/u/lamoustache (homepage, Twitter) writes 2015-05-28:
When researching the information about VJ, I was hoping to find out a
bit more on Smedley and consequently searched for some potential
developers in the SR ecosystem. I haven't found exactly what I was
looking for but stumble upon various interesting profiles.
One nick that piqued my interest was the vendor "warweed" [1] also
known for having developed the "warbot" [2] (some sort of vendor helper
bot) and other Silk Road related hidden service like "Is Silkroad Up or
Down?" [3] and a vendor search utility to search for vendor on SR by
name or ID before the functionality was implemented on the main site
[4].
As a matter of fact he also implemented the search functionality over
on the main SR site back in March 2012 [5] and sounded quite familiar
with some of the SR internals like shown in that same post.
"it is a work in progress sr actuallly removed it because having the
exact known btc amount causing a small security issue with internal
functions not because of external i will patch somthing around it".
I tried to match his profile with one of the "known" developers like
"Utah" (who worked as well on the search functionality according to one
of the TorChat log file [6]. I think h7 = Utah) but didn't manage to
link warweed with any of them.
The research was unsuccessful for what I was hoping to find but I
didn't waste my time as I found out that warweed had been arrested by
the RCMP in August 2012 after the Canadian police received an anonymous
tip that warweed was selling drugs, weapons and explosives through the
Internet.
Interesting isn't?
First things first, establishing the identity of warweed.
It was surprisingly easy as warweed also has an account on bitcointalk.org
[7] which he operated quite openly using his real name "James Fowler". You'll note the email address buymyjunkedmonton@gmail.com
as that will be the link between the warweed account on BTCtalk and SR.
Back on SR, warweed, also operated a BTC exchange service which he
used to scam few people. One of the person scammed "ItsMonday" posted
about it on the forum including some pretty good evidences (screenshots)
that warweed took his money and never transferred the BTC [8]. If you
check the screenshots [9] linked in the post you'll find the same email
address buymyjunkedmonton@gmail.com
associated with warweed on SR. In that same post ItsMonday also called warweed by his first name, James.
Searching a bit further on that James Fowler I found this article
[10] dated May 1, 2014 that tick all the boxes if you take the time to
go through warweed SR messages.
- James Foley [11]
- Explosives [12]
- Mushrooms [13] (ctrl-f search for boomers)
- Weapon charges [14] (kind of unrelated but about weapons).
- Ebooks [15]
Funnily enough, it might be the "ItsMonday" guy who ratted him out as
the SR forum post date and the date the Crime Stoppers received the
anonymous tip about Fowler kind of match, May 2012.
Last but not least on the SR forum [16] warweed acknowledged and
confirmed that he had been arrested August 2, 2012 as mentioned in the
Campbell River article, however his account was last used on the forum
Feb 17, 2013.
He should have been released this month.
I'm not sure what was the deal with the user search function and how
warweed's code was integrated by DPR but I found it quite interesting.
There is probably more to look at but I can't really be bothered so,
here we go, you have one more on your arrest list.
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