La question, pas tout à fait anodine, sur un forum qui a fait tomber Silk Road (et #bitcoin…)
Silk Road Stack Overflow Post - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/silk-road-stack-overflow-post-2013-10
According to the criminal complaint against Ross William Ulbricht, the man who allegedly ran the vast online drug marketplace from his San Francisco apartment, ventured humbly onto the site in March 2012 to ask a couple of friendly questions.
The first one, it seems, was relatively innocuous, if a bit unorthodox. But a second query struck FBI investigators as rather incriminating, in retrospect: “How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?” the user asked. Silk Road is, of course, a Tor hidden service — perhaps the world’s most famous one at that.
But here’s the facepalm-worthy part: According to the criminal complaint, Ulbricht posted the question using his own real name. Less than one minute later, he changed his username to “frosty.” And then, one assumes, banged his head against a hard wall several times.
According to the complaint, the Stack Overflow post served as key evidence for authorities trying to link Ulbricht to Silk Road.
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Oh, and the encryption key on the Silk Road server ended with the substring “frosty@frosty.” Whoops.
