Hahaha, the plot thickens.

More likely than not, it's an attempt at market manipulation though.

Screenshot of the daoattacker account on DAO slack for posterity and analysis:
![daoattacker](https://i.imgsafe.org/524603cb81.png)

The local time puts him on the east coast of Australia, Brisbane or Sydney most likely. Except he's talking about US law. I'm calling bullshit so hard.

at least adds some entertainment value

I didn't understand DAO at the beginning and I don't understand it now; my feeling is a lot of people who think they understand it, don't.

Never invest in anything you don't understand, or shit like this could happen, if this is real, then it looks like this person is now very, very, rich.

*CG*

This is probably not the culprit just market manipulation. Anyone in the crypto world know that all this is all in aid of retaking and undermining the central banks. My money is on them being behind the attack.

Hey there Mr. Attacker.
Don't let people bully you with a soft fork. Fight back !
I have about 800 000 USD worth of free cloud credits. Just enough to buy you a majority of mining power for a short period of time.
If you're interested in buying them (for much much less than 800k), let's make a deal !
heythere@forward.cat

> " to the extent you believe there to be any conflict or discrepancy between the descriptions offered here and the functionality of The DAO’s code at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413, The DAO’s code controls and sets forth all terms of The DAO Creation." 

You can't say on the one hand that the code that lives on the blockchain is the absolute source of truth and then claim when someone uses that code contained in that contract to get rewarded for doing due-diligence that it was wrong. The DAOs hubris is what got the investors into this mess. I was for the forks until I read it. Game Over for the DAO. 

In fact, the attacker has already won as he could also attack the other fallacy still standing - that decentralization somehow leads to a less corrupt system. Don't believe me? The attacker should simply be less greedy and offer 9 million dollars USD to each of the 4 largest mining pools to NOT observe the fork. He still walks with about 4 million. 

1. dwarfpool	9.7%	1882	30.7	1.1 TH/s
2. f2pool	12.8%	904	14.7	557.0 GH/s
3. ethermine	12.4%	701	11.4	431.1 GH/s
4. ethpool	12.5%	511	8.3	313.6 GH/s

This would give him the majority and incentivize the miners to not go along with the will of the DAO creators. And consensus still wins. Bought and paid for with money gained from investors who didn't understand or do due diligence before dumping money into a new untested type of organization. Maybe proof of stake will fix this mess. The attacker has already won by showing the hubris and lack of research on the part of investors and DAO creators. The DAO creators can't have it both ways.

Ethereum either survives with someone holding 3 millions ETH, or it dies contradicting its own principles

The Dao is Ethereum's Mt. Gox. Let it die. Let the hacker keep his Ether .

If this signature were real, it would be an admission to committing fraud. You can't enter into a contract secretly knowing that a clause in that contract gives you the ability to deprive the other parties to the contract of the entire benefit that they expected from the contract.

Drama intensifies!!! :) https://steemit.com/ethereum/@ash/drama-intensifies-attacker-sending-btc-to-convince-people-against-the-hardfork

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@kubrickkk/an-open-letter-to-the-attacker

Too much is being made of that clause. If the ethereum team retrieve the funds and the so-called attacker seeks remedy in a human court. The human court will look for the human intent/ interpretation of the DAO contract. 

It is fanciful to believe that any courts will favour this attacker over hundreds of other people that stand to lose significant funds because of an exploit in computer code.

People can argue the toss over it in cyberspace but take the matter to pretty much any jurisdiction in the world and see how far quoting this clause as justification for the misappropriation of other people's money will get the attacker. Not very far.

Very interesting. 

Noticed in that mailbox someone has done a password reset on the daodao slack account so most likely someone is on that account causing some trouble now.
will be interesting to see how this all plays out :)

Looks like an ethdev member says that signature is faked: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oo1io/an_open_letter_from_the_hacker/d4e62fj