"Hacking"

[Josh]

Also, I only started to become aware of my friend’s existence at the end of 2010. At that time and later I was mostly communicating with them through chessgames.com I first visited chessgames.com sometime around 2003-2004 only in pursuit of a casual chess interest. Around 2006, I started to participate regularly in their “World Team” matches, only focusing on casual chess interest. This was mostly from my home, but I did occasionally access the site from my workplace during 2006. This was a UMN academic job located in the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. Personal access was explicitly permitted, and not in violation of any policy. Work time was flex, and people were expected to do similar work from both home/office, so there was no stigma attached to doing personal things on the office computers, and doing work things on the home computers. The medical data we used were all appropriately de-personalized.

I mention the above because I had some clues that the FBI may have somehow roled “VA Medical Center” in their knowing bucket of lies.

[Josh]

I didn’t recognize Dave Nelson from the VA corridors. The Minneapolis VA is a huge building. Turns out he does stat analysis for medical research, so it’s plausible we could have met. But we didn’t. Our lab didn’t have VA Research funding.

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