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So either this Kirk worked at Twitter and went insane or he’s lying and gained access through a third party. Should be easy for the FBI to track him from Discor

So either this Kirk worked at Twitter and went insane or he’s lying and gained access through a third party. Should be easy for the FBI to track him from Discord.

sudosysgen 6y ago
I don't think so. It's likely either a hacked Discord account or connected entirely through a botnet and or Tor. If I'm guessing, he lied and got access somehow and wanted to destroy Twitter.
- wisemanwillhear 6y ago
  Didn't the feds hack a lot of Tor exit nodes some years back? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/law-enforcement-seized-tor-nodes-and-may-have-run-some-of-its-own/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/law-e... What's to stop them from doing that today or simply running their own? It would be a minor expense and effort for them.
  - techntoke 6y ago
    Tor + VPN makes it very difficult. You have a lot of faith in the government. They usually just go for hackers who make research papers publicly available using school and library computers.
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    - pcwalton 6y ago
      Ross Ulbricht, Bureau of Prisons number 18870-111, also thought Tor and a VPN would protect him from the US government.
      - LyndsySimon 6y ago
        It pretty much did, until he started ordering fake IDs shipped to his house...
      - ALittleLight 6y ago
        It might've if he didn't use his real name while posting on stack overflow. Plus, a few other lapses in security.
      - shadowprofile77 6y ago
        Read the biography of Ulbricht "American Kingpin". The author does a good job of breaking down the sequence of really stupid things that the Silk Road founder did to expose himself over time. None of them had much of anything to do with the failures of anonymity technologies like TOR. Also, as another response here mentions, ordering fake IDs online to his own home address is exceptionally fucking stupid.
  - licebmi__at__ 6y ago
    Just grabbing the traffic from the exit node doesn't allow you to find out who is sending the traffic, unless the traffic itself has something that can be linked to the source. That's the magic of the layers in the network. There are certainly some other kinds of attacks that could deanonymize this who are using tor, but the attacker needs to have control of a big percentage of the network, and I actually hope other state actors run enough nodes to make this non viable.
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tantalor 6y ago
> Should be easy Why would you assume so?

So either this Kirk worked at Twitter and went insane or he’s lying and gained access through a third party. Should be easy for the FBI to track him from Discord.

sudosysgen 6y ago

I don't think so. It's likely either a hacked Discord account or connected entirely through a botnet and or Tor. If I'm guessing, he lied and got access somehow and wanted to destroy Twitter.

wisemanwillhear 6y ago
Didn't the feds hack a lot of Tor exit nodes some years back? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/law-enforcement-seized-tor-nodes-and-may-have-run-some-of-its-own/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/law-e... What's to stop them from doing that today or simply running their own? It would be a minor expense and effort for them.
- techntoke 6y ago
  Tor + VPN makes it very difficult. You have a lot of faith in the government. They usually just go for hackers who make research papers publicly available using school and library computers.
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  - pcwalton 6y ago
    Ross Ulbricht, Bureau of Prisons number 18870-111, also thought Tor and a VPN would protect him from the US government.
    - LyndsySimon 6y ago
      It pretty much did, until he started ordering fake IDs shipped to his house...
    - ALittleLight 6y ago
      It might've if he didn't use his real name while posting on stack overflow. Plus, a few other lapses in security.
    - shadowprofile77 6y ago
      Read the biography of Ulbricht "American Kingpin". The author does a good job of breaking down the sequence of really stupid things that the Silk Road founder did to expose himself over time. None of them had much of anything to do with the failures of anonymity technologies like TOR. Also, as another response here mentions, ordering fake IDs online to his own home address is exceptionally fucking stupid.
- licebmi__at__ 6y ago
  Just grabbing the traffic from the exit node doesn't allow you to find out who is sending the traffic, unless the traffic itself has something that can be linked to the source. That's the magic of the layers in the network. There are certainly some other kinds of attacks that could deanonymize this who are using tor, but the attacker needs to have control of a big percentage of the network, and I actually hope other state actors run enough nodes to make this non viable.

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tantalor 6y ago

> Should be easy Why would you assume so?