There are several very distinct avenues of approach that can be used to classify cn cryptonote as a government project, the product of a collaboration motivated by factors associated with people whose motive is related to law enforcement and/or information gathering.

A person using the name Jungian should make short work of it, unless the username is an ornament.

Aside from the blatant psychological clues there are cryptographic questions http://www.cryptobang.com/2014/10/05/what-nsa-created-cryptonote-for/ and other issues that are likely to receive press soon.

Interesting comment since after a bit I realized that my computer has roughly a few gigabytes added to it since the hack. A huge block of empty clusters visible on auslogics defrag now is full. When I have energy for it I'll figure that out.

re 911 Are all of these generals and diplomats wrong?
re conspiracies that turned out to be true http://www.infowars.com/33-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true-what-every-person-should-know/

As far as conspiracy theories involving the U.S. govt, almost all of them have turned out to be true. Defenders of the govt point to the few dozen people who question the moon landing. In fact that has become the easiest way to identify govertnment shills. They try to confuse the moon landing hoaxers with genuine critics.

All those hundreds of thousands of Americans sent to vietnam as the govertnment is promising the tonkin incident was genuine. Conspiracy theorists turned out to be right. Tell it to 58,000 dead americans and 500,000+ dead vietnamese.

And who in America could forget that crying girl played over and over on tv, every channel, who told Congress how Iraqi soldiers were ripping newborns out of incubators in Kuwait? Turned out she was actually the daughter of the ambassador, hired by a pr agency coordinated with the cia.

Every single war since wwii has been the same.

And now cryptocurrencies. The biggest financial gamechanger since the federal reserve. And what, governments are ignoring it? Look at cryptonote. It uses exactly the same type of promoting style as only has been used by governments.

It is useful to know that the dev working on the supposed zc algo for anc is a defender of the govt version of 911 anyway.

Some more reading for anyone interested.
Here is a 2 page summary of 911 news http://www.wanttoknow.info/911/9-11-timeline
Here is a 10 page summary [url http://www.wanttoknow.info/911/9-11-facts [/url]
Longer summaries at http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information#911summaries

People need to understand the hierarchy and scope of the trolls infesting anc.

1) Through collusion, subversion or other means they own at least two anc devs apparently.
2) There are at least four full time people working on developing this scam.
3) A lot of money has been invested in suppressing the price. This was first done with throwaway miners. Most miners immediately sell an average of ~90% of the coins the mine. By cornering mining activities the anc manipulatiors are able to keep the price low yet still maintain longterm control when the price rises.
4) Almost certainly their plan involves several phases, each of which will feature an artificial price run up followed by a crash and increasing loss of confidence in the anc brand.
5) It still is not clear whether the group is a government entity trying to push people toward government created algorithms which have backdoors, like cryptonote, or if it is a private group of profiteers.

They are borrowing the credibility of the zerocoin project.

Everything else, the actual code, is original work.

If you look through the project you will see it has terminal flaws. It is not meant to succeed.

Who it is that takes a coin with the Anonymous symbol and deliberately discredits it is a mystery.

I was watching the task manager as the latest data surge occurred and there was nothing unusual.

1) I set all software to update manually and am running a minimalist Windows system. There is little to update aside from Windows which I do manually.
2) I do not use any torrent on the computer.
3) It does look like malware of some sort.
4) Physically I am about a quarter mile from any other house.
5) I have no cloud services on the computer like dropbox etc.

I do notice a correlation between running certain coin wallets, like xcn, and these surges but the wallets are widely used and not likely infected. The data surge takes into account any possible useage by wallets. I have been using coin wallets and know what sort of traffic they cause.

I have a wireless modem that I use for data. Today I noticed it was massively overheating and my computer was running unusually hot.

Then I got a message from my provider that I was almost a gigabyte over my limit.

However I did not use much data recently. Somehow my computer has used several gigabytes yesterday and today when my actual usage was well under 10% of that.

I imagine it is some kind of hack but are there any ideas on what else it might be?

I've been using the same wireless modem for about 6 months. There are no computer users within range of the modem besides me.