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the article makes the massive assumption that the 'gifted person' whose name and home address were exposed is also the person who wanted it in the closet. Eith

the article makes the massive assumption that the 'gifted person' whose name and home address were exposed is also the person who wanted it in the closet. Either that person has phenomenally bad tradecraft, or they are actually innocent. There are so many plausible ways in which the 'gifted person' is not in on the plot; for example, they may have sold the pi to the disgruntled employee before the employee was disgruntled or with no idea of the use that the disgruntled employee would put it too. Have to kind of hope thats how it all ends up. When I was young I often set up computers and stuff for others. These days I try and get slopy shoulders when people ask me for tech support, and if there were a young gifted wizkid nearby I'd be sending a lot of innocent business their way....

salex89 8y ago
Initially he suspected, but didn't jump to conclusions. It was only confirmed after matching the WiFI SSID.
- tapland 8y ago
  It was confirmed that the kid set it up, and that the kid never had access to the network. An investigation will have to see if the kid has anything to do with the attack at all.
  - bildung 8y ago
    The kid was a kid in 2001, should be at least in his/her twenties now.
mcv 8y ago
I didn't see that assumption anywhere in the article. He just followed the leads, collected the evidence and connected the dots. The device was set up in the gifted kid's home, and used a webservice paid for by the gifted kid's company. The device clearly comes from the gifted kid. Was he also the one who wanted the device in the closet? That's the one thing we don't know. That, and the relationship between the gifted kid and the ex-employee. Further legal investigation will no doubt follow. Maybe gifted kid is involved in something illegal, maybe not. Hopefully we'll hear more about this in the future.
- willvarfar 8y ago
  Yeah the link title here on HN is "How I got the home address of the person that put a RasPi in our network closet" Which is interesting, because I double-checked and the article is actually more circumspect: "The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet how we found, analyzed (with the help of Reddit) and in the end caught the culprit of a malicious device in our network" They find the home address and name of the person who prepared the pi (although we don't know it was the person who installed the 'logger', whatever that is etc). And they have identified the disgruntled employee who seems to have installed it. Two separate things.
  - mcv 8y ago
    Good point. The original HN title did indeed imply the "gifted person" was the one who put it there. I notice the the title has now been changed to the article title.
jacobush 8y ago
The gifted kid site was from 2001 no? So the gifted kid is an adult now.
zbentley 8y ago
The author explicitly refrains from jumping to conclusions until acquiring more conclusive proof by matching the username from the config file to the license file, and correlating that to the SSID location. > This could be a wrong lead as usernames tend to be used by multiple people but let's just keep that name in mind.

salex89 8y ago

Initially he suspected, but didn't jump to conclusions. It was only confirmed after matching the WiFI SSID.

tapland 8y ago
It was confirmed that the kid set it up, and that the kid never had access to the network. An investigation will have to see if the kid has anything to do with the attack at all.
- bildung 8y ago
  The kid was a kid in 2001, should be at least in his/her twenties now.

mcv 8y ago

I didn't see that assumption anywhere in the article. He just followed the leads, collected the evidence and connected the dots. The device was set up in the gifted kid's home, and used a webservice paid for by the gifted kid's company. The device clearly comes from the gifted kid. Was he also the one who wanted the device in the closet? That's the one thing we don't know. That, and the relationship between the gifted kid and the ex-employee. Further legal investigation will no doubt follow. Maybe gifted kid is involved in something illegal, maybe not. Hopefully we'll hear more about this in the future.

willvarfar 8y ago
Yeah the link title here on HN is "How I got the home address of the person that put a RasPi in our network closet" Which is interesting, because I double-checked and the article is actually more circumspect: "The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet how we found, analyzed (with the help of Reddit) and in the end caught the culprit of a malicious device in our network" They find the home address and name of the person who prepared the pi (although we don't know it was the person who installed the 'logger', whatever that is etc). And they have identified the disgruntled employee who seems to have installed it. Two separate things.
- mcv 8y ago
  Good point. The original HN title did indeed imply the "gifted person" was the one who put it there. I notice the the title has now been changed to the article title.

jacobush 8y ago

The gifted kid site was from 2001 no? So the gifted kid is an adult now.

zbentley 8y ago

The author explicitly refrains from jumping to conclusions until acquiring more conclusive proof by matching the username from the config file to the license file, and correlating that to the SSID location. > This could be a wrong lead as usernames tend to be used by multiple people but let's just keep that name in mind.