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>People really should learn to not reuse usernames. another person who asked questions on stackoverflow was Ross Ulbricht; it didn't quite help him. http://ww
by MichaelMoser123 10y ago
>People really should learn to not reuse usernames.
another person who asked questions on stackoverflow was Ross Ulbricht; it didn't quite help him.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/02/silk_road_s_dread_pirate_ross_ulbricht_asked_stack_overflow_question_under.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/02/silk_road...
- danso 10y agoI was initially confused as to how the FBI were able to track that StackOverflow post in which Ulbricht changed the appearance of his account name...that wouldn't show up in the public edit log for a question, right? Then reading through the complaint, it seems like Ulbricht was undone by registering on Stack Overflow using his GMail account, which the FBI had tracked his Comcast IP to (didn't hurt that the gmail address was his real name), and then asked StackOverflow for the records relating to that GMail address: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/801103-172770276-ulbricht-criminal-complaint.html#document/p31 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/801103-172770276-ulb... sidenote: The Slate article links to the complaint on Scribd, and now it's deleted from Scribd for some reason.