Story of the week.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/dark-web-vendor-oxymonster-turns-out-to-be-a-frenchman-with-luscious-beard/

The beard angle turns out to be a red herring.  Or a red beard, at least.  Turns out they found him by analyzing his writing style.  This is why I run everything I write through at least two layers of mechanical translation - otherwise they'd have me dead to rights.