Even the guy that ran Silk Road messed up and provided his email address with his real name online while posting about Silk Road before almost anyone had heard

Even the guy that ran Silk Road messed up and provided his email address with his real name online while posting about Silk Road before almost anyone had heard about Silk Road. This would later come back to bite him. > In that post, altoid asked for some programming help and gave his email address: rossulbricht@gmail.com. Doing a Google search for Ross Ulbricht, Mr. Alford found a young man from Texas who, just like Dread Pirate Roberts, admired the free-market economist Ludwig von Mises and the libertarian politician Ron Paul — the first of many striking parallels Mr. Alford discovered that weekend. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-unsung-tax-agent-who-put-a-face-on-the-silk-road.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-uns... I don’t doubt for a second that a non-zero number of people similarly create a ProtonMail address for something shady and then provide a Gmail address using their real name as recovery address.