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Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference
New submitter fineous fingers writes "U.S. computer security researcher Georgia Weidman has revealed on her blog that a fellow speaker at the Confidence security conference in Krakow, Poland attempted to rape her. The attack occurred in her hotel room in the early morning hours of 28 May. Luckily, Georgia was able to fend her attacker off by clocking him in the head with a coffee mug. I was personally at this conference, but was staying at a different hotel and found out about it after the fact. It was Georgia herself that told me after she gave her fantastic talk on Leveraging Mobile Devices on Pentests. That she was able to give a flawless presentation later that day and had the courage to talk about the attack on her blog shows how awesome she really is."
I find every time they go running to the Internet instead of the cops to be suspect frankly, as I can accuse anybody of anything and so can you. Like that old bit "Have you stopped beating women?" once you accuse someone you can destroy them in the court of public opinion.
Did he do it? Is she making it up? Who the hell knows, THAT IS WHAT THE COPS ARE FOR, to collect evidence and figuring out WTF went down. With the Internet no evidence is needed, no investigation, just "that one did it" is ALL that is needed. I don't know, maybe its just me, but I'm old enough to remember McMartin and how quickly the court of public opinion can crucify somebody only to later turn out to be bullshit so the whole thing makes me REALLY uncomfortable. if he did what she said she should have been on the phone to the cops not 10 minutes later, why wasn't she?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
So, she posts pictures of his entire face, and posts partial photos of her, that don't demonstrate with any likelihood attempted rape?
Now, it might be that her allegations are true, but she's running the risk of being sued for libel. I don't get why she's comfortable taking this public, but not reporting it to the authorities in a proper manner and letting them handle it.
A reasonable person would draw the conclusion that he must have injured her
A reasonable person would conclude the opposite. See how easy it is to say what an imaginary 'reasonable' person would conclude? I see no reason to say anything other than, "I don't know what happened."
Care to prove rape is about power? Any empirical peer reviewed study that says it is? Have you ever considered that your hypothesis is incorrect? No? Have you any idea how complex the human brain is?
IMO, sounds like you've been studying that feminist non-science BS.