{"id":5945,"date":"2008-05-02T06:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2008-05-02T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:30:59","slug":"raw-story-san-diego-gop-chair-revealed-as-infamous-international-software-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5945","title":{"rendered":"RAW STORY: San Diego GOP Chair Revealed as Infamous International Software Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"
Any job applicant knows that background checks are routine “\u201c especially for jobs involving authority or oversight of money. So why didn’t the San Diego Republican Party do a simple Google search before naming Tony Krvaric as its chairman?<\/div>\n

…Or did they?…<\/p>\n

Online research reveals that Krvaric is the co-founder of Fairlight, a band of software crackers which later evolved into an international video and software piracy group that law enforcement authorities say is among the world’s largest such crime rings.<\/div>\n

…Well, go figure.<\/p>\n

That skill set should come in very handy down there in, of all places, San Diego, where the far-right Republican<\/a> Board of Supes, and the far-right Republican<\/a> Registrar of Voters office, have never met a hackable Diebold electronic voting system they didn’t love.<\/p>\n

I recall “Strider” (Krvaric) and the “Fairlight” boyz from my own C-64 and BBS “warez” swapping days in the late 80’s. Those guys, and the other incredibly<\/em> competitive pirate crews, could crack anything, anytime, usually within minutes<\/i> after a new piece of software hit the market (and often, even before it did!).<\/p>\n

But no doubt, the air-tight<\/a>, mission-critical<\/a>, impenetrable<\/a> security<\/a> in Diebold’s voting systems would be beyond the reach of d00dz like Strider and friends. And, of course, there’s far more to gain by a 17-year-old “Strider” cracking the codes<\/a> of, say, International Karate Plus<\/i> and Shoot ’em Up Construction Kit<\/i> than there ever would be for him, as county GOP chair, to hack an election in San Diego, right? I mean, what would possibly <\/em>be the upside to that<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Miriam Raftery’s excellent two-part investigative exclusive for RAW STORY (and for me, at least, a trip down memory lane) is here (Part 1)<\/a> and here (Part 2)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Any job applicant knows that background checks are routine “\u201c especially for jobs involving authority or oversight of money. So why didn’t the San Diego Republican Party do a simple Google search before naming Tony Krvaric as its chairman? …Or did they?… Online research reveals that Krvaric is the co-founder of Fairlight, a band of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,106,300,245],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-fraud","category-republicans","category-san-diego"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}