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The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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SourceForge in general seems terrible. i tried to filter by 1 star reviews and at first it selected the wrong filter because i didn't click right on the star and reloaded the page... went back and clicked right on the star, "star=1" showed in the URL, but it still only showed 5 star reviews. it was made by the halfwits at slashdot, so i wouldn't trust sourceforge for anything.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Hackers have changed bitcoin's description to read: Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts. These tasks are managed collectively by the network. It’s like a bitcoin, but with butts instead.

Buttcoin.org is also a satirical blog that mocks the extremely vested segments of the Bitcoin community: http://buttcoin.org/ I used to read it at one time, and it was actually often the voice of reason in a sea of anarcho-capitalist pipe dreams, but I don't know about its present state.

It was bought by a straw purchaser on behalf of BFL, a Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer with an aversion to shipping in a timely fashion, as a reputation management ploy. They edited some pointed posts about BFL and left the rest of the blog up.

Just another day in the Bitcoin economy.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Satoshi's account on p2pfoundation.ning.com also made the first comment since he said "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." back in March. It says: "Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn't configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before th…

Whoa. Now of course the question becomes is the warning genuine, or is it an attempt to cause Satoshi to do something hasty?

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Satoshi's account on p2pfoundation.ning.com also made the first comment since he said "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." back in March. It says: "Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn't configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before th…

So could someone explain how an IP address would leak when using an email account? I suppose potentially in the SMTP header, but this would assume he was using a email server running on his own personal ip, right? So is the guess here (assuming this is even true) that he had an email server running at home, leaked the ip, and then was attacked when someone found it?

Many SMTP servers include the IP address of the sender in the headers (usually the Received header). Just look around, you'll be surprised.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Satoshi's account on p2pfoundation.ning.com also made the first comment since he said "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." back in March. It says: "Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn't configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before th…

So could someone explain how an IP address would leak when using an email account? I suppose potentially in the SMTP header, but this would assume he was using a email server running on his own personal ip, right? So is the guess here (assuming this is even true) that he had an email server running at home, leaked the ip, and then was attacked when someone found it?

x-originating-ip?

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Satoshi's account on p2pfoundation.ning.com also made the first comment since he said "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." back in March. It says: "Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn't configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before th…

Whoa. Now of course the question becomes is the warning genuine, or is it an attempt to cause Satoshi to do something hasty?

Satoshi's behavior is the opposite of hasty.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Intresting theory from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.80

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nycgoat on September 08, 2014, 11:49:43 PM Is it possible that he deleted the e-mail address @gmx when he left the project and that it has been recycled? Someone else may have been able to sign up, then use the reset password feature on these other sites. It is likely that the @gmx address would have been destroyed at the conclusion of his participation in the project, as all relevant information and e-mails have been public from the beginning.

1) Satoshi finishes with Bitcoin and deletes GMX account 2) He does not delete other accounts (sourceforge, i2p, etc) 3) GMX account is recycled after x period of time 4) Person signs up for @gmx account after it is recycled 5) Passwords for other sites are reset because they still point to the @gmx e-mail address as a recovery 6) Person tries to profit by extortion and fails

This is probably the most likely scenario... and they probably don't have any of Satoshi's information because it is unlikely that any e-mails were still in the box when he re-set up the @gmx address.

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