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sjclemmy | 4 years ago

Fun fact and one of my dinner party anecdotes; I have the accepted answer for one of Ross Ulbricht’s (Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts) SO questions that got him busted.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9563675/destroying-a-spe...

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spockz|4 years ago

Wow CodeIgniter, blast from the past. Funny at the time it was a pretty nice ORM/Framework. Apparently I still used SVN also. https://alessandrovermeulen.me/tags/codeigniter/

skinnymuch|4 years ago

CodeIgnitor. What a blast from the past. I was able to read the entire code base and then again and grok all of it fairly quickly. That gave me a lot of confidence then and helped with imposter syndrome

bad_username|4 years ago

Raymond Chen answered my question. And then blogged about it in Old New Thing.

jmkni|4 years ago

I remember being obsessed with that trial when it was going on, Ars Technica in particular had excellent coverage.

The fact that his SO question led to his demise is particularly nuts IMHO.

digianarchist|4 years ago

It wasn't just the SO question. He posted on the Shroomery message board advertising the site in it's earlier days.

TenJack|4 years ago

Woh, how did this lead to his demise?

polynomial|4 years ago

1. He originally submitted the question using his real name before quickly changing his user name to "frosty." Oops, too late.

2. Forensic testimony in the complaint asserted Silk Road used this method and in fact used code identical to that in the answer.

3. Silk Road server encryption was signed with Frosty@Frosty.

#2 and #3 were evidentiary, but #1 is what tied everything to a real person's name.

LegitShady|4 years ago

Not exactly on topic but I click on this link and it's been a long time since I went on SO...it popped up the cookies choice thing...except it remembered my choices from last time so there was no reason to...I think it was just hoping i'd mistakenly hit 'accept all'.

thirdsun|4 years ago

Did it really remember all your choices or did your choices just match with the default settings (strictly necessary = on, everything else = off)?

In either case, it's still a problem. It's my impression that if you make the effort to actually customize and decline those options you'll have to do it repeatedly since very few sites will remember those choices - probably on purpose. Luckily uBlock Origin hides most of those annoying consent popups.

jimueller|4 years ago

Yeah, that’s getting really old. Especially since it’s each site in the family.

polynomial|4 years ago

Where did his 3,675 reputation come from? He only asked 2 questions and has a small number of badges.

shagie|4 years ago

You keep reputation on sufficiently old, sufficiently voted posts even if they are deleted.

Presumably, there are also deleted questions or answers that were up voted.

Additionally, there was a "up votes on questions are also worth 10 points" recently (past few years).

scandinavian|4 years ago

His questions have 444 upvotes, so he should actually have 4400 rep. He lost some to users being deleted. Looking at the reputation log he actually has less than he should have, but I'm not an expert.