Mark Robinson is running for governor of North Carolina and his pron internet history of comments got leaked. How did this get revealed and how do you link pseudonym internet comments to a person?
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On a forum I used to frequent there was a thread about things you never forgave your parents for. A female user posted her first name Jacinta as the thing she never forgave her parents for. I looked at her user name. It was a common slang shortening of a particular surname. I was curious how far I could get with the name and got a linkedin profile for a profession that matched the speciality forum she posted heavily in elsewhere on the site confirming her name, profession and place of work. Didn’t dig for any more details but DM’d her on the forum to advise her to remove that post with her first name as someone with motives darker than my simple curiousity could also easily work out who she was. Told her this was gentle advice from a fellow forum user with no creepy motives and that I’d never contact her about it or anything again. She said thanks and a few other things that still left me with the sense that she thought I was some creepy weirdo!! I was doing you a favour dear!!
There are easily found and useable open source intelligence tools in every cyber security persons tool kit that will search for usernames across various online services
You don’t need to be Sherlock to use them….
Websites gets hacked all the time – usernames, password and email account information is for sale on the dark web
Check if your identity have been sold on the dark web here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Some gooner had to have an incredibly awkward conversation with his boss on why he suddenly has a bombshell story lead.
The [CNN article](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html) has an entire section titled “Identifying minisoldr as Robinson.” Here’s a summary of it, but I honestly recommend just reading the article:
* Same full name
* Same private email address
* The user was addressed by another user as Robinson’s first name
* Got married at the same time
* Live in the same city
* Served in the army at the same time
* Both have mothers who worked for a HBCU
* Posted about the same specific niche topics
* Used same uncommon phrases as Robinson on his personal FB page
* Same username (and, where verifiable, email) used by someone whose details match Robinson on multiple sites, including Disqus, Xitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and Amazon
There’s basically no way it’s not him.
Idiot used the same email for everything for his whole life. So when they found his email registered on this site they can easily see all of the things that he has commented
who is making porn site accounts?
He used a username across multiple websites that had the same email and the same username and email were attached to accounts with his name and photo on it.
Were the comments that bad? “Everyone” have sex and some kinks. This society is fucking weird, if he doesn’t mix it with his profession why should people care that much.
It is possible that CNN had an initial tip from someone who knew Robinson. They then ran with what they were provided and hit paydirt.
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