X-Abuse-Report: abuse@teranews.com
Message-ID: <6790c89f6778c748194efc96e3689a16@news.teranews.com>
Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:13:18 GMT
Lines: 81
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pegas
Subject: Re: To Moviefan & Why-N
From: ynot hater <ynot@hater.fu>
References: <0001HW.BCB57F8A0018F88AF03B65B0@news.easynews.com> <290420040426402797%$2+-Y-Not@here.com>
Organization: ynot hater
User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25
X-No-Archive: yes
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.fan.pegas:74
"::Y-Not::" <$2+-Y-Not@here.com> wrote in news:290420040426402797%$2+-Y-
Not@here.com:
> Personally, I would not like to loose you, but I support your decision
> not to post, if you feel that is best for you.
>
> It's not really an ego boost that posters are asking for. They are
> sharing, and would really like to know if their efforts aren't being
> wasted. We are friends here, mostly. We would like to know if we are
> pleasing our friends with what we do. Wouldn't you want to know that?
>
> Our Usenet security concerns are not really any different than at any
> time in the past few years. We aren't in any more danger than in most
> other times here, if we practice ordinary good security.
>
> My security has to be quite different, because I am often the target of
> public attack, by some very determined, strange and angry people. And
> because I have some very expert friends in some odd and important
> places. I'm somewhat skilled as an investigator (ask KidHacker), but
> from what you have posted, I cannot locate and identify you. Even a
> court order to your newsgroups provider may not enable your successful
> identification, which won't happen without probable cause (in the US)
> that you won't be providing them. Even the last big arrest of a poster
> was enabled only because he posted his hotmail account, while he was
> posting pictures of himself ah, ravaging children that were placed in
> his care.
>
> If a person takes ordinary precautions, and doesn't post images of
> himself abusing children, then he will be of no major interest to the
> authorities, at least from what they do in the newsgroups.
> How do I know? I asked. :-)
>
> Below is some more security information that has been approved by the
> most expert people in our community, reposted:
>
> ************************
> Each thing you do has a different level of risk, and depends on where
> you live.
> Post only text = minimal risk.
> Post pictures that are usually thought to be legal = some risk because
> accidents can happen.
> Post pictures that are known to be against the law in most places = a
> little bit more risk. (Don't get identified - take good precautions.)
> Post pictures that are known to be against the law in most places, THAT
> IS KNOWN THAT YOU CREATED = highest risk. Don't get identified - take
> the highest precautions. The law *will* come after you. Don't make it
> easy for them. Be *very* careful.
> Post images of yourself abusing children = you *will* be caught,
> whatever it takes to get you. So don't abuse children.
>
> Things may change. Don't assume that what is reasonably safe today,
> will be safe tomorrow.
>
> Beware of the possibility of someone giving you false information,
> especially about security. There are, sadly, people would would harm
> you with lies. If someone says you are safe, do not assume they are
> being truthful. As in everything else, get a second (and more) opinion.
> ************************
>
> There was something in one of your posts that made me upset (first in a
> very long time), and possibly did that to others, if they noticed. We
> don't need to go into *why* you said it, at the moment. You said, being
> slightly sarcastic, that you were going to kill yourself. This is very
> unfunny. Especially for us. We have lost a significant number of us,
> who were well loved, to this problem. And we may have just lost George,
> a very beautiful and gentle person, to suicide. None of his friends
> have been able to contact him, outside of the newsgroups, since his
> last post announcing his intentions, a few weeks ago. He has almost
> done this a few times before. This time he may be truly gone.
> If so, may he now be at peace.
>
>
> Y Not
>
>
> "Opening the mind can open the heart.
> Opening the heart can open the mind."
>
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! death to ynot!!!
|
|