Im reading through the affidavit and all it says is that they were able to link the two, does stack overflow publish user emails so you can just google it? How else could they have found that the email address in a stackoverflow account?
How did FBI link ross's shroomery email to his stackoverflow email frosty@frosty?
Im reading through the affidavit and all it says is that they were able to link the two, does stack overflow publish user emails so you can just google it? How else could they have found that the email address in a stackoverflow account?
[4 Points] None:
[1 Points] lucasjkr:
I doubt they publish emails, but they'll certainly respond to a warrant.
[1 Points] lehyde:
Is the question how they found his stackoverflow account or is it how they found the e-mail address of the account?
[1 Points] subliminalraver:
It's not that difficult, FBI looked at all the early promotion because they figured it was a 1-3 man startup and found that Ross promoted with his original e-mail then changed to frosty, then they followed frosty to SR etc...
it was originally rossulbricht@gmail.com he then noticed the flaw and changed it to frosty@frosty