FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

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?

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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.

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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.

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