Once bitten, twice shy.

However, if you base it on stink level, I have to agree with you.

as a hoax or a trap, or just about anything but a straight story. Just not plausible, for one thing.

...but not this way. I'd love to know what was so damaging in them that it made sarah palin(comparison) a "better" choice for 08 gopoop vp. Of course, I won;t discount the fact that mcsame HATES romney.

PEACE!

under lock and key 24/7.

This thing has the stink of Rove all over it.

Go FBI! Nail those Shyster's!

Just keep stalling, Rmoney. What the hell is he hiding?

"the Franklin office of Pricewaterhouse Coopers" is the IRS?

What a stupid story.

The stolen returns had been delivered to the Democrats when they were stolen? So there were three separate thefts since the encrypted returns were delivered to two separate political offices as well as the offices of Price Waterhouse? Is this the 2010 return we've already seen or does it involve returns for years we haven't seen? If it's the return we've already seen, how could the thieves be demanding any kind of ransom? If it involves other returns, and they were delivered to the Democrats, how could this not have made major headlines? This is vague and confusing to me.

Honestly never heard that term before.

It's a small detail in the story unless you've spent any time at all poking around the bitcoin forums or reading last summer's hilarious bitcoin thread on Something Awful.

A burglary like this story requires effort, organization/planning, and personal risk, which are alien concepts to pretty much anyone involved with bitcoins. I bet it's just someone trying to drive the speculative bitcoin market up by getting the media talking about it again.

On the off chance that it is legit, I bet they will be surprised at just how traceable bitcoins are if you want to convert them into actual money.

Entirely possibly, made up by Karl Rove.

They probably can't be accessed except by rMoney himself or maybe a court order, but I'd think once the IRS gets its copy, it can't merely be "lost." (Caveat: unless there are some faces friendly to rMoney in the IRS dept.)

Just one paper copy (if this is even true) would be gone.

This smells. Rove actually broke in to his own office I'm told.

It's in the same place that the 18 1/2 minute gap from Nixon's Oval Office tape ended up.

Let me guess - so Rmoney won't pay and his returns will never be released. Even bad movies are better than this.

The thieves could just as easily be right wingers as left.

I can't take another one!

The man behind Palin, Romney, Ryan, Akin. He is such an evil mastermind!

They are releasing them on 9/28, and they claim to have both proof, and have not asked for money.

The SECOND pastebin was the one that demanded money after the first one that just said "We have them".

Believe what you want. I think they have the goods, and the "blackmailing" is just trying to discredit the fact that they have them.

http://pastebin.com/zdU1TK40

Oh, and the second reiteration that demands money has some mumbo jumbo Christian shit that Jesus Christ is our savior, etc.

Compare this:

http://pastebin.com/1j1yzQ9S

To this:

http://pastebin.com/zdU1TK40

gives Rumnuts the shakes for a day or 2. I hope it scares the crap out of him.

Which allows Etch to play the victim card and distract anybody and everybody from whatever is in the returns.

Hacking is no different than any other b&e rap.