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It's not just the "connect a bunch of disparate dots in someone's public online presence" sense of that term. They're basically admitting to hacking into people's private email accounts, frequent flier accounts, and the like. It's beyond illegal and doesn't seem ethical as journalism.
Variety Jones is one of those "fogotten architects", who alleges that a corrupt FBI officer is blackmailing him / feeding him inside information in order to gain access a password protected BitCoin wallet worth $70 million that the FBI agent stole from Ross Ulbricht: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/variety-jones-a-corrupt-fbi...
Forum post with a lot more info: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&star... (Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose)
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Care to summarise any of the interesting parts, or is it worth holding on and checking this at home? I'm at work and I suspect clicking on "myplanetganja.com" will not go down well with our infra team. Also what does "Variety Jones == Plural of Mongoose" mean?
This url leads to forum posts that is written by guy named "Plural of Mongoose". I skimmed it over and it reads like memoirs of main (bad?) character from Noir book. Definitely worth a read if you're into that.