How Dread Pirate Roberts got caught

>it’s clear this guy was an amateur for someone running the largest drug dealing website in the world.

That's a bit obnoxious to say about someone who seems to have only slipped up once, during development, by linking his real name to that "altoids" handle. In what way is that amateur?

I assume the first one, the slip-up with the Altoids username, was what tipped them off and allowed them to gather all the other evidence. Without that they'd have known he used a coffee shop in San Francisco and maybe they could have caught him there, but that's it.

The internet never forgets.

The complaint [PDF] : http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalCompl...

a reminder of this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/grugq/opsec-for-hackers

DPR made a few of these mistakes, it seems. also remember, "pigs get fed but hogs get slaughtered." 80mn (allegedly) in sales is a hog.