[disputin]

" if someone uses a British English locale, that isn't proof that it can't be an American" -- I'd take that further and ask, if this was such an advanced attack, wouldn't a bit of language misdirection be thrown in?

[samweinberg]

On a somewhat unrelated note, some people believe this is what the founder of Bitcoin did.

> Both his forum posts and his comments in the bitcoin source code used such Brit spellings as optimise and colour.[1]

1: http://www.wired.com/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/