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1) A pastebin threating to dox Satoshi for 25 BTC: http://pastebin.com/7gbPi8Qr. Address has received less than .02 BTC thus far: https://blockchain.info/address/19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjux...
2) The GMX screenshots show 11k+ emails in the inbox, with one from as far back as June 2013
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…
If Satoshi can't configure Tor correctly how is Joe Blow supposed to figure it out?
It's looking like his email address got recycled, and someone is using that to request password resets on accounts associated with it.
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"Security through obscurity" being bad only applies to cryptography, and have no bearing whatsoever to the concept of security in real life. To answer your question, actually, yes, it's almost proven to be the most effective measurement for one's safety: don't want to get hurt? Don't let people find you: get in a forest/ mountain range and hide.
Now First Blood is an underrated movie but I'm not sure it, or anything else, supports your claims. Hiding in the mountains has been a proven way of lowering life expectancy for millennia.
Oh sorry what were we talking about? I thought this was the weekly "Where you should move to/away from" thread.
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Does this same danger also apply to bitcoin exchanges? Are they heavily guarded? Just wondering...
Ask Mt. Gox... Typically an exchange will keep most of its BTC in actual bank vaults. Similar to how you'd store a large amount of gold.
Some friends of mine trade large amounts of Bitcoin on a regular basis and there's never been much of a delay withdrawing. I doubt they are going to a bank to physically take out printed keys everyday for every transaction over $10,000 or phoning 5 people to combine keys. I bet the backups are kept in a safe deposit box, the cold wallet is likely an offline system anybody can walk up to with some kind of feeble authentication judging by past Bitcoin exchange incompetence.
Many of the smaller exchanges are using Blockchain.info wallets as their hot wallet too but won't admit it.
What are the signs that it has been hacked, the sourceforge page looks correct, has it been recovered?
More details via Wired: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/satoshi/ 1) A pastebin threating to dox Satoshi for 25 BTC: http://pastebin.com/7gbPi8Qr . Address has received less than .02 BTC thus far: https://blockchain.info/address/19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjux... 2) The GMX screenshots show 11k+ emails in the inbox, with one from as far back as June 2013
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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?
gmail, for instance, includes the client IP address in mail headers. I learned this myself recently from an article here on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083798 Haven't checked it myself, just reported there by a former gmail engineer in the context of their anti-spammer efforts.
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Does this same danger also apply to bitcoin exchanges? Are they heavily guarded? Just wondering...
Not at all, you can freely walk into most exchange offices. Theoretically an armed robbery of exchanges and payment processors would be the perfect crime. Commit private address to memory or tattoo it on yourself in code, after the robbery forcing them to transfer to your public address and waiting out confirmations turn yourself in to the police and do the 5 yrs. Walk out with millions worth of bitcoins on your arm.…