"His extradition order was eventually signed on 15 August 2024." cf. [Kim Dotcom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom)
That's pretty far from the full story. It's missing giant swaths.
A new Assange, he will wait for years in prison for a trial and then be released. So that's what mighty BigCo punishment means nowdays.
I'm intrigued by the concept of counterfeit phone cards. (I mean the ones mentioned before the CCC section. The CCC part seems to be about SIM cards, maybe a bad translation.)
As I understand it, modern phone cards are just some long phone number prefix with an associated PIN, and I don't know how you could meaningfully counterfeit those, as the system surely checks the account number, PIN and remaining balance are correct. I guess it might be possible to steal them if you can force a store employee to activate them for you, but a fake card would be worthless, right?
It made me wonder if these were some kind of stored-value system, where the card can't be validated by phoning home. Apparently Austria had those. But from re-reading I don't think that's what Germany had, though I'm not sure.
Was it simply a way to scam other scene members by selling them worthless plastic? I don't get it.