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Artist Harassment
12 years ago
Hi guys. A friend of mine, Kacey, is having some issues with email harassment. See http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5104476/ for more details.
I got one of the emails from this weirdo, and first glance will tell you: this is not from either her or Noriko. Obviously. I've met both of them several times at conventions, and they're both quiet, sweet, and polite to a fault. I've even been at odds with Noriko over some BS Jurann caused way back when years ago (which is sadly still the biggest feature on my Wikifur page, lol), and even then Noriko was calm and polite. This email was hateful, brutal, and graphic.
I traced the email back to a Russian-hosted hacker site with a fill-in-the-blanks form specifically designed for sending out spam. Why there is a website for this, I don't know, except that it just serves to make life worse for everyone and encourage the dregs of humanity to bubble up to the surface.
I just have to know, what kind of severe mental condition does someone need to have to do this sort of thing? It's clear that whoever is doing this isn't smart, they're just mentally unstable, immature, and pathetic, to use some very mild and inadequate descriptors for it. They're not even clever, they just found a DIY form on the Internet to do all the 'hard' work for them. This is the eye-rolling "l33t haxx0r" posturing of a 13-year-old posting obscene content to the Facebook account of someone who forgot to log off the library computer.
In any case, 2 things:
1. Kacey and Noriko are nice people, and if you get any emails or see any posts claiming to be them, please help them in any way.
2. Heaven forbid this canvas-jacketed basement-dweller go after other people, but please keep in mind a general rule: if you get something suspicious or inflammatory from someone you don't know, don't react or tell your friends, just go to the source first and ASK. There are idiots on the Internet that do this for fun, and sadly we haven't enacted culling laws for them yet.
I got one of the emails from this weirdo, and first glance will tell you: this is not from either her or Noriko. Obviously. I've met both of them several times at conventions, and they're both quiet, sweet, and polite to a fault. I've even been at odds with Noriko over some BS Jurann caused way back when years ago (which is sadly still the biggest feature on my Wikifur page, lol), and even then Noriko was calm and polite. This email was hateful, brutal, and graphic.
I traced the email back to a Russian-hosted hacker site with a fill-in-the-blanks form specifically designed for sending out spam. Why there is a website for this, I don't know, except that it just serves to make life worse for everyone and encourage the dregs of humanity to bubble up to the surface.
I just have to know, what kind of severe mental condition does someone need to have to do this sort of thing? It's clear that whoever is doing this isn't smart, they're just mentally unstable, immature, and pathetic, to use some very mild and inadequate descriptors for it. They're not even clever, they just found a DIY form on the Internet to do all the 'hard' work for them. This is the eye-rolling "l33t haxx0r" posturing of a 13-year-old posting obscene content to the Facebook account of someone who forgot to log off the library computer.
In any case, 2 things:
1. Kacey and Noriko are nice people, and if you get any emails or see any posts claiming to be them, please help them in any way.
2. Heaven forbid this canvas-jacketed basement-dweller go after other people, but please keep in mind a general rule: if you get something suspicious or inflammatory from someone you don't know, don't react or tell your friends, just go to the source first and ASK. There are idiots on the Internet that do this for fun, and sadly we haven't enacted culling laws for them yet.
either way, it's no fun. and maybe someone should send a virus to that site...
maybe they should have done, anyway.
but there is hope, yes?
The difficulty with the whole thing is that the idea of an internet vigilante group is, well, that everyone wants an internet vigilante gang to go around busting all the mean ol' bad hackers...but nobody wants to BE that internet vigilante gang until they themselves or people they know become victims of those hackers. The reason people capable of breaking security programs don't fall prey to this sort of thing is because they already know how to keep it from happening in the first place or they ruin anyone who tries to do it themselves. So they don't really feel the need to go around stopping it from happening to others because they don't really perceive it as a threat.
good point. things like a genuine internet vigilante with skills and morales intact might only happen in cheesy superhero comics...
Geez these people are annoying! I really hate it when good / nice people are made to look bad :(
Nobody should have to put up with this kind of shit, whether they are or, in this case, are NOT guilty of some screw up or other. What the person/people hope to get out of this by harassing two innocent artists, I don't know and I don't care. All that matters to me is, is that it stops. The sooner, the better.
Apologies for being rather blunt. =\
Script-kiddies try to pretend like they're scary and terrifying for internet users because they can download a batch file and replicate it into any coding program and do some minor damage against a minor, poorly-guarded website or manage to compromise a password here or there.
Weaklings.