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Comment by pvaldes | Hacker News Reader

> A tall man in his thirties with thick sable hair, a short beard and deep-set, dark eyes, Monteiro ... [can be found doing this and that and also doing this in reddit and... ]...

Hey, This guy put a lot of effort trying to be anonymous and could have serious problems if not, so lets describe him thoroughly in a public e-journal!.

I hate when journalists do this.

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At this point, he had already revealed probably-identifying information in an interview with the Mirror newspaper. That same interview respected his accomplice's desire for anonymity, so I don't think we can assume journalists were at fault here.

This was after he was disturbed enough by receiving a video of a burning car to go to the police. He seems to have a complex relationship with anonymity.

I think this and the rest of the article really only shows me that this guy while technically prepared to be a security researcher - practically or emotionally is not.

His buddies have the good sense to remain anonymous.

I think to some degree he tried, I'm still wondering if "bRspd" is the same guy, anytime it talks about proper hacks / database dumps it blames whoever bRspd is, and keeps him and Judge Judy out of it. It just seems a little too coincidental. He should of published as an anonymous blogger (or more), and then based his wiki work off that. Maybe purposely write in terrible English in anoymous blogs.

Monteiro was alledgedly on 60-minutes on CBS. He very problably already was not anonymous.

You should never trust journalists with your data.

If you don't want to reveal how you look, don't meet them in person or cover yourself up.

Monteriro's pirate.london blog runs Medium.com and features an avatar pic of what appears to be his actual face: https://pirate.london/

I think that's Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley.

Damn I knew that guy was a talented actor, didn’t know he was a talented hacker too ;)

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