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AlphaBay Owner Used Email Address For Both AlphaBay and LinkedIn Profile.
BarbaraHudson writes: The Register is reporting that Alexandre Cazes, the 25-year-old Canadian running the dark web site AlphaBay, was using a hotmail address easily connected to him via his Linkdin profile to administer the site. From the report: "[A]ccording to U.S. prosecutors, he used his real email address, albeit a Hotmail address -- Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com -- as the administrator password for the marketplace software. As a result, every new user received a welcome email from that address when they signed up to the site, and everyone using its password recovery tool also received an email from that address. However, rather than carefully set up and then abandon that email address, it turns out that Alexandre Cazes -- Pimp Alex -- had been using that address for years. Cazes had also used his Pimp Alex Hotmail address as well as an email address from his own business -- EBX Technologies -- to set up online bank accounts and crypto-currency accounts. How did law enforcement know that Cazes was behind EBX Technologies? It was on his LinkedIn profile."
BarbaraHudson adds: "His laptop wasn't encrypted, so expect more arrests as AlphaBay users are tracked down."
BarbaraHudson adds: "His laptop wasn't encrypted, so expect more arrests as AlphaBay users are tracked down."
n/t
He could be both - my guess is that he's just taken the fall and now it's neatly tidied up, no-one's looking for the real people behind it all
Just a week after Cazes was arrested and dumped in a Thai jail, he was found dead in his cell. The authorities say it was suicide.
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Right, *everything* is parallel construction or a false flag, strawberry fields, nothing is real, blah blah blah.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
[A]ccording to U.S. prosecutors, he used his real email address, albeit a Hotmail address -- Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com -- as the administrator password for the marketplace software
Whut?
Article says "contact."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I am trying to write the sarcasm ending tag (meant to be within the parenthesis in that previous comment) but it gets always deleted?! Someone here should review the HTML parsing part!
/. doesn't allow direct HTML in comments, been that way 20 years. If you want to do quasi-HTML, learn to write HTML entities. Like </sarcasm> has to be written like </sarcasm> Oh and the & itself is written & in case you're wondering. Lots of entities won't work though, only a small white-list. Particularly I miss the Greek letters for formulas, though most western characters are there like üöæøåñçß. Forget the rest of Unicode though, not happening...
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2. If you need to explain your humour to that extent, then you're doing it wrong.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
More like cargo-cult darkweb.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Has nothing to do with "morals". Has everything to do with actual *consequences* and being mindful of what those are likely to be.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
_She_ Don't know if I agree with the idiot thing though.
Thanks, but I'm on /., so I might have to cop to being somewhat of an idiot, at least some of the time :-)
Anyone with the document #, registration #, DoB, full name, and my mother's maiden name can validate my birth certificate with the government online. Anyone who wishes to do so can come here and we'll look it up together. Or you can just look at it. If you can't come here, you can designate someone else to. Far better than posting a scan which people will say was doctored.
Certainly one of the trolls is up to the challenge of locating somebody near me. I've posted my full contact details on /. a few times to show just how stupid it is to fear being doxxed. We used to have this thing called a phone book that had pretty much everyone's name and address in it. The world didn't end.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Okay, since you asked, here goes.
1. Downmods are no big deal. It's just karma. I've been mod-bombed to the point I suddenly went from excellent karma to the pink page of death for 3 days. Only took a few days after the "time out" to get it all back with a few funny posts. (yeah yeah, +1 funny mods aren't supposed to increase karma, I know .... whatever). If you take down-mods seriously, you're doing it wrong. Laugh.
2. It's Friday. People are bored.
3. You responded to criticism in a way that pretty much guaranteed that bored people would latch onto it. In other words, everyone on the Internet has an inner troll just waiting to be released, and ... well, your responses were like pouring chum on water to attract sharks. Bored sharks.
4. A quick review of your posting history shows that you kind of fail at sarcasm in other discussions as well, and then, like here, have to explain things. Maybe sarcasm just isn't your thing? There are other forms of humour you could try ...
5. Sarcasm is a weapon. Like all weapons, its use can be seen as a form of aggression, unlike (some) other forms of humour. Like any weapon, it can harm the user if not used properly.
HTH
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
The two stories aren't exactly the same. The first one makes it seem like it was hard to verify who this guy was. Here I post directions for verifying his name, address, etc., from a lookup of government records that anyone who saw his linkedin profile could have done in under a minute.
So all the "sooper-sekret investigative techniques" for verifying who this guy is that both the motherboard and vice stories allude to without going into detail are simply bs.
And given that the government regularly hoovers up all the public data from linkedin, how hard was it to find the email address and company name there? The original story makes it seem that it took half a year to go from the email address and company name to discovering who the guy was. I sure as hell hope it wasn't that long - the profile gives the original country (Canada) and province (Quebec) for his business, and plugging the business name into the Quebec business registry database (again, see link) confirms both his identity and name, with records going back well before he launched the site.
This whole thing is reminiscent of the "police hi-tech hard disk examination tools" that turned out to be just a bunch of perl scripts.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.