The extortion attempt was made for "good intent"
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A very bad attempt to play law enforcement by themselves indeed
I've seen several threads about this, but didn't follow it in full detail. I was shocked to see the extortion attempt by Lauda, and from what I've seen from her (him?), I do believe it was out of good intent.
I also believe Lauda overplayed her hand, she did a great job fighting spam on this forum, so I'm sorry to see her lose her nuke-button.
I am not sure how an attempt to extort someone can be made in "good intention". This was nothing more than an attempt to gain money that they were not entitled to.
My suspicion is that Lauda and/or his friends were able to determine that zeroxal has a lot of money, and would be willing to give up some of that wealth to avoid the hassle of a police investigation into a bunch of bogus ridiculous accusations (such as zeroaxl hacking both fox, and bitfinex, and running ponzis).
I find it very strange that zeroaxl was forced to give up his Dox to what can only be described as a gang. As long as they have his Dox, zeroaxl will of course say that the situation is resolved because he does not want his Dox published.