The (semi) Anonymous Internet
Date: Wednesday, November 27 @ 08:09:36 GMT
Topic: Big Brother
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Andrew Hampton McCrae, 23, posting under the very creative alias of "Andy" confessed to the murder of a police officer at the sf.indymedia.org website Monday leading to his arrest. From the source:
"FBI agents in California and New England would not say exactly how they tracked down McCrae after seeing the postings in his name."
..but the 1337 h4x0rs at the FBI were able to find enough proof that he was their man to drive out and draw a confession. Here's the post BTW.
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There have been discussions at DetNet recently about finding skript kiddies through IP and the little info you can get on a users via the internet, I wonder how the FBI found their guy so quick... |
Reading over the article, the post was made from a hotel on Monday night (more likely dialup than cable?) and he was arrested on Tuesday morning approximately 12 hours after posting. They came directly to his room to draw a confession.
Some might say, after finding IP info and checking the ISP "but Andy...Andrew, who else would it be at the hotel" but how the hell did they know that HE was the one who posted it as opposed to the other patrons at the hotel?
This [great] article mentions an anonymous tip off. There are no solid explanations of how they found their man.
Ideas?
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