Quote from: ArticMine on July 24, 2016, 01:59:05 AM

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Apple ID leads Homeland Security to alleged owner of the biggest pirate site on the net..

http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/21/kickasstorrents-apple-id/

Enough said.

Edit: This is my favorite part.

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The irony of the alleged owner of the worlds biggest pirate site being caught by a legal purchase from iTunes is straight from the Dept of You Couldnt Make It Up

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Events kicked off in November of last year when an undercover IRS agent posing as a representative of a study program booked an ad on the site. That correspondence enabled them to identify an email address linked to both the site and KATs presence on Facebook, which led first to an IP address in Chicago and from there to a separate Apple email address (a me.com one).

Apple was served with a court order requiring it to identify any activity from that email address, and responded by releasing details of an iTunes purchase. The IP address for that purchase was found to be identical to one used to access the KAT Facebook page on the same day, providing the crucial evidence linking Vaulin to the pirate site.

And how is that any different from what I said a post or 2 before.
Monero would not have protected the guy. Tongue

Quote from: kiklo on July 24, 2016, 12:04:58 AM

For a truly anon solution which monero claims but can in no way truly achieve.
These reasons are why all anon fails.

Your IP address is not anon,
Your Browser info is not anon,
Your Email Address is not anon,
Your Bank Account which you linked is not anon,
Your address where you mailed or received goods is not anon,
there are no guarantees the person that did business with you did not sell your identifiable information.

All anon solutions will fail til they can solve all of the above.

Cool

FYI:
If you truly want to understand what you are up against,
Start up a truly anonymous ISP, that uses inhouse proxy servers and destroys all traceable information every few seconds.
They will shut you down so quickly , you won't know what hit you.
It will be the government at your door not a megacorp.
or they will place a backdoor in your system to report everything back to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention

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The National Security Agency (NSA) commonly records Internet metadata for the whole planet for up to a year in its MARINA database, where it is used for pattern-of-life analysis. U.S. persons are not exempt because metadata are not considered data under US law (section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act).[51] Its equivalent for phone records is MAINWAY.[52] The NSA records SMS and similar text messages worldwide through DISHFIRE.[53]

FYI2:
Details are here:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/file/877591/download

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On or about November 13, 2015, an undercover IRS Special Agent
(UC-1) sent a request to the email address pr@kat.cr (an email account listed on
KATs website for press),
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inquiring about advertising on KAT. Additionally on or
about November 17, 2015, UC-1 sent a private message on the KAT forums to the
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KATs website has made an email account available for press since at least as early as in
or about August 2009

administrator Mr. White and followed up with another email to admin@kat.cr.
On or about November 24, 2015, UC-1 received a response from the email address
admin@kickass.to regarding UC-1s inquiry and the two exchanged several emails
during which UC-1 provided the KAT representative with a link for an undercover
website purportedly advertising a program to study in the United States. The KAT
representative agreed to provide UC-1 advertising for $300 per day. During one of
the exchanges, on or about December 9, 2015, a representative of KAT, using
admin@kickass.to, provided UC-1 with banking information for payment to
advertise on KATs websitea Latvian-based account held at Regionala Investiciju
Banka, account #LV32RIBR00185170N0000JSC, in the name of GA Star Trading
Ltd, 9 Barrack Road Belize City, Belize (the
Subject Account
). After providing
the banking information, the KAT representative instructed UC-1, Could you
please make sure that you dont mention KAT anywhere? in connection with
payment to the bank for advertising.
26.
On or about February 8, 2016, UC-1 reinitiated contact with the KAT
representative. On or about February 19, 2016, the KAT representative responded
with the same banking information for the
Subject Account
. The KAT
representative stated UC-1 Please make sure that the bank details are entered
correctly and you dont mention KAT or for advertising anywhere. Could you
please also inform me when you send the payment?

30.
On or about May 11, 2016, in response to a request from UC-1 for a
new bank account, the KAT representative provided UC-1 with another account to
receive funds for advertising, an Estonian-based bank held at AS Eesti
Krediidipank, account number *6107, in the name of Glomeratus LTD,
Beneficiary address: 1 Straits Parade, Bristol, BS16 2LA, UK. The KAT
representative wrote: Please pay attention to the bank details. They should be
entered correctly. Also please dont mention KAT and for advertising anywhere.
Could you please inform me when you send the payment? On or about May 13,
2016, the KAT representative provided UC-1 with another payment method for
advertising, a WebMoney account as well as an account for a Russian-based
payment system. On or about July 1, 2016, as part of the undercover operation,
IRS wire transferred $1,000 from a location in Chicago to the Glomeratus LTD
bank account to purchase additional advertising.
31.
The investigation obtained bank records from Latvia pursuant to a
request under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty. Those records reflect that the
Subject Account
received a total of approximately 28,411,357 in deposits
between on or about August 28, 2015, and on or about March 10, 2016. The account
balance as of March 10, 2016, was 14,656. A sizable portion of the funds appear to

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be related to advertising revenue.
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For example, there are deposits totaling
199,828 from a Dutch online advertising company Adperium with a memo line
KAT TC REVENUES. The deposits also include 110,125 over the course of
fifteen periodic deposits from on or about September 1, 2015, to on or about March
2, 2016 from a known KAT advertising partner, MGID, sent from a Bank of
America account in the United States.
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C.
KATs Use of Social Media
32.
The operators of KAT also use social media to advertise and provide
updates about the website. Records from Facebook identified that on or about
February 19, 2010, a Facebook account was created, titled official.KAT.fanclub.
Based on historical screen captures of KATs website, I have determined that since
at least August 2010 the KAT Facebook Account has been the account linked to
KAT as its official Facebook account. The account was registered to the email
address pr@kat.ph. Based on my review of screenshots of KAT, I know that KAT
has used the email address pr@kat.ph to receive inquiries after switching to the
domain kat.ph in or about April 2011.

FYI3:
The agent may have know their IP address as soon as they received the email ,
if they used a 1x1 transparent graphic linked to a web site to record the IP of the computer that opened it.
http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/hidden-phishing-threats/