T O P
AnGenericAccount

We stan a wanted cybercriminal


thetwitchy1

I mean, a cyber criminal is cool and all, but a non-binary cyber criminal who breaks the rules to release information that corrupt government agencies have worked hard to keep secret? Yeah, I Stan that.


Maleficent_Ad1972

Apparently they didn’t work hard enough.


KarlBarx2

Shit, they barely worked at all. The server was totally unprotected. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotected-server-commuteair/


b3nsn0w

this is why they're so upset about hackers, btw. if the cat had to show an extraordinary level of skill to get that, they'd be somewhat less furious, but knowing that while she is hella skilled, she was practically just in the right place at the right time _and has the audacity to show that off on its blog_ seals the deal. we're talking about people whose entire career is built on having others respect them for their competence in authority, they cannot handle the fact that they're morons


Zak_Light

Yeah. For layman explanation: they used a tool (called Shodan after System Shock fame) that basically just browses for open connections on things such as servers, security camera systems, etc that are unprotected. One of these happened to be some dinky airline company, which had a copy of the 2019 No-Fly List. Not to say it didn't take effort, pouring through that data is time consuming, but she's not some magical master hacker. This is pretty much the "rooting through un-shredded paper trash to find documents" equivalent of using the internet


PlatypusFighter

Nyan-binary


marcey_vampirequeen

A nyan-binary cyber criminal if you will


unbibium

if we're going to have to live in this cyber dystopia, then this is the kind of hero we need


an_agreeing_dothraki

Gay, trans, queer, ally, or enby, the important part is the "do crimes"


Digitigrade

Not all cybercriminals are cool, but this one seems fine so far.


nyancrimew

meow


Jajoby

That email leak was fucking spectacular. I know you're not the leaker, but I just wanna say the work you're putting in is phenomenal. Love from the U.S., girl <3


the_dumbass_one666

oh hey, its the kitten itself


trapbuilder2

holy fucking bingle


cookieintheinternet

"meow" — maia arson crimew (2023)


TheNarwhalGal

You’re fucking awesome, girl! Keep doing what you’re doing.


siccoblue

What is she doing?


flopsicles77

Crime


ThePrussianGrippe

Crimes Johnson?


gd5k

Ahh, the secret ingredient


Slime_Incarnate

Exposing government conspiracy too suppress minorities even more so (I wish I was joking)


TheLuckySpades

The email leaks about that weren't initially obtained by her (it was a whistleblower detransitioner who got dragged into that group, got out, retransitioned and gave the emails tk journalists), but is hodting/distributing them.


Commercial_Flan_1898

Whatever the fuck she wants


CatsNotBananas

Holy ducking Bingle what!?


candlelit_bacon

Thanks for riding the internet rainbows hacker cat, we appreciate you!


DavidicusIII

I loved your interview on It could Happen Here. You and Mia were both impeccable, and I hope you do it again.


krill007

What episode was that? I'm very behind on my podcasts


DavidicusIII

UUUUUUGH Don’t make me do work. Okay fine: Gonna give you a Twofer, because I love it. SO MUCH: It Could Happen Here: “The Hacker who Stole the No Fly List from 26 JAN 2023 and We’ll There’s your Problem ep 123 from 03 Feb 2023. <3


krill007

Thank you so much!!


Thezipper100

Hey, Maia, can you visit that abandoned nuclear bunker that has a queen-less colony of ants because ants keep falling in and can't get out? I think that'd be really cool to get photos of it and I don't know any other swiss.


lmN0tAR0b0t

can you send me a link about that? sounds cool


unloud

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/bizarre-ant-colony-discovered-in-an-abandoned-polish-nuclear-weapons-bunker/


AmputatorBot

It looks like you shared an AMP link. These should load faster, but AMP is controversial because of [concerns over privacy and the Open Web](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot). Maybe check out **the canonical page** instead: **[https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/bizarre-ant-colony-discovered-in-an-abandoned-polish-nuclear-weapons-bunker/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/bizarre-ant-colony-discovered-in-an-abandoned-polish-nuclear-weapons-bunker/)** ***** ^(I'm a bot | )[^(Why & About)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot)^( | )[^(Summon: u/AmputatorBot)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/cchly3/you_can_now_summon_amputatorbot/)


paradeoxy1

❤️


Cottoneye-Joe

Best hacker on the planet! The next matrix should star you


DisastrousBusiness81

On the one hand I have tumblr, Twitter, and Reddit accounts, so I really shouldn’t be surprised, but every time I see you on a different platform I’m on I have the standard “Holy Fucking Bingle, my favorite celebrity is in this trash pile with me?!?!? Fuck, then I should probably clean up around here. 😅”


SpotChecks

All hail the crime cat


thevioletsage

The Bingle Monarch! You are unironically such a force of good in the world, thank you <3


OisforOwesome

Can I just say your geocities-ass web page design gives me energy.


IceCreamSandwich66

hi maia stay silly


coffeeisdrug

holy shit it's staying silly w it


tobermort

Meow right back to my favourite fucking hero


hajke5

Just wanna let you know that we talked about you in our Advanced Cyber Security class in my masters degree a few weeks ago


Polar_Vortx

Considering the bloodbath of my arguments below (finally got an answer btw) I think I would be remiss to say that the link to [the Daily Dot article](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotected-server-commuteair/) at the top of the airline hack blog is pretty easily missed (source: I missed it. Multiple times.) I get what you're going for with the pink/purple formatting, but just wanted to let you know in case you're thinking about that sort of UX thing. (I'm about to get downvoted again, aren't I?)


reincharnation

i fear for your life if you won't, we're witnessing royalty ♥️


MilkQueen

sometimes I forget internet celebrities are still living people and my brain melts seeing them pop up in their own post


OctorokHero

There goes my hero...


EuroPolice

Oh hey! Can we ask you stuff?


TotemGenitor

Thank you for your work, girl


Pokefan180

She uses the best subreddit I am beyond overjoyed


DragonSlayersz

Thank you for what you've done. You're doing a great service for the common folk by revealing the stupid shit that happens in the US, and for that, you deserve more praise than I can give.


LavaTacoBurrito

Ma'am please I am on my last legs, you are my only hope, please check reddit DMs, this is not sexual in the slightest. Also unrelated, you are very cool


TeapotTempest

I stan


TheMemeSniper

is switzerland any good


GreenDog3

*crowd cheers*


DaZeldaFreak

is it at least nice in switzerland?


Eain

My Aro companion drew art of your cat, I think. Me and my little family stan you, crime cat. Continue your Nyastardly deeds!


Killroy118

Oh, cool, it has a Reddit account


litten8

it's here! the cat is here!!


moonshinefae

You deserve nice things.


Hekkle01

o7


PerliousPelicans

hi meowtty


alrighteyaphrodite

Fucking icon


30chad03

maia arson crimew real


Landon-The-Lonely

You are literally my chaotic inspiration keep up the badassery girlie!


blastcage

extremely cool, keep it up


Domovie1

That was a great episode on WTYP!


EightByteOwl

you are my icon and i hope u know that


birdlad69

Very epic


Shaeress

Omg! It a meow meow!


Hexxas

I know she prefers being called "girl" and not "woman", but I hope she's OK being called a Bad Bitch cuz that's what she is.


pekkhum

We need a feline term like that... >A male cat is called a tom or tomcat (or a gib, if neutered). A female is called a queen (or a molly, if spayed), especially in a cat-breeding context. A juvenile cat is referred to as a kitten. Hmmmm...


Cevmen

We Stan a queen


pekkhum

Since they prefer "girl" and "kitten" maybe "princess" would sound better to them... Even if she is an empress in our hearts.


weatherseed

I already have to deal with one empress, two would be too much.


312c

And that empress certainly would have negative things to say about maia


captainnowalk

Hoo Boy, *that* empress had a lot of strange things to say about everything. A lot of the wrong and/or unhinged…


DeltaVi

What Empress is this?


captainnowalk

The one that cracked Denuvo pirate protection, but also posts absolutely unhinged rants with their cracks.


Designer-Hurry-3172

We'd have to wait for the next crack


weatherseed

Warez deep lore.


Zoey_Redacted

empress caiatl would have nothing but good things to say about maia or she would think they are a tiny baby thing and call them a tiny baby thing


batman12399

Empress could have been so cool :(


samdog1246

*Image Transcription: Tumblr* --- **nyancrimew** i am literally the cat from the "it has 72 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces" meme --- **nyancrimew** apparently some people here don't know this yet, but yea i am effectively stuck in switzerland since 2021 since i risk immediate extradition to the US if i enter any other country *\#and thats about as much as i can legally elaborate myself \#but there is lots of cool secondary sources talking about this online* --- ^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)


Toast-Goat

Good human


Animator-Honest

I love maiaposting We Stan a monarch


THESUACED

We stay bingle posting


mammamia42069

Shes like julian assange but cool and without the sexual assault


BoofingPoppers

the prospect of being stuck in Switzerland is better than an embassy though


[deleted]

> being in Switzerland Fixed it for you. Zurich has cheese vending machines. I'd rather be in Switzerland rn. I'd be happy to be unable to leave Switzerland.


Br44n5m

Is it good cheese though?


[deleted]

The best


thatjoachim

Cheese vending machines and trains. Paradise.


Rexsplosion

Was the sexual assault thing real or an attempt to get him extradited? There's so much misinformation I was never certain


joeybh

This is a Wikipedia link but it covers the legal case of the matter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority AFAIK it may have been both - allegations of SA that spurred the government to attempt extradition


ThePrussianGrippe

Also Wikileaks had this sudden interest in no longer leaking anything to do with Russia, roughly around 2015. I’m sure it means nothing.


shithandle

This is my huge gripe with Wikileaks and Assange. The massive DNC email leak at a literal perfect time? Refusing to say who supplied it, when, how they verified it, and any stipulations from the supply etc. IMO leak away whenever you get docs and can verify but in this case they barely even tried to hide the collusion. Everyone acts like Assange actually lived up to what Wikileaks initially was - unbiased. But it was clear they were in pockets then and I’ve not trusted them since. I don’t feel great still about the extradition charges but I feel equally as skeptical about his martyrdom as a man untethered by bias.


ThePrussianGrippe

They’ve been in someone’s pocket for years. *locks windows* No one can say for sure who it is. *dumps out all tea* It’s a real mystery. *sends $1000 in rubles to a Mr. V. Putin. No wait that’s too obvious. A Mr. Vladimir P!*


shithandle

Exactly haha. This is my problem with it. I don’t care who they get the leaks from as long as there’s no quid pro quo on what they do with those leaks and when. But they acted like a toddler caught with a permanent marker in their hand swearing they didn’t draw on the walls, and it irks me to this day people just gloss over the obvious squiggles.


Rexsplosion

Appreciate the info!


mammamia42069

Honestly I don’t know and don’t particularly want to speculate on it. Either it was a smear campaign against a whistleblower, or a legitimate crime, and neither are particularly positive outcomes


mrsandrist

Yeah I know it’s all pretty horrible, it’s horrible that the kind of sexual assault he’s been accused of would almost never ever ever be taken seriously and prosecuted and the one time it is it’s as a proxy for state censorship.


shithandle

Ugh I can only imagine being the woman who possibly made the complaint earlier and was dismissed, only to have the cops show up at your door later on wanting to investigate purely for other reasons. The moral tug of war there wouldn’t be nice.


thatjoachim

> the kind of sexual assault he’s been accused of would almost never ever ever be taken seriously In Sweden? It’s taken much more seriously than in other parts of the world.


foxtongue

All the reliable sources I've been privy to, including some first hand accounts, it's a mix of both. He's definitely skeeved on some women and /also/ that's good leverage to pry him out.


theartificialkid

What? One is horrible in the sense of undermining the whistleblower’s integrity, the other is horrible in the sense of our governments conspiring to railroad someone for telling us the truth. It’s important to know which it is. Although Assange already showed us who he is with Trump.


BlatantConservative

I've read the court documents, the tangible thing that happened is him lying about using a condom and then forcing the woman to go through with it when she realized. There are also other women with less solid but still pretty creepy stories. The man creeps people out at the very least.


Mr_P3

I’m 99% sure that was just to try and get him extradited for a better reason than enabling whistleblowing


ScotsDale213

Was this the one who leaked the no fly list or was that someone else? If it is someone else can someone tell me what did they do?


DudeValenzetti

The very same.


ScotsDale213

What else have they gotten up too? All I've heard of is the no fly list one, but I get the impression they've done some other things


fuyuniii

They recently published like 2600 pages of emails between anti trans groups and right wing lawmakers and conservative legal groups. They're positively amazing tbh


ScotsDale213

Yeah that sounds pretty good, nothing here that is likely to harm someone who doesn’t already have it coming for them. Pretty cool person


hoerensagen

I'm out of the loop I think. What's good about knowing who's on a no-fly list?


ScotsDale213

From what I remember there was a concerning prevalence of Muslims on the list, so serious some of them were literal toddlers and only on the list seemingly because of their parents religion. Which would likely get someone in trouble for discrimination based on religion. This is if my memory is correct though


RandomInSpace

Yeah iirc there are a bunch of people that were put on the no fly list based on name alone, it’s pretty fucked up


Triaspia2

Yeah from memory they had flags set just for the name Mohammed with various spellings


Ninjaassassinguy

Holy shit I didn't know it was them. That's fucking amazing


eternamemoria

Maia didn't leak those emails, unlike the no fly list, only published them


KittyQueen_Tengu

also, maia’s pronouns are she/it which is very based of her


ScotsDale213

Will admit I find that kinda strange, but we live in strange times, and it hurts absolutely no one so I don’t really care


KittyQueen_Tengu

accepting that some things you don’t understand are valid too is absolutely the way to go about neopronouns, i personally don’t get romantic and sexual attraction but that’s also valid so why would neopronouns be any different


TorakTheDark

I thought it/it’s were just “normal” pronouns?


Anarchkitty

Using them voluntarily, as opposed to having them used against you as a slur or insult is pretty new.


TorakTheDark

Very true.


Rusamithil

Some think they count as neos because it's new to use them to refer to a person (aside from discriminatory dehumanization), some think they don't count because they've been pronouns for a long time.


Hichann

We stan it/its users


no_talent_ass_clown

Very based of it.


Coloneljesus

They lurk reddit, at least /r/tumblr. You can probably ask the cat yourself. /u/nyancrimew


Pixel871

If you're curious about various stuff why the US wants her head, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew


PaperStew

She was also interviewed on an episode of the podcast *Well There's Your Problem.* Episode 123: Cybersecurity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgbQb7G6e7w


pinksparklyreddit

She also leaked 2600 emails from media outlets proving that the trans panic is fake and manufactured.


Polar_Vortx

\*reposted a link to the leak But still, pretty neat.


Keilo1

*published the leak it was the one to make those leaks available to normal non-journalist peeps, not as simple as just "reposting it" since for general public it wasn't available at all until then


Rez-Boa-Dog

If you're reading this and wanna hang out in Switzerland, my dms are ope n Edit: Hey guys, it's my first big mission here at the agency. They don't usually put me in charge of anything because of my diabetes 😔, and I really need to show my superior I can do an infiltration without getting dunked on So could you all play along please?


Pheonix_Write

Not today, CIA.


MeAndYourMumHaveSex

Now goodbye, FBI


flopsicles77

No way, NSA


AnInfluentialFigure

You don’t make me whole, Interpol.


Commercial_Flan_1898

It's predicted on a lie, FBI.


Penndrachen

NICE TRY, FED BOY


ccc748391

fed posts worst bait ever, asked to leave federal bureau of investigation


Rez-Boa-Dog

You dont know anything, shut up. It could be a great bait, very inviting and unsuspicious, ok? You're just a stupid civilian who knows nothing about being a cool agent like I would be if I were one (but I'm not). Grrr so mad 😡


Narcofeels

What color is your van? I wanna make sure I don’t get kidnapped by the wrong nation


Rez-Boa-Dog

An unconspicuous one


[deleted]

[удалено]


Rez-Boa-Dog

KFC


the_river_nihil

HOA


Rez-Boa-Dog

Should have cut the grass


squishabelle

i aspire to some day be stuck in switzerland


LibrarianCalistarius

Holy fucking Bingle


DishOutTheFish

Holy fucking Bingle indeed !! :3


IronMyr

If I were the president, I would pardon people who ~~serve as whistleblowers against government corruption and inneffectiveness~~ commit objectively cool crimes.


Penndrachen

But we stay silly. :3


SpooderBoi1233

God Maia is so cool. Wacky and silly and all around a pursuer of hi-jinx and goofs


TorreyCool

What's Extradition?


plasmaticImmunity

Basically if someone has comitted a crime in the United States and flee to another country, there are countries that have extradition treaties with us to arrest that person and send them back to the United States to get tried in court. Switzerland is a country that does NOT have such an agreement


DragonWitchGirl

Why is that?


plasmaticImmunity

In this case, maia arson crimew is a Swiss national. They will not extradite their own citizens


Dookie_boy

So why would Germany for example, extradite this person who is a Swiss national, to USA instead of her own country ?


HoweverItHasToHappen

Switzerlands whole deal is that it’s basically uninvadible, and in turn they don’t like to pick geopolitical sides. They are neutral about a ton of things, and in turn their territory and citizens are well protected from foreign influence. Germany and other normal European countries need to play nice with the superpower.


nddragoon

and also in general the swiss government is really based on a lot of stuff. they have some of the strongest privacy laws and piracy for personal use is totally legal iirc for example


Dookie_boy

That's not what I asked but thank you.


plasmaticImmunity

Okay so extradition at its core is one nation asking another one to just hand someone over. It does not matter that CrimeW (In this scenario) would go from Germany to the United States. The United States asked Germany to hand Maia over for crimes committed against the US Government. Germany likes us, so they agree. The fact that she is a Swiss national holds no bearing on whether Germany can extradite her to the United States, only whether Switzerland will extradite her to the Untied States. Does that make sense?


Dookie_boy

Gotcha. Yes it does make sense.


Smilwastaken

It does have an agreement, but often simply refuses to do anything involving it


plasmaticImmunity

Sorry I should have specified. I meant extradition of their own citizens


TorakTheDark

Based Switzerland


TorreyCool

Oh ok, I get it now thx


techshotpun

Arresting and importing someone from a different country


Aetol

Agreements between countries so that, if a criminal tries to escape to another country, the other country will arrest them and send them back to stand trial.


Leif_Millelnuie

Stay Silly :3


drago_varior

Edward snowden moment x3


bookhead714

What if Edward Snowden became a catgirl instead of a Russian propaganda outlet


drago_varior

Edward Snowden but more based


Cysioland

My take is that if the US didn't want him in The Enemy's™ hands then they shouldn't've cancelled his passport while he was en route to places.


Loptional

She’s a bit silly :3


LeftRat

I'm pretty proud of the fact that I am categorically not allowed to migrate to the US.


Latter-Driver

Wait you can not be allowed to migrate to the us?


LeftRat

Yup. Members of communist parties can only visit, they can't stay (there are exceptions for defectors)


RamenBoy21

this cat should have it's own tv show I swear to god


-QuestionableMeat-

Someone elaborate and explain this, please! So weird being part of this Subreddit when you don’t use Tumblr.


Polar_Vortx

[https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotected-server-commuteair/](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotected-server-commuteair/)


scrubfeast

God I love that kitty cat it's so fucking cool


CIntelligenceGaygncy

It’s like Edward Snowden but unfathomably more based


AlarmingAffect0

Bless her ultra-based nyanniness.


flockyboi

Honestly I have so much respect for Crimew. Like not only to do the stuff like the no fly list leak but also just. Genuinely being itself(? I hope that's the right pronouns)


TheDankScrub

omg I have that saved to my phone cause gender


Nekoturny

Switzerland isn't a terrible place to be stranded


Salmonfish23

Banished to Switzerland. A fate worse than death.


TorakTheDark

I wish I was banished to Switzerland.


Force_Glad

What?


SIacktivist

Nyancrimew is a straight-up cybercriminal and hacker. I'm not exaggerating for comedic effect, you can look it up.


yeep-yorp

amd she is so cool for it


DavidicusIII

FUCK, I didn’t know it had a Tumblr! How did I miss that!?!?


SomeHorologist

Chaotic being


Shelbckay

Had no idea I'd be rooting for nb catgirl Edward Snowden this year but fuck yeah let's go