Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-...
by danso on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:41PM
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It was interesting to me because of how ordinary it was. I just assumed the user would be doing this from a regular computer, and that the police tracked down the IP. Not that the suspected troll would be dumb enough to use his own phone number to register for Twitter. And be someone who is "Clever" enough to use a pre-paid account but then dumb enough to sync data to iCloud. But I guess it's easy to erroneously conflate Apple's device security with iCloud security.
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Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-...
by trprog on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:58PM
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>But I guess it's easy to erroneously conflate Apple's device security with iCloud security.
You might be overthinking it. I get the feeling that many people think of "online" as some sort of magical place where they are shielded from the consequences of their own behavior.
Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-...
by bleachedsleet on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:54PM
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These are common mistakes of cyber criminals. Usually people get caught because they miss a point of data leaking. A commom one is people using a VPN and then accidentally opening their browser that's still logged into Google...All of a sudden that IP is now linked to you personally. If you're going to commit crimes online keep everything separated and use a VM or better yet a different device altogether.