It's actually surprising this is the first one, given all the stuff he's been showing off before.
“I will slaughter you”
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#72I worked for a cryptocurrency project which was using my open source project as one of the main components and the price of that cryptocurrency dropped in price by about 99% from its peak... Thousands of anonymous people lost huge sums. I was a bit worried at times about blame potentially being misdirected towards me but it didn't happen, people were supportive in fact. Token price is back up high now.
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#73"AS-IS" clause still counts?
Do you feel like this person would read the licensing terms?
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#74The general demeanor of that person, some of the lingo used like "rooting" or "federal server hijacking", the fact that in the screenshot he's using some text editor with ads in it to browse the offending code combined with the fact that he doesn't know what Curl is (if he did he wouldn't have sent this e-mail) screams "script kiddie" to me. I'm not sure whether this person is actually responsible for a multi-million…
I agree; this seems like someone with so little technical ability, that I wouldn't be surprised if he did manage to talk someone into a buying a multi million dollar defense project he could not deliver...
> I lost my family, my country my friends, my home and 6 years of work trying to build a better place for posterity.
I get loosing your family / home / friends, but a country? Where did that go?
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#75This feels to me like a person with some sort of mental illness or breakdown and delusions of grandeur and persecution. Their explanation doesn't make much sense. If I were Daniel, I wouldn't respond any further.
Yeah, I agree. In his place, I either would have done nothing, or, maybe made a police report (not that I'd expect the police to actually do anything at this stage). Generally speaking, the less you antagonize someone whose first exchange with you is "I will slaughter you," the better, IMO.
I once tried to have a conversation with a women who tried to drive me and my bicycle off the bus lane (where she shouldn't be driving in the first place); and shouted "fuck off you pissy little cunt" to me. For some reason I thought that if I explained my perspective, she would understand.
It ended up with a broken back wheel (she kicked it) and a damaged phone (she took it out of my hand when I wanted to take a picture of the license plate and threw it on the ground).
She was clearly unhinged, but I was stupid as well. I should of just let it go; no one who starts a social interaction with "pissy little cunt" is likely to be calmed down by reason. You have nothing to gain from trying, and much to potentially lose.
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#76Not sure what this solves really. Some pissed off weirdo is an idiot aye. Either it's scary and get law enforcement involved or it's not and we're gawking and laughing at someone at their worst moment. In an attempt to take this post at its most charitable I agree, it fucking sucks there's not enough focus on mental health in the world.
When you get messages like this, sometimes you end up taking it differently to how it appears as a third party. Any threat of violence online can be interpreted as a joke, it's not easy to tell the difference sometimes and it's harder when you're on the receiving end of it.
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#77For other coming here who didn't immediately get the joke either. The kiddies attacking the sender were using curl to steal data, it wasn't an exploit in curl itself.
I agree it sounds like a joke, but when someone starts making death threats because of these misguided conclusions, it stops being funny...
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#78There are two things wrong here: The person saw some exploit with curl headers, which damaged their life. That's upsetting, even if the email is misdirected, because Daniel just provided the infrastructure, and did not cause the specific abuse. What is wrong is the threat to life. The second thing that is wrong is to respond to the second email by doxxing the author to the public. The second email showed that the thr…
Nobody is being doxxed here. "Al Nocai" is a pseudonym, and Daniel redacted the actual email address.
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#79The general demeanor of that person, some of the lingo used like "rooting" or "federal server hijacking", the fact that in the screenshot he's using some text editor with ads in it to browse the offending code combined with the fact that he doesn't know what Curl is (if he did he wouldn't have sent this e-mail) screams "script kiddie" to me. I'm not sure whether this person is actually responsible for a multi-million…
I am pretty sure they are not even a script kiddie... they are just a fairly immature troll.
Not sure what caused the original email, but the reply is just a copy/paste of various unrelated things and security incidents that the person Googled without even understanding enough about them to form a comprehensible narrative.
Which tells me they are simply trying to get a rise out of someone.
The way the grammar is constructed I would not be surprised if this came from a pre-teen.
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#80Some context: Daniel is the primary maintainer of curl (the ubiquitous utility and library for HTTP requests) [1] His name often shows up in the licensing disclosures/attributions of applications that include curl. The general opaqueness of modern software leads people to latch onto him and his email for all manner of things, and for non developers to attribute to him all sorts of bad motives ("You hacked me!"). This…
It's just the law of big numbers in play. Do something that impacts enough people and the crazies will for sure come out of the woodwork.