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I hope they will provide some more details about how they got caught. If this person can hack Twitter and they know about Bitcoin, then I'd be very surprised if
by nathan_f77 6y ago
I hope they will provide some more details about how they got caught. If this person can hack Twitter and they know about Bitcoin, then I'd be very surprised if they didn't take some basic steps to hide their tracks. E.g. Tor, VPN, cafe wifi, etc. I heard that some social engineering was involved, so maybe they called someone and their phone number was traced.
I would be interested to know if they forgot about one small detail. I think the FBI / NSA probably has full visibility into the Tor network and can easily deanonymise any users. Or it could be like the Harvard bomb hoax in 2013 [1]. (They used Tor, but they were also the only person using Tor at the time.)
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5224130/fbi-agents-tracked-harvard-bomb-threats-across-tor https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5224130/fbi-agents-track...