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How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

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Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

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he trawled through hundreds of profiles, twitter feeds, IRC conversations, and basically cyberstalked the hell out of every friend of every person he thought might be a "leader" of Anonymous...This is the stuff pedophiles and con-men do to get closer to their victims might do. That's also what private investigators and intelligence agents might do. By your logic, all private investigators using the same methods are p…

"If I were deliberately smearing AB, I'd try to concoct a reason to mention him as you do in posts also mentioning "pedophile" and "schizophrenic" as often as possible, only I'd use logic that wasn't such an indiscriminate stretch." Yeah, I would, too. But, I'm being sincere. This is creepy behavior from a guy who was not listening to reason from anyone around him. I don't think anyone needs to smear him...anyone who…

(Off topic anecdote)

A friend of mine has a father who had a file on him by the Stasi. In it they had a "scent sample". Someone had broken into his bedroom and stolen a piece of linen that he had slept on while he was in the shower one day. It's crazy to think that someone had/has the job of collecting "scent samples". And what a government would need that for, really.

Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

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You don't think there's any truth in "the cobbler's children have no shoes"?

"Eat your own cooking."

I don't think the down-vote was necessary. I agree it will always look bad, and obviously they need to do better. But there's no logical inference about the quality of the work they do for clients that can be made from them not securing themselves. In particular, if they are busy and thorough with clients they may not have the time to sort themselves out. As the saying goes...

Dogfooding is not so appropriate, regular testing of software/cooking through continuous use is quite different to infrequent security attacks. Perhaps they are testing intrusion detection ;)

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