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8kun, the people at the center of the attempted coup, Qanon, child abuse content, and multiple neo-nazi mass-shootings made public everyone they were emailing. Here's what that reveals. New, co-written by me + THREAD https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1347246798633627648
Ron Watkins ( @CodeMonkeyZ) was the admin of 8kun (formerly 8chan) while Jim Watkins ( @RQueeninc) owned it. Jim is seen frequently communicating with Neon Revolt, who is at the center of modern Qanon conspiracies, alongside several other Q celebs.
Neon Revolt is the fodder for Lin Wood (suspended) and newly minted “election security expert” Ron Watkins (former 8kun admin) ( https://archive.vn/oNwyr ) who was on OANN and RTed by Trump and other high level conservative re ‘election fraud’.
Lin Wood was the last person RTed by the woman likely killed by Capitol Police in the right wing conspiracy attack on the Capitol building and was a crucial propagandist to the Qanon putsch into the Capitol. https://twitter.com/emmibevensee/status/1346998342698508289
Ron Watkins, after betraying anons to grift the conservative descent as a “network defense analyst” talking about 'election fraud' seemingly revealed every 8kun board owners email address through an unpatched 5 year old vulnerability.
https://archive.vn/octP2#selection-9.29253-9.43375
https://archive.vn/octP2#selection-9.29253-9.43375
Jim’ highest contact is Priscilla Adams Dumont ( @padamsdumont2). She's a Contract Specialist with Redstone Arsenal Army base w a history in missiles and received awards from CG Paul Pardew. She is a Qanon fanatic at the center of a coup attempt. https://twitter.com/ArmyContracting/status/1064926534421671937
The head of her base in Alabama, seemingly Edward M Daly, is featured here in the US Army’s official page though he does not appear to have a Twitter account himself. https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1317188822061469703?s=20
Her account with extensive conspiracies is archived here https://archive.vn/fTmU4
Her award from Paul Pardew is archived here with her commenting knowledge of people in comments: https://archive.vn/bMT5A
Her linkedin here: https://archive.vn/bMT5A
Her award from Paul Pardew is archived here with her commenting knowledge of people in comments: https://archive.vn/bMT5A
Her linkedin here: https://archive.vn/bMT5A
Jim actively connects Priscilla with numerous Qanon celebrities including @BlessedToTeach @thepatriothour and @IPOT1776 . More of 8kuns major contact points can be seen in this network graph.
Would you like to see all the data in the vulnerability? An interactive (desktop only) version of this network graph above can be used to explore other leads here: https://rebelliousdata.gitlab.io/roundcube-network/
In a response video, tweet, and later post to our right of reply, Jim stated that the vulnerability was “not even a hack, it’s like a feature”... though it also revealed their entire financial system. https://twitter.com/RQueeninc/status/1337899015908646913
In his video @RQueeninc also claims, “it’s not like I was talking to the FBI,” which he absolutely was. In addition to the DoJ and a Polish cyber crimes division (that works in child abuse content) (please dl the video) https://tora3.com/video/c0268e561782668031fa018b68f662c9
The leak also revealed other extensive security-related info and knowledge. The vulnerability was a Roundcube mail server that was set to default structure and not updated since > 2015 when the vuln was first found/patched. They have recently patched it. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5383
The vulnerability was first noticed by former Anonymous figure @kirtaner (now suspended) who claims that he is on a warpath with the "chan" culture beast that his horrible former behavior helped to create as a form of amends.
The archived entirety of the mail server can be found here (as well as on archive./today): https://web.archive.org/web/20201208232009/https://mail.isitwetyet.com/logs/sendmail
The data was confirmed by multiple sources including the journalists Jim contacted first via a scrawled chaotic letter that he filmed himself writing + other confirmations with Ron’s tweets at the time. It was also confirmed by Jim himself in his replies.
The data also appears to confirm their attempts at running a P2P censorship resistant version of 8kun which has been studied in depth in my report on white supremacy and resistance to it in the P2P space. https://rebelliousdata.com/p2p/
This story was so shocking to me that at first i considered it some kind of psy-op until the evidence kept piling on of systematic incompetence at every level. Even my charming editor @EoghanMacguire struggled to believe the scale of it.
I encourage researchers to continue tracking down all of these leads and closing all the loops as it is a huge discovery in the center of a literal coup attempt.
To be clear, this data does nothing to suggest that Priscilla is Q. Numerous facts seem to prove THE OPPOSITE that she is just a wildly incompetent hanger on.
It is worth noting that it is certainly ~possible~ that she shared Secret confidential details of her work with Jim who seemed to have participated in comms with central Q/coup figures. This should be publicly addressed as it implies open conspiracy driven coup-plotting in US mil
This article was made in collab with my ridiculously talented colleague/friend, @maxzzze and with @SMAT_app and Rebellious Data who work to help journos, activists, and orgs make sense of our online conversations through easy to use data visualization. https://rebelliousdata.com/
Also a huge thanks to @bellingcat for taking the brave step to publish this and other cutting-edge OSINT driven journalism, setting an example that anyone can solve mysteries and expose bad actors in dramatic and fascinating ways.
direct article link here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/01/07/exposed-email-logs-show-8kun-owner-in-contact-with-qanon-influencers-and-enthusiasts/
if this thread flies too close to the sun, it's archived here and please advocate to twitter that it and my account be put back for journalistic reasons of international importance. But also just share the original article. 
https://archive.vn/RYrPH
https://archive.vn/RYrPH
just gonna throw a cheeky #TrumpCoupAttempt in this thread that describes seemingly the networks orchestrating it.
couple other things that didn't make it into the article. This is the linkedin of the "high risk business accounts manager" that was communicating with Jim through payment cloud inc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-shepherd-931257167
