He stopped wanting the arrangement of the company building a business around independent open source projects and tried to take it over with legal threats and ultimatums. He expected me to give in out of fear and turn everything over to him, compromising security of the users.
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He ended up seizing all the infrastructure and imploding the past incarnation of the projects. The work is continuing at github.com/AndroidHardeni and an incomplete archive of the actual old repositories is at github.com/AndroidHardeni. Copperhead didn't write it and doesn't own it.
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James not only stole the majority of the donations but also the Twitter account representing my projects and security research / engineering. I had renamed it and he tricked Twitter support into handing over my account to him and claims it's a corporate account which it wasn't.
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I haven't been able to get in touch with either Reddit or Twitter support. They're happy to help an abusive corporation silence someone along with handing sensitive conversation logs over to them. They refuse to even speak to me or give an explanation for what they've done.
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They compromised the messages by giving them the account. It had a strong password, 2-factor authentication and was associated with my personal phone number for at least 3 years. It was using my personal danielmicay@gmail.com email address when they seized control of it too...
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Twitter support rolled back the email address to the one used months prior (daniel.micay@copperhead.co) for them and then James was able to seize control via grabbing control of all the copperhead.co infrastructure since he registered the domain on his personal account.
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I expect they would have turned over the account even if it had never used a copperhead.co email though. They have no respect for individuals or open source projects, only corporations. They won't even have a conversation with me or give more than an automated reply.
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I don't even know how much money was donated via Stripe. They're also keeping me in the dark about how much the company is currently earning by illegally licensing out my work and claiming it as their own, even though I'm entitled to that information as a shareholder...