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That guy did a really bad job of blacking out sensitive information. It probably nails the receiver down to only a couple of hundred people.

by 3rd3 12y ago

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berberous 12y ago
Assuming it's not doctored, I'm very surprised he would order something from a random company to his real name/address using his Satoshi e-mail...presumably he has other e-mails, and that seems like pretty horrendous op sec. Unless he bought it for a friend? edit: the item he ordered was a FPGA in mid 2013. He's really bothering with a single $400 miner in 2013...? He doesn't have enough BTC?
- 3rd3 12y ago
  > FPGA in mid 2013 That's further evidence that someone placed an order on his email with a fake address for giggles.
verroq 12y ago
With a bit of levels adjustment and http://i.imgur.com/y0Ee8cl.png http://i.imgur.com/y0Ee8cl.png We're being lied to. This is fake. The street address doesn't match the post code. My assessment: The hacker created the order himself, with fake ID, fake address and doctored the timestamp.
- reitanqild 12y ago
  > With a bit of levels adjustment Care to explain?
  - berberous 12y ago
    Bumping the shadows/black levels so that they are brighter. Literally just moving a single slider all the way to the right in photoshop or lightroom. Just google 'levels', or here's a decent intro: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/levels.htm http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/levels.htm
- moyix 12y ago
  I agree. The email in the screenshot smells like a hoax (assuming your level stuff is legitimate; I haven't played with the source image in GIMP myself). 63101 is the downtown area (right by the Arch) – not really a place most people live, but the kind of place you might get if you Googled "St Louis zip code". Also amusingly, "198 Bruce Ave" (not Street as in the email) is right in the center of the area Google labels Ferguson, MO.
- v2vz 12y ago
  Or somebody created the order and used that email address as a joke. Most online stores don't make you confirm an email address when you place an order. Now, after this much time since that order, that person will be the star of the next Newsweek article because they didn't want to use their real address when buying a miner.
- berberous 12y ago
  The hacker probably thought it was real. That website lets you pay cash (locally in China). You can enter any name/address/email/phone number you want, there is zero validation, and you can submit as 'cash', so no payment required at that time. You will get a confirmation e-mail like Satoshi did. So someone was probably just messing around and submitted a fake order in 2013, for whatever reason.

That guy did a really bad job of blacking out sensitive information. It probably nails the receiver down to only a couple of hundred people.

by 3rd3 12y ago

That guy did a really bad job of blacking out sensitive information. It probably nails the receiver down to only a couple of hundred people.

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berberous 12y ago

Assuming it's not doctored, I'm very surprised he would order something from a random company to his real name/address using his Satoshi e-mail...presumably he has other e-mails, and that seems like pretty horrendous op sec. Unless he bought it for a friend? edit: the item he ordered was a FPGA in mid 2013. He's really bothering with a single $400 miner in 2013...? He doesn't have enough BTC?

3rd3 12y ago
> FPGA in mid 2013 That's further evidence that someone placed an order on his email with a fake address for giggles.

verroq 12y ago

With a bit of levels adjustment and http://i.imgur.com/y0Ee8cl.png http://i.imgur.com/y0Ee8cl.png We're being lied to. This is fake. The street address doesn't match the post code. My assessment: The hacker created the order himself, with fake ID, fake address and doctored the timestamp.

reitanqild 12y ago
> With a bit of levels adjustment Care to explain?
- berberous 12y ago
  Bumping the shadows/black levels so that they are brighter. Literally just moving a single slider all the way to the right in photoshop or lightroom. Just google 'levels', or here's a decent intro: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/levels.htm http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/levels.htm
moyix 12y ago
I agree. The email in the screenshot smells like a hoax (assuming your level stuff is legitimate; I haven't played with the source image in GIMP myself). 63101 is the downtown area (right by the Arch) – not really a place most people live, but the kind of place you might get if you Googled "St Louis zip code". Also amusingly, "198 Bruce Ave" (not Street as in the email) is right in the center of the area Google labels Ferguson, MO.
v2vz 12y ago
Or somebody created the order and used that email address as a joke. Most online stores don't make you confirm an email address when you place an order. Now, after this much time since that order, that person will be the star of the next Newsweek article because they didn't want to use their real address when buying a miner.
berberous 12y ago
The hacker probably thought it was real. That website lets you pay cash (locally in China). You can enter any name/address/email/phone number you want, there is zero validation, and you can submit as 'cash', so no payment required at that time. You will get a confirmation e-mail like Satoshi did. So someone was probably just messing around and submitted a fake order in 2013, for whatever reason.