[SunHELP] Yahoo! News Story

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: "The SunHELP List" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Yahoo! News Story


> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:26:51PM -0500, Virginia Walters wrote:
> > Interstate stalking puts it under FBI purview.
>
> The problem is this.  I go to someone, and say:
>
> "this person or his friends have harassed me on IRC"
> "this person or his friends have flooded me with email"
> "this person or his friends have taken pictures from my website and
>  set up entire new web sites with the pictures, making fun of me"
> "this person or his friends have sent me "gifts" in the mail"
>
> They're going to say "have you received death threats or denial of service
> attacks?" and I'll say "no" and they'll so "go away and quit bothering
us".
>
> Bill

I've gone to the FBI after a DOS took down a client's adult-oriented web
site.  They did suffer financial loss, it was a concerted effort, and we had
a pretty good idea of who it was.  The FBI said that since the loss was
"small" - only $20,000 or so, it wasn't worth their time to pursue it.  I
was stunned, but they simply would not help.

Thomas Cameron