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Okay, so, I saw both your requests for more info last night, and I had to sleep
on it. I don't believe in deleting my posts, merely editing to add more 
information, never removing it. I've only deleted two, and both were a knee-jerk
reaction where I called someone names when they didn't deserve it.

That being said, if you worked hard enough at it, going through my post history,
you could figure out with a reasonable amount of accuracy who I am. I don't 
"do" throwaway accounts. I wrestled with even talking about this, but, fuck it.
He can take it up with me in 2019 when he gets out of prison a broken shell of 
a human.

Joe's not a bad guy. He really isn't. He's not even misguided. He's mentally 
ill, genuinely. He wasn't always like this.

I met him on a BBS in 1995 and in real life in early 1999, and he basically set
my mind on the path it is still on today, that is, analytical thinking, and the
knowledge that you really can do most things if you break it down into simple 
parts. He helped me build my first computer.

Starting around 2001, his demeanor changed, he began acting, for lack of a more
politically-correct word, crazy. Paranoia, delusions of grandeur, he was always
thinking people were following him, that unknown forces were "out to get him". 
It was about fall of 2001 that I broke off contact with him because he started 
"recruiting" people for some global hacking scheme, and I wanted absolutely no 
part of that. He never made an attempt to reach out to me after that, and I 
figured that was the end of it, that I'd never seen him again, or he'd be on 
the news one day.

Well, I guess that part came true. I'm not sure how the FBI got around to
 interviewing me, I didn't associate with the Chicago 2600 crew, and I only 
went to one or two Madison meetings, I quit going because all these idiots 
wanted to do was ruin things for the rest of us.

The FBI came to visit me at my school, two agents and one supervisory agent, 
along with a reporter (stenographer?) and sat with me for at least five hours
 grilling me about my every interaction with him. I told them the truth, every 
single thing I knew, which wasn't much. That didn't seem to sit well with them,
 because later on I was visited at home by more FBI agents, with someone 
identifying as NSA in tow. The NSA woman didn't ask much, but her questions 
were very specific to computer activities, she wanted to know if I had 
knowledge of PLC systems, programming software, connection cables, and if I 
had passed any of this on to him, which I didn't.

I don't know if any information I gave them helped him or hurt him, but I do 
know he needed actual mental help, not to be locked in ADX Florence. He's going
to be completely destroyed when he gets out.