[2] His article "The Zombie Hunters: On the Trail of Cyberextortionists", written for The New Yorker in 2005,[3] was featured in The Best of Technology Writing 2006.
[5] He is the writer and host of the podcasts Shell Game, in which he documents his experiments with an AI-generated voice clone,[6] and Persona: The French Deception, an investigation into the French–Israeli scammer Gilbert Chikli.
[11] The Google Wave development group proposed using the exercise as a test case for the new technology pushing the frontier of real-time web activity.
[17] He eventually was tracked and found on September 8, 2009, in New Orleans by @vanishteam, a group participating in the challenge to find him.
[18] Ratliff left a coded message[19] — FaLiLV/tRD:aN/HA:aSaTS; TW—tRS/tEKAA/tBotV; FSF—TItN/tGG/tCCoBB; JC—LJ/HoD/aOoP; JM—JGS/MWS/tBotH — which has been translated to be the authors and titles of a variety of books.