Quote from: pooya87 on July 24, 2016, 04:38:16 AM

Quote from: ivanst776 on July 23, 2016, 10:15:01 AM

Quote from: ronald98 on July 22, 2016, 08:05:33 PM

Quote from: ivanst776 on July 22, 2016, 06:24:18 PM

Seems that there is No privacy for coinbase users, they are spying on people, but if the KickAss owner was using hardware wallet like trezor and ledger can they still track him and their users? Btw how apple helped to track this guy?

Apple provided records that show that an iCloud (me.com) account was used to purchase something on iTunes, and that account's IP address also accessed the Kickass Facebook page. Also the iCloud account's email address was used to register a Coinbase account that contained Bitcoin donations from Kickass.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/21/kickasstorrents-apple-facebook-homeland-security/

What a combination lol, I thought apple protect their users data and dont send to other third parties in this case to facebook and coinbase, the mistake here seems to be on the end point in coinbase, if the kickass owner would create bitcoin address on hardware wallet it wouldnt be tracked?!

all services like Apple, Facebook, Coinbase, ... are protecting their user's information as best as they can but that doesn't mean that you can use them for illegal activities. it is in their TOS and they are legally bound to report any illegal activity to the authorities.

In this case we don't see how Apple has protected the kickass owner data, as far as I know he purchased something legal through Itunes and the IP was stated on their servers. This is like Facebook calls Apple and says that "Hey can you check if this IP is linked to any of your users!"