Relevant?
Session Time: Fri Jul 13 00:00:00 2012
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[email protected]) has joined #intersango
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[01:01] * phantomcircuit sets mode: -o phantomcircuit
[01:01] * phantomcircuit is now known as steve_bobs
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[email protected]) has joined #bitcoinconsultancy
[01:01] * phantomcircuit is now known as steve_bobs
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[email protected]) has joined #bitcoinica
[01:01] * phantomcircuit is now known as steve_bobs
? Wtf
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If this log is real, this guy's got some explaining to do
I just read through all of this and missed if there was a follow-up to this post?
The IP in question is an american one, which doesn't necessarily mean anything. But it seems from that log (if legit), that phantomcircuit is given op privilegies, which means he should be identified with NickServ? AFAIK, you can authenticate from any ip, so if phantomcircuit's e-mail was compromized earlier on (as was stated on this forum), then his IRC personality could be compromized as well, for all we know, his computer(s) may be backdoored.
Googling
[email protected] gives some results, but I'm not going to do anymore research, if anyone feels up to it, go ahead.
I don't know Zou Thong, but personally I would've never have sold my operations to any 'security expert' that's previously been inolved in cracking said operations and boasting on it in a public forum...
http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2011/09/12/4http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2011/09/12/5Did some research anyway:
41 days ago, the same identity was used by a user called phantomcircuit:
http://pastie.org/4096261Aparently he's discussing the pay back process rather grumpily on that occasion.
However, "phantomcircuit is now known as steve_bobs" yielded no hits while searching on google, so perhaps it's just trolling ?
On one side I agree that the bitcoin companies breached their privacy statements, however, I for one, thought the information was interesting to get, however it also means that anyone in a similar position in the future can not trust that their account will not be frozen for similar reasons and their information being put public.
But it's funny that, now suddenly Zou Thong was able to find a 'suspect', actually a 'friend' of him to boot. I find it hard that he was not able to think of this earlier.
I see a lot of people are calling for police investigation in these matters. In the end, Bitcoinica customers are interested in clawing back their money, so what would be better than appointing reputable members of the forum, that would have access to a certain amount of the total funds each, and then have BC hand over all the funds and then the claims process could continue ?
There are probably numerous criminal acts that's been comitted throughout this debacle, and the involved actors know this. Therefore they do not go to the police. Also, an investigation would probably take a lot of time, and it's questionable if it would lead to anything at all, but those who'd be richer by such a process would be the lawyers.
If Zou Thong is guilty, it would be better to step up, admit to it, and try to rectify the situation. If he's not guilty he sure as hell have made a lot of bad calls and have involved himself with 'criminal friends'.
(Somebody with a lot of time on their hands should create a site wiki-style and gather all the evidence with citations!)
The saga is not over yet. Look forward to the movie!
