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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Don't worry

[ArchieBunker]

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

Re:Don't be a dick

[hcs_$reboot]

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...

Doxxing is an act of intimidation

[voss]

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

Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation

[bloodhawk]

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.

Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation

[gnupun]

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.

Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Don't be a dick

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:Papers, please

[Boronx]

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

The Once and Mighty Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re: further translation needed

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Papers, please

[Anonymous Coward]

There was a time when it was America.

Re:Don't be a dick

[circletimessquare]

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