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Gmail. The feds then went to Google, which turned over information on the Gmail account in question. Chevys@gmail.com was registered to Brian McCarthy at the sa

by Joakal 16y ago

Gmail. The feds then went to Google, which turned over information on the Gmail account in question. Chevys@gmail.com was registered to Brian McCarthy at the same Deer Park address Comcast had revealed. Gmail has information including his name and address? Really? Anyhow, another con to using one email account for everything.

Natsu 16y ago
It says that they got the name & address from Comcast by looking up the IPs he used to connect to the other services. If you have the power to issue subpoenas, you can find out a lot of things assuming you know which people to ask.
- Joakal 16y ago
  They found that the gmail account had information that matched the name and address of the information Comcast provided. "Chevys@gmail.com was registered to Brian McCarthy at the same Deer Park address Comcast had revealed." So either the account had information (maybe ip logs but article clearly states name + home address) or it was in the emails.
  - Natsu 16y ago
    Hmm, I had read that assuming they were talking about an IP address, but I may have misread it. I think you can put your physical address in somewhere in your Gmail account, but it's not required and I might be misremembering.
tuhin 16y ago
>Chevys@gmail.com was registered to Brian McCarthy at the same Deer Park address Comcast had revealed The name that Google gave for the email address was found out to be same as the one given by Comcast. Also the guy seemed to be located at Deer park as revealed by the info from Comcast (not Google). Does that make the story clearer? Or am I the one misinterpreting?
- nettdata 16y ago
  Nope, you're right... the guy was an idiot, despite his best attempts at thinking he wasn't.
cabalamat 16y ago
The problem is that gmail stores your email on Google's server, and that the US government can therefore coerce them to get that information. The solution is for everyone to use encrypted email, where the decrypted data only exist on your hard disk. Governments and powerful people can still get at it, but to do so they have to burgle your house, which costs them time and money (so they can't do it to everyone), popularity (in states that have to care about what the public thinks, they can't burgle everyone), and also alerts the suspect. So why don't people do this? I use gmail because it's convenient. The solution to this problem is obviously to make locally-stored email as easy to read as gmail. As it happens, I'm working on a project ("Shout!" is the current working title) that aims to do just that (among other things).
jodrellblank 16y ago
The article says he made money from advertising, if that was Google Ads linked to his email address, wouldn't they have his name and address linked so they could send him cheques?

by Joakal 16y ago

Natsu 16y ago

It says that they got the name & address from Comcast by looking up the IPs he used to connect to the other services. If you have the power to issue subpoenas, you can find out a lot of things assuming you know which people to ask.

Joakal 16y ago
They found that the gmail account had information that matched the name and address of the information Comcast provided. "Chevys@gmail.com was registered to Brian McCarthy at the same Deer Park address Comcast had revealed." So either the account had information (maybe ip logs but article clearly states name + home address) or it was in the emails.
- Natsu 16y ago
  Hmm, I had read that assuming they were talking about an IP address, but I may have misread it. I think you can put your physical address in somewhere in your Gmail account, but it's not required and I might be misremembering.

tuhin 16y ago

>Chevys@gmail.com was registered to Brian McCarthy at the same Deer Park address Comcast had revealed The name that Google gave for the email address was found out to be same as the one given by Comcast. Also the guy seemed to be located at Deer park as revealed by the info from Comcast (not Google). Does that make the story clearer? Or am I the one misinterpreting?

nettdata 16y ago
Nope, you're right... the guy was an idiot, despite his best attempts at thinking he wasn't.

cabalamat 16y ago

The problem is that gmail stores your email on Google's server, and that the US government can therefore coerce them to get that information. The solution is for everyone to use encrypted email, where the decrypted data only exist on your hard disk. Governments and powerful people can still get at it, but to do so they have to burgle your house, which costs them time and money (so they can't do it to everyone), popularity (in states that have to care about what the public thinks, they can't burgle everyone), and also alerts the suspect. So why don't people do this? I use gmail because it's convenient. The solution to this problem is obviously to make locally-stored email as easy to read as gmail. As it happens, I'm working on a project ("Shout!" is the current working title) that aims to do just that (among other things).

jodrellblank 16y ago

The article says he made money from advertising, if that was Google Ads linked to his email address, wouldn't they have his name and address linked so they could send him cheques?