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Re:Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to ... by enraged_camel on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:23PM (#8168493)
My understanding is that a sufficiently motivated state can find any computer criminal. It's just a matter of following them long enough until they slip and make an opsec mistake.
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Re:Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to ... by onewaystreet on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @04:03PM (#8169837)
Usually the mistake is talking too much. Jeremy Hammond (Stratfor hack) had really good technical opsec but made the mistake of talking about his IRL exploits to Sabu which led the FBI to connect his online identity to his IRL political activism. Had he kept his mouth shut he probably would have never been caught.
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