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.
>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?
No, I agree with the analysis. He also came across as very confident in interviews, and these are very basic mistakes that he made. Sad to see, I was rooting for him.
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