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Perhaps he had noble intentions, but any idiot can see that his methods were beyond stupid. Posting a SSN publicly is sure to get you noticed.

The other thing I noticed is that either the FBI has gotten really good dealing with proxies/VPNs or the guy really didn't know what he was doing.

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I don't think that they needed to trace it back through the VPN. They started asking questions at his workplace (for whatever reason), and a co-worker turned over a chat log in which he was describing what he was doing. They could have just been questioning The Canton Group through 'good old fashioned police work.' It's not like The Canton Group was unconnected to the University.

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