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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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Post by tomwilde »

sktrdie wrote: post #140
austinheap wrote: post #126

If you take the screenshot showing the leaked e-mail from an order 'he' placed at CardReaderFactory, you get an interesting data point: - You can lookup orders tied to the e-mail address shatoshin@gmx.de - You cannot lookup order tied to gibberish accounts, like odn2n489n4@gmail.com Proof: http://imgur.com/a/22z72

And what does this say?

That a legitimate order exists and has been placed using satoshi's email address.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Post by kleim »

gchp wrote: post #154
croddin wrote: post #4

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…

Please excuse my ignorance here, but how does one track a persons location by their IP? Any time I have tried to look up an IP, I get a really vague result. ie "Somewhere in this city". Is it possible to get very specific results?

You might find it interesting: http://compnetworking.about.com/od/traceipaddresses/f/ip_loc...

IP locations are kept in databases that have many limitations. Some examples of the limitations I found here in France:

- at best your ISP links your IP with the DSLAM location or simply the city for the most lazy. Sometimes there are mistakes: one of my friend living in the north of France has his IP "geolocated" in the south of France...

- lots of big corporations only give the address of their headquarters

- IP location from 3G/4G network is completely wrong 90% of the time

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Post by sandwell »

gchp wrote: post #154
croddin wrote: post #4

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…

Please excuse my ignorance here, but how does one track a persons location by their IP? Any time I have tried to look up an IP, I get a really vague result. ie "Somewhere in this city". Is it possible to get very specific results?

It would be difficult to track a person with just their IP address, but used in conjunction with other information it could be useful. E.g. if you worked out the ISP someone was using, and then used some social engineering on the ISP's customer service rep to get a name or address.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Post by Aqueous »

markbao wrote: post #87
Aqueous wrote: post #83

I won't post a working link to the images but I did view them and the top-most email says it was sent 12/6/22, a date that has not occurred yet. So this is either a bug in GMX that doesn't validate timestamps or he didn't finish his otherwise convincing photoshop job :-)

The email in question looks like a Chinese spam email, which are often sent with dates in the future to show up at the top of date-sorted inboxes. See also: "spam chinese emails from the future?" http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/278777-sp...

Strange. I've never noticed such an email in my inbox. I would have thought that a future timestamp would be flagged by their spam heuristics.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Post by raphman »

rufugee wrote: post #8
croddin wrote: post #4

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?

As others have already written, many webmail providers send the user's IP address in the SMTP header. GMX ("satoshin@gmx.com") definitely sends the user's IP address in the header (Source: GMX user myself).

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Post by Anderkent »

pantaril wrote: post #148
nostromo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have a few thousand dollars of gold in your house, you shouldn't worry too much. But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid. Even with perfect security, you'd still be a ransom target.

>But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid. If i had so many bitcoins as Satoshi Nakamoto i would certainly not store them in my basement. I'd split my private key using n:m scheme and store them in secure deposit boxes in banks.

That doesn't matter much if they can grab you and apply crowbar.
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