- My ( th3j35t3r ) Dox :)
- I have been Dox'd by #Cocksec #TeaMp0isoN #TD #UGnazi
- Dox'd by @UG @ThaCosmo @Joshthegod
- I admit it, I am Thomas Ryan :( , my brother and i run the account the @th3j35t3r and i run the account @TomRyanBlog #infosec
- Name: Thomas J Ryan
- Age: 40
- Dob: 09/02/1971
- SSN: 091-72-5921
- Address:
- 256 Green St
- Old Bridge, NJ 08857
- Phone Numbers:
- 631-539-8182
- 718-444-3808
- 718-591-8973
- 732-360-2811
- 732-360-2654
- 732-207-7916
- 256 Green St O, Old Bridge, NJ 08857 02/2012
- 86 Amber St, Staten Island, NY 10306
- 2027 E 71st St, Brooklyn, NY 11234
- 6547 160TH ST, FRESH MEADOWS, NY 11365
- Email:
- tomr@planetgrafx.com
- frogman@planetgrafx.com
- tommy@providesecurity.com
- thomasr@planetgrafx.com
- Brother:
- Name: Thomas J Ryan
- Age: 50
- Dob: 01/22/1962
- SSN: 156-66-1274
- Address:
- 2487 Pin Oak Dr
- York, PA 17406
- Number:
- 732-698-1203
- 2487 Pin Oak Dr, York, PA 17406 06/2008
- 9 Scott Rd, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 04/2008
- 16 Huxley Dr, Old Bridge, NJ 08857 04/2008
- 385 Summer Ave Apt 2NDFL, Newark, NJ 07104 06/2004
- 385 Summer Ave Apt 1, Newark, NJ 07104 04/1998
- 375 Summer Ave Apt, Newark, NJ 07104 08/1994
- ____________________________________________________________________________
- Thanks : http://pastebin.com/A5iiTAJS
- Q: Are Thomas Ryan and th3j35t3r one and the same person?
- tl;dr: Yes. You fucking bet they are. In the words of Oscar Wilde, however, ‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple.’ Thus, if you want the full, uncensored dox on th3j35t3r, you’re going to have to bear with me for the next ten minutes as I tear apart his tissue of lies and disinformation.
- Now concentrate, cos here comes the proof...
- Warning: Long dox is looooooooong. I trust it will prove to be an enlightening read however, not least for Mr Thomas Ryan of 86 Amber Street, Staten Island NY.
- **********
- Among the 9,000 names to have been linked with @th3j35t3r, one that keeps cropping up is that of @TomRyanBlog. The dox has been denied by th3j35t3r, but then Sabu repeatedly denied that he was Hector Monsegur, and we all know how that one ended up...
- While many Anons have been focused on reverse DNS lookups, port scanning and conventional doxing methods to unmask Jester, no one seems to have tried a simpler technique: writing analysis.
- If Tom Ryan (TR) and Jester (J) are one and the same person, it should be easy to tell. They’ve written 3,000 tweets between them. Even the l33t3st of the l33t would struggle to convincingly maintain two separate writing styles over the course of thousands of tweets and numerous blog posts.
- For those who are new to the party, here’s an overview of what we know about TR and J:
- Both are conservative, right-wing and love their precious military. Both hate #OWS, Wikileaks, Manning and are obsessed with unmasking Anons. Both are fixated with Sabu (still!), Team Pois0n and Cabin Cr3w. Both enjoy love-ins with @AsherahResearch, @AnonymousDown and all the usual trolls. In short, they’re both neo-con faggots. But are they one and the same faggot, or are they separate fags who happen to be pursuing identical vendettas?
- Before we get bogged down in analyzing their writing styles, here’s some lighter tit-bits to get things kick-started:
- 1. Last year, TR and J both attended Hacker Halted in Miami and DEFCON in Nevada. Based on what we know of the pair’s political leanings and infosec knowledge, that alone automatically narrows them down to less than 5,000 possible suspects.
- 2. TR and J both like sushi (a trifling detail, but one that helps build a picture of their personalities). TR: “@p0isAn0N not going to the right Pizzaria. If you are in Boston you should be going to BoLoCo for Burritos anyway. And Duozo for Sushi.”
- J: “#hackerhalted delegates ... Stay clear of Cafe Bastille. Great sushi at Bali Cafe though... Stayin frosty.”
- 3. Tom Ryan has form for assuming false identities – such as ‘Robin Sage’. See here for the full story:
- http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/privacy/225702468/index.html
- INTERESTING FACT: @RobinSage joined Twitter on 26th December 2009 – exactly one week after @th3j35t3r joined.
- The connection between Tom Ryan, Robin Sage and Jester was first brought to my attention by this tweet from @LulzKitten on 29th March 2012:
- “Okay, let's cut the crap, hello @Th3J35t3r aka@TomRyanBlog aka robinsage. Game over. Was fun, at least sometimes. Next nemesis, plox!”
- (Note: Direct links to all tweets quoted in this dox can be found cited in the conclusion.) After reading LulzKitten’s tweet, I cast a casual glance over the Twitter feeds of Tom Ryan and Jester, and instantly noticed some similarities between the pair.
- The most damning evidence linking TR and J – the smoking gun – will be presented towards the end of this dox, if you can wait that long, but first, let’s perform some writing analysis. After all, if TR and J are the same person, there ought to be some similarities in their writing styles, surely? You betcha. Here we go then:
- Anyone who’s followed J on Twitter and read his blog may have noticed that he has a very distinctive writing style. Let’s pick through some of Jester’s trademark phrases, and then see if we can spot them recurring in TR’s tweets:
- 4. ‘Hmmmm’. Jester likes to say ‘Hmmm’ ‘Errr’ and ‘Ahemmm’ a lot. In fact he likes to say them so much that he even uses these filler phrases in his blog titles, as well as littering his tweets with them. Here’s some examples:
- 5th April: “@deftpunkz - umm holy shit. I dont know what to say guys, errrr thanks, i think? -”
- 4th April: “Al-Qaida 'blacked out' on the internet (effectively switched off) >>>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Al-Qaida-blacked-out-on-internet/articleshow/12529550.cms #infosec#saladin #ahemm”
- 3rd April: “Now...... imagine...... how many of those listed in my last, were ummmmmm - on the 'shit list' - just a thought??? #anonymous”
- 27th Feb: “#Wikileaks & #anonymous dump 5 million#strafor internal emails obtained by #anonymouslast Dec..umm this right here...”
- 21st March: “Anti-Anonymous hacker threatens to expose them (via MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.com/id/46716942<<< ummm too late. #military #cyber #security#infosec #DoD”
- 15th Nov, Wordpress blog title: “Occupy Wall Street?? 99%?? Ummm.”
- Hmmm, I wonder if Tom Ryan also likes to say ‘Hmmm’? Let’s take a look:
- 10th April: “How To Prevent Data Leaks From Happening To Your Organization http://zite.to/HCucc8hmmm...how do you prevent the carbon factor from leaking?”
- 6th April: “Hmmm So @AnonW0rmer is arrested at 10:30http://j.mp/HiAASP tweets till 3:32, @ItsKahunadisappears @AnonymousIRC disappears for 4 Day >>>”
- 15th March: “CSI tonight has a scent of Anonymous. Anthropology professor teaching about Hactivism. Hmmm who came it be?”
- 11th March: “@kennethlipp hhhmmmm do you think any anons donated money to his reelection campaign?”
- 7th March: “@CryptKper @v0ld4m0rt you are spot on! Who could that have been? Hmmmmm”
- 16th Feb: “@agentdarkapple Interesting! Hmmm! I can see why you think I would be L and you would be N. L doesn't smile like me”
- OK, that’s enough Hmming - on to point #5: ‘Tick tock’. Jester loves to say ‘Tick tock’ – it’s one of his favorite phrases. Look:
- 6th March: “From 3.5 months ago:https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/if-i-am-wrong-ill-say-im-wrong-heres-my-apology/...... from 1 hour ago ....http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/06/hacking-group-lulzsec-swept-up-by-law-enforcement/ tick tock toldya.”
- 3rd August: “'RT @anonymousabu: @hjjrc @SparkyBlaze Your problem is with a ghost. Someone you can neither find nor stop.' << you have same problem. #tick”
- 27th July: “@anonymousabu tick tock.”
- 24th July: “TICK TOCK. #toldyac2dc37a7d9d3238877a127f2d5171c9d”
- 21st June: “Tickety Tock.....”
- 25th June blog entitled LulzSec’s Cloudflare Configuration: “Tickety Tock Tock."
- Why, isn’t that a quirky little phrase? I wonder if Captain Hook – sorry, Tom Ryan – also uses the same terminology. Oh, what’s this we have here from 27th Feb?
- “#Anonymous I am working on my big release. Hmmmm who should it goto? Tick Tock”
- There’s even a ‘Hmmmm’ thrown in for good measure. How Jester-esque!
- With a nudge and a wink, we move onto #6: Jester loves nothing more than to sign off his tweets with a sly wink. Just like so:
- 28th March: “@wwpinc - just in case you were not aware: >>>https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/support/ <<< - keep up the great work ;-) Peace. #pgr #wwp#woundedwarrior”
- 26th March: “Al-Qaida forums crippled in suspected cyber intervention http://j.mp/GSd8ih << bad things happen to bad people, apparently ;-) #infosec”
- 11th March: “@RepDanGordon @FBIPressOffice I merely stated u were on the list, u seem awful jittery. U need to calm down >> ;-)”
- 2nd Oct: “RT: @mach2600 @th3j35t3r It's wobbling ... up, down, up, down... <<< gotta love NGINX - always somethin huh ;-)”
- 16th June: “standby for supporting clarification onhttp://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/quick-n-dirty-just-for-clarification/?utm_source=Jesters+Court+Blog&utm_medium=twitter - close ya eyes if ya already saw it yesterday. ;-)”
- 2nd June: “http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/02/pentagon-has-secret-list-cyber-weapons/ - #justsayin;-) #oorah”
- Now it’s TR’s turn to have a sly wink:
- 5th April: “The beauty of data-mining in a social world, I don't need to be connected to you, so you can't block me. You just need to be on my radar ;-)”
- 5th April: “@x_ryujin_x @render64 @bitchiest @kalyptonetthink of what full dox did for Sabu ;-)”
- 4th April: “@LauraWalkerKC @BobbyCarbon@NavySEALsORG @Packetknife @HonorThemYou should record it ;-)”
- 14th March: “To Geeks & Nerds 3/14 is known as Pi Dayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZtuMdkUksTo Horny Men it's known as Steak & Blow Job Day! The GF reminded me ;-)”
- 13th March: “@JackalAnon warned #Anonymous 2 Days Ago about OAuth and Apps. We've warned you about TOR. ;-)”
- 14th Feb: “Why I'm Glad My Boyfriend Isn't On Facebook - Forbes http://j.mp/z9XNrP by @kashhill | Leaving Facebook made me never want to go back ;-)”
- Next up, it’s similarity #7 – ‘Stay Frosty’. This, Jester’s catchiest of catch-phrases, crops up all over his tweets:
- 2nd April: “http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-202_162-20075647.html <<< still going on about this? Stay frosty and have a Cupcake??”
- 10th Nov: “#stayfrosty -Word of advice 2 @barrettbrownlol: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. >”
- 26th Oct: “#hackerhalted left a little something under the projector in Alhambra SCADA room. Tweet me a photo of what's there. #stayfrosty”
- 25th Oct: “#hackerhalted delegates ... Stay clear of Cafe Bastille. Great sushi at Bali Cafe though... Stayin frosty.”
- Now let’s see what Monsieur Ryan has to say for himself:
- 10th April: “Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative http://zite.to/Iqm1Ba#anonymous @CabinCr3w Stay Frosty ;-)”
- 16th March: “@testeux1 Class on Strategy? I can teach one at The Spy Museum in DC @wikileaks @revmagdalen@AnonymousIRC @YourAnonNews Stay Frosty ;-)”
- 13th March: “#Anonymous in your time of fear those of you that have used delete.twitlan / tweeteraser / twitwipe A Special Thank You!!! Stay Frosty! ;-)”
- 13th March: “@jackie_singh @krypt3ia I was promoted today to Brigadier General Packet of The Cyber Brigade@th3j35t3r now reports to me! Stay Frosty ;-)”
- 12th March: “Finch + Reese = ;-) .... Stay Frosty & Watch Your 6!”
- Hang on a sec, isn’t it a bit, well, *obvious* for Tom Ryan to be liberally dropping Jester’s favorite catchphrase into his tweets? Yep, you’re right – it’s very obvious. But here’s the thing: the AntiSec dox that named Jester as Tom Ryan landed in Pastebin on 11th March. Notice how TR deliberately goes out of his way to play up to the ‘Stay Frosty’ caricature in the ensuing days? That’s because he realizes that the more he pretends to be Jester, the more people will be inclined to write him off as just another Jester wannabe. For another example of this tactic, here’s how J tweets every time he downs a Muslim extremist website:
- 1st March: “http://www.rjfront.info - TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For enabling recruitment, & co-ordination of jihadist terror cells via web.”
- 1st March: “http://www.atahadi.com - TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For online incitement to cause young muslims to carry out acts of violent jihad.”
- Exactly one month later, on 1st April, TR tweets the following:
- “www.ic3 .gov - TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For not doing your job, & not arresting #Anonymous”
- And: “www.fbi .gov - TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For enabling recruitment, & co-ordination of#Anonymous via web.”
- At this point, obvious troll is obvious – within days of LulzKitten’s tweet linking Tom Ryan and Jester, TR goes out of his way to tweet ‘Stay Frostys’, Jester winks and ‘TANGO DOWN’s. To give him credit, it’s a pretty smart way to make people think you’re nothing more than a Jester fanboy. Sadly for Thomas, it’s too late; the evidence linking Tom Ryan to Jester began from the moment TR began tweeting in January 2012. Prior to AntiSec dropping Jester’s dox on 11th March, Tom Ryan had only tweeted ‘Stay Frosty’ twice in three months. Immediately afterward, he tweets it five times in four days – complete with the Jester’s trademark wink.
- So does that mean that all of the foregoing information is is part of an elaborate ploy, cooked up by Tom Ryan and Jester, to obfuscate the identity of the real Jester? In the case of the ‘Stay Frostys’ and the ‘TANGO DOWN’s, yes, it probably is. Thankfully, there are dozens of other textual similarities between the pair – similarities that are too subtle to be part of a pre-planned disinformation campaign.
- Which leads nicely on to point #8: ‘Much’. Note the phrase that appears in the following tweets from Jester:
- 18th June: “http://www.techhomethebacon.com/news/hacking-infosec/th3j35t3r-links-nakomis-to-lulzsec-group-cover-up-ensues.html - backpeddaling much? Hacked? lol. -”
- 18th June: “Back-pedalling much?https://twitter.com/#!/Anonakomis/status/81862870664609792 #js”
- August 21st Wordpress blog entitled If ya can’t beat em, make some shit up??? LMAO!: “coincidence much?” “projection much??”
- I wonder if TR ever lets slip a similar phrase? Oh, what’s this?:
- 14th March: “@kaepora Nadim, delete much? You're in the snitch crew ?https://twitter.com/#!/realytcracker/status/143411708369715201 of @Anonymousabu & @ioerror”
- Coincidence much?
- #9: Jester loves to leave trailing dots in his tweets:
- 9th April: “<<< drums fingers on desk....”
- 3rd April: “Now...... imagine...... how many of those listed in my last, were ummmmmm - on the 'shit list' - just a thought??? #anonymous”
- 22nd November: “AFK.......”
- He also uses trailing dots when he’s typing live into Notepad in this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeO44IWlkfU
- More of Jester’s ‘trailing dots’ tweets are cited at the end of this dox. Now it’s TR’s turn to deploy this tactic:
- 6th April: “@kennethlipp that's how it went down with Barrett Brown too. Remember they ended up going to every address for him....according to him”
- 5th April: “@Bitchiest @KalyptoNet @TomRyanBlog The Secretary disavows this tweet and everybody in it...”
- 4th April: “#Anonymous ever wonder why certain high ups in your collective are never V& .... Look at cases that never went to court & who has relocated”
- Again, more examples of this idiosyncrasy can be found cited at the end of this dox, as well as liberally scattered throughout Tom Ryan’s Twitter feed.
- #10: Arrows. Jester loves to use arrows to break up words in his tweets, <<just like this>>:
- 9th April: “"@VizFoSho: @th3j35t3r dun goofedhttp://www.picvalley.net/u/1980/407013641289457528133400533586itAR4VE93lm7DAkGd2.PNG@RepDan_Gordon" <<< Shit ya got me! What am I to do? Btw now I am near north pole.”
- 28th March: “@wwpinc - just in case you were not aware: >>>https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/support/ <<< - keep up the great work ;-) Peace. #pgr #wwp#woundedwarrior”
- Now TR:
- 6th April: “Hmmm So @AnonW0rmer is arrested at 10:30http://j.mp/HiAASP tweets till 3:32, @ItsKahunadisappears @AnonymousIRC disappears for 4 Day >>>”
- 13th March: “Don't know whether to laugh or feel bad but come on: (compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+98;+Win+9x4.90) << In This Day An Age??”
- 9th March: “conspiracy 1. a plan or agreement to carry out an illegal or harmful act 2. the act of making such plans >> aka #Anonymous Ops #justsayin<<”
- Glance through their tweets and you’ll see that J and TR use <<arrows>> all the time.
- #10: UPPER CASE. Compare the tweets of J and TR and you’ll notice that they both love to highlight single words in capitals. Jester first:
- 9th April: “WARNING: Tweeps in mirror are closer than they appear.”
- 18th March: “I'm still asked WHY I hit #wikileaks, skip to 28mins 12secs & Major TJ O'Connor abt sums it uphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buY3I4PkK98<<worth watching it all.”
- 11th March: “@repdangordon be advised, when u file ur complaint to feds, they ARE going need ur cell for forensics to determine IF I hacked u at all ;-( ”
- Tom Ryan’s turn:
- 5th April: “INTERESTING: What is this ugly brown stain on a Key Member of Anonymous' back? I need to do my cropping for the new site launch. Peace!”
- 5th April: “#Anonymous why so many military and sovereign citizen connections? GOD I aam glad I took 2 weeks to lay low.”
- 4th April: “@MaxVenator Too cold and windy for the Hamptons BUT you gave me a good idea. Maybe we can turn Plum Island into a resort for#Anonymous”
- Jester and Tom Ryan both use this technique DOZENS of times in their tweets.
- #11 features a more subtle similarity between our Jester and our Clown:
- Jester, 21st August: “If ya can’t beat em, make some shit up??? LMAO! -”
- TR, 16th March: “@exiledsurfer ROFLMAO! Reminds me of being in Bahrain & Abu Dhabi hearing Garth Brooks "Friends in Low Places"”
- Jester and Thomas don’t always laugh their asses off, but when they do, you can bet it’s in upper case with an exclamation mark at the end. (More examples, as always, are cited in the conclusion of this dox.)
- #12: J and TR aren’t very good at spelling. They struggle especially with words such as ‘its’ and ‘it’s’. Jester’s tweets aren’t usually too bad for typos, as he doesn’t rush them (because he knows they will be analyzed by a wide range of foes who might otherwise have cause to mock him for his poor grammar). He also has the autocorrect on his Android phone to help him. He still struggles with those pesky apostrophes that autocorrect can’t pick up however, especially when he tweets from his desktop:
- 6th March: “WTF is Wikileaks gonna do now it's source of illegally obtained private info (anon/lulz) has had it's head & skillset removed? #2birds1Stone”
- 21st June: “Seems almost as if 'somebody' doesn't want you to see my last link - here's a pastebin of it's content.”
- In his Wordpress blog however, Jester often mixes up his apostrophes, especially in words such as ‘its’:
- “With Netcat listening at the other end for incoming connections, you can configure it to execute it’s own script when it receives a connection for example to send a Message of the Day to the connecting device, you would run netcat like this on your server”
- Watch his two YouTube videos (links cited at the end) in which he types directly into Notepad and you’ll see he also fails to put apostrophes into words such as ‘lets’, ‘its’ and ‘Thats’. 2:20 into his XerXes DoS Attack video and you’ll see that the text displayed on Jester’s self-designed software also contains typos: ‘SUCCESFULLY’ should have two ‘s’ in the middle, while at 2:29, you’ll see that ‘Secured’ has also been spelt wrongly. At 6:52 he also makes the same error when typing into Notepad.
- Does Tom Ryan fare any better in the spelling stakes? No. In fact he’s even worse when it comes to tweeting typos. That’s because Thomas tweets ten times as frequently as Jester, tweets more hastily (lots of rushed replies to his Twitter buddies) and because he writes the tweets on his Mac, which doesn’t autocorrect his mistakes. Look:
- 4th April: “@AdrianChen surprised your not all over the@Anonw0rmer arrest and shortly after the disappearance of @itskahuna”
- 5th April: “To those I owe something too, It's on it's way!”
- 30th March: “RED ALERT: tomorrow is #NoClick31 just as a precaution. Rumor has it #Anonymous is using it's Porn Bots for #opBlackout click to DDOS attack”
- Wanna see more? Just read his tweets.
- OK, we’ve almost reached the really juicy stuff linking Jester and Thomas, but first there are a couple more writing similarities to rattle through:
- #13: J and TR write numbers numerically rather than alphabetically – even when composing short tweets.
- Jester, 28th Feb: “4 more Anons V&'ed http://tinyurl.com/8a2g5k5#anonymous”
- 10th Nov: “#stayfrosty -Word of advice 2 @barrettbrownlol: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. >”
- 27th November: “#saladin (XerXes bro)- 'the best weapon is the one u never have 2 fire...I prefer the weapon u only need 2 fire once.'”
- 20th July: “Never saw a wild thing sorry 4 itself. Small bird drop frozen dead from bough without ever having felt sorry 4 itself.”
- TR – yep, you’ve guessed it – does exactly the same:
- 5th April: “@ohmylulz will with 2 False Positives.@missarahnicole @AsherahResearch”
- 4th April: “Ruh roh! A certain key #Anonymous member disappears for 4 days then reappears. We know what that means.”
- 3rd April: “@Ihazcandy I should start digging into them. Since I have 2 weeks of downtime.”
- OK, moving on (we’re nearly done, I promise) to #14: Hashtags. If you go to tweetstats.com and enter TR and J’s twitter names into separate windows, a series of pretty graphs will be generated that will allow you to compare their tweeting patterns. You’ll notice that they tweet from separate devices, to eliminate the possibility of accidentally tweeting to the wrong account - Tom Ryan likes to keep his iPhone in one pocket and his Android in the other for when he’s playing Jester. Click on the Tweet Cloud tab at the top of the page and you’ll be able to view the most frequent hashtags used by both parties. Not too surprisingly, given their obsession with all things masked, it’s #anonymous. There are also three other hashtags that the pair use prominently however – #fail, #justsayin and #infosec. The latter one is understandable, but the other two? Interesting. Let’s see some #fail and #justsayin in action, starting with Jester:
- 3rd November: “#opcartel #anonymous You should really listen to what this man has to say. Remember your track record is full of #fail”
- 15th August: “@anonymousabu U R #fail. U hurt who u claim to fight for (lol), u have agenda < http://reg.cx/1Qps& the agenda is >”
- 14th August: “So @landrytom u finally got ur mention. Damn u zeroed my 'xchat'? Please all check out his timeline. Then ask him where is the pwnage? #fail”
- 29th July: “1st up: My doxing. That's a #fail. (again) I have never been Ryan Berg, John Willander, Robin Jackson, Anthony Freed, Beau Colvin. #opFrosty”
- 2nd June: “http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/02/pentagon-has-secret-list-cyber-weapons/ - #justsayin;-) #oorah”
- Now it’s Tom Ryan’s turn to #Fail (#Justsayin):
- 5th April: “@agentdarkapple @AsherahResearch she's definitely is no @elizadushku , Mila Kunis or Megan Ackerman. So she's a #Fail”
- 2nd April: “@subverzo TY for verifying 2 alternate personas yours & @CrappyTires . FYI, Everyone in the CT world knows Shumukh al-Islam Forum. #FAIL”
- 9th March: “@AnonymousIRC you do know they rig cases to#FAIL inorder to capture bigger FISH ..... Right?@atopiary @lolspoon @AnonymouSabu”
- 9th Feb: “Dangerous Tweets: Arrested, fined in 140 characters or less http://j.mp/yWAV4G << What ever happened to contextual analysis? another#Fail” (Note the classic Jester-style arrows used in this tweet as well.)”
- 10th March: “#anonymous remember threatening people or family members can lead to several crimes. If they are harmed it becomes much worse. #justsayin”
- 9th March: “conspiracy 1. a plan or agreement to carry out an illegal or harmful act 2. the act of making such plans >> aka #Anonymous Ops #justsayin<<”
- Plenty more examples, as always, can be found cited in the footnotes at the end of this dox.
- OK, here endeth the writing analysis lesson. Thank you for your patience :) It would be fair to say we’ve established that Jester and Tom Ryan tweet in an uncannily similar manner, but that’s not all. Now we get on to the really good shit...
- #15: Tweet times. Using tweetstats.com, it’s possible to compare the times at which J and TR tweet. A quick glance at their respective Tweet Density graphs reveals a similar pattern: neither of them tweets between 3am and 7am EST: they’re both East coast bitches. Interesting.
- #16: A few days ago, @VizFoSho tweeted the following image:
- http://www.picvalley.net/u/1980/407013641289457528133400533586itAR4VE93lm7DAkGd2.PNG
- It depicts two Jester tweets from 7th April, both geo-stamped with Atlantic City, NJ on them. Atlantic city is within 150 miles of NY, where Tom Ryan lives. On 26th March, Jester also posted a single tweet from New York: https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/184333789697282048
- Normally, Jester’s tweets don’t reveal his location. Up until April 2012, there had only been four instances in which Jester’s tweets revealed his location – and two of those occurred when he was at DEFCON Nevada and Hacker Halted in Miami, occasions when he was undoubtedly eager to reveal his location in order to prove he was in attendance. Were the New York and Atlantic City revelations accidental (Tor for Android not working properly perhaps?) or was Jester trying to provide more misinformation?
- After @VizFoSho pointed out the NJ link (the NY slip-up had gone unnoticed), Jester went out of his way to post two tweets from ridiculously exotic locations – Cape Town on 9th April and then Hawaii on 10th April:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189464600318722049
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189464600318722049 “The octopus here is amazing. Dontcha think :-)”
- Jester has never previously switched his location to a far-flung location purely for the lulz. Why should he suddenly be trying so hard now that he’s been identified as an East coast slacker? If he’s not Tom Ryan, why should be bothered if people think he’s from NJ or NY?
- On 4th April, Jester made the second of his two Atlantic City tweets at 4:03pm. 11 minutes earlier, Tom Ryan had also posted a tweet. For the next 48 hours, neither account tweeted – a rare occurrence, especially for TR who averages over 30 tweets a day. Enjoying a couple of days in Atlantic City playing the slots, perhaps?
- Here are the 4th April tweets from both parties:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187610604314431488
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187616455762784257
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187612824187584512
- Curiouser and curiouser. But that’s not all. On 23rd March, TR tweets:
- “Headed to South Beach to enjoy this great weather! Later Tweeps!”
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/183199880922148864
- For the next 48 hours, Jester and Tom Ryan are both absent from Twitter.
- A month earlier, on 17th February, the same thing happens after TR tweets:
- “Off the Grid for a few days ! Have a great 3 day weekend!”
- https://twitter.com/#%21/TomRyanBlog/status/170321854723129344
- For the next four days, neither party tweets. The first person to break the Twitter silence is Jester, and it’s another rare instance of him revealing his location – Arlington VA.
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/172077181051219968
- Enjoy your three-day weekend, Thomas?
- I stated earlier that until April Jester had never previously switched his location to a far-flung country, but I lied – there IS actually one occasion when Jester appeared to be out of the country. On 25th January, he posted the following tweet:
- “To all who have DM'ed asking after my whereabouts & welfare...am safe & limbering up. It's a brave new year. TY 4 support. Stay Frosty.”
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/162261098035298304
- His alleged location? Brescia, Italy. What about Thomas Ryan – what was he up to around this time? Well here’s the thing: between 23rd and 26th January, TR (a man who likes to tweet all day, erryday) doesn’t post a single tweet. Too busy enjoying the bruschetta, washed down with a bottle of Barolo perhaps?
- A final word on correlating Twitter times before we move onto our final two points: take a look at the timeline for Jester and Tom Ryan’s tweets. Notice how they often tweet at almost exactly the same time as one another? For example, take Tuesday 10th April. After two hours without activity from either account, Thomas posts the following at 15:30pm:
- “Now I feel really special. Someone created a hidden stream about me and monitors it.”
- One minute later, at 15:31, Jester tweets “@alemarahweb? – ?http://www.alemara1.com? – TANGO DOWN - ??? ???”
- Observe any two Twitter accounts for long enough and you’ll find timing coincidences of course. However, compare Jester and Tom Ryan’s accounts on any given day and you’ll spot a predictable pattern: they always broadly correlate i.e. there is a short burst of tweets, followed by a 45 minute break while Jester/Ryan goes for a wank or to chow down some beef jerky.
- Right, two more points to raise and then I’ll leave you in peace:
- #17: When LulzKitten tweeted Jester’s dox on 29th March, how did Tom Ryan – the man with the military wallpaper on his Twitter page – respond? “@J_P_Holloway @lulzkitten @YourAnonNewsyou guys really suck at DOXing thinking I am@th3j35t3r everyone knows I was never in the Army #fail”
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185189598677319680
- Two things stand out here: firstly, we have no way of knowing that Jester was in the army. Yes, he has an interest in all things military, but the rumor that he actively served in the army is widely believed to be false.
- On 13th March however, TR tweeted the following: “When I was in the military, Greenpeace would try to board Aircraft Carriers. Some things aren't smart & never thought of till it's too late.”
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179637065154170880
- Military, shmilitary; does anyone see a connection here? Thought so. Without further ado, let’s proceed to our final, fateful tweet of interest. On 10th February, Thomas Ryan tweeted the following:
- “I wonder if operating Multiple Personas has ever given anyone Multiple Personality Disorder.”
- I don’t know Jester, you tell me ;) Tick tock. No response? Oh well, Stay Frosty...
- **********
- POSTSCRIPT: Could it be that Tom Ryan is such an attention-whore that he’s trolling us all in the hope of being mistaken for the Jester? I guess it’s technically possible, but if so, it’s the most elaborate and painstaking trolling campaign ever conceived – and one that would have to involve the collusion of both parties. If, by some miracle, Thomas Ryan is not Jester, he knows exactly who Jester is – to the extent where he probably even vacations with him. When you review all the evidence however, there can only be one logical conclusion to draw: they are one and the same person.
- On 13th March, Tom Ryan posted the following poignant message: “@ArtByAlida although Anonymous doesn't like@th3j35t3r I do. It's safer that certain people are never doxed.”
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179636120710152192
- You’re right Tom – it would be safer, but the truth always comes out in the wash, don’t you find? I hope you’ve got a few passports lying around, cos you’re gonna need them. Remember those Muslim extremists whose websites you downed and whose threats you retweeted? Oh, they mad. They real mad.
- One last thought before I shovel the dirt over Jester’s shriveled corpse: I notice that your Twitter nick is Boondock Saint, in tribute to The Boondock Saints, a movie about two Irish vigilantes. Just out of interest, I wonder what The Internet Surname Database would make of Thomas Ryan’s moniker?
- http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Ryan
- Why, they appear to believe that Ryan is an Irish surname. To quote from my favorite hacktivist for good, ‘Coincidence much?’
- Congratulations Thomas; you just got pwned by an amateur who doesn’t even have the skills to label himself a skid, never mind a hacker. Butthurt much?
- In the words of your nemesis, @anonymouSabu, “Nigga, troll harder.”
- pwned by @spoolfiend
- **********
- Citations:
- LulzKitten tweet linking TR and J: https://twitter.com/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#!/YourAnonNews/statuses/185150794079809536
- Check when th3j35t3r and RobinSage joined Twitter: http://www.whendidyoujointwitter.com/
- TR’s LinkedIn (where you’ll see proof that he attended Hacker Halted and DEFCON last year): http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyryan
- TR and J professing their love of sushi:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178202424056610817
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/128849629939892224
- Tom Ryan dox by AntiSec: http://pastebin.com/ZAxBWKi8
- J likes to say ‘Hmmm’ a lot:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187996120180457472
- http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/occupy-wall-street-99-ummm/
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186958030791905282
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/174163673940631552
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/182268058168082432
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187535767843778560
- TR also likes to say ‘Hmmm’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188096685250068480
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180117386291195906
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178896960546287617
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177482894443417600
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/170195932388925441
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189680060863754241
- J goes ‘Tick tock’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/96268183723450369
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177033974324002816
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/83145887307677696
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/95195869921554433
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/98828156663889920
- http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/lulzsecs-cloudflare-configuration/
- TR goes ‘Tick tock’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/174132025215811585
- J ‘Stay frosty’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186923663734489088
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/134434056925483008
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/129246959021203456
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/128849629939892224
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/81862725638160385
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/76373640832225282
- TR ‘Stay frosty’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189679107347460097
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180689040385900544
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179655809280655361
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179298552680415232
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178571536691765249
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178529239052730368
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178336251240382464
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179622057305317376
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179802508372344832
- J likes to wink:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/184373769958211584
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/120271829377097728
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/76373640832225282
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/185019516793786370
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/81477469135319040
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178878010961833986
- TR likes to wink:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187885131976024064
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187372927946211328
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179932280809197568
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180689040385900544
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189679107347460097
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/169492746871119873
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179655809280655361
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179802508372344832
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179669923163938816
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187914228810784769
- J ‘much?’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/82200919365787648
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/81871769832665088
- http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/if-ya-cant-beat-em-make-some-shit-up-lmao/
- TR ‘much?’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179927195022659584
- J ‘...’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189139338796351492
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186958030791905282
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186749312166932483
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/128849629939892224
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/138951576789331968
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/168769540598145025
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/179233292682407937
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/184321677092597760
- TR ‘...’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188088227704487936
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187342615648272384
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188829946439929856
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189449964219400194
- https://twitter.com/#!/providesecurity/status/187253830315016192
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189757038778269696
- https://twitter.com/#!/Render64/status/187912159655772161
- J ‘<<arrows>>’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189463655811780609
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/185019516793786370
- TR ‘<<arrows>>’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179683104972210176
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188096685250068480
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177907983227949056
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178555495806803968
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179321093897723904
- J using UPPER case:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189165520556277761
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178895612723478531
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/181438361511280640
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/82538803188862976
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/98386681836736512
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177544329458491392
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/135438221483048960
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177568887334903808
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/110676313366462464
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/127396730621788160
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/100282273072549890
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178566407909412866
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/132173511874711552
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/94485325744848896
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/97333572955947008
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/91970882095943680
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/141002481260961792
- TR using UPPER case:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187908914417893379
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188461215348031489
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187018163567853568
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185423913197637633
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187240901574266881
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180380942614016001
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187903623693467648
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187361681452699649
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187541167972417536
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187322975383588864
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187309018623127552
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187558445036216320
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187541167972417536
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187656738818899968
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187261297669308416
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187530160134828032
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/184620737821286402
- Jester ‘LMAO!’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/105305979733815296
- TR ‘ROFLMAO!’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180709354624925696
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179773457943371776
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187709243087003650
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186965988082843648
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187272732147322880
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187583747154132992
- J struggles with apostrophes:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/83239272504770560
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177080046597578752
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186749312166932483
- (See his blog for heaps more examples.)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeO44IWlkfU (Skip to 5:07); ‘lets’, ‘its’ and ‘Thats’ should all have apostrophes.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJTvzErKHWE Look at the Notepad he’s typing into: ‘lets’ should have an apostrophe and ‘peak’ should have two ‘e’s in it. Skip to 2:20: the text on Jester’s self-designed Xerxes machine also contains typos: ‘SUCCESFULLY’ should have two ‘s’ in the middle. At 2:29, you’ll see that ‘Secured’ has also been spelt wrongly. At 6:52 he also types the same misspelt word into Notepad.
- TR also struggles with apostrophes:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187920367845781504
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187710784690855936
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180432605680902144
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187645320442822656
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187531807598714880
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187917710498336769
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185737304290234368
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178485680899502081
- J tweets ‘TANGO DOWN’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/175040242477318144
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/175029005718794240
- TR tweets ‘TANGO DOWN’:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186482996352778240
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186482690797744128
- J always writes numbers numerically:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/174540542724669441
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/93771304607563776
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/114830590452310016
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/134434056925483008
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/140925221090758656
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185576329712910336
- TRB always writes numbers numerically:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187211721365139456
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187712594373648384
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178965908696481793
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187680293984022529
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187539614876176384
- Compare TR and J’s tweet patterns, in particular the time of day they tweet at and the hashtags they use: http://tweetstats.com (Open two separate windows and enter their Twitter names).
- J using #Fail:
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/132152349639720960
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/103200916156588032
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/102784136015646722
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/97030633330716674
- https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178966110694150144
- J using #Fail:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187708057344671744
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/167697098047889411
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177978089203175424
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178269119316107264
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186927307544477697
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178573080438898689
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178982123959619585
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185189598677319680
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186930868273676288
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186965988082843648
- J using #Justsayin: https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/76373640832225282
- TRB using #Justsayin:
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177907983227949056
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179578215411630080
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178518183525888000
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/184620737821286402
- https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/184270112361168898