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> installed 2015-2016 based on satellite imagery Unless the artist practiced very good OpSec or was so disciplined that he never checked for satellite imagery
by cantrevealname 6y ago
> installed 2015-2016 based on satellite imagery
Unless the artist practiced very good OpSec or was so disciplined that he never checked for satellite imagery of his monument, someone with the right credentials -- like the government with a subpeona or a Google insider -- could identify the artist based on his IP address.
Murderers have been identified and convicted by looking up a unique map coordinate on Google Maps, even going back as far Yahoo Maps.
- rowanG077 6y agoYou can be convicted for looking at a map where the only thing was tracked is your ip? This is all kinds of insane. No wonder the US incarcerates so many innocent people.
- Cactus2018 6y ago2001 Expedia map https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/us/internet-used-to-find-man-who-is-charged-in-2-of-10-killings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/us/internet-used-to-find-... > The federal complaint says ... the newspaper received a letter that said ''nice sob story,'' with a computer-generated map showing an intersection in West Alton in St. Charles County, along with a handwritten X. > ... searchers found human skeletal remains within 50 yards of the location shown by the map's X, about 300 yards from where the decomposed bodies of Ms. Wilson and another victim, Verona Thompson, had been found. > A search by Illinois State Police of Internet mapping companies led to an exact match between features on a map sent to the Post-Dispatch and one found on Expedia.com. > On June 3, the Microsoft Corporation, which tracks access to that Web site, showed the F.B.I. that only someone with the Internet Provider address 65.227.106.78 visited the Expedia.com site and searched the West Alton area within days of the map's mailing to the Post-Dispatch. The user name of that IP address was ''MSN/maurytravis.''
- rowanG077 6y agoWell there was also a video which showed him killing a woman. So he was only found via looking at a map but not convicted.
- sowbug 6y agoUnlikely. But it can be a clue that leads to the right person, which can then lead to more direct evidence that could form the basis of a conviction on the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of proof. It's just basic detective work, updated for new technology.
- lima 6y agoGoogle is very unlikely to keep logs for so long.
- Faaak 6y agoI wouldn't bet on that at all
- lima 6y agoWhy would they expose themselves to liability?
- kordlessagain 6y agoThere's no liability in keeping logs. They are useful for many things.
- lima 6y agoLogs that can be tied to individual users are PII and very much a liability. Their privacy policy states that IP addresses are anonymized after 9 months and cookies after 18 months[1]. [1]: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en-US https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en-US
- sschueller 6y agoI thought the US government decided it would be easier to pay tech giants to keep data longer than collecting it itself and storing it. That way they can just ask for it when they need it.
- rexpop 6y agoWhat makes you think that?
- oh_sigh 6y agoThat's how they found the boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John, who had faked his own death. He was the most frequent visitor to the website set up to help find him(that's literally true - the website was a trap they had hoped he would visit) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McDermott https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McDermott
- puranjay 6y ago> The investigators claimed McDermott disappeared to avoid debts, including US$8,000 owed to his ex-wife for child support That's...a surprisingly small amount to fake your own death over.