Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France

Re:Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France by potrebitel on Sunday February 05, 2023 @05:30PM (#34670385)

> "Finnish police said Kivimäki also used the nicknames “Ryan”, “RyanC” and “Ryan Cleary”"

There used to be a user on HN, going by the nickname "ryanlol" [0] who seemed to have (had) good hacking knowledge. Could be the same person, could be not. But they had good comments here and there, was fun to read back then.

[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanlol

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Re:Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France by jacquesm on Sunday February 05, 2023 @05:33PM (#34670420)

He got warned by his buddy nachash that he should unplug his internet connection if he didn't want to spend time in jail again.

He didn't take that advice.

He's been on HN under a large number of accounts.

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Re:Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France by rdl on Sunday February 05, 2023 @05:34PM (#34670437)

I assumed that was the "real" Ryan Cleary (LulzSec), not the Finland guy who was impersonating him.

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Re:Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France by jacquesm on Sunday February 05, 2023 @05:36PM (#34670464)

https://stylometry.net/user?username=ryanlol

The first 10 are afaik accurate, the last stopped posting 3 days ago so that's a point of evidence.

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Re:Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France by nibbleshifter on Monday February 06, 2023 @04:19AM (#34675181)

The "real" Ryan Cleary hasn't really been online in any capacity as "himself" since his arrest over ten years ago.

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Re:Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France by costco on Monday February 06, 2023 @11:45AM (#34680099)

That was him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846051. He's been posting under various alts since, see the stylometry.net link below. Reading his comment history, unless he was just lying for HN e-cred it seems he was very wealthy. Probably an early BTC user?

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