I can't tell because next time I have to slay a dragon, I don't want him to be prepared.
It was traditional detective work. I did it without any special information that only I would be privy to running the board. Really, anyone could have done it.
Nobody. We're in historically civil times, and I don't expect anyone will be threatening my mother anytime soon. That guy was a serial offender and hurt a lot of people. I put months into tracking him down...
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:08 AM Author: pontificating halford therapy
SY outed posters and called the FBI over a "threat" that no one took seriously. he also googlebombed outed posters and even posted their real names and addresses on the board.
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:04 AM Author: Dun Sickened Famous Landscape Painting Senate
kind of in awe since I don't remember him ever discussing anything about his personal life - anything even remotely outtable. how the fuck do you people piece this shit together
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:20 AM Author: pea-brained cuckold church building
well, you can figure out where they live and where they go to school if they ever post from a school computer.
There are other stuff you can do, like remotely accessing their computer through certain vulnerabilities, but it requires a lot more expertise, and also not always possible if they take the right precautions.
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:26 AM Author: pea-brained cuckold church building
law schools are quite a bit smaller. if we also narrow it down by their gender, then race, then year, then journal, etc. IP alone is really enough to get down to like a handful of people.
Well, I think in his case, there wouldn't have been anything wrong with tracking his IP, since he repeatedly violated the rules by outing people. I didn't need to, though.
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:20 AM Author: Dun Sickened Famous Landscape Painting Senate
what was more likely? that wp and sy happened to be in the same city as separate and independent posters and sy had somehow figured out not only wp's name but was able to track him down to a restaurant, or that they were the same poster?
considering SY's use of megaposting and the assertion by rach at the time that SY = jbd, I wouldn't have been surprised at all to find out he also ran WP. again, that's just what I thought at the time.
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:25 AM Author: Dun Sickened Famous Landscape Painting Senate
He didn't present it as a joke at the time, but seemed pretty serious in the threads that discussed it. Pretty sure most of the board believed it, if memory serves.
I had some suspicions, but it was a blind accusation and kind of a joke. I figured it wouldn't hurt if I was wrong, and if anything it would make SY feel safe while I was trying to piece things together.
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:37 AM Author: Dun Sickened Famous Landscape Painting Senate
yeah this was a long fucking time ago. I would try to search for the thread but I don't want to wade through hundreds of SY/JBD threads just to find the right one.
Date: August 8th, 2010 3:10 AM Author: pontificating halford therapy
i dunno but once he was outed, people were linking to threads where SY claimed to have the only house in his neighborhood with a pool, and sure enough someone posted a googlemap image of it and it matched that description. so i guess he did drop details that could be pieced together. probably easier for rach to pull them all together though.
cr. once SY let that fact slip, rach only had to check out every UT law student's parent's house to see which one was the only one in its neighborhood to have a pool. then it was only a short jump to assume that SY was telling the truth about the pool and out his stupid ass!