[Spooky23]

There's a difference between outing details of someone's life with salacious or hostile intent and telling a story.

The fact that this guy on one hand built an incredibly high quality application that had and has a major positive impact on the world is a story that needs to be told.

The fact that he's a damaged, amoral man who is allegedly a career criminal and drug dealer is a story that demands to be told. He represents the Id of mankind -- and personifies the paradox that perfect security and privacy benefits society at large, and that society also includes the bad guys.

[mirimir]

Maybe drug dealers are the unsung heroes of drug law liberalization. The Drug War was arguably driven by racist and authoritarian goals. So dealers are arguably freedom fighters, rather than criminals. Maybe he killed some people, but I suspect that was in self defense.