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Anonymous allegedly reveals identity of internet bully and child pornographer

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tino

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Ferrio said:
Agreed. If anonymous just happens to name the wrong person either for lulz or general mistake, it pretty much has ruined an innocent person's life.
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Actually this could be CIA's undercover operation to ruin annoymous's credibility.
 
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Visualante2

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I know the FBI has co-operated with solo vigilante cyber investigators, and hackers in the past. Can't see what is wrong with the authorities accepting Anonymous' help. The correct thing to do would be to co-operate with them and state expectations of how to handle things in the future. To prevent any kind of innocent person being blown up. Something where they run things by the FBI, and then the FBI give Anonymous credit would work out great. They're not really that anti establishment they just want a presence. What better presence than having some FBI director saying "thanks Anon"

Ultimately I trust Anon's peer review process to get it right though on this shit. And for them to present evidence in a reasonable manner, if not it's for the lulz probably and wouldn't be taken seriously by many.
 
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ReBurn

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WoodenLung said:
The thing is anonymous is... Not one working organization, it's anyone who decides they want to be part of it and just use the anonymous name. Not that I agree with them revealing names of what could just be a random dude either, but it's very damn possible none of the people doing it had anything to do with hacking PSN.
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That has to make it difficult when it's time to do the payroll. And I don't see why the PSN thing was that big of a deal. It's not like there were any good games to play, anyway.
 
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freenudemacusers

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ReBurn said:
That has to make it difficult when it's time to do the payroll. And I don't see why the PSN thing was that big of a deal. It's not like there were any good games to play, anyway.
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Yeah, it would be a lot diffferent if they attacked psn now, what with the vitas release and it's huge library of games.
 
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EVOL 100%

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macuser1of5 said:
Yeah, it would be a lot diffferent if they attacked psn now, what with the vitas release and it's huge library of games.
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Mike Works

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Hey guys, guess what!

B.C. man denies harassing Amanda Todd; RCMP say allegations are 'unfounded'
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/de...ns+unfounded/7400309/story.html#ixzz29a4rIoKS
The RCMP said Tuesday that information released by an international hacktivist group identifying a Vancouver-area man as Amanda Todd’s tormentor is “unfounded,” and warned against the spread of false information through social media.

“The outpouring of support, emotion and information is literally overwhelming,” Sgt. Peter Thiessen of the Lower Mainland District RCMP said in a release. “The Internet and social media were central to Amanda’s story and they are central to our investigation.

“One of our big challenges right now, is false information that is being spread by people who appear to be trying to use Amanda’s story to do harm or make a profit.”

The man’s name was released Monday by the hacktivist group, which claimed it had tracked down Amanda Todd’s online harasser. The Vancouver Sun interviewed the man, who said he corresponded with Amanda online but was not one of her tormentors.

The man, who appeared in Surrey court Monday on unrelated charges, said he met Amanda online through her YouTube videos in which she is singing. He said she then contacted him to help her, because “I was a known hacker.”

Amanda, 15, died last Wednesday after years of harassment and bullying.

The problem started in Grade 7 when she flashed her breasts in front of a webcam, she said. The person on the other end later threatened her and circulated those images online.

The man identified by the hacktivist group — whose name is being spread around social networks but has not been published by mainstream media — told The Sun that he offered to uncover the identity of Amanda’s blackmailer.

The Lower Mainland man, who appeared in court in a black hoodie emblazoned with the words ‘Stompdown Killaz,’ said he got some “sketchy” information about the blackmailer, who he says was 26, lived in New York and goes by an alias of Viper. The man said he passed this information to the RCMP and NYPD, but he couldn’t remember whom he spoke with.

“I tried to help, to do everything I could,” he told The Sun.

He said he only knew Amanda in “a sense,” but denied he was one of her cyber-bullies.

“If I was a tormentor I’d be in police custody,” he said, adding he’s “really pissed off and annoyed” that people are pointing the finger at him. “None of it’s true. I’m feeling betrayed.”

He told The Sun that he has received more than 50 death threats via email and “thousands” over Facebook.

The man’s mother said Tuesday her family has been subjected to a “lynch mob” mentality and urged the public to let the police do their investigation.

(there's more article in the link above)
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Kinitari

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Like I said - if they really wanted to help, instead of using this as another opportunity to put on their Guy Fawkes masks and shit, they could have anonymously (haha) sent the information to the police, and they would have done their due diligence.

Instead we have this. Next people will say "Obviously Anon knew what they were talking about, the RCMP probably don't have any idea how to use computers and don't understand the clear evidence in front of them!"
 
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Xero

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LyleLanley said:
What if they're wrong about that too?
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I feel confident that through tracking this guys IP they were able to tell if he went to CP websites. That was probably one of the red flags that they used to find the guy. I'm not saying they found the right guy, but I'm confident that the man frequents CP websites, and should be taken into custody. That said I don't fully agree with their methods, as simply turning him into the place and avoiding stupid things like death threats would be the better way. However I imagine that would be hard to do since they aren't a unified group. Half the death threats might not even be from anon. The internet in general has been known to do that. That said is anyone surprised that the guy is denying it?
 
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Hieberrr

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I really hope they got the right guy, because they just ruined a guy's life if they didn't. One one hand, I like that they were able to "find" the suspect, but on the other hand, I don't like how they made that information public.
 
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marrec

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The man identified by the hacktivist group — whose name is being spread around social networks but has not been published by mainstream media — told The Sun that he offered to uncover the identity of Amanda’s blackmailer.

The Lower Mainland man, who appeared in court in a black hoodie emblazoned with the words ‘Stompdown Killaz,’ said he got some “sketchy” information about the blackmailer, who he says was 26, lived in New York and goes by an alias of Viper. The man said he passed this information to the RCMP and NYPD, but he couldn’t remember whom he spoke with.
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AH HA HA HA

What a joke.
 
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MBison

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I'm probably going to be on a watch list following some of those Anonymous evidence links but some of it is interesting.

On Youtube there are a bunch of Daily Capper recaps which is basically news about girls who show on cam and the guys that pressure them "blackmail" to do so. Very creepy underground group I guess.

Anyhow, found this one December 19, 2010 that talks about Amanda Todd around the 1:15 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fS-0Xp1JjBU#!
 
Riposte

Riposte

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Referring "anonymous" as an entity continues to be silly to me. 4chan has been a base for a lot of facebook bullying.
 
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thabiz

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So yeah.....Good job Anon.

US man now accused

For the lazy

The online group that claimed to have unmasked Amanda Todd’s tormenter has changed its target to a new suspect, a man located in Wisconsin.

Anonymous took social media by storm earlier this week by posting the personal information about a British Columbia man, alleging he was the one who blackmailed 15-year-old Todd.

Todd committed suicide last week after suffering relentless bullying — both online and in-person — stemming from an incident where a person spread topless pictures of her across the Internet. Anonymous, a loose collection of vigilantes, tracked down a man they believed responsible but B.C. police have called their allegations “unfounded.”

The most recent post by Anonymous contains fewer details about the newly accused than the original, and nothing that directly links the named man with Todd.

The man first named by Anonymous is facing charges in B.C. stemming from an August incident of alleged sexual assault against a victim under 16. A representative for Anonymous, who refused to give a name, told the Star the group “didn’t care” if it was wrong because the man had been accused of similar crimes, though the charges are still before the court.

The man’s lawyer, David Gable, issued a comment saying that the RCMP has cleared the named individual in the Anonymous report:

“Police have announced he is a person of no interest to them regarding Amanda Todd. His thing came about through an anonymous group that hacked in through a computer and got a lot of IP addresses, his being only one of them.”

Regarding the most recent allegations unleashed by Anonymous, RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said police are standing behind their statement and could not comment on other leads investigators are following.

Experts caution against vigilantes releasing information in such a public way.

“If you believe in the rule of law, the most harmful effect is that you may have the wrong person, as appears to be the case in this instance. More fundamentally than that, you’re basically substituting the judgment of a mob or a couple of angry individuals for the judgment of a court,” said Neil Boyd, law professor at Simon Fraser University.

The group has a history of public political activities, beginning in 2008 when it waged a campaign against the Church of Scientology.

“That’s the moment where Anonymous went from pure trolling to irreverent, insurgent, transgressive, subversive activism,” said Gabriella Coleman, an academic at McGill University who studies Anonymous.

She noted that investigations like the one Anonymous is conducting into Todd’s death are typically conducted by a small group of fewer than 12 people. While anyone can call themselves part of the group, Coleman said there is a core membership that participates regularly.

“What I would say is that it keeps us on our toes because they have been correct, honest at times. In other instances they’ve been wrong or lying but because it’s not 100 per cent of the time people are still compelled to be like, okay, maybe it is true,” said Coleman.

“We are doing everything we can as quickly as we can. And we want to acknowledge the role of the public in submitting information,” said the RCMP’s Thiessen. “But we want to urge everyone who has been touched by Amanda’s story to respect Amanda’s memory by being a responsible citizen of the Internet and thinking critically about information received online before passing it along.”
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marrec

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thabiz said:
What happened to this marrec?

You were so ready to string this guy up cause a truly "anonymous" person told you he was guilty.

Slippery slope people. Some innocent person is going to die because of this internet vigilantism.
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Hey, I said Oops, cut me some slack.
 
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thabiz

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marrec said:
Hey, I said Oops, cut me some slack.
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And therein lies the problem. There is ZERO accountability on Anon's account and they can just walk around accusing who they wish with no repercussions. They just get to say "oops" and move on.
 
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