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But his FBI handlers said he was "brilliant, but lazy": they discovered him selling stolen credit card details on Facebook, and traced him to his home when he used an unguarded internet connection to go on the 2600.com site, which is popular with young and old hackers.

Is 2600.com a honeypot for the FBI? How'd Sabu expose himself by merely visiting that site?

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>Is 2600.com a honeypot for the FBI? How'd Sabu expose himself by merely visiting that site?

i guess they just ran the query in the NSA's internet traffic meta-info database.

Speaking of which, there's publicly available security software that can (try to) identify original sources of phrases, identify links between websites and who said what first, etc. One example: http://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php

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