FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017) • Hacker News Board

Re: FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)

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Post by memeograph » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 3:40 PM UTC

Nadya wrote: post #2

The relevant bit is on Page 22. >Further, records from Pure VPN show that the same email accounts Lin's gmail account and the teleportfx gmail account-were accessed from the same WANSecurity IP address. Significantly, Pure VPN was able to determine that their service was accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses: the RCN IP address from the home Lin was living in at the time, and the software co…

>As an aside, it's good to see another example that the FBI does actually investigate cases of cyberharrasment and takes doxing seriously, contrary to popular opinion.

Probably cos they investigated certain cases and found nothing, to the great dismay of certain people who wanted to be seen as victims and others who wanted to be seen defending them.

Re: FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)

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Post by protonmail » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

pedrocx486 wrote: post #8

Nadya wrote: post #2

The relevant bit is on Page 22. >Further, records from Pure VPN show that the same email accounts Lin's gmail account and the teleportfx gmail account-were accessed from the same WANSecurity IP address. Significantly, Pure VPN was able to determine that their service was accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses: the RCN IP address from the home Lin was living in at the time, and the software co…

In Brazil law requires services to keep logs for a year. This made me very wary of services like ProtonVPN that put some servers there. A lot of people trust them, but I for some reason don't...

We don't keep logs in Brazil, and as we have no operations in Brazil, so this is not a point that particularly concerns us.

We have something known as Secure Core VPN that offers additional protection if our Brazilian ISP starts monitoring our connection: https://protonvpn.com/support/secure-core-vpn/

Re: FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)

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Post by ryanlol » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 1:35 AM UTC

ALittleLight wrote: post #35

Nadya wrote: post #2

The relevant bit is on Page 22. >Further, records from Pure VPN show that the same email accounts Lin's gmail account and the teleportfx gmail account-were accessed from the same WANSecurity IP address. Significantly, Pure VPN was able to determine that their service was accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses: the RCN IP address from the home Lin was living in at the time, and the software co…

I opened the document expecting to sympathize with Lin. In my imagination this was some FBI surveillance state overreach, or "cyberharassment" thing getting overblown. Instead, reading through the allegations, Lin came off as abominable. Contrary to your conclusion that this shows the FBI takes cyber harassment seriously, it seems like law enforcement generally allowed Lin to publicly subject this poor woman to psych…

>Provided the allegations are true, whatever sentence he gets will not be enough...

While Lin is undoubtedly a terrible person, I still think 17.5 years in federal prison is rather excessive unless you've actually killed someone.