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Re: Meeting A Troll

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Post by skunkworks »

mwhooker wrote: post #4

compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.

That was my first thought too. My guess would be a shortened URL that redirected to a private server, which then redirected to some Facebook contact form. Facebook message times could then be roughly correlated with IPs harvested from logs from the private server.

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Post by revnja »

I hope that The Troll learned something from this experience. It is truly interesting to me what kind of mental processes drive this kind of behavior.

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Post by smoyer »

mwhooker wrote: post #4

compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.

Or maybe Chloe tried to slip through the subnet while Miles traced his physical location by looking at the binary (http://blog.sfgate.com/tgoodman/2006/04/25/this-doesnt-make-...). That last season of 24 made me realize how little I knew about networking.

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Post by loboman »

DanBC wrote: post #9
loboman wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

If he knows the friend ip, he knows that they both match (friend = troll).

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Post by columbo »

mwhooker wrote: post #4

compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.

Here's a possibility: On his blog he has a field to enter in your email address to subscribe to posts. If he's recording IP addresses there's a good chance his friend (not the son) would have put in his email to follow. Once he got the IP address of his Troll he could have just looked in his registration table on an off chance there was a match.

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Post by drhayes9 »

My wife and I just had a baby and it has made me realize that I would burn the world to cinders in defense of my family. I have no idea how this guy reached through the fire and shook this kid's hand. Wow.

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Post by smoyer »

drhayes9 wrote: post #17

My wife and I just had a baby and it has made me realize that I would burn the world to cinders in defense of my family. I have no idea how this guy reached through the fire and shook this kid's hand. Wow.

It's an amazing feeling isn't it! I have four kids with two now in college and I have a bit of advice. Tuck the memory of how instinctually protective you're feeling away so that you remember it when they're teenagers and have managed to inspire the opposite feelings in you.

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Post by rednum »

mwhooker wrote: post #4

compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.

Perhaps it was something like:

  1. OP finds an IP in [insert-not-so-large-irish-city-name-here].
  2. OP remebers having a friend in [not-so-large-irish-city],
     somehow obtains his IP (which is not a hard thing).
  3. Bingo, adresses match!
  4. OP is confused, but then remembers that his friend has 
     teenage soon, so he calls the friend to ask about the kid.
In other words, if it were some random troll, he wouldn't be able to do this.

Re: Meeting A Troll

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Post by DanBC »

loboman wrote: post #15
DanBC wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

If he knows the friend ip, he knows that they both match (friend = troll).

Ah yes, sorry. I missed that.
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