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Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing

AmiMoJo writes On Monday, imageboard site 8chan's "baphomet" subboard, an Internet destination known for hosting aggressive "doxing" posts, received a major history wipe the day after one of its users posted the personal information of a federal judge in the Silk Road case. A follow-up post by baphomet's "Board Owner" account stated that "HW," a reference to site founder Frederick "hotwheels" Brennan, deleted "the SSN posts" and told the baphomet board founder, previously identified via an associated Twitter handle as Benjamin Biddix, to "lay low." The same day baphomet's "Board Owner" announced a "doxing for hire" service due to "running low on funds."

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  1. Don't worry by ArchieBunker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure the guy who posted was behind 7 proxies.

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    1. Re: Don't worry by Monkey-Man2000 · · Score: 2

      ... says the AC. ... andddd ... COMBO BROKEN!!

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  2. Re:Is it illegal to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it illegal to use SSNs as ID numbers outside of the intended purpose of Social Security accounting? It's not really the government's fault that so many companies are so fucking stupid.

  3. translation by quenda · · Score: 3, Informative

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents),[1] or doxxing,[2][3] is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual.[3][4][5][6] The methods employed to acquire this information include searching publicly available databases and social media websites (like Facebook), hacking, and social engineering. It is closely related to cyber-vigilantism, hacktivism and cyber-bullying.

    Doxing may be carried out to aid law enforcement, business analysis, extortion, coercion, harassment, public shaming and other forms of vigilante justice.[7][8]

  4. Don't post judges stuff by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 2

    Post anything about anyone. That's fine. Just don't post anything about a judge. Lesson learned?

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    1. Re:Don't post judges stuff by MichaelMacDonald · · Score: 2

      There's nothing to say that anyone contacted hotwheels. Hotwheels just may have panicked. I can't see a federal judge caring about being doxed. Most of that is public information, and if it was a problem he would have had it taken down a long time before. It's not like federal judges don't get 'doxed' by defendants every day. Over the years, I'm sure, he's developed a thick skin. If it's out there and possible to get, he knows it's out there, etc.

  5. Re:Don't be a dick by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People don't like being doxed. Judges are people too.

    Well, you don't get it, do you? Of course "People don't like being doxed", neither you, nor me. The thing is, being a judge changes dramatically the way "doxing" is dealt with. Double standard...

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  6. Doxxing is an act of intimidation by voss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trying to intimidate a federal judge is both a criminal act and a VERY bad idea.

    1. Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The fact that a federal judge would have their personal information hidden is telling indeed.

      If they don't trust the law enforcement system, then who the fuck can?

    2. Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation by bloodhawk · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A federal judge will have a list of enemies a mile long, many violent offenders like to blame anyone but themselves for the mess they are in and police, judges, prosecutors etc are all high on their target list.

    3. Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation by gnupun · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You have to question why this information was posted in the first place. Was it so people on the internet could invite the judge to a party or be invited to the judge's social gatherings? No, it was expressly done by malicious people (eg: silk road users) to inform other malicious people about one of their prime enemies. This was done so they could discriminate, harass or harm the judge in the future for taking away their prized illegal goods/services web store.

      So, yes, it's illegal to post this kind of info. The private lives of public servants should not be invaded in the same way as private life of an ordinary citizen should not.

    4. Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation by Oligonicella · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Law enforcement cannot stop a random psychotic individual from getting you, they can only arrest the perp and prove they did it. There's numerous reasons judges would keep their personal information off radar - the criminals they put away.

    5. Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation by linkdude64 · · Score: 2

      "This guy makes lots of enemies because he signed up to do so. Therefore he is above the law that we are all subject to" Sorry, that's not how public service works. Police are required to wear ID badges, judges don't use false aliases, and your comment is pungent with a lack of legal understanding and how it affects society at large. Were it a crime for people to hold *unelected officials* such as judges and police officers personally accountable for their actions because "they have a right to anonymity - we don't," which is what I gather from your misbegotten sense of Social Justice, we would certainly be in a bind when they themselves break the law or give unfairly disproportional treatment to people such as minorities - a persistent issue - which I imagine your particularly irrational brand of sensibility would agree with. I imagine you are having a hard time reconciling those two ideas. On the one hand, you desire to have a "Good" side and an "Evil" side to support your simplistic worldview, but on the other hand, you have to admit that "the system" does a lot of wrong, too. Silk Road is not any more evil than a system that imprisons teens for smoking plants while bankers that destroy economies run free. Your unelected "Masters" that you are defending do not care about you. They do not care about your rights. Their lack of willingness to respect OUR privacy is what drives more and more people to be concerned with Anonymity and privacy, creating places like Silk Road, 8chan, TOR, etc., and here you are defending the initial aggressors. The war mongers. It's the people who "fight back" that are the terrorists, right?

    6. Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      He signed up to do something he believes is good. Generally the majority of the society it is good too.

      He didn't ask for this case, it was assigned to him. His decision to be a Judge was likely made decades before this case, so I am having a very hard time understanding your rational of "he asked for it."

      People sign up in the military to defend their country. They realize that it involves a risk of killing others and perhaps being killed. The government changes over time, and you find a lot of people in the military with personal reservations about the willingness of the current administration to do what they would personally prefer not be done.

      In both cases, just skipping town is not an option. If it were ever permitted, then we would never have Judges presiding over any cases were someone might get pissed off, nor servicemen fighting in any places where they could find some point of disagreement as to why they are there.

      You stated that "They do not care about your rights." which is wholly untrue to a Judge. The only thing a Judge cares about is your rights; but, your rights do not extend so far as to see you never get punished. Watch a Judge in action some time (not on TV). The first hint of circumstantial evidence, and they wake up an put an end to it immediately. Yes, they only will focus on the case at hand, and no they won't pander to emotion because they're not mental health counselors.

      You seem to be mad about bankers destroying the economy. I fail to see how attacking Judges solves your problem.

      You seem to be mad about unelected people in power. I fail to see how attacking Judges (who are elected) solves your problem.

      You seem to be upset about the simplistic focus on "good" and "evil". I fail to see how attacking a person dedicated to making sure people follow a set of rules (as opposed to consulting a good vs evil chart), aka a Judge solves your problem.

      I can hear your pain and rage. I just think that you don't see Judges for what they are. They are far less than what you esteem them to be.

  7. Re:Don't be a dick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The founding fathers were terrorists, you fucking twat. You're "against terrorism" because you're too scared to fuck with society, you hypocritical coward.

  8. Re:Don't be a dick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Don't be so fucking naive. An ill-tempered judge is the most dangerous enemy you can possibly make. Once you are presented to them in hand-cuffs you are as fucked as a quarterback who pisses off a referee.

    BONUS: the person who has discretion over who to deliver in handcuffs plays poker with the Judge!

    Piss off a politician, piss off a cop, piss off the DAs office, or even a surgeon.

    NEVER piss off a judge, especially not the type who can deny appeals without a hearing. Good luck writing a writ of habeus corpus that motivates a District Supreme Court to intervene on your behalf! You threaten a judge and expect another judge to have your back? Lol, you think Cops are the only one with a secret squirrel club? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/260997740877062065/

    They are accountable only to themselves and the special investigators who can shake them down for corruption. Once they're on the bench, they're virtually impossible to remove as one of the tenants of the separation of powers. Absolute power does LOTS of things "absolutely". The guardians of "The Republic" have been bought and paid for by the prison industrial complex. Same as it ever was. Feel free to piss in the wind and try to change the system from the inside.

    Where do you think disillusioned old men come from if not young idealists with experience?

  9. Re:Papers, please by Boronx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're living in the land of don't fuck with Federal Judges.

  10. Doxxing is an act of intimidation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Posting *publicly available* information of a **public servant** is illegal?

  11. The Once and Mighty Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Jesus Fucking Christ.

    It's obvious to everyone by now that the Slashdot editors have taken a passive aggressive stance towards Gamergate stories and submissions, using every opportunity to smear gamers and generally ignoring just about every even slightly neutral or nuanced aspect of the internet's biggest ever flamewar. Holy shit, News for Nerds, if ever there was news for nerds, it was Gamergate. Holy Fuck. The least the editors could have done was joked about it all.

    But this shit? This is just straight up Propaganda, with a capital P. This obvious fucking bait that even the gamers and SJWs have almost completely ignored, ending up unironically on the front page. Propaganda for the New Age Fascists who have been shitting on both gamers and the entire tech sector for the last three years and who are fucking notorious for getting their SJW cult members to pull this false flag shit to try and get sites shut down.

    I don't know what disgusts me more. Slashdot, the site that stood against censorship and SOPA, coming down on the site of the Moral Panic 2.0 hipsters calling for the internet wide censorship and controls. Or Slashdot, the site made by nerds, for nerds, coming down on the side of a transparent high school clique of social justice bullies who are ripping the tech sector apart at the seams.

    Because for all their hysteria and anti-intellectualism, the SJWs are at the end of the day, fakers and posers who never cared about geeks, tech, or hobbies. But you guys, Slashdot eds and the shills in these threads, you were nerds once, and somewhere behind all the shame and self-loathing you've self-indoctrinated yourselves with, you know how wrong all this is. You know how hollow and hypocritical people like Shanley and Sarkeesian are, and you know that nerds, geeks, and techies are being bullied into submission by these people. You could have simply done nothing, but instead you've sided with some of the worst, most vicious, and most destructive trolls in the history of the internet. Shame on you. Shame on you all.

    Thought For The Day: A heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor can never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.

    1. Re:The Once and Mighty Slashdot by kuzb · · Score: 2, Insightful

      ....

      Wow. You managed to say everything I wished I had said, only you said it before I did and probably much better than I would have.

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    2. Re:The Once and Mighty Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Because for all their hysteria and anti-intellectualism, the SJWs are at the end of the day, fakers and posers who never cared about geeks, tech, or hobbies.

      Let's be fair here: they also don't care about social justice, minorities, or women.

      They're just a band of trolls who use "social justice" causes as justifications for trolling. And they've been trying to get 8-chan shut down for the past six months. Looks like they may have found a tactic that works.

      And don't get me wrong, GamerGate is one of the silliest things I've heard about in a while. But no matter how pointless and silly I find the "gamer" outrage, the SJW side is terrifying and the women who they're supposedly targeting are some of the most abrasive people I've ever seen.

    3. Re:The Once and Mighty Slashdot by Mashiki · · Score: 2

      And don't get me wrong, GamerGate is one of the silliest things I've heard about in a while.

      It's only silly until you realize exactly how corrupt "gaming journalism" actually is. After all, who would want the media to not be full of people who are shilling for people they're banging/living with/or are friends with. Even the MSM has long figured out how to recuse themselves from topics they're too close to.

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    4. Re:The Once and Mighty Slashdot by Rakarra · · Score: 2

      It's only silly until you realize exactly how corrupt "gaming journalism" actually is.

      It's still amusing given how pointless and little-read "gaming journalism" really is. The GGers, the anti-GGers, and the gaming journalists all think that anything other than a small percentage of people who play games actually listens to any of their nonsense.

    5. Re:The Once and Mighty Slashdot by Mashiki · · Score: 2

      It's still amusing given how pointless and little-read "gaming journalism" really is. The GGers, the anti-GGers, and the gaming journalists all think that anything other than a small percentage of people who play games actually listens to any of their nonsense.

      Considering that GG has done nothing but expand over the last 6mo, it does seem that people are listening to and paying attention to it. Then again, if you have any passing desire for people who report on things, to act in a ethical and objective manner it matters to you. Otherwise I'm sure you're quite happy with kotaku or gawker brand click-bait telling you how you're a terrorist for playing video games.

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  12. Re: further translation needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    The Anon who said "They're English-language clones of 2chan, which is in Japanese." explained 4chan's origin.

    8chan was basically what happened when moot (who was 4chan's admin until his retirement a few weeks ago) banned #gamergate and fucked with /pol/. (Translation: Even he got sick of the gamergaters, and the fact that none of the political whackjobs could keep their shit in the /pol/itics containment board, so he fucked with 'em for the lulz. I thought it was funny as fuck.)

    tl;dr: 8ch exists because there are people for whom 4chan is too polite.

  13. Re:Papers, please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was a time when it was America.

  14. Re:Don't be a dick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Don't be so fucking naive. An ill-tempered judge is the most dangerous enemy you can possibly make. Once you are presented to them in hand-cuffs you are as fucked as a quarterback who pisses off a referee."

    Don't be so fucking naive. An ill-tempered criminal is the most dangerous enemy you can possibly make. Once they know where you and your loved ones live, you are as fucked as a quarterback who pisses off a referee.

  15. Re: further translation needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you mean: moot was cosying up to Gawker and his brand new SJW buddies to get some money. GamerGate was busy attacking Gawker. So moot did what he was told like a little bitch.

  16. Re:Don't be a dick by spire3661 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This needs to change. No one person should wield that kind of influence. NO ONE should fear the judge, they should only fear the law.

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  17. Re:Don't be a dick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The legal system gives a lot of leeway for those who want to be dicks. It just doesn't abide those who are conspiring to break laws.

    To back up my first point the video game scourge of a lawyer, Jack Thompson, generally made an ass of himself for over a decade before he managed to finally commit acts so horrible he was disbarred.

    Judges are the symbolic head of our legal system, but the Juries make the decisions. So outing a Judge is just a way to symbolically strike back at the court system. It doesn't actually attack the people who made an decision in any criminal trial.

    Attacking judges in this manner is akin to attacking doctors who work in abortion clinics. Whatever your position is on abortion, it was the woman who made the decision to abort, and the doctor is a paid servant carrying out her wishes.

    Likewise, it was the Jury that convicted the criminals, and the Judge ensured that a minimal set of rules were followed so the case wouldn't take forever and both sides couldn't just start making stuff up.

    That is why doxxing a Judge is low. Judges don't get to pick and choose which cases they get. They don't get to overturn a Jury verdict without risking their career. If they overturn a jury verdict, there is a documented legal reason, like a Juror stating that the evidence and rules say a person should be convicted but they're not going to convict because the don't care about the evidence and the rules.

    To put this in perspective, the bailiff has a similar role as the Judge. The court reporter has a similar role as the Judge. The secretary down the hall has a similar role as the Judge.

    If you really want to strike at the legal system, go after the politicians who stand up too many laws to actually be followed (and some believe it is too many to actually be counted). Go after the enforcement agencies that decide to pre-punish because Judges assured that in a balanced courtroom there was no evidence to convict and the person really shouldn't be detained any longer. Go after the doxxers who decide that without anything except misinformation and rage they can do something beneficial by harrassing (probably the wrong) people.

  18. And so...? by Chelloveck · · Score: 2

    I have a limited supply of fucks. Why should I give one to the drama, infighting, and paranoid delusions of a bunch of script kiddies?

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  19. Re:Don't be a dick by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the double standard is that your occupation doesn't involve passing judgment on murders, rapists, mafia, and other assorted shitbags who have, and would, given the chance, engage in violent retribution on the judge or their family simply for doing his or her job

    so yeah, double standard

    a completely 100% appropriate double standard

    directly reflecting the nature of their work, compared to the nature of your work

    your "double standard" complaint is similar to complaining that a nuclear missile silo gets more protection than an outhouse

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  20. Re:Don't be a dick by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the greatest enemy to freedom is cynicism like yours

    vile evil people can do many things to remove your freedom. but it's quite hilarious that some people, like you, roll over in quivering fear and give it up on your own. because you perceive the enemies of freedom to be so potent. they aren't. they are in your cowardly mind. not reality

    reality:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    Mark Arthur Ciavarella, Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is a convicted felon (Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate number 15008-067) and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "Kids for cash" scandal in 2008.[4]

    In August 2011, Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for his involvement in the Kids for Cash scandal.[5]

    if you think justice doesn't prevail, then whose side are you on in the end?

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  21. Re:Papers, please by circletimessquare · · Score: 2

    how can a SJW silence you?

    i don't like SJWs but i also dislike the douchebag blowback against them

    all you assholes, SJWs, and people like you so so butthurt by SJWs, poor baby, you can all swallow a shotgun as far as i am concerned

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