Topic: [email protected] is compromised - page 12. (Read 152326 times)

with all my searching that is all the reference I could find.  Although I'm not too good at this kind of thing.  Funny to think about the power of the community in this regard, although not for uncovering szabo or satoshi, since the most powerful probably wouldn't do it.

It would be an incredible story if it were Nash or if he were a significant player.  

But that man in that picture looks like a BOSS!  Looks like he could dismantle a government with 10 lines of code.  It would also be quite interesting if he was Szabo, reminds me of an irl Bruce Banner.

It would be quite surprising to me, and I would be just as happy to know it were Szabo, some random dude no one otherwise knows in the general public sphere.  However I cannot comprehend the coincidences between Szabo, Satoshi, and Nash's works.   There are very few people in the history of man that have a such a wholistic view to produce such knowledge.  Szabo's blog seems like random posts about random subjects, but if you really read it wholistically and understand the different directions in points to, the person behind them has an extensive understanding of the history of man up until present day and future technologies and social systems.

I can't help but think the information presented and alluded to in the szabo blog would take a lifetime to accumulate.  

Szabo also backhandedly (not sure if correct word) solved many previously known but unsolved "problems" that really needed bitcoin to solidify them as proofs.  He sort of "metaphorically" slid in solutions without presenting them in an academic form.  And this is why I understand bitcoin to be a unifying solution, once the person had the concept of "bitcoin" all of a sudden they could privately run around "solving" all sorts of problems previously thought not solvable.  Law, programming, economics, cryptology, quantum physics, quantum computing, history, archeology, and who knows what else.  

My understanding is "someone" has pretty much won every academic award out there...

I seems really clear to me if someone has read the majority of Szabo's blog, it is a past/present/future account of everything that has to do with bitcoin and it was started in 1995.  

I don't know. All I know is it was linked from this page: http://dave.liberty.me/2014/05/02/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/ with this statement regarding it: "**edit – 6/7/2014 – a picture of Nick Szabo at a 1997 conference has since surfaced (via Adrian Chen)". Don't shoot the messenger 

I've seen that picture before and again I ask

1.  Where does it come from?
2.  How do we know for sure that it's Nick Szabo?

You sure that is him, that looks to be either a socially awkward person or one of those people who look as if they always just smelled a fart.

Real party guy I bet lol

Looks a little like Gavin.... 

Well there is one, from 1997: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BldQ7P2CEAAbtQm.png:large

One things for sure, If Satoshi is a dude, his nuts have to be seriously hurting due to the constant swinging from most of you

He would be the world's greatest internet troll!

Also seems that wei dai is false identity within the satoshi false identity.

Is this interesting?

Start at:
54:03

Watch for:
54:28 and the double take 54:32


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXIfhJ36Iw

You know what also convinces me he is Satoshi? His Twitter account. He seems just as elusive and focussed solely on the pursuit of knowledge. At the least they are very similar personalities. (Though that might be a given at that level of knowledge.)

False identity within false identity!

Have not faced that kind of problem yet.

But as no one knows who "Szabo Nick" is and no picture of him exists, you just replace the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" with another pseudonym ...

AHAHHAHAHAHAHA that made my day!

Although I agree completely with non violence - In this isolated event (If it is this kid in question) he should have some sort of ramification for his actions. Stating that his age some how made him exempt of his action to me is remiss. To forcefully hack your way into someones email account and then use that account to try to extort the community by threats is not something which should go unnoticed.

As you said, this community is no fucking joke. More white hats here than a wizard cosplay for lord of the rings lol

We arent 100% sure but maybe, any determined person with low intelligence coulda hacked it. It wasnt even hacking just guessing the birthdate.

LOl it was just a kid? did he really get satoshi email or just faked screenshots and how did they ddox him specifically? 

Please stop picking on people.

What's DOGE have to do with all this?

lol its incredibly comforting to know the bitcoin community can counter-hack. but i think you guys have made your point. he's just a kid and nobody got hurt, let it go imo.

Unless there is a second factor authentication on the account..

The "forgot your password" security question on Satoshi's gmx email is "what day are you born". With no lockout mechanism for brute force attempts, 36500 possible answers for anyone alive, and given a bot that can guess even 5% of the captchas shown, it's no surprise that it was compromised by anyone determined.

There is no information in the site's TOS or documentation about unused accounts expiring, so this is the likely mechanism.


The site also reveals to anyone attempting to reset that the alternate email is  s******@v********.com
This is pretty piss-poor security, since it's obvious that s****** is satoshi and there are lists of free email providers, even ones from 5 years ago that have domains now expired or parked that could be bought and tried against the reset:
vahoo.com
varbizmail.com
vcmail.com
virtualactive.com
visitweb.com
visto.com
visualcities.com
vivavelocity.com
vjmail.com
vlmail.com
vote4gop.com
votenet.com
vr9.com

The reset email shown could be set by the current hacker, if it was previously s******@g****.com it would be even more obvious what else to compromise.