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Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by gdubs on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:12PM (#6483337)
That's a real page-turner. I found this particular item funny on page 30:

  "Based on my training and experience, I know that criminals 
  seeking to hide their identity online will often use 
  pseudonymous usernames to conceal their identity."
Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by mst on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:09PM (#6483740)
http://chasingtruthcatchinghell.com/2013/04/10/because-youre...

> Today, those specific, articulable facts take the form of sweeping generalizations that officers assure us are based on their “training and experience.” This phrase comes from the Evidence Code section stating the sources an expert can use to form their “expert opinion” in court. Today, police are taught to repeat this phrase on the witness stand when they want the court to take their bullshit speculations and generalizations as actual evidence.

Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by zorked on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @04:12PM (#6484998)
Well, I read the PDF and every statement of something based on "training and experience" seemed completely reasonable. What it means is "this is so obvious I shouldn't need to prove it". Maybe this is abused at times, but not here.
Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by heyitsnick on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:44PM (#6483589)
"Based on my training and experience" seems like boilerplate for whenever a supposition is introduced.
Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by stephengillie on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:40PM (#6483964)
Does your training and experience inform you thusly?
Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by jerfelix on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:33PM (#6484317)
So, Agent-1, based on your training and experience, can you conclude, Agent-1, that simply because someone uses a pseudonymous username to conceal their identity, Agent-1, that they are a criminal?
Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by mikeyouse on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:34PM (#6483503)
That statement is much less absurd in context.

He posted a question about connecting to a Tor hidden service with PHP on Stack Overflow. He didn't realize it puts your full name next to the question (and he had signed up with his real name), so literally 1 minute after posting the question, he changed his full name to a "pseudonymous username". He then changed his SO registration information from firstname.lastname@gmail to a fake name at a fake server.

Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by __david__ on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:36PM (#6483934)
> …so literally 1 minute after posting the question, he changed his full name to a "pseudonymous username".

If this is true then how did they catch it? Does SO keep records of all name changes? Did they give that info to the FBI? Do the FBI scrape SO and save all versions of the data? Was this data collected from PRISM?

Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by underwater on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:19PM (#6484217)
I assume the FBI subpoenaed all information related to the account from SO, which would likely include a full history of changes.
Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by CodeCube on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:26PM (#6484272)
The exact question I had ... though I guess if they're tracking all network data, then they could have just gone back and looked up the history of the SO post.
Re:FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests o... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 03, 2013 @11:02AM (#6489363)
>he had signed up with his real name //

Seriously?!

Like "hey guys I'm starting a server for the illegal trade in drugs, but it's on Tor so nobody will know who I am, sincerely I M Anidiot".

Oh and just in case my names not distinctive enough here's my Gmail account so you can trace back all my IP connections and verify when I'm online and such.