How did American intelligence find Bitcoin's creator?

Bitcoin's “Maker”, Satoshi Nakamoto, is the world's most wanted billionaire. Very few people at the U.S. National Security Department (DHS) know his real name.

Verily! DHS does not admit that there is information about the identity of Satoshi.

The latter has made sure that his identity is even more classified by implementing the latest encryption technologies in his communication.

Despite these efforts, Satoshi Nakamoto escaped the only way the DHS could find him through his words.

Using styleometry, it is possible to compare texts to determine the author of specific work. Over the years, Satoshi has written thousands of posts and e-mails, most of which are public today.

The NSA had been able to use a styler method of comparing the writings of Satoshi with trillion written models published worldwide.

Using the Satoshi texts and finding the 50 words most used by him, The NSA managed to divide the writings into 5,000 pieces and analyse each of them to find the frequency of their use.

It all ends with a 50-digit identification for each word. NSA placed each of the numbers in a 50-dimensional space.

The result is a “toe” for anything written by Satoshi which can be compared to any other scripture.

The NSA then received e-mails and texts collected from their mass surveillance initiatives. Initially through PRlSM Mediaks approved with a court order in Google and Yahoo accounts and then with MUSSCULAR (copying data on optic fiber networks that store information from databases) The NSA had collected trillion writings from more than 1 billion people to find its true identity.

The effort lasted only a month and resulted positive. But this is not the first time a person has been identified using styleometry. Rapporteurs and members of the Bitcoin community have long sought to identify Bitcoin's creator.

Their problem? They didn't have access to trillion e-mails from 1 billion people, and they didn't have a super computer. NSA software, information collection channels and computer power assured the agency of Satoshi's identity.

But why? Why so much trouble identifying Satosha? The Obama administration was concerned that he could be a Russian or Chinese agent and that Bitcoin could become a weapon that could be used against us later.

Recognizing Bitcoin's source, the administration could understand its intentions. Satoshi has not violated any law, however, with no information about what the NSA has discovered if he is a Russian, Chinese or Japanese hacker.

The morale of all this? There's no hiding place on the Internet. The structure of the sentences you say is more unique than your own fingerprints. If an organization like NSA wants to find you, it'll find you. / PCWorld Albanian