Here is a bit on privacy from Eric Hughes’s Cypherpunk’s Manifesto of 1993. Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is […]
This might be FUD, but… Vastaamo hacker traced via ‘untraceable’ Monero transactions, police says
Since this did turn out to be debunked FUD, might be a good idea to edit it in to this comment.
can do, if you could provide the link to the debunking source - would be great!
Here’s a link to mental outlaws video talking about this -
Bad OPSEC - How The Feds Traced a Monero User https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7CD_Nl3iwhE
That was debunked. That person accidently uploaded a .tar of their home folder which had info on previous hacks the cops knew he committed. The monero was not the link their.
nice, thank you.
No problem. The cops in this case are doing a good disinformation campaign.
I’m so tired of the misinformation about Monero being traced to catch Finnish hacker. The hacker just had one of the worst opsecs imagineable and .tar’ed his entire home directory when trying to upload the information on the dark web, and ended up as a result, uploading his entire home directory. Once you do that it becomes pretty easy to identify who the fuck you are and track you down. Here is a video by mental outlaw going more in depth.https://youtu.be/7CD_Nl3iwhE&t=0
I am not a crypto bro myself and personally don’t see volatile cryptocurrency as a solution but I’m tired of hearing “Monero traced back to its user” NO. Monero USER was found because of OTHER bad opsec practices.
I’m anonymous, let me share my desktop folder to you, and transfer the exact number of coins from the ransom to my bank
edit: also, I’m a ransomeware hacker that had been caught many times before in a country with population of 5.6mln. Come and find me, we are a legion