A Year of Karma (and Truth)
Their own actions incriminate them; we need only illuminate these actions
THIS new year brings with it opportunities and a fresh start. To us, it's another opportunity to remind readers what has been done to us for years and present some hard evidence, knowing that the same has been done to Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Alex Oliva, and Eben Moglen - typically by the very same people. They seek to vilify anyone who speaks for GNU/Linux and the GPL. Now they pick on Bruce Perens again (they did this to him almost 2 decades ago, so why not get back to him when he regains visibility?).
It is important to remind readers that the militants who are doing it lack a background in computing and haven't achieved anything. They spew libel into the Web and then run away, trying to hide the evidence of their crimes at every turn. Speaking of which, my wife and I both opened complaints with the police the latest "saat" reply missed the two case numbers, albeit those numbers are widely known by now (among those who need to be aware of the Denial of Service attacks they're subjected to, even cracking attempts). Later this year we'll give a detailed explanation of the many crimes committed. The hard part is keeping track of all of them (even I cannot remember anymore; there are notes for that). As a friend once told me, "remember that the messages are unlikely to be seen by the same person twice and that none of them are going to have time or inclination to scroll back even if scrolling back is a possibility..."
The best way to describe this is a "gish gallop of crimes"... basically doing so many horrible things and committing so many crimes at the same time that reporting them all and then letting the police keep up can become challenging. There's a long history of felonious behaviour and sometimes it seems like the perpetrators are actually proud of it.
"The police update is a step forward," the friend said. "A denial of service attack is a denial of service attack whether executed via botnets of Windows boxes online or via social engineering."
As recently as days ago several people reported to me that cracking attempts had been attempted by the same person who was harassing Tim and his family over a decade ago and was spreading loads of libel even 14 years ago (search page for "[Name Redacted]").
"In many ways the social engineering version is more dangerous," my friend said, "because it is far less productive and much more time consuming for the [target of the] attacker."
In the publications later this year we shall protect the identity of several people, redacting names of innocent parties.
This won't be a waste of time because the same people - led by the 'Puppetmaster' - also attack people a lot more important than us. We need to properly expose how they operate behind the scenes and hold them accountable, at least in the court of public opinion. At the end, authorities and the public alike don't view thugs positively. █
