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> Evan Boehs observes that Jigar Kumar and Dennis Ens both had nameNNN@mailhost email addresses This is the second time I've read this "observation", but this
by deathanatos 3y ago
> Evan Boehs observes that Jigar Kumar and Dennis Ens both had nameNNN@mailhost email addresses
This is the second time I've read this "observation", but this observation is just wrong? Jigar's email is "${name}${number}@${host}", yes, but Dennis's is just "${name}@${host}" — there's not a suffixed number. (There's a 3, but it's just a "leetcode" substitution for the E, i.e., it's semantically a letter.)
(They could still both be sockpuppets, of course. This doesn't prove or disprove anything. But … let's check our facts?)
- __float 3y agoWhere are the email addresses visible? I've also seen this a few times, but never the actual addresses.
- matsur 3y agoeg "Hans Jansen" is <hansjansen162@outlook.com> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708
- mmcwilliams 3y agoI'm maybe naive in assuming that there is some kind of investigation going on that isn't playing out in public, but I would assume that years of emails going through Microsoft servers might make the identities of the cohorts in this attack difficult to hide?
- rainbowzootsuit 3y agoWhen making sockpuppet email accounts use a plausible birth year as your numeric extension.
- glitchcrab 3y agoI couldn't spot email addresses directly in plaintext for those who weren't submitting patches (e.g. Jigar), however if you look at one of the links to his (?) responses then there's a mailto link with the text 'Reply via email'
- deathanatos 3y agoIn the OP, many of the links (e.g., "first, innocuous patch") lead to mail-archive.com. From there, click the button with the name that appears after "Reply via email to", and it will open your email client, with the To: filled in with the email of the person.