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Fascinating part in the story about his arrest (first link in the vice article) is that the FBI set up cameras outside his home to correlate his physical presen
by muststopmyths 6y ago
Fascinating part in the story about his arrest (first link in the vice article) is that the FBI set up cameras outside his home to correlate his physical presence with internet activity from the IP address.
You frequently get people on the internet saying "Your IP address doesn't prove anything", but I was always curious how that worked in the real world.
- mi100hael 6y agoIIRC the authorities did something similar to bust one of the LulzSec members in Chicago. Once they identified a suspect, they surveilled his residence and correlated his physical presence with online chat logs despite his use of tor.
- schoen 6y agoJeremy Hammond.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoA slightly more complicated timing attack...
- wratz 6y agoI don't know about the US, but it is generally very easy: go to the ISP with the IP+date and an order from a judge and they'll tell you who was using it.
- thephyber 6y ago> they'll tell you who was using it IP only tells the investigator whose name is on the ISP account, not which person was at the keyboard. Your recommendation only helps the police know where to set up the surveillance, not who to bring charges against.
- jaifraic 6y agoThey'll tell you who pays for the connection. They can't reliably tell you who uses it. Maybe it was a family member, roommate or anybody who knows the wifi password.