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Brazil Arrests 'USDoD' Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach
- Prbeek 2y agoFor those who remember Lulzsec days there was a core member called Avunit who was the only one never apprehended. I wonder if he was a fed or just lucky
- kuskosho 2y agoor maybe he didnt used his private email registered 10 years ago with socials related (and profile pic uploaded)
- joemazerino 2y agoHe was the Bitcoin treasurer of the group so its doubtful. His name was mentioned in Mr Robot as well.
- ptek 2y agoIf you want to play that game or the darknets game you may need to keep changing your alias which could be a problem as you will have to start from 0 again growing contacts and respect. Do new groups and users have kick ass ASCII logos in their t-files these days? I’m glad the 90s era of incorrect capitalisation is gone.
- thelittleone 2y agoSam Bent gave a talk on Darknet opsec in which he recommends what you suggest, regularly changing alias and starting from 0. Quite an interesting talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oeaBb85Xc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oeaBb85Xc
- dmichulke 2y agoYou could publish a key as each of these personas and then, when reestablishing a contact using a new persona, prove your identity to that one contact by using the private key of the old (known) persona. Am I missing something?
- str3wer 2y agodefeats the whole point of changing identity if you reveal who you were
- dmichulke 2y agoYou reveal it to a single (trustworthy) party that you want to reestablish contact with. Of course, this assumes you wouldn't want to reestablish contact with a non-trustworthy party.
- barryrandall 2y agoA trail of evidence is still a trail of evidence.
- nubinetwork 2y agoRelated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888449 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888449