It's possible that Satoshi's identity was public information some time ago but got deleted. This quote is from topic number 5 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5), it's now the first one in this forum after topics 1, 2, 3 and 4 were archived or deleted:


Maybe theymos knows about this post, but "it must have contained" doesn't sound like this. It would be interesting to know who else read this topic but I'm sure if someone did and there was Satoshi's real name and address, there would be screenshots or at least stories about it.

And if someone is interested in the topics 1, 2 and 4: They are still available to the public, theymos has posted a link in 2012:


But it's only about configuration and testing of the new forum.