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The Hunt For LulzSec's Missing Sixth Member
DavidGilbert99 writes "LulzSec's star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, but things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, but this only served to highlight the fact that one member of the group, known as Avunit, has been able to remain unidentified despite the FBI having turned the group's leader Sabu into an informant. Who is Avunit? And does he hold the purse strings of the group's Bitcoin wallet which could have up to $180,000 in it?"
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Clever guy, he should add this to his resume, should get him far in security firms. He obviously knows very well how the Internet works. Just don't apply to a job at the FBI.
Pity the article is so short on details. How did he do it? Using Tor all the time or so? At least he's using Twitter apparently - and Twitter logs IP addresses. So must be doing something about that.
Another thing about bitcoin: they are trackable. Hard to track, but as I understand it's possible, as every single transaction is logged by the network, and that it is possible to track down the whereabouts of every single bitcoin at every moment in the past since it was mined.
They received some 3,000 bitcoins in donations back in the day, can't those bitcoins be traced to a certain wallet? And - related - can they (or the wallet itself) be anyhow confiscated?
Now I'm the first to admit I still don't really understand the intricacies of bitcoin - my understanding is mostly from reading about it here and on other sites. So I may be totally off, if anyone knows better I'd love to hear.
Why can't browsers tell me which tab or window (let alone frame etc) is playing sound and also offer a way to disable it? It's cause their customers are doing it. Oh well, I woulda expected better from Firefox.