With anybody on internet forums you have to make a judgement call as to whether they are lying or not but based on his previous posts and the fact it wouldn't be that difficult to check simply by visiting his site, I think we both know it's him.
Although I agree from a tracker security viewpoint this appears far worse (I have a rather random theory as to why Anon is bad for security which I will expand on in a minute), the intentions of the OP in the thread you highlight couldn't be more different to Anon and his buddies. The guy in that thread is misguidedly trying to help his fellow torrenters in what appears to be quite an altruistic way. Unfortunately one of his invitees will probably be someone like Anon and he will end up losing his precious accounts.
In a previous post Anon spoke about his site and gave people hints about how to find it so they could judge for themselves (something I don't think he would do if he was an imposter). Being curious I did as he said and googled it, this took me straight to a thread entitled something along the lines of ' Can I use cheat client ABC to cheat at ('elite' hard to seed at) tracker XYZ.' The replies included ones such as ' I got banned at that tracker 4 times when I used cheat client EFG, but I now use cheat client ABC and it works fine', and others such as 'Hell yeah, I've faked 10tb up at that tracker with no problems using ABC'. The first thing this made me think was 'shit, that first guy has had 5 accounts so far at that tracker', which then led me to realise that if you can fake 10tb up then it is easy for these people to get into the most extreme user classes and produce invites like they are candy. They have giveaway threads on Anons sites too, but unlike the thread that you highlighted were the guy seems to want to invite 'good' users, the criteria on his site seem to be simply that the invitees know how to cheat without getting caught.
Something occured to me when talking about security issues that was way outside the box (and therefore probably completely wrong). I realise that the major recording studios have all probably agreed to let agencies like Brein have permission to download and seed their movies when infiltrating torrent sites in order to maintain there cover. But if you were ever prosecuted for downloading a film, and you found out that one of the people you were downloading from was a Brein operative, wouldn't there be a case for entrapment? Also if you infiltrate a site one of your next goals would surely be to produce invites so you could get more of your people inside and also the higher up in the user classes you become the more of a 'trusted' member you would become which I assume is also one of their goals. Cheating clients that allow you to climb user classes and produce invites whilst at the same time allowing you not to become embroiled in the actual act of pirating would seem on the surface to be a bit of a godsend for these agencies. This to me seems logical, but I may have completely missed an obvious flaw in this argument, however I can't see one. I would think therefore that someone like Anon who, from what I have read, designs some of these cheat clients and then makes them available to anyone that wants them is a far greater threat to tracker security than someone giving away a few invites in a giveaway thread.
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