Ask TF thread

[darkgamer]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327178.0 this post ties the hotmail account that was supposedly hacked in the inputs.io hack the recovery email was set to the admin@glados account.

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[Vortex20000]

So lailai625 plays minecraft, so does TF. lailai625 also has a very similar writing style, and on top of that, he likes to ban evade

Let's play!

[darkgamer]

various forum members have stated that TradeFortress doesn't seem to be the same post inputs.io hack and that very well maybe true given the context. However, you would think that if his website was breached and everything was tied to it. wouldn't someone from the community make a statement and say not to do business. Instead all you get is hey I have new website invest money in me and then something happened I lost your money.

[BigBitz]

you never did give me an image or a good enough explanation

[Termin]

You guys found hiim out and he has not be online for 2 days 

[BadBear]

various forum members have stated that TradeFortress doesn't seem to be the same post inputs.io hack and that very well maybe true given the context. However, you would think that if his website was breached and everything was tied to it. wouldn't someone from the community make a statement and say not to do business. Instead all you get is hey I have new website invest money in me and then something happened I lost your money.

Nah, I think it is him. He intentionally tried to act differently to screw with people, he enjoys that.

You guys found hiim out and he has not be online for 2 days 

He's enjoying his hookers and coke, and planning his next ponzi.

[Blazr]

He's enjoying his hookers and coke

I think he's a little young for that kind of stuff.

[darkgamer]

 

you never did give me an image or a good enough explanation

It's kind of hard to paint a picture, this is more like looking for signs of arson after a huge fire has been set. The scam sites he ran have different names but all say sydney australia. The common theme is that all the sites use the same email, they all run fine for a while then payments stop. hashie said something like I'll give you a hint and posted a picture of team fortress, then dropped the email that leads to trade fortress. hashie and $username seem to have the same typing pattern when posting. for example

Inputs had been penetration tested regularly, and on security-critical projects I regularly spend upwards of $5000 on a thorough pentest by professional security forums firms.

made a typo.

This is the sticking point with me. TF was smart enough to know that you can't fully secure anything, and even if you make it so hard it isn't worth it, there's always social engineering. Leaving that much sitting around was foolish, and I don't think he's a fool. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't have any explanation other than (i) lazyness (the system wasn't set up to make sending to cold storage easy, and it had to be performed manually), (ii) wanting to keep sufficient amounts on the server so nobody worries/panics, and (iii) about 1500 BTC was deposited within 48 hrs of the hack.

The later systems I've built do make sending to cold storage easier, but for the most recent site it was still an manual process. I intend on doing automatic cold storage transfers (hourly cronjob) for my future projects.

Good luck with your studies! When you come back, please try to be more level headed instead of throwing little tantrums.

All the best.

hashie vs TF

How could I have missed this thread? Thanks so much Quickseller (and everyone else of course). I will do whatever I can and if you guys ever need anything, just send me a PM.

Enjoy your mod coins

no matter what username you use, certain typing traits will still show.

 the admin email is also tied with a website called die2nite. he post something on google about it here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mt_die2night/zwnstqaV7L0/1yzH4QcxCVIJ and he posted on the die2nite website here http://www.die2nite.com/tid/forum#!view/4|thread/1329041

My email ends with "glados.cc" and twinoid suggests me to change it to "glados.cl".

.cc is a valid domain name and I think it's more commonly used compared to .cl.

although he probably isn't still active in it

What things look like is that tf registers sites using fake names, then tries to change it later on. example, hashie is registered to queen elsa now. the Best explanation would be from tf as i'm pretty sure others have done research from his various scams and could elaborate more while we wait for tf to come back from vacation.

[BitcoinDistributor]

various forum members have stated that TradeFortress doesn't seem to be the same post inputs.io hack and that very well maybe true given the context. However, you would think that if his website was breached and everything was tied to it. wouldn't someone from the community make a statement and say not to do business. Instead all you get is hey I have new website invest money in me and then something happened I lost your money.

Nah, I think it is him. He intentionally tried to act differently to screw with people, he enjoys that.

You guys found hiim out and he has not be online for 2 days 

He's enjoying his hookers and coke, and planning his next ponzi.

If Badbear thinks its TF still then its still TF. Badbear has access to all the IPs linked to him so I'm sure Badbear has checked it and probably seen some similiarities.

[TheBitcoinKerfuffle]

various forum members have stated that TradeFortress doesn't seem to be the same post inputs.io hack and that very well maybe true given the context. However, you would think that if his website was breached and everything was tied to it. wouldn't someone from the community make a statement and say not to do business. Instead all you get is hey I have new website invest money in me and then something happened I lost your money.

Nah, I think it is him. He intentionally tried to act differently to screw with people, he enjoys that.

You guys found hiim out and he has not be online for 2 days 

He's enjoying his hookers and coke, and planning his next ponzi.

If Badbear thinks its TF still then its still TF. Badbear has access to all the IPs linked to him so I'm sure Badbear has checked it and probably seen some similiarities.

im sure tf would of been smart enough to use tor or a vpn at all times even before the hack so the ips wouldn't help in this case but badbear might see similarities as he can see more than we do.

[darkgamer]

im sure tf would of been smart enough to use tor or a vpn at all times even before the hack so the ips wouldn't help in this case but badbear might see similarities as he can see more than we do.

Tor would be nice, the way the fbi has been crawling around it and with the exit node control. let him use something that's a potential honeypot. we can only hope that his ip leaked out, a temporary disconnect from vpn. I didn't really lose anything from any of this, I find tracking this bastard down better than that arg. I heard Australia is possibly banning encryption, while that does suck. it could become http://www.labspaces.net/pictures/blog/4e5466b7dc69f1314154167_blog.jpg if he doesn't cash out by then.

[b!z]

^[citation needed]
How would one even enforce a ban on encryption?

[(Lithium)]

How do you feel about not being the worst reputation in the forum anymore?

[bitspill]

How do you feel about not being the worst reputation in the forum anymore?

Who passed him?

[DannyHamilton]

How do you feel about not being the worst reputation in the forum anymore?

Who passed him?

Me?

[bitspill]

How do you feel about not being the worst reputation in the forum anymore?

Who passed him?

Me?

Trust:   50: -0 / +29(29)
Yep, the case has been cracked.

[Vortex20000]

various forum members have stated that TradeFortress doesn't seem to be the same post inputs.io hack and that very well maybe true given the context. However, you would think that if his website was breached and everything was tied to it. wouldn't someone from the community make a statement and say not to do business. Instead all you get is hey I have new website invest money in me and then something happened I lost your money.

Nah, I think it is him. He intentionally tried to act differently to screw with people, he enjoys that.

You guys found hiim out and he has not be online for 2 days 

He's enjoying his hookers and coke, and planning his next ponzi.

Pepsi*

Coke is for real men.

He was found out millions of light years ago, before the Bronze Age...

[Blazr]

^[citation needed]
How would one even enforce a ban on encryption?

I don't think Oz is trying to ban encryption, I heard that some restrictions placed on research and development in Oz may affect crypto development, but I don't think thats what the guy was referring to. However the UK is trying to ban encryption:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/13/uk-ban-secure-communications/


How would they do it? the same way Iran and others done it, or I should say failed to do it. Iran has a great firewall of China type suppression system that can fingerprint most types of encrypted traffic such as VPN etc, and for SSL they force all citizens to install their CA in their browser and serve up their own SSL certs for every SSL website. If the UK actually goes ahead and does this, we'll probably see more encryption systems integrating steganography, which makes the encrypted traffic look like unencrypted traffic. When that happens then only the bad guys who are willing to break the law will have access to computer security, the people they wanted to conduct surveillance on in the first place, and I don't think it'll be long before the government changes their mind about banning encryption.

[tspacepilot]

Indeed, I find a number of governments' recent moves against privacy disturbing.  But maybe we should ask TF what he thinks?

[GrandmaJean]

Are you an alt of moreia and/or Williamj?

Why did you give moreia negative feedback for running multiple HYIP sites?