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One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com)
blottsie writes: Since 2010, the Straters have been under assault from an online campaign of ever-increasing harassment — prank deliveries, smear attacks, high-profile hacks, and threats of violence against schools and law enforcement officials in their name — and it's slowly torn them apart. Masterminding it all is a teenage Lizard Squad hacker from Finland, at war with their son, Blair, over a seemingly minor dispute. "When the family started getting notices about their utilities being disconnected, they realized things were escalating out of control. Utility provider Commonwealth Edison once called the house to iron out the details about a request to have the power turned off after a supposed move. Something similar happened with their trash service. On Halloween 2013, Comcast shut off their cable and Internet service."
Cut off my cable because some stranger told you to do so? Better give me a free month or be sued for breach of contract.
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There's a huge investigation on the guy by the Finnish police (according to the article). He's already been in jail once. The problem is, he hasn't done anything (as far as anyone can tell). He complained on a forum, and other people have been doing the harassing.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Just finished reading this article all the way through, it's fucking disgusting.
And yet, I can see how easy it would be for this to happen in the first place.
He's basically a 21st century Charles Manson, I'll bark if you bite.
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
Time to go to Finland and beat the crap out of him.
Ah yes, victim blaming.
The real point we should all take away is how insecure these utility companies really are. You would think any competent business would not be fooled more than once on the same address. How hard is it to put a note there this address is prone to phishing attacks, don't process request without fully verifying with owner. Lock account without direct content to owner. There are so many easy ways around these common exploits, but the management of these companies is so behind the times it's ridiculous.
It wouldn't be hard to do something like 2 factor authentication right over the phone either and that could be turned on for high risk targets like this. Basically utility companies are not taking their customers security seriously.
So we should be all nice and fuzzy with a group intent of harassing people. Oh they are making peoples lives miserable, but let them just go on their marry way, because if we mess with them they will mess with us too.
Yea it is OK the Nazi were capturing Jews, because we weren't Jews, if we did try to stop them, then they would just go after us.
Yep that mentality is looked soooo fondly in the view of history.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Oh look, someone broke into your house, and stole all your valuables and personal belongings. Well you were stupid enough not to use bank vault doors, and you gave the spare key to a close friend who didn't lock his door that day.
The problem with Information security is that to be safe you need professional level of security on your consumer devices, and constant vigilance to keep it up. This is a lot of work for a person, especially if they don't find security patches fun, or barely get by using the internet.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
No, don't get into an online pissing contest with anyone, because THERE ARE NO WINNERS!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Sometimes violence is the answer and this sure sounds like one of those times.
You've already got one. It's called "Don't browse at -1".
So once again, justice should only be reserved for those with thousands in extra cash laying around.
Actually, it might. It will attract attention from sympathetic people and companies. And if it goes viral, it may even affect public policy. And it might even inspire white hat hackers who don't like Trolls to help identify the culprits. It sure sounds like the work of more than one.
Anyway, it sure sounds like it can't get much worse.
I can see the fnords!
The so-called hacker collectives are really just perpetrating the tragedy of the commons. We build a fence around the sheep pasture, and they knock it over to show us that we should have built a stronger fence.
"Why did you do that?"
"To show you what will happen when the bad people come to steal the sheep."
It will take them a decade of growing up to realize that they were the bad people.
Same thing with finding a wallet on the ground. A guy takes the money and tosses the wallet in the trash, saying that if he didn't take the cash someone else would have. No...it was you who took the cash. You're the bad guy.
As opposed to left wing radicals like sjws and george soros? Do you not realize they're all part of the same problem?