JST Hacker News 50

   Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

   Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/arizona_woman_laptop_farm_guilty/
   Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860207

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 04:13:48 JST pistolero

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     > According to court documents, Chapman ran a laptop farm out of her home from October 2020 to October 2023. During this time she hosted computers for overseas IT workers — who were posing as American citizens and residents — to ensure the devices had local IP addresses, making them appear to be in the US.
     
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 04:24:22 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @p I am only opposed to this insofar as it taking job opportunities away from US nationals. However, beyond that, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. These people did work for companies in exchange for paychecks. There is nothing wrong with that in my book, even if those paychecks made their way to the DPRK (which is pretty based, in my opinion). @hn50

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 04:26:12 JST pistolero

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     > taking job opportunities away from US nationals.
     
     North Korea won't hire me to launder money.
     
     > DPRK (which is pretty based, in my opinion).
     
     This depends entirely on how you feel about VX nerve agents being deployed in airports.