[joe is dead] http://findmeifyoucan.eu

[Este Nuno]

Once again the human element is the softest part...

[jasinlee]

Toldja the way you type will be your undoing

[AndrewBUD]

This was a great idea..... too bad your damn typing error got ya

[AndrewBUD]

I'll leave this here to freak you out instead:

Very interesting.

Would be more interesting if it showed the IP of the last person that viewed it.

[MelMan2002]

MelMan2002, would you be ok with splitting the bounty with Sans-EXP if he presents the info on how he caught me?

Like you said before, you make the rules.  I'm perfectly happy with 7btc.

If it makes you happier, it was more than a stab in the dark.  I went through all of joe's posts looking for spelling/grammar oddities and kept searching the forum to look for trends.  It took me a few hours actually.  And when I found a pretty good match with molecular I went through many of his posts to see if anything seemed to convincingly disprove my theory.

I almost gave up a couple hours into it because I wasn't sure that I was getting anywhere...

Anyway - it was a lot of fun.  Thank you very much!

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I am really a registered user in this forum since at least summer 2012.

Date Registered:   January 26, 2011, 03:23:03 AM

I had a hunch it would not be specifically spring or summer of this year. This thread just goes to prove: Words mean things!

[Este Nuno]

I think MelMan2002 should get the full bounty, that was a good job by him.

I'm not really clear from reading the post about what technical issue you were supposed to have missed that wasn't covered by people already.

[deepceleron]

I'll leave this here to freak you out instead:

Very interesting.

Would be more interesting if it showed the IP of the last person that viewed it.

More interesting:
http://amibehindnat.com

If I can get you to follow a similar link to my server, I can see your real IP address regardless of VPS, and I could log it and show it to everybody. That uses Java, which could even send traceroutes out from the user and report back their full IP route to the server. Of course if you have Java and follow a link, you are now PwnD anyway.

I think MelMan2002 should get the full bounty, that was a good job by him.

I'm not really clear from reading the post about what technical issue you were supposed to have missed that wasn't covered by people already.

It was a bulanula-style con trying to claim credit for the previous discovery and get free BTC, posts now deleted.

[MysteryMiner]

I really am the only one who mistypes sr like that.

There is also a user on Silkroad forums that mistypes the SR like that.

[OpenYourEyes]

Well done MelMan2002! I found a few grammatical errors, but didn't spend much time on them thinking I'd find him going the technical route.

This could well have worked, I didn't protect against that.

I'm not sure how you embedded flash, can you explain? just <img>blah.swf</img> or what?

Do you see 85.17x.xxx.xxx in your logs?

If you use Tor, you should disable JavaScript, and certainly disable plugins (such as Flash, QuickTime, DivX, ActiveX, etc).
I didn't embed the Flash into my post (just a tracking image), I had a link in my post to a blog post (don't know whether you clicked it), and it was that page that hosted the Flash.

I didn't see 85.17.* but there was 85.127,* and 85.28*

I need a life, I spent far too long on this

[SysRun]

We should do that again some time.

[Este Nuno]

We should do that again some time.

Yes, this was awesome. I think it would be cool to have this as a regular thing.

[molecular]

I think MelMan2002 should get the full bounty, that was a good job by him.

I'm not really clear from reading the post about what technical issue you were supposed to have missed that wasn't covered by people already.

It was a bulanula-style con trying to claim credit for the previous discovery and get free BTC, posts now deleted.

What posts where deleted? The one where SANS-Exp claims I made a serious flaw is still there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120921.msg1304530#msg1304530

Let's give it some more time. If he can show I made a serious mistake and that makes it plausible enough that he could've found me that way I think he'd deserve half the bounty. If not, it will go to MelMan2002.

[molecular]

We should do that again some time.

Yes, this was awesome. I think it would be cool to have this as a regular thing.

Oh definitely! Anyone be sure to post in this thread once someone puts up a challenge so we don't miss out.

Unfortunately, I can't be Mr. X any more now ;(.

Looking forward to be on the other side, though.

[MysteryMiner]

Maybe someone want to find my other profiles on Bitcointalk?

[molecular]

Well done MelMan2002! I found a few grammatical errors, but didn't spend much time on them thinking I'd find him going the technical route.

This could well have worked, I didn't protect against that.

I'm not sure how you embedded flash, can you explain? just <img>blah.swf</img> or what?

Do you see 85.17x.xxx.xxx in your logs?

If you use Tor, you should disable JavaScript, and certainly disable plugins (such as Flash, QuickTime, DivX, ActiveX, etc).
I didn't embed the Flash into my post (just a tracking image), I had a link in my post to a blog post (don't know whether you clicked it), and it was that page that hosted the Flash.

I didn't see 85.17.* but there was 85.127,* and 85.28*

Yeah, and my heart stopped when I saw 85! I checked my logs (dynamic ip here) and the ones I got always start with 85.176 or 85.177. Started with 85.176 on saturday and sunday.

I didn't click through to your blog page. I'm not sure I even saw the post with the link? You deleted that? I think you could've got me that way, I actually didn't do any securing of my browser other then set the proxy and was naively assuming everything would be forced through the proxy (which is false as I now know thanks to you and others).

Thanks for your effort, anyway.

[molecular]

Maybe someone want to find my other profiles on Bitcointalk?

Are you willing to see that info revealed?

Maybe that 1 BTC someone wanted to chip in could be used as a bounty to find your puppets (or master).

[MysteryMiner]

Maybe someone want to find my other profiles on Bitcointalk?

Are you willing to see that info revealed?

Maybe that 1 BTC someone wanted to chip in could be used as a bounty to find your puppets (or master).

It is not a problem for me. This will be fun! The same thing but in reverse! Have not decided about reward as I don't know how easy or difficult it will be to find my puppets. It should be extremely hard as I have taken every precaution for it.

I didn't click through to your blog page. I'm not sure I even saw the post with the link? You deleted that? I think you could've got me that way, I actually didn't do any securing of my browser other then set the proxy and was naively assuming everything would be forced through the proxy (which is false as I now know thanks to you and others).

Tor Browser Bundle have plugins and java scripts neutralized. Alternatively you can create separate profile for permanent Firefox installation and install Torbutton and other add-ons that TBB have. Changing just proxy in Firefox to 127.0.0.1:9050 is very dangerous.

[psilan]

Same way I tried to find you, but didn't notice that particular spelling error. Nice work.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

We should do that again some time.

Yes, this was awesome. I think it would be cool to have this as a regular thing.

Concur. Even use the same domain name.