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Prbeek
For those who remember Lulzsec days there was a core member called Avunit who was the only one never apprehended. I wonder if he was a fed or just lucky
kuskosho
or maybe he didnt used his private email registered 10 years ago with socials related (and profile pic uploaded)
joemazerino
He was the Bitcoin treasurer of the group so its doubtful.

His name was mentioned in Mr Robot as well.

ptek
If you want to play that game or the darknets game you may need to keep changing your alias which could be a problem as you will have to start from 0 again growing contacts and respect.

Do new groups and users have kick ass ASCII logos in their t-files these days? I’m glad the 90s era of incorrect capitalisation is gone.

dmichulke
You could publish a key as each of these personas and then, when reestablishing a contact using a new persona, prove your identity to that one contact by using the private key of the old (known) persona.

Am I missing something?

str3wer
defeats the whole point of changing identity if you reveal who you were
dmichulke
You reveal it to a single (trustworthy) party that you want to reestablish contact with.

Of course, this assumes you wouldn't want to reestablish contact with a non-trustworthy party.

barryrandall
A trail of evidence is still a trail of evidence.