Meeting A Troll
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Meeting A Troll
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#2Wow ... I'd like to shake your hand because I think you handled your friend's son with an amazing amount of grace. It's horrible that you had to be tormented like that, but at 17 he may have learned how to be human. In my experience, not many of us understood empathy at that age.
Let me know when you're in the U.S. and perhaps I can buy you a dinner.
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#3That is a pretty compelling story. I'm not sure I could let it go without a bit more narrative around the 'game thing.' It sounds too much like 'making your bones' in a street gang.
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#4compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.
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#5compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.
Well, there's a few possibilities. For example, if the ip address was associated with a DN, you could do a reverse-lookup and then do a whois.
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#6compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.
Well, there's a few possibilities. For example, if the ip address was associated with a DN, you could do a reverse-lookup and then do a whois.
Also he might know the friend's ip if the friend sent him an email.
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#7compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.
I'm also curious about this.
One option would be to lure the troll to a site & pull down the location info from his browser - I'm not sure how readily the troll would authorize that, but maybe with some clever social engineering it could be done. His father did mention he was on his mobile a ton, so it's possible he got pretty accurate data, instead of just his local ISP. (Related - I'm on Clear right now, and apparently I'm in Portland. I'm actually up near Canada.)
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#8> I responded: "I'm not criminalizing a 17 year old kid and ruining his future.
I really hope restorative justice works. Well done for doing something that must have been incredibly tough.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, there's a few possibilities. For example, if the ip address was associated with a DN, you could do a reverse-lookup and then do a whois.
Also he might know the friend's ip if the friend sent him an email.
Knowing the IP is the easy bit.
Taking that IP and finding a street address is the tricky bit.
It can be done with court orders. (In England. I have no idea how Ireland does it.)
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#10I'm very sorry you went through that. I actually couldn't finish reading it - too unsettling. I hope you and yours are okay and this is behind you.