Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

[Big Brown Schlub]

Signing up for a crypto exchange with KYC is such a massive pain in the ass it's almost impossible even if you are who you say you are

One of the few times I'm glad I'm a Yurofag, since we have different anti-money laundering laws and whatever and the exchanges all have their European division set up in Ireland. All I had to do to sign up to Gemini was send a photo of both sides of my state-issued ID card, as well as both sides of the debit card I'd use on the exchange. After they verified both (to be fair it did take 4 days) the final step was doing a bank transfer to the exchange in a specific way and that was it.

 

[Sprate Header]

A lot of people do share her theory that he’s a government plant to smooth out the edges of some highly unconstitutional shit they probably did to catch torswats.

Yeah, the feds call this "collateral source" and it's when you create an "official" source for information you obtained either outright illegally or using some as-yet unknown zero-day or similar technique they want to keep secret.

It really wouldn't have taken a 0-day or a violation of the constitution for the feds to catch Torswats in the absence of Dennis, as not only was Filion openly bragging about swatting himself on specific dates in public Telegram chats that the feds were confirmed to be lurking in, but he had also logged into a Discord account tied to one of his known aliases, without a VPN.

Think about what I was able to find on him, and then think about how much more I could have found if I had subpoena power. I'm frankly still astonished the feds hadn't arrested him sooner!

 

[Meriasek]

Goodness Patrick’s taste in sci-fi is so incredibly LAME.

Hey now, Johnny Mnemonic is a cool movie. Not great by any stretch, but it managed to convey that campy, outdated flair of Gibson's Sprawl world quite well.

To expound on this a bit, people in the Dune universe are fully capable of constructing and using powerful computers that could handle that navigation, but they've banned thinking machines because they built some a long time ago, treated them like shit, provoked a revolution, got their shit pushed in, and just barely survived. So they did the standard idiot biological thing of "okay, we're banning smart machines now." Y'know, instead of taking the correct lesson from the experience -- "try not being a prick."

And they do bring back navigation computers in the later books after Leto II severely restricts spice for thousands of years.
Pat's "annihilitation and reaction mass" sounds like standard antimatter engine handwavium. He read on Project Rho that a rocket needs reaction mass, and he read that antimatter is totally the best energy storage, so he put that in there to sound more like a Hard SciFi author than he really is.
I wouldn't give him too much shit for that since they're just kinda background decorations in his type of stories, but then the Pig in the Half Hovel proclaims himself to be a scientific authority and gives convention talks about rocket technology.

His claims that the cenoates are pristine and shouldn't have harmed his phone when the water is probably hard as fuck considering they're surrounding by limestone or whatever the fuck.

Also, wasn't his phone rated for something like splash water and whatnot? Definitely not a rating where I'd let it be fully submersed in seawater for a minute. Pat's the kind of guy who'd take a wristwatch that says "10 m water resistant" to swim and then wonder why it broke. "I only swam with it on the surface, how did it break?"

 

[AnOminous]

It really wouldn't have taken a 0-day or a violation of the constitution for the feds to catch Torswats in the absence of Dennis, as not only was Filion openly bragging about swatting himself on specific dates in public Telegram chats that the feds were confirmed to be lurking in, but he had also logged into a Discord account tied to one of his known aliases, without a VPN.

Well, even with Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts) there was a highly plausible explanation in that he'd made his first posts about what later became Silk Road under an account attached to his rossulbricht@gmail.com address, and then dumbly just didn't duck out and abort once he realized that.

While that's a plausible explanation there's a reasonable suspicion they actually got him some other way and then only after that found the earlier fuckup.

Pat's the kind of guy who'd take a wristwatch that says "10 m water resistant" to swim and then wonder why it broke. "I only swam with it on the surface, how did it break?"

He's an absolute fucking mongoloid. He's like some retard who thinks "flame retardant" means the same thing as "fireproof."

For instance, the Rolex watches rated for scuba diving are very specific about that, 100 meters to 300 meters (and some even more), and they are called waterPROOF because they're actually certified to that depth.

 

[neger psykolog]

A lot of people do share her theory that he’s a government plant to smooth out the edges of some highly unconstitutional shit they probably did to catch torswats.

If this were true btw there is no reason they wouldn't have access to at least some if not all of the addresses he was receiving payments on. From that it is likely they could trace at least some part of the payments made and press charges against other people. Especially since he pled guilty, there would be no reason for him to not cooperate at that point.

The only reason I disagree with you that they even needed to do some "highly unconstitutional shit" is that he was 16 when he made most of the calls. Given the amount of money he was charging (like $50 per call) and their age and the fact they were uploading recordings of the calls they were making onto their telegram channel doesn't really speak to being a super sophisticated operation. The fact they went after a government representative also says a lot.

The only reason they didn't attract attention for so long seems to be because there is no central database in the US where the police and authorities share information. Once there started being news articles that mentioned the published recordings and other details they deleted their Telegram channel. It looks like once news of this shit started reaching mainstream sources it only took 6-7 months for them to arrest the kid that was doing it.

Obviously the government should've figured out this was one (or a small number of people) doing this persistently and investigated a lot earlier.

edit:
16-17 year olds explained further (they are claiming he accidentally leaked his IP address via Tox):

https://web.archive.org/web/20240201013328/https://www.wired.com/story/alan-filion-torswats-swatting-arrest/

edit 2:
the zip file hosted here on KF: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/torswa...ht-legion-project-coomer.166962/post-17629003
clearly shows that torswats was caught because he had extremely poor opsec, they didn't use any voodoo magic:

He was evidently using a VPN sometimes but also used both Discord and Google without a VPN leading them straight to his home because he was using his residential internet connection to access that shit. His Google and Discord accounts had recovery numbers that were his own phone number registered to himself/his family. Based on this I very much doubt they did anything that was unconstitutional to find evidence to arrest him. He was both doing "swat for hire" and his own personal vendetta swattings and he was sloppy and he got caught.



lol he even swatted himself:

 

[Meriasek]

For instance, the Rolex watches rated for scuba diving are very specific about that, 100 meters to 300 meters (and some even more), and they are called waterPROOF because they're actually certified to that depth.

If you swim, there'll be much higher dynamic pressures, hence the typical dive watch being rated for 200 m. And personally I don't go swimming with anything rated less than that.
I don't remember what Fattie's Galaxy Fold had, but I don't think it was IPX8.

 

[John_Smith]

A quick look at the ratings and it was IPX8 for the Zfolds 3, 4 and 5. However the water resistance is only as good as the integrity of the seals. Piggy, drunk at the time, probably damaged the seal at the usb c port trying to jam in a charging cable with his hooves, or somehow otherwise compromised the case. Look at the shit condition his MS Surface is in. He's posted photos of it with those "I Voted" stickers, some of which he stole from Nikki.

Piggy's watch is a Festina f6847. Yes, the autism, but it is the only Festina open heart and he boasted about getting it while in Europe. Let's see, mineral glass crystal-- cheap in this day and age. Wait, 50m water resistance. You can shower in it, but maybe not go swimming. One of the Pests noted Piggy used to wear a Fossil automatic, or was it quartz? It's the watch seen on his pointy finger profile photo. Probably quartz and the battery died. Piggy doesn't know how to replace the battery. It's that Problem Solving course. He didn't do well in it, so solving the problem of a dead battery is beyond Piggy.

 

[Spunt]

Think about what I was able to find on him, and then think about how much more I could have found if I had subpoena power. I'm frankly still astonished the feds hadn't arrested him sooner!

If they had backdoors into all his shit due to his shitty opsec, then they could trace hundreds of people who were paying him for illegal activities. The longer they kept him as an unwitting federal asset, the longer he'd lead them to all sorts of dodgy people and evidence for other investigations. If I was a fed and had some teenage retard openly accepting money to commit federal crimes for anyone with 50 bucks, I'd be licking my lips at the amount of free wins I'd get through his compromised systems. It would almost feel like a shame to finally snap the cuffs on him and I'd procrastinate as long as I'd be able to.

Remember when someone requested some kind of legal document relating to Pat (I can't remember the details) and it wasn't closed due to an "open FBI investigation". Pattycakes smugly intoned that this was the investigation into the Stalker Childs that would make them all Enjoy Prison, but I always suspected otherwise. I think this was TorSwats, and the investigation into everyone who was paying him to commit crimes on their behalf - including a certain Milwaukee pigman.

 

[Dieter Laser]

This nigger is fat as hell.

 

[neger psykolog]

If they had backdoors into all his shit due to his shitty opsec, then they could trace hundreds of people who were paying him for illegal activities. The longer they kept him as an unwitting federal asset, the longer he'd lead them to all sorts of dodgy people and evidence for other investigations. If I was a fed and had some teenage retard openly accepting money to commit federal crimes for anyone with 50 bucks, I'd be licking my lips at the amount of free wins I'd get through his compromised systems. It would almost feel like a shame to finally snap the cuffs on him and I'd procrastinate as long as I'd be able to.

Remember when someone requested some kind of legal document relating to Pat (I can't remember the details) and it wasn't closed due to an "open FBI investigation". Pattycakes smugly intoned that this was the investigation into the Stalker Childs that would make them all Enjoy Prison, but I always suspected otherwise. I think this was TorSwats, and the investigation into everyone who was paying him to commit crimes on their behalf - including a certain Milwaukee pigman.

The court documents don't even really mention much about him taking payments for stuff or the "proceeds of the criminal activity" whatsoever. So it looks like they just didn't care and saw the actual act of swatting at such a scale as the crime and didn't care that he was doing it as a paid service.

Which is pretty fucking retarded.

They do mention things like his emails containing account shit like coinpayments, coingate and crypo.com (all exchanges) so he obviously didn't have secret wallets set up and had very bad opsec. I don't think any of those exchanges probably even deal with shit like monero either. They could totally investigate who was paying him, but I think because it was like $50 a call they just don't give a shit. Presumably, paying for a swatting should be an attempted murder charge but maybe the law sees it differently.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Pat ordering lasagna in Mexico. To Ethan Ralph's credit while tortas are nigger level Mexican food at least tortas are Mexican.

¿La sagna no es mexicana?

 

[lindsayfan]

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After five years on Duolingo, Rick has read a simple sentence in Spanish.

chiming in like a waterlogged watch to restate my longheld belief that rick's early-retirement/DRUMPF-escape plan is mexico.

i also agree 100% with @Spunt's theory about torswats as unwitting honeypot. law enforcement has no problem letting outrageously illegal (and morally abhorrent) shit run its course when it also serves some purpose for them. that other purpose can be all sorts of things, including providing them a bubbling fountainhead of patsies they can entrap into cooperation.

the feds move glacially slowly, so just because they haven't filed charges against the customer list yet doesn't mean it's not coming. on the other hand, if you're someone even tangentially related to something they're interested in, then you being on the torswats customer list provides them a card they can keep and play against you to apply pressure when it's useful.

 

[femoralcanal]

If Rick is caught for swatting himself it will be the greatest internet drama moment in the history of retardation.

This is literally the guy responsible for Alan Filion's arrest, holy shit!

I can't wait to see the incoming pig-honking from this

How the hell am I suppose to justify this 30-hour rage erection at work??

Thanks assholes!

 

[Louis Beans]

I'm surprised there hasn't been an oinking in response to Cafrozed. Maybe him and Jackie are getting their stories straight before they both respond, cause they've both been tweeting since it went up.

 

[Spunt]

If Cafrozed was a fed and a fake cover account, and Jackie started harassing and trying to dox him, then I'm sure that he'd be able to do more about that than just complain about her on Twitter. And if he was a fed, and Jackie was harassing him, he wouldn't mention her in public like that - the feds like to catch people by surprise, not warn them that they've lost patience with their shit.

This makes me doubt the Cafrozed fed theory. Not 100%, but I'm leaning away from it.

The court documents don't even really mention much about him taking payments for stuff or the "proceeds of the criminal activity" whatsoever. So it looks like they just didn't care and saw the actual act of swatting at such a scale as the crime and didn't care that he was doing it as a paid service.

On the other hand, if they were investigating all his clients, surely they would be very careful not to mention that in any public documents, giving his clientele warning that it's time to go swimming with their phones and leave the country. I don't think absence of evidence is necessarily evidence of absence.

 

[Ring of Basilius]

I can imagine a (hypothetical) scenario where Jackie waves off Patrick's concerns about having to provide his KYC info for the Gemini account with "dude chill just say the stalkers stole your identity lol". I can also believe Patrick going along with it because he's a mark-ass buster.

Patrick going to prison for actual Big Boy crimes is the perfect ending for his lolcow arc. Bonus points if his cell mate is a guy who is in for actually stalking someone.

 

[Louis Beans]

If Cafrozed was a fed and a fake cover account, and Jackie started harassing and trying to dox him, then I'm sure that he'd be able to do more about that than just complain about her on Twitter. And if he was a fed, and Jackie was harassing him, he wouldn't mention her in public like that - the feds like to catch people by surprise, not warn them that they've lost patience with their shit.

This makes me doubt the Cafrozed fed theory. Not 100%, but I'm leaning away from it.



On the other hand, if they were investigating all his clients, surely they would be very careful not to mention that in any public documents, giving his clientele warning that it's time to go swimming with their phones and leave the country. I don't think absence of evidence is necessarily evidence of absence.

It'll be fine, once the cops knock on Rick's door he'll produce his smoking gun evidence of the terrorists' clearly sTaTed goal to kill him and the tape of a suspiciously fat man wandering around his yard with a penlight in his mouth, and the feds will immediately fly out to arrest Dan Mullen for felony podcasting.

 

[IsaacShraeder]

Spoonfeed request:
How long has it been known that a CoinBase account under Rick's name had made BTC payments to TorSwats?
Admittedly I dismissed the "Rick swatted himself" theory as a niggeroni-type ruse, but this is extremely damning if true.

 

[lindsayfan]

Spoonfeed request:
How long has it been known that a CoinBase account under Rick's name had made BTC payments to TorSwats?
Admittedly I dismissed the "Rick swatted himself" theory as a niggeroni-type ruse, but this is extremely damning if true.

it was a gemini account, not a coinbase account, and the first mention of the info came from the second, better forum-- you can search there to find it. iirc it came from a queasy period where various people were interacting with the torswats kid.

people were skeptical (rightly) of everything the torswats kid said.

then pat confirmed it himself on a big "WHY US" thread he made to celebrate hitler's birthday last year, which is archived already various places on the thread so i'm just linking to it directly: https://x.com/stealthygeek/status/1648824681925947392

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Spoonfeed request:
How long has it been known that a CoinBase account under Rick's name had made BTC payments to TorSwats?
Admittedly I dismissed the "Rick swatted himself" theory as a niggeroni-type ruse, but this is extremely damning if true.

It was Gemini, and the posts about it are from April 2023.