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Re:U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions by warner25 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:44AM (#42559849)
This reminds me of things that I've read about intelligence agencies increasingly finding it impossible to give agents fake identities for cover; everyone now has just left too much of a trail of data behind them. And if you find or create someone with no such trail, that stands out as being suspicious[1].

[1] As an aside, this is a paradox that has fascinated me for a while. Potentially any step that we take to be more private or anonymous makes us stand out more, thus easier to track and re-identify, because we end up in a smaller crowd (i.e. anonymity set).

Re:U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions by qingcharles on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @09:58PM (#42563616)
I would imagine they just buy old accounts on black hat sites and reuse them? Or use leaked login credentials for abandoned accounts.