Jerry Brito

Folks keep linking to this post on Brian X. Chen’s personal blog, about how Wired tracked down the iPhone seller, with the implication that Wired was somehow super sleuthy. But this article tells us nothing about how they found him. Here is how they picked up the trail according to Chen:

It all started with a Facebook comment. The day Gizmodo published its 4G iPhone bombshell, our former intern Rose Roark saw a suspicious-looking note posted by Hogan on someone’s Facebook wall. She pointed it out to me, and I agreed it was telling.

OK. So But how did they know to look, on that day, at his comments of the millions on Facebook? How was Roark connected to him? We still don’t know how Wired tracked him down. So they used the Internet to track down an address for a name. Great. But how did they get the name?