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Comment by potrebitel | Hacker News Reader

> "Finnish police said Kivimäki also used the nicknames “Ryan”, “RyanC” and “Ryan Cleary”"

There used to be a user on HN, going by the nickname "ryanlol" [0] who seemed to have (had) good hacking knowledge. Could be the same person, could be not. But they had good comments here and there, was fun to read back then.

[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanlol

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He got warned by his buddy nachash (loldoxbin) that he should unplug his internet connection if he didn't want to spend time in jail again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nachash

He didn't take that advice.

He's been on HN under a large number of accounts, in particular giving people advice on obtaining alternate identification papers (Romania was mentioned in particular).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156119

So much for that I guess.

I assumed that was the "real" Ryan Cleary (LulzSec), not the Finland guy who was impersonating him.

https://stylometry.net/user?username=ryanlol

The first 10 are afaik accurate, the last stopped posting 3 days ago so that's a point of evidence.

The "real" Ryan Cleary hasn't really been online in any capacity as "himself" since his arrest over ten years ago.

That was him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846051. He's been posting under various alts since, see the stylometry.net link below. Reading his comment history, unless he was just lying for HN e-cred it seems he was very wealthy. Probably an early BTC user?

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