Re: The truth about Rob Levin aka Lilo of irc.freenode.net

["Andrew A" <gluttony () gmail com>]

Searching for Rob's SSN on PACER yields interesting results. I will give Mr.
Levin a couple days to explain to his users what landed him with Federal
charges in 1992 before I do:

Northern District of Texas (Dallas)
CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 3:92-cr-00369-1
Case title: USA v. Levin
Date Filed: 08/28/1992
Assigned to: Judge Joe Kendall
Defendant: Robert Levin


On 6/26/06, Slotto Corleone <slotto () gmail com> wrote:
> > Yes, Slotto Corleone has returned. However, this is only a message I've
> been given to relay to the list:
>
>
> Eyeballing Rob Levin
>
> Odds are you've at least heard of Rob Levin (aka lilo), the director of
> Texas 501(3)(c) corporation Peer-Directed Projects Center. He's been aptly
> mentioned in the Register as a "professional online beggar"[1] and the
> incompetence with which he runs the Freenode IRC network has been aired many
> a time on popular blogs like Slashdot. In the past week, a group of hackers
> took over the Freenode IRC network by sniffing lilo's *@*-bound oper block
> password off the wire, a gaping security issue that could have been resolved
> via many different means-- an SSL port on a single freenode server for lilo
> to use, lilo sshing to a server and IRCing from localhost, or the binding of
> his oper block to his home host. This was proof enough for me that lilo is
> an idiot that wasn't capable of running an IRC for a small group of friends,
> much less one hosting hundreds of open-source projects.
>
> But what of lilo himself? Is he really this benevolent, though sometimes
> incompetent dictator he makes himself out to be? After the Freenode fiasco,
> I decided to poke around lilo's personal life and get a glimpse of his
> character. The results are quite hilarious.
>
> Everyone knows lilo lives in a trailer. He flaunts his existence as white
> trash with glee and twisted pride, playing the part of a martyr for the
> cause of open source software. He constantly talks about how poor and beaten
> down he is, despite having the leisure time to spend eleven hours a day
> chatting on the Internet. The address listed on the PDPC.us domain is
> indeed a trailer[2]. Poking around the Texas State Comptroller of Public
> Accounts shows the truth[3], though. That address is an office to which the
> business is registered, and the registered agent is Robert Levin of 9212
> Burdine St, an apartment building in Houston.[4]
>
> For a man who claims to be such a martyr for open source development he
> has done almost nothing to advance it. He has never made any notable commits
> to open source projects. He has done almost nothing at all. The man is in
> his fifties and has nothing notable on his resume -- a long history of
> manual labor and office tasks for monkeys. The truth about Rob is that he
> cannot code. His support of open source is limited to idly chatting away on
> IRC.
>
> Rob and his wife both suck at the teat of the federal government by
> collecting disability. They both claim to have ADHD so intense that it
> prohibits them from holding a job. During the day, they go to the PDPC
> trailer to chat on IRC and answer phonecalls. Two disability checks and PDPC
> donations add up. Enough to pay for not only a reasonable apartment and the
> PDPC trailer, but for a Hispanic nanny to take care of their son and clean
> their house during the day.[5] Not only do they not feel it fitting to work
> at any task whatsoever, but they can't even raise their child and clean up
> for themselves.
>
> Personally I have supported open source with my blood, sweat, and tears. I
> work at least forty hours a week in a cubicle much smaller than Rob Levin's
> trailer and go home to spend several more hours coding for projects that I
> feel are worthwhile. I do this not for personal gain, but to fight against a
> system of intellectual property law which I find overzealously rewards the
> rich and powerful. I'm not going to mention my name, but a good many of you
> know it. I've put commits into major operating systems and household name
> daemons.
>
> Lilo is a fraud. He is a huckster that steals money that could be going to
> legitimate open source development. There are countless programmers with
> real, valuable talent who choose to work hard for the greater good rather
> than spending all their time selling their talents to the highest bidder.
> Lilo has no talent and epitomizes the kind of vile, undisciplined leech that
> I spend my time working against.
>
> To the FOSS world: Do yourselves a favor and move to EFnet, Undernet,
> OFTC, anything but Freenode. EFnet now has chanfix and has not been a
> lawless packeteer playground for several years. The days of channel wars on
> EFnet are over. It also handles three times the traffic of Freenode without
> major incident.
>
> Don't believe me about Rob Levin? I pulled all his information from public
> record in the past twenty-four hours. Poke around his life and see for
> yourself:
>
> Rob's federal employer identification number is 74-3033697
> The address officially listed for pdpc is 10100 main street #31 houson tx
> 77025.
> Phone number for pdpc officially listed is 713-589-5863.
> Rob's ssn is 462 13 0351.
> PDPC's 11-digit texas state taxpayer number 32004514421
> Rob's apartment is at 9212 BURDINE ST. #1005 HOUSTON, TX 77096.
> 12-16-1955 is Rob's birthday
>
> [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net/
> [2] 
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=10000+Main+St,+Houston,+TX+77025&ie=UTF8&ll=29.676278,-95.430105&spn=0.001643,0.002717&t=k&om=1
>
> [3] 
> http://ecpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/servlet/cpa.app.coa.CoaGetTp?Pg=tpid&Search_Nm=Peer-Directed%20Projects%20Center%20&Button=search&Search_ID=32004514421
>
> [4] 
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=9212+BURDINE+ST+Houston,+Texas&ie=UTF8&ll=29.677741,-95.481952&spn=0.001643,0.002717&t=k&om=1
>
> [5] I would cite the name, phone and address of the nanny but I do not
> feel it fitting that she should be harassed.
>
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