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There was one point in the interview where I thought "ah, this gives me a clue where he's from!" -- the use of the term "fortnight". I don't know of any American who uses this term, so I'd guess he's in the UK. Also the use of the term "Uni".

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I've only just noticed (since you made me think of it) that 'fortnight' is an abbreviation of 'fourteen nights'.

He also says "mummy and daddies"

https://blog.whitehatsec.com/interview-with-a-blackhat-part-...

My favo[u]rite tell is this answer from Part 1:

> A: Erm, depends.

These terms are not just used in the UK. Very common in Australasia.

And quite a lot of the commonwealth countries.

I use "fortnight" and I'm born and raised in the US.

Furlongs per fortnight, in particular, was very popular in the engineering classes when discussing velocity.

I immediately noticed he is from the UK, I speak with too many englanders to not recognize the the cocky tone littered with lols and hahas... It's like they are too cool to give a shit about sounding mature... Also the fraud scene in the UK is incredibly big ATM.

Too right, bloody limeys! Do you have any evidence for the size of the fraud scene in the UK at the moment or was that just a baseless non sequitur to round off your delightful rant about the character of those deplorable English persons?

Don't get me wrong I love English people!

Well, I have no scientific evidence to back up my claims (deadly sin, I know...) it's mostly the personal experience of my friends who lived in multiple countries, which closely matched this documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA4R84xfLOQ

This could just as easily be a result of being "raised" on international chat rooms. If they're really smart then they would purposefully mask their identity by using words and sentence structure uncommon in their usual communications.

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