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Aaron Greenspan is making threats and stalking President Trump on his Twitter accounts @AaronGreenspan and @PlainSite:

Aaron Greenspan is now known to Secret Service, FBI and other Federal and State Law Enforcement Agencies for making threats against President Trump.

On one occasion using @PlainSite, Aaron Greenspan made a death threat towards President Trump, where Aaron Greenspan stated about President Trump, "He should be taken outside and hanged".
This was just one of the many death threats that Aaron Greenspan made against President Trump.
Aaron Greenspan is also continuously stalking President Trump and his legal affairs and personal information.

What we cannot understand is why the owner of Twitter, Jack Dorsey does not close down these two Twitter accounts @AaronGreenspan and @PlainSite that are being used too stalk and harass the public and to expose private and personal information.

We don't know what is going on, as to why Jack Dorsey does not step up and shut these abusive Twitter accounts that belong to Aaron Greenspan down. Also, Aaron Greenspan owns and uses many fake Twitter accounts to spy on his victims that have already blocked him.

Jack Dorsey should step up and do what's right and permanently shut down @AaronGreenspan and @PlainSite that we know belong to Aaron Greenspan that he uses to stalk, harass and threaten people online. Jack Dorsey shuold also investigate what the other fake Twitter accounts are that Aaron Greenspan has created and permanently shut them all down.

Aaron Greenspan is a danger to society and is wreaking havoc by stalking, harassing, threatening, blackmailing, extorting tactics, maliciously hacking in to everything, social media accounts, GSA, databases and lots of malicious hacking that has not yet been exposed on Aaron Greenspan. FBI has visited Aaron Greenspan on numerous occasions about his malicious hacking.

Aaron Greenspan
@AaronGreenspan
"Je pense, donc je suis." —Descartes

Opinions of an independent thinker.
California, USAaarongreenspan.comJoined January 2012

PlainSite
@PlainSite
The law in plain sight. Send tips to [protected]@plainsite.org.

PlainSite affiliates may hold long/short investments in companies discussed. Not investment advice.
plainsite.orgJoined October 2011

Aaron Greenspan is a data mining maniac full of obsessive compulsive disorders and a devious hacker.

Aaron Greenspan has a mental illness schizophrenia with psychosis and Autism on top of this he has serious OCD crazy behaviors and is a danger to himself and the entire society.

Aaron Greenspan projects his mental illness and OCD behaviors on to others. He has serious issues with reading comprehension and because he is a paranoid schizophrenic he only hears and sees what is in his mentally deranged delusional mind.

Another serious personality defect of Aaron Greenspan is that he is a Narcissistic Sociopath who thinks he is better, smarter and more special than everyone else in society. This is all part of Aaron Greenspan being a paranoid schizophrenic, with autism and accompanied with being a narcissistic sociopath one can clearly see how utterly insane this Aaron Greenspan is.

It is important to not have any communication with this mentally ill Asrpn Greenspan. Do not click on plainsite.org because he will harvest your IP address and all the personal information he can get his hands on. It's part of the paranoid schizophrenia of Aaron Greenspan.

Aaron Greenspan is an Information Hoarder just like people hoard garbage and other things, this highly insecure person Aaron Greenspan is not curable and under normal circumstances he would have already been permanently committed to a mental health facility for the rest of his life. Because of all the mental health cutbacks since the Teagan era, people with multiple personality disorders and paranoid schizophrenia like Aaron Greenspan are no longer committed to a mental health facility and his family most definitely being cheapskates for not want to pay out of pocket for the mental health assistance that Aaron Greenspan desperately needs.

The father Neil Greenspan and mother Judith Greenspan set up Think Comouter Corporation in 1998 and the fraudulent 501(c)(3) called Think Computer Foundation in 2000 to pay for the mental illness costs of their other son Simon Greenspan who has been institutionalized on multiple occasions and arrested by the Shaker Heights police for being aggressive, harassment and threatening behaviors towards many neighbors on Shelburne Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Aaron Greenspan also has multiple Shaker Heights, Ohio police and court complaints on him and he actually sued the Town of Shaker Heights but lost. To see the criminal charges and police and court reports against mentally deranged Aaron Greenspan, just file a FOIA request and contact the Shaker Heights Court, Police and Town Hall to gain access to the disturbing criminal complaints on Aaron and Simon Greenspan who terrorized and harassed neighbors in Shaker Heights for many years.

Also, one can file FOIA requests with the FBI to gain access to all the criminal hacking Aaron Greenspan has done and is still doing to the public.

FOIA requests can also be sent to the Ohio Attorney General to read about the tax frauds that Aaron Greenspan has been perpetrating in society for decades, while they save their own money, they enjoy using taxpayer money to pay all their out of pocket expenses. They are not only dishonest and highly unethical, they are criminals who are now in the midst of getting caught for their decades long financial and other crimes.

Aaron Greenspan will be sued for defamation and slander against Elon Musk and many other victims of the egocentric narcissistic sociopathic Aaron Greenspan.

Let's also not forget that Aaron Greenspan is a mentally ill pathological serial liar.

Aaron Jacob Greenspan was arrested last weekend after the Cleveland Ohio police found child porn on his computer!
Aaron Greenspan is the man who sued facebook and lost. Mr. Greenspan is also a convicted stalker. He was arrested on several felony stalking charges. According to public record, Aaron Greenspan has a history of internet stalking and other felony crimes including child porn.

The picture posted is a current picture of Aaron Jacob Greenspan. Picture was taken by an international news reporter and is in the public domain. Do not remove picture.

Aaron Greenspan is suicidal, suffers from severe depression and the Autism Spectrum. He is a social menace to society and should not allowed to touch a computer, smart device and most definitely kept away from the Internet.

Benjamin Burrows
1.0 out of 5 stars A book that never should have been written
June 14, 2010
Format: Hardcover
"Authoritas" is a nauseating and desperate attempt by Greenspan to assert himself as the "true" visionary behind Facebook. Instead, he cements his place in history as a jealous and imbalanced individual. Each page of the book is dripping with extreme insecurity, regret, and bitterness. Greenspan finds himself in a world in which Mark Zuckerberg's growing empire is ubiquitous; even casual reminders of the site (e.g., seeing a random girl using Facebook at a public computer terminal) are emotionally devastating to him. He believes that he has been robbed of fame, fortune, and credit, causing him to spiral into an anxious and overwhelming depression. As other reviewers have noted, his resentment toward Zuckerberg (and nearly everyone else, including the president of Harvard, the press, etc.) is palpable. He shares a number of uncomfortable thoughts and inner dialogues, making plain his terrible obsession with the events surrounding the creation of the multi-billion dollar social networking giant. In interviews, Greenspan claims that this book is his crowning achievement. If this is true -- and he has decided to define his life by these intense (and probably unfounded) feelings of betrayal -- it is the saddest part of all. The reader is left to worry about the author's overall mental health, and ability to move forward.

If anything, this book serves as a painful reminder of what can happen when one chooses to dwell too deeply on misfortune and lost opportunities. Almost anything else that Greenspan could have done with his time would have been better spent instead of writing this book.
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The following is the response about the above review Cyber Stalker and Serial Harasser Aaron Greenspan who frequently uses fake accounts, names, Social Media accounts by disguising his identity from the public:

Rebecca Zeltinger5 years agoReport abuse
How much do you get paid to do your job Mr. Burrows? I mean, you can't expect me to think you really think that the true and uncredited creator of facebook (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692226 ) who wrote a book to set the record straight and correct history would have been better had he been happy about this. And forced the billion curious users of that site to have zero way of finding out the truth. No. You should not be happy is someone steals your billion dollar idea. No. Please. Stop your lies.

On June 29th 2019 I placed an Order from Facebook for a promotional "Dyson Cyclone V13 Vacuum Intelligent Cleaning 2020" it was supposed to arrive in 6 months. I called Dyson on Dec 27th to find out about it and they informed me that they never had such a promotion. Since I paid with Paypal I notified Paypal about this and after several attempts to get my money back, they informed me that I placed my complained after the 6 months, which I did not, I contacted them on Dec. 28th. Order # 4555, Transaction ID is 2EC60722LL3756816. After speaking with Dyson, they said it was most likely a scam and to get my refund thru Paypal. So far Paypal closed the complaint.

Dear Aaron Greenspan:

I am contacting you here in the realm of anonymity of this site since I believe that you will see this. Here, you can't report my Tweet and here you can't pursue my IP address (hopefully). However, I am not here to file an actual complaint and will bring this down once I realize you have read this.

Aaron, I am asking you for a cease-fire.

There are many people on Twitter who you are trying to silence simply because you disagree with them on topics. Tesla and Elon Musk being that topic. Aaron, you are [censored]ing brilliant. You have the skills and knowledge that many don't have and you could do some tremendous good with that.

I feel that you think you are doing great work, yet Aaron, you are harming innocent individuals. Individuals like those you blame for working for Tesla or intimated that they are not genuine individuals are in truth, genuine.

These individuals have lives, objectives, dreams and expectations. Is anyone surprised why numerous in the Tesla people group are griping about you? At the point when somebody is tending to their very own concerns and here you accompany these wild allegations produced using a site that is managed by a nonprofit organization?

You speak of libel but you word things brilliantly so you won't look like you are accusing someone of something but we all know that you are. Perhaps you feel like you need to distribute justice against people who wronged you--but Aaron, we never wronged you. We only stood up for ourselves when you came at us.

When you use your influence to shut an account down and silence their voice because you simply do not like them harms not only that person, but the system in general. You may think its justice, but instead it's just the continuation of a needless war between two people.

I am not Omar, I am not Elon, but I am just a regular shareholder who believes in Tesla. I also believe that you do have a heart somewhere. I see the good in you Aaron, and see the good things you can do if you so choose to do them.

I'm not asking you to change your views on Elon Musk or Tesla. I know that I can not convince you to. I am simply asking you for a cease-fire. Also, I have a question: what makes you feel good inside? What warms your heart with pure joy and bliss? Discover something- - think about a minute when you were genuinely upbeat and attempt to remember it. Everybody deserves to be wrapped up in the warm light of joy, sheep happiness and love, Aaron. I wish this for you- - I wish that you discover harmony.

Dear Complaintsboard.com,

Aaron Greenspan is harassing, cyberstalking and cyberbullying many people and he uses the public's personal information to shame people and company's and he does not remoce anything. Aaron Greenspan has a double standard where he does not want Americans to enjoy their First Amendment but he thinks he can do whatever he wants to people and company's and then tries to get things removed when all victims of Aaron Greenspan have the same right to have their truthful comments and complaints posted for eveyone to see how Aaron Greenspan is abusing the public.

The public needs to realize that Aaron Greenspan speaks in the third party as if he is a different personality than who he truly is and this makes him quite dangerous as he could become unpredictable and violent.

plainsite.org is a fraudulent 501(c)(3) that has been fraudulently placed under Think Computer Foundation. Anyone who donates money to this scam will find themselves not being able to write these donations off because plainsite.org is a fraud to try and get money from the public for nothing.

Aaron Greenspan suffers from a mental illness called Dissociative identity disorder or (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder or (MPD). This mental illness is characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring personaity traits.

What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?

Dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder) is thought to be a complex psychological condition that is likely caused by many factors, including severe trauma during early childhood (usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse).

Dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a combination of factors that may include trauma experienced by the person with the disorder. The dissociative aspect is thought to be a coping mechanism -- the person literally shuts off or dissociates himself from a situation or experience that's too violent, traumatic, or painful to assimilate with his conscious self.

How to Recognize Dissociative Identity Disorder and Its Associated Mental Disorders

Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct or split identities or personality states that continually have power over the person's behavior. With dissociative identity disorder, there's also an inability to recall key personal information that is too far-reaching to be explained as mere forgetfulness. With dissociative identity disorder, there are also highly distinct memory variations, which fluctuate with the person's split personality.

The "alters" or different identities have their own age, sex, or race. Each has his or her own postures, gestures, and distinct way of talking. Sometimes the alters are imaginary people; sometimes they are animals. As each personality reveals itself and controls the individuals' behavior and thoughts, it's called "switching." Switching can take seconds to minutes to days. When under hypnosis, the person's different "alters" or identities may be very responsive to the therapist's requests.

The distinct personalities may serve diverse roles in helping the individual cope with life's dilemmas. For instance, there's an average of two to four personalities present when the patient is initially diagnosed. Then there's an average of 13 to 15 personalities that can become known over the course of treatment. While unusual, there have been instances of dissociative identity disorder with more than 100 personalities. Environmental triggers or life events cause a sudden shift from one alter or personality to another.

What Other Psychiatric Illnesses Might Occur With DID?

Along with the dissociation and multiple or split personalities, people with dissociative disorders may experience a number of other psychiatric problems, including symptoms:

Depression
Mood swings
Suicidal tendencies
Sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking)
Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias (flashbacks, reactions to stimuli or "triggers")
Alcohol and drug abuse
Compulsions and rituals
Psychotic-like symptoms (including auditory and visual hallucinations)
Eating disorders
Stalking people and company's
OCD
Delusional thoughts of grandeur and self importance
Collecting the public's personal data for stalking and shaming purposes

DID shares many psychological symptoms as those found in other mental disorders, including:

Changing levels of functioning, from highly effective to disturbed/disabled
Severe headaches or pain in other parts of the body
Depersonalization (feeling disconnected from one's own thoughts, feelings, and body)
Derealization (feeling that the surrounding environment is foreign, odd, or unreal)
Depression and/or mood swings
Anxiety
Eating and sleeping disturbances
Problems with functioning sexuality
Substance abuse
Amnesia (memory loss or feeling a time distortion)
Hallucinations (false perceptions or sensory experiences, such as hearing voices)
Self-injurious behaviors such as "cutting"
Suicide risk — 70% of people with DID have attempted suicide

What's the Treatment Plan for Dissociative Identity Disorder?

While there's no "cure" for dissociative identity disorder, long-term treatment can be helpful, if the patient stays committed

There are no established medication treatments for dissociative identity disorder, making psychologically-based approaches the mainstay of therapy. Long term inpatient psychotherapy is also recommended.

Because the symptoms of dissociative disorders often occur with other disorders, such as anxiety and depression, medicines to treat those co-occurring problems, if present, are sometimes used in addition to psychotherapy.

Aaron Greenspan has been severely traumatized by his upbringing and then the members of facebook shunning him completely at Harvard University. Today Aaron Greenspan cannot move forward and is stuck in the past where he will stay with no future because he does not know how to leave the public alone without harassing them.

Aaron Greenspan feels that he deserves to be the owner of facebook and is angry at the world because he was thrown to the side like a bottle cap. Today Aaron Greenspan wants to give that same treatment to anyone he can online using cyberstalking, cyberbullying and harassment of people and company's. As the old saying goes "misery loves company" and Aaron Greenspan is miserable and wants to see everyone else miserable.

This is why Aaron Greenspan created plainsite.org so that he can gather as much personal information as he can on people and company's and then cyberstalk and harass them without any empathy. Aaron Greenspan has so much pent up anger, hatred and especially jealousy that he has a hard time functioning in society and he alienates good people because of his immense hatred and envy towards the real successfuly people in this world.

Aaron Greenspan is cyberstalking and harassing people and company's like an insane person and he is using his fake 501(c)(3) website plainsite.org and his two main Twitter accounts @PlainSite and @AaronGreenspan. Although, Aaron Greenspan has many fake Twitter accounts and many fake social media accounts that he is currently using to cyberstalk and harass the public. One of his specialties is called Doxing where Aaron Greenspan goes in to varios data sites and accumulates sensitive information on his victims and then exposes all of this highly personal and sensitive information to shame his victims. When that does not work then Aaron Greenspan fiels fake complaints against people and even gets some of his Twitter followers to harass his victims and get their Twitter accounts shut down by making up false complaints and framing people.
Aaron Greenspan should be locked up on a Psych Ward and not be allowed to meddle with the public's personal information. All Aaron Greenspan knows how to do is cyberstalk and harass people and company's and he does not like to work for a living.
Aaron Greenspan had absolutely nothing to do with facebook and the team shunned this crazy person. Aaron Greenspan writes up tales to try and get gullible people online to believe he all that when he is nothing by a cybstalking loser who makes money off of legal documents and talking trash and lies about people.
We want the Twitter accounts @PlainSite and @AaronGreenspan shut down for cybstalking and harassing so many people and company'ss and spewing out nothing but gibberish and lies.

Complaint / review text:
This is reposted from [redacted]. do a [redacted] search for plainsite.org and you will see all the complaints. this guy aaron jacob greenspan is a 33 year old [censored]!
Aaron greenspan is an internet scam artist!

Below is a repost:

Sick attempt by aaron jacob greenspan, the owner of the website plainsite.org to compile data from government websites and reproduce for their own personal gain. court records are sensitive information and aaron greenspan's website not only publicizes them far beyond the need of any legal community. its just profiteering off people's private lives.

Ruining my life because of the popularity of it on google and the legal documents being exposed by this site. simply unethical and wrong the company should be ashamed of themselves. how does this guy aaron greenspan sleep at night?

He refuses to remove information even though it is personal, ruining my job/life/career options. they should be sued for inflicting emotional trauma on so many people and blatently refusing to remove information in spite of it's impact.

Truth on Aaron Greenspan:

At Harvard Univesity this mental case and complete Sociopath with NPD Narcissistic Personality Disorder Aaron Greenspan was going around writing papers in Economics and other subjects for other Harvard Students for money. He was not caught but should have been expelled from Harvard for many reasons.

Aaron Greenspan did not create Facebook in any way. Aaron Greenspan created House System at Harvard that was a big joke and he was told by Harvard University to shut this site down or he was going to be expelled because he was doing what he does today and that is gathering people's personal information to then at any given time turn around and shame someone to doing what he wants. He is an extremely sick and dangerous person and anyone with any common sense will not give this lunatic any money, do not follow him on social media, do not answer or communicate with this mentally ill Cyberstalker as he will ruin your lives, as he has already done to many people.

Aaron Greenspan did not receive any money from Mark Zuckerberg and this disturbed person writes up his own fairy tales and tries to get the gullible public to believe his insane lies and tall tales, as he tries to make himself important online but he is a fool with no common sense and seriously mentally ill.

Aaron Greenspan has been and still trying to get the Tesla Stock to go down by spreading fake news, false rumours and lies and what he is doing is a SEC crime.

Aaron Greenspan hacks in to people's social media accounts and has created hundreds of social media accounts and is even so sick that he himself has been donating to his scam of a Gofundme account many times, so that it looks like people are giving this crazy person money, when in fact he is the one doing most of the self donations to once again scam the public.

Aarron Greenspan has created hundreds of fake Twitter accounts, so that it looks like he has many followers, when in fact 80% of his so called followers on Twitter at @PlainSite are all made up by Aaron Greenspan to fool the public once again.

One cannot believe anything that Aaron Greenspan states, as he only lies and will not admit to any wrongdoing or lying.

Smart people will not donate to this lunatic, will not follow him on social media and definitely will not answer any of his lunatic emails, as all he is trying to do is Troll you and gain access to your personal information.

If you need access to legal documents and you want no Cyberstalking or Harassment to occur, or any collection of your data, then simply go to the following link: https://www.pacer.gov/. Here you can sign up for a free account and the first $15 a month are free and this will most likely be doubled next year by Pacer.
Pacer is a Federal database and they do not Cyberstalk or Harass you like Aaron Greenspan does and you will be left alone and free to do what you choose. If you are dumb and decide to go with plainsite.org who by the way get all their legal dockets from Pacer then you can be assured that all of your information, especially credit card numbers and financial information will be Trolled and if you ever try and termainate your plainsite.org subscription like we did you will be Cyberstalked and Harassed by Aaron Greenspan and he does not quit with his Cyberstalking.

If you have already signed up with plainsite.org then you should carefully and politely terminate your account with Aaron Greenspan. If he senses and abrasiveness he will go on the attack and throw all of your personal information all of the internet becasue he is a Sick Cyberstalker.

People should stop following @AaronGreenspan and his menacing Twitter account @PlainSite and do not engage in any type of conversation or disputes with this lunatic, as he will try and sink your reputation, career and company. We are giving you the best advice possible to protect yourself from Aaron Greenspan and that is to completely ignore and stay away from this mentally disturbed person, otherwise he will attack you online like he has attacked us and so many more.

Aaron Greenspan his father Neil S Greenspan and mother Judith Keene Greenspan are all responsible for creating Think Computer Foundation a Tax Fraud machine that scams the State of Ohio, the IRS and the public. They have many websites such as plainsite.org that they falsely claim to be a 501(c)(3) that is being used to use and abuse the public and scam the public out of their hard earned money with all kinds of lies and made up victimization stories and just complete fairy tales that nobody in their right mind should believe anything these crazy people say, as they are just inherently bad people who want to scam and con the public out of their hard earned money.

Everything written on the complaintsboard website is the truth about Aaron Greenspan and he does not like the truth being told about his criminal Cyberstalking and Harassment, so he tries and discredits anyone and everyone to try and make himself look legit and credible, when in fact he is a highly dangerous person with a mind that does not function like normal people's minds. He lives in an alternate dimension where he literally believes his own made up lies and tales but he is not this person that he is trying to portray to the public. Aaron Greenspan is a dangerous Cyberstalker, Serial Harasser, Collects and uses your personal data to try and destroy people and company's and this mental case should not be out in free society. Aaron Greenspan belongs locked up in a Psychiatric Facility, as he is too dangerous.

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Paymaxx shuttered additional online services this week, after a web programmer continued to find holes in the system.

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By robert lemos | march 2, 2005 — 01:52 gmt (17:52 pst) | topic: security

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Service provider paymaxx shuttered additional parts of its online payroll site this week, after a web programmer continued to find holes in the system.
Paymaxx's further closure of its web services comes after a web programmer, aaron greenspan, discovered that the company's initial attempt to block malicious access had fixed some flaws but left others unresolved.

While still referring to the data leak as "limited in scope," the online payroll processor closed down its payview and instant w2 services, the company said in a statement. the services will remain down until paymaxx has completed a thorough security analysis and redesigned the site's architecture.

"we have sent all clients and key partners e-mails alerting them to the situation, and we are contacting the companies we believe may have been potentially affected by the hacking," paymaxx said in a statement sent to cnet news.com.

The dispute between paymaxx and greenspan, president of web services start-up think computer and a former paymaxx customer, over the security of the company's web site continued this week. paymaxx referred to greenspan as a "hacker," while the web programmer maintained that the security problem is far worse than divulged by the payroll company.

The data leak comes at a time when several high-profile attacks have congress looking into further legislation to protect people's private information.in february, data aggregator choicepoint warned that almost 150, 000 consumer files had been compromised by scam artists who had set up fake companies to garner identity information. last week, financial services giant bank of america alerted government workers that backup tapes containing their information had gone missing.

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Greenspan said he uncovered the problem with paymaxx's web site about three weeks ago and tried to contact the company. he said paymaxx did not respond, so he posted a report detailing the flaws. that prompted paymaxx to shut down its web service for retrieving w2 information. greenspan continued to prod the site's security and discovered more vulnerabilities this weekend, he said.

Greenspan said his attempts to find flaws in the site have been motivated by protecting his own information, from when think computer was a client of paymaxx. "think had an obvious interest in seeing that the problem would be resolved properly since its own data was stored in the affected systems," he said in an e-mail interview.

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Paymaxx does not agree. the web programmer has been far too intent on poking holes in the company's systems and has "numerous inaccuracies" in his report, paymaxx said in a statement. the company did not specify which parts of his report were incorrect.

"we believe the hacker has violated federal law and we will take whatever action is necessary to protect the interests of our clients and our company," the company said.

Paymaxx has contracted an outside security company to test its web applications' security and has ordered additional hardware and software to better detect intrusions, paymaxx said in a statement.

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Paymaxx shuttered additional online services this week, after a web programmer continued to find holes in the system.

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Service provider paymaxx shuttered additional parts of its online payroll site this week, after a web programmer continued to find holes in the system.
Paymaxx's further closure of its web services comes after a web programmer, aaron greenspan, discovered that the company's initial attempt to block malicious access had fixed some flaws but left others unresolved.

While still referring to the data leak as "limited in scope," the online payroll processor closed down its payview and instant w2 services, the company said in a statement. the services will remain down until paymaxx has completed a thorough security analysis and redesigned the site's architecture.

"we have sent all clients and key partners e-mails alerting them to the situation, and we are contacting the companies we believe may have been potentially affected by the hacking," paymaxx said in a statement sent to cnet news.com.

The dispute between paymaxx and greenspan, president of web services start-up think computer and a former paymaxx customer, over the security of the company's web site continued this week. paymaxx referred to greenspan as a "hacker," while the web programmer maintained that the security problem is far worse than divulged by the payroll company.

The data leak comes at a time when several high-profile attacks have congress looking into further legislation to protect people's private information.in february, data aggregator choicepoint warned that almost 150, 000 consumer files had been compromised by scam artists who had set up fake companies to garner identity information. last week, financial services giant bank of america alerted government workers that backup tapes containing their information had gone missing.

Greenspan said he uncovered the problem with paymaxx's web site about three weeks ago and tried to contact the company. he said paymaxx did not respond, so he posted a report detailing the flaws. that prompted paymaxx to shut down its web service for retrieving w2 information. greenspan continued to prod the site's security and discovered more vulnerabilities this weekend, he said.

Greenspan said his attempts to find flaws in the site have been motivated by protecting his own information, from when think computer was a client of paymaxx. "think had an obvious interest in seeing that the problem would be resolved properly since its own data was stored in the affected systems," he said in an e-mail interview.

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Paymaxx does not agree. the web programmer has been far too intent on poking holes in the company's systems and has "numerous inaccuracies" in his report, paymaxx said in a statement. the company did not specify which parts of his report were incorrect.

"we believe the hacker has violated federal law and we will take whatever action is necessary to protect the interests of our clients and our company," the company said.

Paymaxx has contracted an outside security company to test its web applications' security and has ordered additional hardware and software to better detect intrusions, paymaxx said in a statement.

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Aaron Greenspan is a Hacker and has been Hacking in to databases, emails, social media accounts, iTunes accounts, State and Federal Government databases, financial insitutions and much more.

The following are just some examples of all the intrusive Hacking that Aaron Greenspan has been doing over the years:

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2005/02/south-station-hack-shows-security-train.html

https://m.govexec.com/federal-news/2006/01/gsa-shuts-down-insecure-contracting-web-site/20964/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2561629/gsa-s-vendor-web-site-closed-to-fix-security-flaw.html

https://www.zdnet.com/article/payroll-firm-pulls-web-services-citing-data-leak/

https://www.cnet.com/news/payroll-site-closes-on-security-worries/

Believe it when people say that Aaron Greenspan is the alias John Fuenchem and that Aaron Greenspan has hacked in to the Social Media Accounts of the followers of the Free Law Project and made false statements about The Free Law Project, in order to try and wreck their reputation. This is exactly what Aaron Greenspan does to the people and companies that he targets. Aaron Greenspan goes on a shaming and reputation destroying mission when he targets a person or company. Aaron Greenspan is a pathological liar and will deny that he does any Hacking or tries to ruin people's reputations online but the proof is right here and there is much more when it comes to his Hacking exploits.

Aaron Greenspan Hacks in to State and Federal Law Enforcement Databases and that includes court records that have been impounded and sealed.

Do not believe one word that Aaron Greenspan says because all he does is make up lies to try and control his fictional narrative.

Jeff Steinport who received his law license from Michigan in 2012 is the third individual who's name is not on this article, as he is doing lots of bad things to the public, such as data mining people's highly personal and sensitive information on any one of dozens of monetized websites and gripe sites, which in turn is destroying many lives of Americans. Because Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan are doing really bad things to the public under the guise of our First Amendment, by uploading people's personal information for their profit making on one of their many websites that include gripe sites, they have no shame and do not care if Americans will not find employment, or are having their reputations ruined. For this Aaron Greenspan and Jeff Steinport it's all about doing little to no work, sitting in front of one of their computers, creating monetized websites, including gripe sites, so that they can make an easy living and then Jeff Steinport uses his law license to try and intimidate and threaten anyone with the little bit of law that he has learned. We believe Jeff Steinport received his law license to essentially exploit our freedoms and abuse the public, by making easy money off of the public's personal information through data mining.

Jeff Steiport communicates regularly with the other individual who is doing similar things, Aaron Greenspan. Both Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan are in violation of Federal Criminal Statutes by harassing, stalking, writing hate speech against their targeted victims who out them with law enforcement and they assist one another in the furtherance of their bad deeds against the innocent public who just want to be employed and uphold their reputations.

Both Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan are violating Federal Criminal Law. These individuals are engaged in Hacking and setting up websites to harass and target their victims and they work in conjunction with one another. These two indiviudals discriminate against anyone who's legal dockets that they have gotten hold of and then do their own judging and redact the facts so they fit their narrative.

Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan work together to gain highly sensitive personal data on their targeted victims and then do what's called Doxxing and they go on a shaming mission, in order to destroy a person's reputation online. These two individuals communicate frequently with eachother using social media and WhatsApp to hide the bad things that they are doing from the public.

Both Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan are engaging in Cyberstalking of their targeted victims and they both conspire and work closely together to do this Cyberstalking. All of which is a Federal Offense.

Both Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan are Cyber Criminals working jointly as a team together to destroy anyone who discloses what they do to law enforcement. These individuals use a wide variety of technigues to stalk their victims and they include:
Harassing the victim online
Embarassing and humiliating the victim
Exerting control by seeking out by any means their victims personal identifying information to then check up on their financial situation and other personal information.
Isolating the victim/s by harassing his/her family, friends, employer and much more.
Frightening their victims by using online harassment, scare tactics and threats.

Jeff Steinport uses his law license as that extra authority to try and humiliate, intimidate and threaten his targeted victims.

The following key factors of identifying cyberstalking are directly related and correlate with Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan.

Key factors to identifying cyberstalking cases include:

False accusations. A cyberstalker often tries to damage the reputation of his victim by posting false information on social media websites or blogs. A perpetrator may even create fictitious websites or other accounts for the purpose of spreading false rumors and allegations about the victim.

Gathering information about the victim. A cyberstalker may try to gather as much information as possible about the victim by interacting with the victim's friends, family, and colleagues. In serious cases, a cyberstalker may hire a private investigator.

Monitoring victim's activities. A cyberstalker may attempt to trace his victim's IP address, or hack into the victim's social media accounts and emails to learn about his online activities.

Encouraging others to harass the victim. The offender may encourage the involvement of third parties to harass the victim.

False victimization. It is not uncommon for a cyberstalker to claim the victim is harassing him, taking the position of victim in his own mind.

Both Jeff Steinport and Aaron Greenspan are guilty of all of the above and are in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2261A. Stalking and 18 U.S. Code § 241. Conspiracy against rights.

Stalkers often emphasize that they "love" their victims and occasionally say they stalk to keep others safe?

Psychologically, however, stalking is a crime of control. Stalkers see their victims as possessions who are rightfully theirs. They are control freaks who don't realize that they have serious mental health issues.

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Invective and Intrigue Within the Free Law Movement Over RECAP Changes

By Robert Ambrogi on February 16, 2018
Disagreement over recent changes to a program designed to provide public access to federal court documents has developed into a feud of sorts between two advocates for free and open access to government information - and implicated in it is a cast of characters that includes the man who created the original version of Facebook, another man who may not actually exist, and a variety of people willing to weigh in with their opinions, but unwilling to do so on the record.

The feud involves RECAP, a program run by the Free Law Project (FLP) to collect documents downloaded from the federal judiciary's fee-based PACER system and make them available for free in a publicly accessible archive. To collect PACER documents, RECAP encourages lawyers and legal researchers to use its extension for Chrome and Firefox browsers that automatically captures every document downloaded from PACER and delivers it to the RECAP archive.

The feud began after FLP rolled out an updated version of the RECAP extension in November. Prior to the update, RECAP delivered documents to two repositories - the RECAP archive hosted by FLP and a separate archive hosted by the Internet Archive. But with the update, FLP said it would no longer push documents to the Internet Archive in real time and instead would upload PACER data there only quarterly.

Aaron Greenspan
For most users of the extension and the archive, this change was hardly noticed. In fact, it brought improvements, most notably making documents downloaded from PACER available more quickly on the FLP archive and eliminating restrictions on uploads of large dockets.

But behind the scenes, something else changed. FLP has long made the bulk PACER data available to developers of other free legal research sites through an application programming interface (API). But with the data now being hosted in real time solely in its own archive, FLP decided to ask these developers to pay a monthly fee to help support the project.

One who was none too happy about that was Aaron Greenspan. Greenspan is perhaps best known as the Harvard classmate of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who first created a web-based student portal that included a feature called "The Face Book." In 2009, he settled a trademark dispute with Facebook for an undisclosed amount. He later sued Columbia Pictures for not including him in the movie, "The Social Network."

These days, Greenspan runs Think Computer Corporation, a software development company, and its non-profit sibling, Think Computer Foundation. Together, they run PlainSite, a website dedicated to providing the public with free access to legal documents and information about the legal system.

PlainSite was a site that used the RECAP data. But when FLP Executive Director Mike Lissner contacted Greenspan in November and asked him to pay a monthly fee of between $500 and $1, 000 to continue to use the data, Greenspan went public with his complaint, publishing a blog post in which he said that PlainSite would no longer support the RECAP project.

We are frankly shocked that an organization calling itself the "Free Law Project" would dare to suggest a model that is obviously anything but free in either the monetary or the general sense. Essentially, CourtListener is now a clearinghouse for legal materials with a gatekeeper business model similar to that of Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw. While it may not be charging end-users, it is planning to charge startups and non-profits, while trading on the brand and good-will of the RECAP name, to which we have been one of the largest, if not the largest, financial contributor. Those proposed costs will need to be passed on.
A second site that relied on the RECAP data, United States Courts Archive, shut down as a result of the change. A notice posted on the site says:

Due to changes in the way the RECAP Project is hosting court records from the federal PACER system, we are no longer able to retrieve and make available federal court records in a timely manner. The reason we created this web site in the first place was to make the RECAP records easier to access and use. RECAP's new web site, hosted at www.courtlistener.com, has greatly improved document searchability and accessibility. Therefore, we have decided that it is not worth the effort to re-engineer this site to work with the new RECAP API. This means that we have decided to retire the United State Courts Archive web site and direct you to other options.
I reached out to the lawyer who operated this site to discuss his decision to close it down. He declined to discuss the matter on the record.

Over the last week or so, I have been talking to some of the people involved, directly or indirectly, in this dispute. Here is what I have learned.

The Mysterious Mr. Fuenchem

Early in January, I received an email from John Fuenchem. He wrote:

You may be interested in knowing that the Free Law Project has decided to charge other organizations money to access RECAP documents, and it now denies access to organizations which refuse to pay. The new version of the RECAP plug-in only uploads documents to the FLP's own CourtListener site, while other sites, such as PlainSite and the United States Courts Archive, are no longer being updated in real time.
He encouraged me to read Greenspan's blog post and to get in touch with Greenspan directly. He concluded:

I hope you share my concern about the FLP's decision, and I hope you feel that public discussion about the issue is warranted. I hope you will consider writing a post about this on LawSites or tweeting a link to Mr. Greenspan's blog post.
I'd already read Greenspan's post and had been meaning to follow-up on it. But Fuenchem's email piqued my interest for another reason: John Fuenchem seemed not to exist.

His email came from a Yahoo! Canada address. It had no signature and provided no explanation of Fuenchem's interest in this matter or his relationship to Greenspan. A Google search found no such person by that name. So who is John Fuenchem?

Greenspan's Objections

Meanwhile, I also heard from Greenspan, who pointed me to a second blog post he had written about RECAP, published Feb. 5. This post noted the closing of the United States Courts Archive website, which I mentioned above, and suggested that it was because of FLP's decision to begin charging for access to bulk data.

This image, still on the FLP's website, shows the flow of documents from PACER through the RECAP Firefox extension into the Internet Archive.
(Note that the notice posted on the United States Courts Archive website said nothing about fees.)

Greenspan's post also speculated that DocketAlarm's decision to be acquired by Fastcase might also have been motivated by FLP's request for payment. Greenspan wrote:

This kind of anti-competitive behavior would be questionable were it attributable to a for-profit corporation, but it is completely inexcusable coming from a nominal non-profit organization. RECAP should be inspiring new sites, not the underlying reason behind the closure of existing ones. The Free Law Project must either restore RECAP's Internet Archive functionality, or relinquish its role in maintaining RECAP and convert to a for-profit corporation that focuses on CourtListener as a commercial product.
Greenspan also sent me copies of emails he sent to Lissner, FLP's director, and board members Brian Carver and Ansel Halliburton. In the first, sent Nov. 19, 2017, he outlined his concerns with the RECAP changes. His email described a number of concerns, starting with this:

This new plan, where RECAP flows first to CourtListener in real-time and then to the Internet Archive once per calendar quarter (maybe?), fundamentally changes the nature of the plug-in in a way that I simply don't agree with, and I find it surprising that others would agree with it as well. Mike explained that FLP's view is that the Internet Archive is intended to be a backup repository, not a primary source for data; therefore, FLP should treat it that way. I understand that there are some architectural reasons why this may be true, but even assuming that it is true, the fact is that for many years the Internet Archive has served as a platform-independent and totally neutral clearinghouse for PACER information with A) zero cost for project end users and participants; and B) very few technical problems for either. In contrast, the new plug-in version thus far favors one platform (CourtListener) over all others, sounds like it will be expensive, and has serious bugs that are impairing its functionality, at least whenever I try to use it. In due course I'm sure the bugs will get worked out, but right now, that's the reality.
Greenspan said that his Think Computer Foundation had directly provided $15, 000 toward the development of RECAP and in support of FLP and that, including matching grants, its total indirect contribution to RECAP was $25, 000. "I was happy to contribute my share of those funds because I knew that they would benefit a public good that would help both end users of the plugin and other legal technology startups looking to use it, " he wrote.

He also said that, as a condition of that contribution, he had asked that he be kept in the loop on FLP's work. That never happened, he said, and he was given no advance notice of the changes to RECAP.

I was informed of this new FLP business model last week, after the new RECAP plugin was released. As you know, and as stated above, the new RECAP plugin does not update the Internet Archive. That means that FLP has effectively cut off one of PlainSite's main information sources, and it did so with no prior notice. PlainSite may not be RECAP's largest user or contributor, but it is a major one.
Lissner responded the next day.

There's definitely some change here, and I don't want to minimize that. We didn't make this decision lightly, and actually had to hold several meetings to come to consensus around it. It's a big change in how we think about things and in the services we provide. Like I said on the phone, ideally, everything would always be free, but so far that hasn't been a winning strategy for us.
He took issue with Greenspan's contention that there had been no technical problems with the former versions of the RECAP browser extensions, asserting that, in fact, there had been a lot of problems - a point Greenspan later conceded and that several others I've spoken to have confirmed.

Lissner also apologized for not notifying Greenspan of the changes in advance, attributing this to his frantic work schedule in getting the new extensions ready to release. He went on to address several of the technical issues Greenspan's email had raised, and then concluded:

I always appreciate getting your perspective. Let me know if you want to have another phone call to talk about this some more. It's definitely a big change in how the system works and I know it's impacting you. Hopefully we can find a good way forward.
On Nov. 21, Greenspan sent a reply in which he continued to express his dissatisfaction with the changes. He wrote in part:

Fundamentally I don't think you can have it both ways. You are seemingly looking for a model that allows Free Law Project to sit in the middle as a gatekeeper and effectively profit at least enough to pay yourself a salary, but that isn't what "Free Law" means. The beauty of RECAP was that in a world of Lexis and Westlaw, there was finally a working system with no gatekeeper.

Had you come to your previous donors (or potential ones) with a clear request for funding and a clear outline of the additional functionality you intended to deliver with the additional support, I think you may have received a different response, at least from me, than you're getting now. This feels more like a hostage situation—you are, after all, telling me what I can no longer do unless I pay up again—and even though you are clearly a talented developer, to be frank, I no longer think you are the right person to be running FLP. I regret that I have to even say this, but if this were a commercial transaction where I had paid for software development services (rather than just donated), I would take you to court for fraud, extortion and tortious interference with prospective economic advantage. I'm not actually going to do that of course. My point is just to emphasize how totally backward I think your approach is here. You just blew up part of something I built which worked smoothly for six years and helped pay my bills.

I'll leave it there. I'm clearly disappointed in the new approach and I can no longer support your organization financially or otherwise.
A Conversation with Greenspan

In addition to corresponding with Greenspan by email, he and I spoke by phone. "I have a lot of respect for Mike, " he told me. "He did an amazing job building RECAP."

But Greenspan said he felt blindsided by the new extension and Lissner's request for a monthly fee to use the data, especially given that Greenspan's foundation had supported the project financially.

"He never followed up, " Greenspan said. "I was not kept in the loop. I told him that point blank."

Greenspan believes that the decision to charge a fee is due in part to Lissner's desire to be paid a higher salary. According to tax records, Lissner is paid about $90, 000 a year. (Lissner told me the actual amount is less than that.) Greenspan notes that living in the Bay Area is expensive and that Lissner understandably wants to do the best he can to support his family.

But, he argues, "rearranging the entire free judicial docket system for one person's benefit is against everything people associated with this movement stand for."

What Others Are Saying

Greenspan is not the only one to write critically of FLP's changes. Benjamin Edelman, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who specializes in the economics of online markets, published a post on Jan. 22 in which he questioned FLP's approach. He outlined several concerns, one of which addressed FLP's decision to charge for bulk access.

[C]harging for access to documents seems in sharp tension with RECAP's promise to users. The organization's very name — "Free Law" — calls for distributing materials not just without charge, but also without restriction. Indeed, FLP filed an amicus brief in the National Veterans Legal case stating that the FLP is a "nonprofit organization established in 2013 to provide free, public, and permanent access to primary legal materials on the internet for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes to the benefit of the general public and the public interest."
He also expressed concern about FLP's lack of advance notice of the changes.

FLP announced the delayed data distribution as a fait accompli, not soliciting input ahead of time from the users who contribute documents and code to the RECAP plug-in. That's a natural approach for a commercial service, and maybe appropriate for some non-profits, but hard to reconcile with the position of stewardship I had understood RECAP and FLP to aspire to.
On GitHub, John Hawkinson, a Massachusetts freelance journalist, took issue with Edelman's post insofar as it suggested that RECAP-collected documents would no longer be available to the public as soon as they are collected. With the November change, these documents are now available to the public nearly instantly, he wrote, and much faster than they were under the prior RECAP version. "They're on courtlistener.com rather than archive.org but that doesn't mean they're unavailable, " he wrote.

Thomas Bruce, director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School and a former member of FLP's board, said that FLP's decision to charge fees is not unreasonable.

This is the latest in a long-running series of episodes that reveal how hit-or-miss the system of distribution for American legal information actually is. Assembling and maintaining a resource that combines the work product of many law creators - or a platform that supports crowdsourcing of that activity - is more than a full-time job, and somehow those who do it need to be able to buy groceries. Fees are not unreasonable, especially when they are minimal compared with overall costs. That said, we're still in a world where distribution is haphazard and there is no organization (mine included) that is doing everything it could to ensure that distribution of costs and benefits is both as wide-ranging and fair as it could be.
Mike Lissner Responds

Mike Lissner, FLP's director, admits that he did not do a good job of communicating with Greenspan about the changes, and points out that he has apologized to him about that.

Mike Lissner
But he stands by the decision to change the RECAP extension, which he says was done to improve its performance and speed and eliminate bugs. PACER documents captured through the RECAP extension always went first to the FLP's server, where they were then sent to the Internet Archive.

FLP intends to continue sending this data to the Archive, but will now do so only on a quarterly basis. Lissner had hoped to do the first quarterly upload at the end of 2017, but he has yet to do that. The reason for the delay, he says, is that the first upload will be huge and he is trying to figure out how best to accomplish it. FLP has enhanced several million documents in its collection by adding previously missing docket numbers, and all those enhanced documents need to be uploaded to replace the versions that already reside on the Internet Archive, in addition to many new documents.

Regarding the decision to charge other developers for bulk downloads, Lissner argues that large users of the data should contribute something to the cost of collecting it, and he says that Greenspan is the largest user of all.

"We're a non-profit, of course, but we can't give everything away for free forever, " he says.

"Aaron's running a business. He gets ads. He's not a non-profit. But he's unwilling to contribute anything back."

As for pricing, Lissner agrees that he asked Greenspan for a monthly fee in the range of $500 to $1, 000. But that was a suggestion, he says, and he was happy to discuss it and try to agree on an amount that would work.

"If someone is running their business and using our service, I think there should be a relationship there, " Lissner said. "If Aaron had come back and said he's not making any money on PlainSite, I would have said, ‘Go ahead and use it.'"

I asked Lissner about Greenspan's contention that this is all about Lissner's desire to be paid a higher salary. Lissner responded that his salary is determined by the board, not by him, and that the board was deeply involved in reviewing and approving all aspects of the RECAP changes.

He also took issue with Greenspan's suggestion that UnitedStatesCourts.org was shut down because of the new fees. The lawyer behind that site operated it as a side project and, after the changes in November, came to the conclusion that FLP's new RECAP site was so improved that it no longer made sense for him to maintain his site. That, in fact, is what he said in the notice posted on his site, when he wrote:

RECAP's new web site … has greatly improved document searchability and accessibility. Therefore, we have decided that it is not worth the effort to re-engineer this site to work with the new RECAP API.
Lissner said he is sorry that this disagreement between Greenspan and him has become public, but he maintains that Greenspan is the only person truly affected by this.

And What About Mr. Fuenchem?

I spoke to several people in preparing this post, some of whom refused to be quoted or identified on the record. But John Fuenchem was the only one who refused to be identified even off the record.

Two people I spoke to speculated that Fuenchem is actually a sockpuppet for Greenspan. They believe Greenspan fabricated him in order to help lobby for his anti-FLP campaign.

Greenspan denied this. "For the record, " he wrote me, "I am not John Fuenchem."

Fuenchem also denied it. While he did not agree to reveal his identity, he did agree to speak with me by phone.

He lives in Canada and works in the legal profession. He is not a lawyer, but he is preparing to become one. His concern with this issue, he told me, stemmed from the fact that he has been a regular RECAP user and has contributed hundreds of dollars' worth of documents to it.

"The FLP says it is going to make these documents available to everyone, " he said. "I don't think they have a right to deny access to other organizations."

Fuenchem said he was also concerned about FLP's lack of transparency in never announcing these changes in advance.

He exchanged several emails with Lissner, he said, but Lissner would not confirm whether FLP planned to charge other organizations for access to the documents.

So is Fuenchem just a nom de guerre for Greenspan? If so, then Greenspan does a mean imitation of a Canadian accent. But I don't think so.

My Thoughts

Both Free Law Project and PlainSite are fighting the good fight for public access to court information - information that should be public in the first place, but isn't.

The FLP does important work. In addition to RECAP, it hosts CourtListener, a free website for researching legal opinions and tracking legal topics. Recently, it went through a massive project to download every opinion and order from PACER and make them available through the RECAP archive. Two years ago, it launched a nationwide database of biographical information on federal and state judges. The variety of projects FLP is working on can be seen on its GitHub page.

It does all this on a scant budget. Its 2016 Form 990 showed revenues of just $54, 528 against expenses of $92, 000. The year before, it had revenue of $95, 446, but much lower expenses, at $28, 057. The rise in expenses appears to be due to an increase in the salary paid to Lissner, from $27, 000 in 2015 to $90, 000 in 2016. (As noted earlier, Lissner says the amount he is actually paid is less than this.)

Lissner's argument is that someone has to help foot this bill, and that it makes more sense for the FLP to seek contributions from major users such as PlainSite than to start charging fees to its everyday users such as you and me.

Maybe some major foundation will step up and underwrite FLP's work. But until that happens, I tend to agree with Lissner that big users ought somehow to contribute. I don't know anything about PlainSite's finances or its ability to pay, and it's not for me to know.

But I'd hope that Greenspan and Lissner could sit down and come up with an arrangement that works for both of them. In the end, they're both fighting for the same cause, and a feud between allies serves no one's interest - especially not the public's.
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In any other country Aaron Greenspan would have been locked up in a mental health facility already since his teens and this would have helped to avoid this him from going near computers and people's personal information that he uses today in a malicious way.

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