By the way, there was another message by "Satoshi" recently, denying that he was Craig Wright -- and then adding "We are all Satoshi". That last part is obviously something that Satoshi would not have written. I can only think that the hacker is aware that everybody is aware that the account has been compromised, and does not care to pretend anymore.
Sound, sensible analysis as always. Good to have you home, professor.
The problem is that the anti-fork message was
not spoofed and the writing style matches.
http://pastebin.com/Ct5M8fa2The "we are all satoshi" was spoofed and the writing style or expressions didn't match. So the second doesn't invalidate the first.
Additionally, that particular email address is
not known to have been stolen.
Therefore the August message could be legit - it's a very serious risk for BTC. Risk, in the sense that if the proposed fork goes ahead, we'll have Satoshi's second coming after the forkageddon to proclaim Bitcoin is a failure since it failed to protect itself from this kind of attack.
The we are all Satoshi message was weak beans. Very weak.
This is spoofed.
Received: from mail.vistomail.com (cpe-104-231-205-87.wi.res.rr.com
[104.231.205.87])
by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01BCADF
for <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>;
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:53:42 +0000 (UTC)
104.231.205.87 is not mail.vistomail.com. It's some residential IP, cpe-104-231-205-87.wi.res.rr.com.
I feel like the mailing list must be seriously misconfigured to allow this sort of spoofing...