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The Erosion of Financial Privacy - Marginal REVOLUTION (marginalrevolution.com)

submitted 9 months ago by saint@group.lt to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] saint@group.lt -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

This might be FUD, but... Vastaamo hacker traced via ‘untraceable’ Monero transactions, police says. (Edit) - A video debunking the police report - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7CD_Nl3iwhE

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was debunked. That person accidently uploaded a .tar of their home folder which had info on previous hacks the cops knew he committed. The monero was not the link their.

[–] saint@group.lt 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

nice, thank you.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 8 points 9 months ago

No problem. The cops in this case are doing a good disinformation campaign.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Since this did turn out to be debunked FUD, might be a good idea to edit it in to this comment.

[–] saint@group.lt 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

can do, if you could provide the link to the debunking source - would be great!

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Here's a link to mental outlaws video talking about this -

Bad OPSEC - How The Feds Traced a Monero User https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7CD_Nl3iwhE