Oddbean new post about login | logout It’s not lies bud. We have @Snowden's disclosures informing us of exactly their capabilities.
it's not that sophisticated opsec to wipe your keys and hard drive when that moron accepted a date with the CIA he disappeared zero chance his drives retained any of the code or data zero chance he retained the keys the very fact that the CIA got interested confirmed that it had "caught on" and it was on fire and that was all he was gonna get away with so he probably took a bus to mexico and that was that plenty of places to get work when you are a C++ server programmer i know what it means to burn keys that are worth something did it twice in my life already so far
That’s a fine story, but the nsa would still know who he was regardless. He lived a whole life before bitcoin. He left breadcrumbs behind. His identity is very knowable with the level of data they have on both him and everyone he ever interacted with. Wiping the hard drives is cute when every text or email you’ve ever sent is backed up in an nsa server somewhere.
belief in the deliberately cultivated aura of omnipotence of government agencies full of people who are selected for their obedience not their talent is stupid i remember not many years later somewhere reading that they were having trouble getting the best people because they drug test applicants your faith in government is showing, you might want to either admit it or perhaps remove it if russian and chinese spies can evade detection by the NSA then so can a smart guy who has been working on privacy technology for a decade satoshi BEING an NSA guy is very possible too, so, yeah, we all know how it goes when they investigate themselves, you have studied social engineering i would hope
