Out of curiosity, how have you learned all that about the infiltrator and how he was related to Leo ?
Nice to hear that it has been sorted.
So now our corp has faced two sets of bads. Bai'xao and the failheist, and Leo and the failspai.
As for how exactly we went about identifying the infiltrator, we used a few methods.
First, we analyzed the image and were able to glean a rough join date within 2-3 months, so we knew how long the spy had been in corp and who had joined during that stretch. Second, we knew the timezone (GMT +1, which happens to include Croatia, where Leo is from) that either the spy or their employer was living in. Third, the nature of the leak in the first place, what the spy tried to do, how they acted, what they posted (Exploitylva Paradox, amirite?) was very clearly from the perspective of someone with a personal bone to pick with us/me. They also had to be someone with an ego such that they'd burn a spy under the assumption that they'd already won, just by getting that image. Now, the list of people who actually give enough of a fuck about us to do something like this, isn't terribly large. It's shrunk again by the lack of competence used by the spy. A better spy would have just tried to steal assets or lead in an eviction fleet. So we arrived pretty quickly at Leopold as the most likely client of the spy. From there it was easy.
For one, Astera is known to be Ishta Maleto's alt, long time friend of Leo. We knew this when we recruited her, we simply had hoped that she'd left her OOC associations with Leo behind, those associations wouldn't colour her membership, or that Leo gave as much of a fuck about us as we give about him. This was probably our biggest mistake, assuming if we ignored Leo he'd go away.
For two, Leo had in the past bragged about having a spy in our corporation. For three, if it was Leo, then Astera was the only path left for information to travel along, since Aphoxema had already left us and gone back to Stillwater.
told you so.
To some extent yes! You were right in that it was declared an exploit, and I was banned even. However, its clear that you were incorrect about CCP banning people ex post facto, and the reason I was banned was the the banning GMs probably hadn't communicated with the GMs we'd petitioned, once it was elevated, it was dealt with very quickly and I was unbanned within a few hours of being banned. Essentially, the ban was unintentional, and the result of a breakdown in communication with the GMs, not that I actually did anything wrong. I also have an inkling that Leo may have had his entire corp mass petition me, but I've of course no way to know that one way or the other.
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