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S1 Ep14: I Hacked The US Government Aged 16

Extraordinary Lives

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The GCHQ Spying on Anonymous Teens

The main evidence was the chat logs. They were going through a chat log saying, what did you mean by this? What does that mean? So they had to somehow link me and T flow. Didn't we provide any evidence that I was T flow actually? It was just assumed I was T Flow. My suspicion was that the GCHQ was involved. And one of the ways that they would discover people anonymous is that they would send them like this link to a new story or something. For example, in one case, they sent someone in a link to BBC news story through something called the URL shortener,. But they had their own URL shortener which could see your IP address.

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