Haha, great article also showing Ross's Torchat logs with Inigo and how Bitstamp told Force to fuck off and led to his arrest...among other things.
"On April 1, 2013, Carl Mark Force attempted to blackmail the Dread Pirate Roberts from the Silk Road account DeathFromAbove, saying he knew his real identity. The "real identity" that Force tried to use against DPR was taken directly from the investigation's internal files. This is literally who law enforcement thought DPR was.
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We know from the trial that Anand Athavale is the real life identity of mises.org poster "libertystudent," whose blog can be found here. Why did the Silk Road investigation think it was him? A language analysis, that showed both occasionally spelled "a lot" as "alot," "labor" as "labour," "real time" as "real-time," "let me" as "lemme," "phony" as "phoney," and "route" as "rout." Both liked to end sentences with ", right?" Both used terms like "intellectual laziness," "agorism," agorist," "counter-economics," "altruistic," "phoney," "paleo-human," and "anarcho-capitalist."
They also both occasionally used all-caps for emphasis, didn't capitalize the first word in sentence when in a hurry, and used "the symbol for backslash on the computer to split words with similar meaning."
They also discussed authors Murray Rothbard and Samuel Konkin.
Libertarians of the Internet beware. The Feds are watching."
I wonder what kinda of subpeona's they got for Anand Athavale;s various accounts? Did they access his email accounts, ISP logs, webhosting accounts?
It really scares me if any of the above occured, as almost anyone could be a subject of an investigation at any point. The whole "if you're not doing anything wrong then you don't need to worry" point of view some people took with the NSA is pretty scary.