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12 Reasons Why Th3J35t3r is Smedley Manning

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  1. Wow! What a lulzy week it’s been up here on the internet. First there was that shit with Th3J35t3r, and then there was that crazy shit with Th3J35t3r and then there was that other crazy shit with Th3J35t3r. Where do we start?
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  3. I guess we might as well begin with that crazy shit that happened with Th3J35t3r. Since every other anon, pro-sec and troll who’s been watching this digital soap opera unfold has added their two cents, I might as well lob mine into the mix:
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  5. 12 Reasons Why ‘Smedley Manning’ (@cubespherical) is Th3J35t3r:
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  7. 1.Their writing styles are identical.
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  9. If you’ve read Jester and Smedley’s infamous DM ( http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc213/truelai3/BdK3T.jpg ) you may have been struck by the verisimilitude of the messages – the whole thing reads as if it could have been written by the same person. Look at the punctuation: notice how J and SM both use commas in all the right places, as if they were sitting an English exam instead of firing off DMs. Every time one of them uses a long sentence, it is broken up in the middle with a pair of commas in just the right place – how grammatically correct of them! Moreover, *every single DM* ends with a full stop (except when a question mark or “cont” is required). This might sound trivial, but try looking through the last DM conversation you had on Twitter. Can you find over 20 tweets in succession in which both parties made sure to expend a maximum of 139 characters so they could include that all-important full stop at the end? Impossibru!
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  11. But wait, there’s more: Notice how there’s not a single spelling mistake in the entire DM convo, which spans 23 messages?  It’s too contrived. The whole thing smells fishier than last week’s fishy fish. If you’ve watched Jester’s Xerxes videos on YouTube or seen him on IRC, you’ll know that when he’s chatting in realtime, he can’t spell or use punctuation for shit. Why does it seem as if every message in this DM convo – from both parties – has been painstakingly typed and then proofed over several times? It doesn’t flow naturally.
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  13. There are also numerous minor (and admittedly common) similarities between the pair, including the use of *stars* to emphasize certain words (Jester does this *all the time* on Twitter). Jester and Smedley are also prone to stressing a SINGLE word in a sentence in upper case: “@th3j35t3r Recognize this? http://t.co/93fCAn6u - it's one of the photos on your real life facebook BEFORE you deleted your profile.” Also, both tweeters write their numbers as digits – ‘1 month’ – rather than alphabetically, even when composing short tweets. Additionally, at one point, Smedley tweets ‘Cat got your tongue?’ at Jester. This may not be one of J’s famous ‘Stay Frosty’ catchphrases, but it’s one he has used in the past, such as when taunting Team Poison or Sabu for going silent on Twitter.
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  15. Smedley also uses trailing dots in the middle of several of his tweets, including this one: https://twitter.com/#!/cubespherical/status/201703876720721920 “@th3j35t3r ...Happy Birthday for next week ...RD.”
  16. That’s a classic Jester technique, as was highlighted in my previous, detailed (read: sad and geeky) analysis of his writing style: http://pastebin.com/A5iiTAJS and a follow-up piece here: http://pastebin.com/HaT42sig
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  18. 2. No Anon seeking to blackmail Jester would come up with a story as lame as that devised by ‘Smedley’: As this pastebin from anon on May 14 ( http://pastebin.com/jwYt7Hyf ) points out: “somehow, this guy figured out the Jester is a guy who beat him up in a bar once, in 2002.Seriously? Guys, seriously? Not only is there no way to identify the Jester like that (the "human trail" is bullshit), there'd be no way he'd even remember the guy well enough to do that. If he did, that'd suggest deep-seated emotional issues, and he'd have just doxed th3j35t3r immediately if that was the case.”
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  20. If you were genuinely trying to blackmail Jester – even if you were bluffing – you’d at least try to come up with some teaser info that might cause Jester’s heart to skip a beat. Tell him you used to study with him at college. Tell him you’ve a record of his handwriting from when you were serving together in the military and that it matches the note he allegedly left at DefCon. But whatever you do, don’t create a fictitious bar fight, and then make out that because J brawled three nights a week while in the Army he wouldn’t remember the victim of this particular pasting which our Patriot Hacker administered. Nigga troll harder!
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  22. 3. ‘Reeling much?’ Notice in the DM convo that Smedley uses this phrase.  While it’s not uncommon for people to end sentences with ‘...much?’, it should be noted that this is a favored technique of Jester’s.  Giveaway much?
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  24.  4. Strange tweet locations. Notice that on 12th May, Smedley tweets twice, seemingly from Alabama? None of his other tweets are geo-stamped with a location. This is another Jester technique; he loves to pop up in random locations for a couple of tweets before reverting back to normal. At times this ploy appears deliberate; on other occasions it may happen accidentally, when tweeting from different interfaces. (Either way, the stated location is unlikely to have any bearing on his actual location.)
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  26. 5. The ‘rent-an-anon’ cliches when Smedley outs himself as Anonymous: What are Anonymous’ two most famous sayings? ‘We do not forgive. We do not forget. We are legion’ and Topiary’s ‘You cannot arrest an idea’, which were to become Smedley’s bio and tweet respectively.  These words might have once meant something, but only a fed or similar fake Anon would out themselves as Anonymous in such a cliched manner. He also tweets “We did it to lulz his ass - we are legion.” This sounds like a whitehat trying to play blackhat and desperately failing. Smedley also adds an anon vendetta mask to his avatar. Whoever Smedley is, he is not Anonymous.
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  28. 6. After ‘outing himself’ as Anon, Smedley is quick to tweet #OWS support messages: If there are three things Jester hates, it’s Anonymous, Wikileaks and Occupy. Smedley ticks off all three in a heartbeat. He is the Twitter embodiment of Jester’s bête noire. (By the way, some would say that there are four things Jester hates, the last one being jihadist websites. The truth is, he doesn’t hate them – they’re just the only sites he can use his shitty DDoS and Saladin ‘of course it’s not domain expiration’ tools on without risking getting v& by feds. As if they’re gonna prosecute him for downing some lame muslim website hosted in Afghanistan.)
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  30. 7. The Telltale Lower Case ‘v’: When Jester resurfaces and blogs about his disappearance, he tries to frame @johntiessen . Out of nowhere, Smedley posts two tweets in succession that link him to Tiessen – it’s as if Jester has suddenly decided to drop Tiessen clues into Smedley’s tweets so he can later use this in his comeback blog to smear Tiessen. Unfortunately, Jester fucks up. He takes an old line that Tiessen had posted as a blog comment elsewhere and repeats it: ‘Dont ever forget that Ric veda Loves you’. To fit the phrase into the tweet, Jester/Smedley removes the ‘ever’, but simply pastes the rest of it straight in: ‘Dont forget that Ric veda Loves you’. Even though he pastes the phrase into the middle of a sentence, he doesn’t even change the ‘B’ to lower case, so it ends up reading like this: ‘But Dont forget that Ric veda Loves you’. Obvious copypasta is obvious. Whoever Smedley is, he certainly ain’t Tiessen. There is no reason why an Anon would want to falsely incriminate Tiessen – he’s an oddball who no one gives a fuck about apart from Jester, who hates his guts. J’s blogged twice about him and dissed him relentlessly in tweets. They’ve got beef going back over six months. Why would any Anon trying to blackmail Jester be interested in incriminating Tiessen? Everyone – including Jester – knows that Tiessen hasn’t got the brains to create Smedley. In outing Smedley as a ‘false doxer’, Jester simultaneously manages to discredit Anonymous, OWS, Wikileaks and John Tiessen. What a beautifully-wrapped Xmas present you found right there Jester!
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  32. 8. ‘I understand you went toe to toe 3 times a week when you were on base’ – so says Smedley in his DM convo with J. Then later: ‘We went toe to toe, I owe you’ – notice that it was the heroic Jester who kicked Smedley’s ass? This smacks of Jester trying to bolster his reputation by stating that he used to regularly pwn bitches IRL, just as he now does on the internet (using his top secret domain expiration tool). Jester will kick your ass! (Which is why I’m writing this from behind 7 Proxies.) Jester’s vanity knows no bounds. Recently there’s been the pathetic ‘whoiswidme#’ RT requests, the tacky Wounded Warriors wristbands, and then the bitcoin ransom demands from his Smedley account. No doubt the idea of ascertaining his monetary worth – so that he could later boast about the $100,000 bounty on his head – appealed to Jester’s ego. He thought it would be the equivalent of overhearing the girls in the female locker room rating his wiener. Judging by the 0.00000001 bitcoins that were donated, however the ladies weren’t too enamoured with Jester’s pecker – not enough to want to pay for the pleasure anyway.
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  34. As @Th3Jakyl tweeted: “The thing that @cubeshperical fails to realize is that for him to remember @th3j35t3r from 10 years ago leaves the opportunity for j to remember him as well. Considering his research abilities, returning the favor would find mr. rubiks cube in prison. Think about it, Extortion of untraceable funds, selling/releasing personal information to the public that is not his own(DOXing for money) and financially supporting an organization that can be considered a terrorist group or enemy of many federal governments.”
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  36. This is another reason why this ‘Anon tries to dox Jester’ story is bullshit – no Anon would try to blackmail and/or dox Jester in such an incriminating manner.
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  38. 9. The bar Smedley mentions is Scruffy Murphy’s – an Irish pub in Fort Benning. If Tom Ryan (oh shit, I said it) were to be involved with Jester in some capacity (playing ‘Jester’ or ‘Smedley’) it would make sense that an Irish bar would be the first place to spring to mind as the location of this fictitious bar fight. By the way, notice how Smedley calls the bar ‘Scruffy Murphys’. When Jester refers to it later in the convo, J calls it ‘Scruffys’ – it’s as if Jester is very familiar with this bar, even though if we are supposed to believe that Smedley *is* a random Anon dropping a wildly false dox on Jester, how on earth would he even know to reel off a bar that J affectionately knows as ‘Scruffys’.  (And yes, I should get out more.)
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  40. Here’s some of Tom Ryan’s ‘Irish’ tweets by the way:
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  42. “@TomRyanBlog btw, we'll be in the City around the 1st. First round's on me, know a great Irish pub a few blocks from Zuccotti. cc @sabzbrach”
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  44. “Hope Everyone Has A Great Saint Patty's Day! Time to go celebrate, you know how to get me! Erin Go Bragh!”
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  46. “#Anonymous Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Here's a Gift since You wanted proof TOR was insecure, ;)@LibertyLynx”
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  48. 10. Smedley opened his Twitter account on 3rd February 2011. Whoever runs it must presumably have opened up a number of spare Twitter accounts in the past to be able to fire up a dormant account now when it’s suddenly needed. As an interesting aside, Tom Ryan is known for having a number of Twitter accounts (including Robin Sage). TR has previously tweeted: "ATTENTION #Anonymous & #Journalists running to many Twitter Personas causes Multiple Personality Disorder #WARNING"
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  50. https://twitter.com/#%21/TomRyanBlog/status/173986254881439744
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  52. TR also tweeted: "@r0d3nt I am fine, but many other people operate more personas than I do. Wait till you see what that pornbot does. It could be interesting."
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  54. https://twitter.com/#%21/TomRyanBlog/status/168005480780804096
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  56. Then, a few weeks ago, he tweeted: “@_Golden_Rule_ Jake blocked me when I said he looks like he will be my size soon. It's OK I have 14 other personas on him”
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  58. https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178308500961771520
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  60. And again: "“ROFLMAO Would Anonymous trust those Twitter Deletion tools knowing they just OAUTHed to some of my Fake Personas and Sites?”
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  62. https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179290002532995072
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  64. If you click on the previous two links, you won’t find those tweets any more (though I’ve got a screen grab of them if anyone doubts me, cos I’m sad like that.)
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  66. On Monday 14th May – at the height of the ‘WTF happened to Jester?’ drama – a large proportion of TR’s tweets suddenly disappeared off Twitter. When asked whether he’d been deleting tweets, he replied “no my account has been weird all week”
  67. https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/202227455128387584
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  69. O RLY?
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  71. It's not just Smedley who's prone to dropping false pedophile accusations by the way (if we're to believe Jester, Tiessen is using the Smedley account to brand our Patrior Hacker a pedophile). Tom Ryan likes to do the same thing on occasions:
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  73. "@ItsKahuna Ryan Cleary's arrest had more of an impact. Ironically you exposed yourselves proving the pedophilia within the ranks"
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  75. https://twitter.com/#%21/TomRyanBlog/status/175300291384709121
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  77. (BTW, this piece isn’t meant to be another fucking Tom Ryan dox. If you are of the belief that TR has no involvement with Jester whatsoever, that's cool – so long as you agree that whoever Jester may be, he is certainly Smedley.)
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  79. 11. Jester and Smedley run the same OS: As this anon Pastebin notes, “It's worth noting that both Smedley Manning and th3j35t3r favour Ubuntu 11.xx releases. They favour using GNOME, too.
  80. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9LpW_-t2lkU/TpmnnnPHn6I/AAAAAAAABMA/AKBOIZUm4sM/s1600/Opera-Next-Ubuntu-Oneric.png
  81. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/TF59PLnLUJI/AAAAAAAAJNE/IoVU8sTFyUo/s1600/Opera+Mobile+for+Linux+(1440x797)_023.png
  82. I wouldn't be surprised if Smedley Manning was using twitter with Firefox, too, logged into another username. Hint hint.”
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  84. 12. Smedley’s change of tune: Judging by his earliest retrievable tweets, Smedley began tweeting on 10th May. At first he was pro-Jester. The deleted tweets can be viewed here: http://topsy.com/twitter/cubespherical?nohidden=1&offset=50&om=aaaaa&page=6
  85. On 12th May, ReaperSec’s damning blog which tore into Jester’s Saladin tool was published here: http://reapersec.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/th3j35t3rs-saladin-tool-exposed/
  86. The following day, Smedley began trolling Jester and threatening to drop his dox. Why? Because J knew that he’d been outed – not for the first time – as a fraud.  (See also XSS ‘Article Injection’ scam, QR Code scam, ‘TANGO DOWN indefinitely’ scam ‘I v& Team Poison’ scam and pretty much everything else in Jester’s locker.) Jester got mad and fired off some angry tweets as well as a terse blog in which he promised to disclose why Saladin was indeed genuine. He signed it off  “To be continued…….. within 24 hours…. meantime, I am gonna have that downtime I talked about. Peace.”
  87. http://pastebin.com/Qj4LH4CN
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  89. Sadly for Jester, he wasn’t able to enjoy much downtime as his Smedley account had to be cranked up to full speed in order to provide an almighty smoke screen that would obfuscate his inability to post a Saladin proof within 24 hours – or even within 24 years. It had the desired effect; with all the commotion surrounding Jester’s disappearance, the ReaperSec blog was largely forgotten about – now all eyes were fixed firmly on Smeddles. Suddenly, Jester’s ReaperSec jibes and Saladin tweets were gone (though they can be viewed here: http://imgur.com/a/6vZMh#0 ) and before long, so was his Wordpress blog. When the blog reappeared three days later, his latest post was addressing the return of the Messiah – not Saladin’s inner workings. All of Jester’s previous Wordpress blogs were restored upon his return – apart from the previous Saladin post in which he promised to partially disclose his technique within 24 hours.
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  91. As one anon tweeted: “O hai @cubespherical aka @th3j35t3r: Jester had been uncovered for fraud and concocted an elaborate scheme to escape being discredited. :D “
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  93. So what does all of this jiggery pokery mean?
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  95. Well, at best, Jester has been unequivocally exposed as a liar, a fraud and a charlatan. At worst, he’s just proven that he can count to potato.  His Smedley stunt certainly ain’t no psyop – it’s outright *duplicity* <-Google that shit :p
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  99. Th3J35t3r pwned by @spoolfiend (again). Thanks to Anons, ReaperSec and everyone else who’s been going toe to toe with J this week. May you dream of triple-breasted virgins wrestling in banana custard.
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  101. More essential bedtime reading on Jester and  related stuff:
  102. http://pastebin.com/u/jellybro
  103. http://pastebin.com/fKFP0qJt << Not mine, but an excellent read :)
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  105. I’ll leave you, Jester, with the words of a kid who was far more charismatic, talented and entertaining than you will ever be. He achieved more in 50 days than you have in three years. Aptly it was his last, fateful tweet that your alter-ego Smedley was to later plagiarize. This kid once penned a Pastebin that aptly describes you, I and, well... everyone else who’s read this far:
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  107. “This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction. There are peons and lulz lizards; trolls and victims. There's losers that post shit they think matters, and other losers telling them their shit does not matter. In this situation, we are both of these parties, because we're fully aware that every single person that reached this final sentence just wasted a few moments of their time.”
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