Re: Legal Update(pretty long, sorry!)


<r2000swler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I had the odd experience of a quasi court hearing over
> speaker phone today at 11:00EDT. As I mentioned I have
> had some ongoing trouble from a "disturbed" person in
> the form of a gazillion Emails. It climaxed Thursday
> when the mail server for the place I worked crashed under
> a email flood attack. I ended up in the directors office
> trying to explain this event.
>
> After that I talked to an lawyer and decided to just bail
> from this and other groups and where posssible I removed my
> posts. Good and well except Friday night my Hotmail and Yahoo
> mail accounts where chocked.
>
> In desperation I asked some IT gurus for help. With the help
> of another friend, a shrink, I posted a series of bait, in the
> form of vitrolic posts designed to make this person freak out.
>
> It worked and at 7:00 I got a phone call from this person's
> father. When I explained what had happened he told me his son
> was on probation for simialr cyber attacks and as part of
> probation he was banned from accessing any computer. He had
> returned home after asuring his parents he had changed his ways.
>
> I got a call about an hour later from the DA in the state where
> the person had been tried and placed on prabation. I aggreed to
> an 11:00 conference call to see if a "disposition" could be agreed
> upon. The attacker admited that he had stalked, harased and
> flooded my work account. That he had hijacked many PCs and had
> penetrated my works "childish" security. I wasn't the only person
> on his hit list. About 2 dozen people were lucky enough to get his
> un-loving attention to detail.
>
> He had been released on shock probation, from a 20 year sentence.
> He was given the choice of finishing the final 19 /12 yers, or
facing
> a new trial in addition to a probation hearing. His lawyer tried
> to argue this person needed psych help, but when faced with an
either
> or option, the lawer agreed that it was in "everyone's best
interest"
> for his client to "return to a supervised environment." LEOs will be
> contacting the other lucky people in the comming days. This person
> could still face legal action from his other actions.
>
> When I asked him why he hated my comments on antennas he went off on
> my "lofty" and "arogant attitude". He ranted for 5 minutes with
exact
> quotes from the post that "triggered" him. I was stunned. And
alarmed.
> If I managd to set him off with a pretty innocent post about a good
> antenna design, what are my posts in misc.survivalism likely to
prompt?
>
> The cop friend I had with me told me after it was all over, that
this
> person would amost certainly not last 6 months in prison. At this
point
>
> I am at a loss. My shrink friend and IT friends all tell me that
this
> is
> like getting hit by a metorite. A once in a lifetime event. So I
don't
> know if I am going to continue to post or not. I have enjoyed,
mostly,
> the banter in this and the other NGs. But once burned forever shy.
> I am wrestling with the question of "is it really worthwhile?"
>
> Lets not start a flame thread over this, it isn't worthy of the
wasted
> bandwidth. I felt an obligation to let this group, and those who
read
> this group and are active in the other groups know what happened and
> the result.
> Disturbed people are much more common then I realized. They are all
too
>
> common. When I think what this person could have, planed to do but
> never
> got around to, do to me by attacking my credit history etc, it is
down
> right scary. I really lucked out and didn't get fired. In the end
it
> comes down
> to a cost benifit question.
>
> Is the net worth the risk?
>
> Sorry this took so many words, I left out a lot of detail. But
couldn;t
> really cut out any more detail without lossing the thread.
> I don't know and won't for a week or two, or longer.
>
> Take care and be sure to take steps to protect your selves
> like geting the credit agencies to notify you of >ANY< activity.
>
> Robert, RFH, Tom, and the rest, sorry for pulling my posts from your
> groups, but my lawyer says it is "prudent". He wishes I could cancel
> everything I have every posted. When you think how easy it is to
find
> every post anyone has made it is a little frightening. Anyway I have
> a new antenna to test.
>
> And for the time being I will be lurking in the background.

Hang in there, man. At least on the bright side, you didn't
post anything that would have gotten you fired. I've seen
that happen before, and I'm not talking about X rated, racist
or stalker type stuff either.

--Mike L.


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