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by petterroea 37 days ago
Why are people so obsessed with finding him? As others have pointed out wrt the New York Times article, it will just put him in danger.
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That particular alias is mildly interesting. The obsession is with finally making progress in understanding the "We kill people based on metadata" threat. Maybe we can please finally stop stuffing PII & timestamps into each "crash report" and every "telemetry ping" and get back to work towards 100% reproducible outputs. (Well, right after I "enable javascript and cookies" because Cloudflare/Fastly/Akamai refuse to talk to me before they can grab a unique fingerprint..)
You are right. I just wish we didn't need victims to get change :(
I think who Satoshi is is fairly clear if you look into it all but most who do don't put it out there for those reasons.
In hacker culture I think there's a pretty clear culture that proving you aren't interested in the inner circle's identities (and therefore proving you are a mature person who understands what is at stake) is one of the ways you earn access to the inner circle.

The lemma is that people who actively want to be friends with and know people of the inner circle are usually marked as untrustable and (somewhat regrattably) made fun of and excluded. That is, prove you are here for the game, not for rubbing shoulders with powerful people, and you shall become one.

I have seen this in warez-related circles, seems like social mechanic that appears naturally to protect those that matter.