Justin loves Noisebridge!<br>Proof: check out his page in ZiP02.<br><br><a href="http://zine.noisebridge.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Zx00601.jpg">http://zine.noisebridge.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Zx00601.jpg</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Matt Joyce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com">matt@nycresistor.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I tip my hat to the troll that pulled this off. It was clever, old<br>
school, and utterly hilarious if effect.<br>
<br>
-openfly<br>
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Danny O'Brien <<a href="mailto:danny@spesh.com">danny@spesh.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:19:59PM -0700, Nick Shapiro wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Seriously? Ace Monster Toys? I thought they made cool things. Their own lives<br>
>> are that boring?<br>
>><br>
>> These days all I ever hear from AMT is obsession over _our_ discuss list. Like,<br>
>> way more than we do. Go back to making stuff!<br>
>><br>
><br>
> No, no, acemonster*toes*. It's just something you name your computer.<br>
> Only indicative in a the-sort-of-person-that-would-find-that-funny way,<br>
> not in an original-source way.<br>
><br>
> d.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Danny O'Brien <<a href="mailto:danny@spesh.com">danny@spesh.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:07:16PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:<br>
>> > I've set the "Moderated" flag on Justin's subscription. This means that<br>
>> > only us listmods will have to see his drivel in our mailboxes.<br>
>> ><br>
>><br>
>> For those of you following at home, it looks like somebody was imitating<br>
>> Justin. It looks like it was coming via T-Mobile[1] from an Ubuntu<br>
>> machine called 'acemonstertoes'. They only sent the one email "I will<br>
>> survive", everything else was Justin.<br>
>><br>
>> So it's old-style trolling (rather than someone breaking into Justin's<br>
>> gmail account or anything exciting like that).<br>
>><br>
>> Looking at the headers of the email is a great way to learn about this<br>
>> kind of fakery. As someone else said, it's also a great time to learn<br>
>> about cryptographic authentication of email.<br>
>><br>
>> I also want to say that I think a lot of people who are sort of in favor<br>
>> of this or dip into doing it themselves from time to time, because it's<br>
>> for the lulz, and also because they are annoyed by drama, and like to<br>
>> show how people who are just flailing can be made to flail some more.<br>
>><br>
>> Still, as you're setting up the PHP mail scripts, and the tumblrs, and<br>
>> the IRC bots, and devoting all of this time to fanning the flames some<br>
>> more, there's a point where it's pretty obvious what role one is playing<br>
>> in all of this. I know that everytime I'm tempted to troll, a little<br>
>> angel dies, and I try (not always successfully) to do something new.<br>
>><br>
>> Because, you know, Hitler: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLci5DoZqHU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLci5DoZqHU</a><br>
>><br>
>> d.<br>
>> [1] I'm guessing T-Mobile only lets devices on their own network send<br>
>> through that, although stranger things have certainly happened.<br>
>><br>
>> > I'll unset it in a few weeks.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If the general consensus is that I should remove this sooner, I'll do so.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > -andy<br>
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