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Really cool article. However, I found myself thinking, "ok, that's nice of you for not doxing the guy, but, you kinda just handed the keys to the kingdom to the internet." Doesn't seem like SLJ cares one way or another, but, I got the feeling that the author knows that this article will undoubtedly lead to SLJ's outing within a month, two months tops. There's more than enough bored programmers out there who'll just apply the methods described wholesale, and throw it out there on reddit, or wherever. So, I'm not sure how I feel about the whole "doing the right thing by not doxxing" issue, b/c it seems like we're sort of splitting hairs on the issue.

Everything that we used is now completely gone.

Right, so now we need to look for people who've recently deleted posts, and recently followed you, and ... :-)

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