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Re:Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit by muststopmyths on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:57AM (#23539869)
Fascinating part in the story about his arrest (first link in the vice article) is that the FBI set up cameras outside his home to correlate his physical presence with internet activity from the IP address.

You frequently get people on the internet saying "Your IP address doesn't prove anything", but I was always curious how that worked in the real world.

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Re:Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit by mi100hael on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:38PM (#23541130)
IIRC the authorities did something similar to bust one of the LulzSec members in Chicago. Once they identified a suspect, they surveilled his residence and correlated his physical presence with online chat logs despite his use of tor.
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Re:Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit by schoen on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:04PM (#23544088)
Jeremy Hammond.
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Re:Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit by wratz on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:45PM (#23543870)
I don't know about the US, but it is generally very easy: go to the ISP with the IP+date and an order from a judge and they'll tell you who was using it.
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Re:Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit by thephyber on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:21PM (#23544334)
> they'll tell you who was using it

IP only tells the investigator whose name is on the ISP account, not which person was at the keyboard. Your recommendation only helps the police know where to set up the surveillance, not who to bring charges against.

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Re:Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit by jaifraic on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:33PM (#23544486)
They'll tell you who pays for the connection. They can't reliably tell you who uses it. Maybe it was a family member, roommate or anybody who knows the wifi password.
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Re:Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit by blaser-waffle on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:07PM (#23543435)
A slightly more complicated timing attack...
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