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I can't get over how he wasn't using full disk encryption.

by Pheno 13y ago

anaphor 13y ago
The way I see it there are a few possibilities: 1) He isn't the real DPR 2) He is the real DPR, but he's extremely inept and didn't get caught before due to dumb luck 3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who took over to take the fall for the original DPR 4) He wanted to get caught?
- dopamean 13y ago
  5) Hubris.
- benologist 13y ago
  5) none of us are as smart as we think we are.
  - sliverstorm 13y ago
    Corollary: The FBI is sharper than we lead ourselves to believe. (Not to say they are gods among men, but if you believe The Internet, the FBI couldn't sleuth their way out of a wet paper bag)
    - krapp 13y ago
      The Internet watches too much television.
- nwh 13y ago
  There's nothing to suggest that anybody apart from him ever ran the site. The screw ups on StackOverflow and Bitcointalk point to him and nobody else. He's just someone who totally didn't prepare for his adversaries, who ultimately didn't need to go to any great lengths to unmask him. I'm surprised nobody in the general public managed to do it, quite honestly. Just not as clever as he thought he was being, essentially.
  - hmsimha 13y ago
    > The screw ups on StackOverflow and Bitcointalk point to him and nobody else. Ah, so the original DPR is a true master then :P
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  didn't get caught before due to dumb luck There isn't really much "before". The site was only up for about 2.5 years before shutdown, and the FBI started building a case back in, what, May? June?
- JshWright 13y ago
  > 3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who took over to take the fall for the original DPR The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.
evilrevolution 13y ago
If he was they'd either leave the computer on and retrieve the key out of the ram, or he'd hand it over within a week of custody.
berberous 13y ago
He probably did. The FBI deliberately waited until he was using his laptop at the library, then tackled him while the computer was still logged on.
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I can't get over how he wasn't using full disk encryption.

by Pheno 13y ago

I can't get over how he wasn't using full disk encryption.

The way I see it there are a few possibilities: 1) He isn't the real DPR 2) He is the real DPR, but he's extremely inept and didn't get caught before due to dumb luck 3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who took over to take the fall for the original DPR 4) He wanted to get caught?

dopamean 13y ago
5) Hubris.
benologist 13y ago
5) none of us are as smart as we think we are.
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  Corollary: The FBI is sharper than we lead ourselves to believe. (Not to say they are gods among men, but if you believe The Internet, the FBI couldn't sleuth their way out of a wet paper bag)
  - krapp 13y ago
    The Internet watches too much television.
nwh 13y ago
There's nothing to suggest that anybody apart from him ever ran the site. The screw ups on StackOverflow and Bitcointalk point to him and nobody else. He's just someone who totally didn't prepare for his adversaries, who ultimately didn't need to go to any great lengths to unmask him. I'm surprised nobody in the general public managed to do it, quite honestly. Just not as clever as he thought he was being, essentially.
- hmsimha 13y ago
  > The screw ups on StackOverflow and Bitcointalk point to him and nobody else. Ah, so the original DPR is a true master then :P
sliverstorm 13y ago
didn't get caught before due to dumb luck There isn't really much "before". The site was only up for about 2.5 years before shutdown, and the FBI started building a case back in, what, May? June?
JshWright 13y ago
> 3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who took over to take the fall for the original DPR The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.

evilrevolution 13y ago

If he was they'd either leave the computer on and retrieve the key out of the ram, or he'd hand it over within a week of custody.

berberous 13y ago

He probably did. The FBI deliberately waited until he was using his laptop at the library, then tackled him while the computer was still logged on.

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