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Desktop browsers allow you to disable auto-playing animated images. I'm surprised mobile browsers don't seem to have this. If I suffered from this, I'd want some sort of reasonable protection from asshats.
Is there a strong argument that distinguishes this case of being "asshat on the internet" vs "homicidal with intent to kill"?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. This appears to be the ordinary process. Can anyone point out what might be of interest here.
The only thing I can point to us this is one of the few cases where some piece of atrocious online harassment actually ended up with someone being held accountable in anyway. There have been plenty of cases of death threats and bomb threats and other such things that didn't seem to trigger any kind of real response.
Maybe there are many other cases but they go under- / un-reported?
Dumb question, but what is the meaning of AT&T "toll records" used to link the user to an iPhone 6? > "AT&T responded and a review of the subscriber information showed the telephone number was associated with a Tracfone prepaid account with no subscriber information. However, a review of the AT&T toll records showed an associated Apple iPhone 6A Model 1586" That is, if you are a Tracfone user and Tracfone uses AT&T t…
Dumb question, but what is the meaning of AT&T "toll records" used to link the user to an iPhone 6? > "AT&T responded and a review of the subscriber information showed the telephone number was associated with a Tracfone prepaid account with no subscriber information. However, a review of the AT&T toll records showed an associated Apple iPhone 6A Model 1586" That is, if you are a Tracfone user and Tracfone uses AT&T t…
At minimum they need to keep track of the ICCID for your sim card and the IMEI for your phone [1]. Once you have the IMEI and know that this is an iPhone, it is trivial to ask Apple for the records of who bought that device, or which iTunes account is associated with that SN.
edit: corrected per comment below.
[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/on-call-how-does-my-carrier-know-w...
> charged with criminal cyberstalking with the intent to kill or cause bodily harm and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted,
What is even more sad:
> More than 40 Twitter users sent similar strobes to Mr. Eichenwald after they realized they could trigger seizures, he tweeted Friday.
The agent went through these steps to identify the suspect:
- Asked Twitter about account information. (w/ search warrant)
- Got phone number
- Phone number was Tracfone prepaid but asked AT&T for information about phone number. AT&T could map [phone number] -> [specific iPhone model] ("DPD sent a request to AT&T")
- Asked apple about iCloud account related to [phone number] (w/ search warrant)
- Find selfie of accused with his DL in hand in iCloud pictures, and also a screenshot of the seizure-triggering GIF, and many other incriminating/stalking behavior items.
[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/18/twitter-user...
EDIT: Added (w/ warrant search) to clarify what "Asked" meant in my summary.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. This appears to be the ordinary process. Can anyone point out what might be of interest here.
The only thing I can point to us this is one of the few cases where some piece of atrocious online harassment actually ended up with someone being held accountable in anyway. There have been plenty of cases of death threats and bomb threats and other such things that didn't seem to trigger any kind of real response.
Dumb question, but what is the meaning of AT&T "toll records" used to link the user to an iPhone 6? > "AT&T responded and a review of the subscriber information showed the telephone number was associated with a Tracfone prepaid account with no subscriber information. However, a review of the AT&T toll records showed an associated Apple iPhone 6A Model 1586" That is, if you are a Tracfone user and Tracfone uses AT&T t…
Desktop browsers allow you to disable auto-playing animated images. I'm surprised mobile browsers don't seem to have this. If I suffered from this, I'd want some sort of reasonable protection from asshats.
> reasonable protection from asshats Is there a strong argument that distinguishes this case of being "asshat on the internet" vs "homicidal with intent to kill"?
Maybe the suspect in this case knew it would work, maybe not.
Dumb question, but what is the meaning of AT&T "toll records" used to link the user to an iPhone 6? > "AT&T responded and a review of the subscriber information showed the telephone number was associated with a Tracfone prepaid account with no subscriber information. However, a review of the AT&T toll records showed an associated Apple iPhone 6A Model 1586" That is, if you are a Tracfone user and Tracfone uses AT&T t…
TL;DR Twitter gave the police information about the phone number which registered the account that sent the seizure-triggering gif AT&T gave the police information that is was a Tracfone prepaid account with an associated toll record that was an iphone Apple gave them access to his cloud account which had all the incriminating details needed including email / picture of him with his drivers license and data about the…