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> "Finnish police said Kivimäki also used the nicknames “Ryan”, “RyanC” and “Ryan Cleary”" There used to be a user on HN, going by the nickname "ryanlol" [0] w
by potrebitel 4y ago
> "Finnish police said Kivimäki also used the nicknames “Ryan”, “RyanC” and “Ryan Cleary”"
There used to be a user on HN, going by the nickname "ryanlol" [0] who seemed to have (had) good hacking knowledge.
Could be the same person, could be not. But they had good comments here and there, was fun to read back then.
[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanlol https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanlol
- jacquesm 4y agoHe got warned by his buddy nachash (loldoxbin) that he should unplug his internet connection if he didn't want to spend time in jail again. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nachash https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nachash He didn't take that advice. He's been on HN under a large number of accounts, in particular giving people advice on obtaining alternate identification papers (Romania was mentioned in particular). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156119 So much for that I guess.
- rdl 4y agoI assumed that was the "real" Ryan Cleary (LulzSec), not the Finland guy who was impersonating him.
- jacquesm 4y agohttps://stylometry.net/user?username=ryanlol https://stylometry.net/user?username=ryanlol The first 10 are afaik accurate, the last stopped posting 3 days ago so that's a point of evidence.
- nibbleshifter 4y agoThe "real" Ryan Cleary hasn't really been online in any capacity as "himself" since his arrest over ten years ago.
- costco 4y agoThat was him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846051. He's been posting under various alts since, see the stylometry.net link below. Reading his comment history, unless he was just lying for HN e-cred it seems he was very wealthy. Probably an early BTC user?