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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."
to cancel my Comcast subscription?
This article tries to make the troll sound evil, but he did get them disconnected from Comcast
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
This is my official request for a moo blocker chrome extension.
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?
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.
Don't use Nazis to make your argument.
Do you know who used Nazis to make his argument? HITLER!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/website-offers-to-cancel-comcast-for--5-180730710.html
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.