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user sup_g to his real identity.
“To identify sup_g, the Bureau first turned to the voluminous chat logs stored on
Sabu’s computer. They went through every comment that could be plausibly linked
to sup_g or one of his aliases. The goal was to see if the hacker had slipped up at
any point and revealed some personal information.
He had. On August 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, “burn” said in an IRC channel that
“some comrades of mine were arrested in St. Louis a few weeks ago… for
midwestrising tar sands work.” If accurate, this might place “burn” in the
Midwest. FBI Chicago agents were able to confirm that an event called Midwest
Rising was attended by Chicago resident Jeremy Hammond’s twin brother.
(Hammond had a history with anarchism and violent protest.)
“Anarchaos” once let slip that he had been arrested in 2004 for protesting at the
Republican National Convention in New York City. Much later, “yohoho” noted
that he hadn’t been to New York “since the RNC,” nicely tying both online handles
to the same person. The FBI went to New York City police and obtained a list of
every individual detained at the 2004 convention; they learned that Jeremy
Hammond had in fact been detained, though he had not been arrested. The pieces
were starting to fit.
“Sup_g” and “burn” both indicated later that they had spent time in prison, with
“burn” indicating that he had been at a federal penitentiary. A search of
Hammond’s criminal records revealed that he had been arrested in March 2005 by
the Chicago FBI and had pled guilty to hacking into a “politically conservative
website and stealing its computer database, including credit card information,”
according to an FBI affidavit. Hammond was sentenced to two years in prison for
the action.
In yet another chat, “Anarchaos” told Sabu that he had once spent a few weeks in
a county jail for possession of marijuana. He also asked Sabu not to tell anybody,
“cause it could compromise my identity,” and he noted that he was on probation.
Both matched Hammond, who was placed on probation in November 2010 after a
violent protest against the Olympics coming to Chicago. When the FBI ran a
criminal history check on Hammond, it also revealed two arrests for marijuana
possession.
The FBI was so thorough that it even followed up on a “POW” comment saying
“dumpster diving is all good i’m a freegan goddess.” (“Freegans” scavenge
unspoiled, wasted food from the trash of grocery stores and restaurants.) The FBI
went to Chicago authorities, who had put Hammond under surveillance when they
were investigating him back in 2005. As part of that earlier surveillance, “agents
have seen Hammond going into dumpsters to get food.”
Now that they had a suspect, it was time to put him under surveillance.”
This is why you need to be extra paranoid with every single thing you say about
yourselves online. I have seen people talking about what country they live in, some even