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https://web.archive.org/web/20100522003532/http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bmlWhen people started suspecting the son yesterday, I figured the IP match could've been due to something like that. The son was either living with or visiting dad at the time of the leak, and their router could've been set up to use the same outgoing static IP for all devices. It would make sense if dad was tunneling into work servers from home.
Initially I thought it was flat out impossible that both father & son would format their passwords so similarly, but stranger things have happened, I suppose. Like trying to pay some faggy British kid $300,000 to get breast implants for a month. Maybe dad was the OG computer nerd and introduced his son to computers and the Internet when he was younger, helped him get set up with an email address, gave him tips on creating a "strong" password, etc.
Plus, I refuse to believe that some MD investor/entrepreneur pushing 60 had a LiveJournal account at any point in his life. I'll believe absolutely everything else about this story, but not that. Did not happen. Ethan's your guy.
I figure he masquerades as his dad in the voice chats, telling stories about being a doctor and mountain climbing and sailing the world, because it sounds a hell of a lot more interesting/less pathetic than "my dad's rich so here's hundreds of thousands of dollars." It was also likely intended to be misdirection, since there was already an established interest in finding out who he was behind the screen name. He just didn't count on anyone connecting the dots in years-old password leaks on unrelated websites.
You think it's impossible he was one of the 121 thousand plus people using their service (by 2010 numbers)? It's not an unheard of thing to do for an aging man with too much time on his hands. Believable, easily.
His late life goals are believeable too. Boomers love climbing mountains and sailing. They love to flex the travel and boats late in life. Very believable.
Doesn't sound like a voice changer or larp either just sounds like an older man talking.
