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Blogger Claims NSA Knows Who Satoshi Is/Are

posted by martyb on Saturday September 02 2017, @01:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the truthiness dept.

FakeBeldin writes:

Over at Medium, a blogger claims to have an inside source at NSA that claimed that the NSA put in effort to determine the person(s) behind Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.

According to the blog, the NSA created a "fingerprint" of Nakamoto's writing style(s) and used this fingerprint as follows:

The NSA then took bulk emails and texts collected from their mass surveillance efforts. First through PRISM (a court-approved front-door access to Google and Yahoo user accounts) and then through MUSCULAR (where the NSA copies the data flows across fiber optic cables that carry information among the data centers of Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Facebook) the NSA was able to place trillions of writings from more than a billion people in the same plane as Satoshi's writings to find his true identity. The effort took less than a month and resulted in positive match.

The blog goes on to discuss that it may be a Chinese or Russian individual or group, possibly a state actor. Of course, that's quite a claim so that would require quite a proof.

The blogger has updated the post to decline to substantiate these rumours.

What do you guys think: does the NSA have the capability to perform such an investigation? And is it cheap enough for them to waste it on this? If so, what's next? the NSA identifying the location of Jimmy Hoffa's body?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @06:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @06:31AM (#562863)

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    agree with: blogger full of crap, and want to + this: all 1 have to do is post NOT LIKE usual when talkin' pseudonymous, and then all this stylometry magick aint worth a trump aid. all nsa good 4 is breakin' into girlz phones to watch them shower. that and making up stories that would make a lie-detector xplode, if that thing worked @ all. go ahead, stylometrize this, muthafucka. ~ 0x9932FE2729B1D963
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @02:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 02 2017, @02:53PM (#562932)

    Maybe Satoshi varied his style but forgot to stop PGP-signing all his writings.