<div class="gmail_extra">And stop trolling. Sorry for feeding.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Ronald Cotoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:setient@gmail.com" target="_blank">setient@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">So here is what was discussed privately before this went to the list from me:</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">Jake,</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is a really strange email from you and completely out of the norm. I double and triple check the headers. It is really you. What would make you all of the sudden send an email like this? This is a pretty unexcellent email to the noisebridge discuss list since I am sure those spammers google for that email address, the second <a href="http://yahoo.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a> one. Regardless, I am going to answer your question about my dealings with the FBI. I would suggest reading <a href="http://www.reverse.net/operationcyberslam.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.reverse.net/operationcyberslam.pdf</a> . This is the actual criminal complaint. The people arrested were the DDOS mafia see: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ddos+mafia" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ddos+mafia</a> . <br>
</div><div class="im"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Basically some kid on irc was stealing my friends nickname. I just said hey can you give it back since it was just a bot. They responded by ddosing my shell. So I went in on another shell and called them a kiddie. They did it again. All in all, they got 5 or so of my shells. They also hit my home internet connection. Total bandwidth towards me and all my machiens was ~500 mbit which was a lot back then. Anywho, this continued on for a month. At the end, they got arrested like a year later or something, foonet(the colocation provider/bulletproof hosting that was partially behidnt his) got raided and I got perma banned from comcast internet at my parents house for running a server(apparently when they were ddosing me, they pegged the router for my subnet). It was a very very unpleasant experience. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For a quick background if you don't want to click the above links, they were blackmailing people. They would ddos people and say HEY WE CAN HOST YOUR SITE AND HANDLE THESE "DDOS" ATTACKS, because they were the ones doing the ddos. I didn't know this at the time but they were just being kiddies. The ones that give hackers a bad name. This email also didn't go to the noisebridge discuss list, since you cced it. It is stuck in moderation and I would hope you would leave it there since it is pretty clear I was a big victim. I hope this answers your questions.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">And here is his response:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span>Hi Ron,</span><br>
<br><span>I wasn't trying to be unexcellent, i thought you self-identified as a "troll" and I was handing you the email address of some scammers hoping you would want to have a little fun at their expense. The email address I included in my message would have been changed to kathykulmer at</span><a href="http://yahoo.com/" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a><span> automatically by the list server, but even if it hadn't i can't imagine the scammers, upon finding it in a google search, would decide to take on a whole hackerspace community if they could just ignore it.</span><div class="im">
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<br><span>as for my last sentence about talking with the FBI, it was the result of a quick google search on your name to make sure I was writing to the right ron. I was surprised by it and, while I understand what you're telling me about what went down, I am generally not one to want to do the FBI's job for them if I can help it, and I thought (and still think) it was a valid question.</span><br>
<br><span>I will leave it to the moderators to decide whether to post my message or hold it up. If you are the moderator who is holding it up, I think you should discuss it with the other moderators and effectively recuse yourself from the decision because while i'm not trying to go after you for something that happened in 2003, I think it is an important topic for people to discuss in the community we're all a part of. This stuff didn't stop happening after operation cyberslam and i'm sure if you had been more prepared at that time by public discussions with more experienced people, you might have done things differently.</span><br>
<br><span>what do you think of that?</span><br><br><span>-jake</span><br><br><span>by the way, I have been in the hotseat with cops and three-letter types and asked to provide names and information on other people, and I held out, so i'm not speaking from zero experience.</span> </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have nothing to hide here. The decision I made was not easy. It was basically the fact that these individuals that were attacking my friends machines as well as my own. I spent considerable time talking to the sysadmins of the other machines being attacked. One of them decided to contact the FBI and I decided I wanted the "hackers"(read as script kiddies) to stop bugging me. As far as being a self addressed troll, that is more in jest. Ask the people at noisebridge who actually spend time with me. They know I am just a nice guy who likes to help. I try not to cause harm to anyone emotionally or physically. It caused financial harm to some of them and other machines that I went through got evicted from their colo facilities. Sometimes, believe it or not, the government and us hackers have a common enemy (people that made the term hacker have negative connotations). They made legitimate people doing cool things look like bad people. Finally that is starting to change. We should be doing more shunning of these people and purge them from our midst so we can get back to doing cool things. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is the second time a valued noisebridge member has been unexcellent to me, even if you do not think it was. I do not see how this is relevant at all to anything noisebridge or hacking related. If you want to have a little fun at their expense, figure out who they are and send them a box of AOL cd's. I have nothing to hide at all ever from anyone. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Matt Joyce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com" target="_blank">matt@nycresistor.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Same reason you did jake.<br>
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Jake <<a href="mailto:jake@spaz.org" target="_blank">jake@spaz.org</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div>> ron you are a troll<br>
><br>
> now make yourself useful and troll this scammer, below.<br>
><br>
> email them at the reply-to address, not the ****** address (****** is a real<br>
> person who does not need any more hassle)<br>
><br>
> just be like, "oh no Kathy, what can i do to help?"<br>
><br>
> if you need tips, go to <a href="http://419eater.com" target="_blank">419eater.com</a><br>
><br>
> by the way, why did you talk to the FBI on March 7, 2003?<br>
><br>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:57:29 -0700 (PDT)<br>
> From: kathy ****** <kathy******@<a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a>><br>
> Reply-To: <a href="mailto:kathykulmer@yahoo.com" target="_blank">kathykulmer@yahoo.com</a><br>
> To: undisclosed recipients: ;<br>
> Subject: Philippine Trip : Kathy ******<br>
><br>
> I am writing this with tears in my eyes, I came down here to<br>
> Manila,Philippine with my Family for a short vacation unfortunately we were<br>
> mugged and robbed at the park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash,credit<br>
> card and cell were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our lives<br>
> and passport saved .<br>
><br>
> We've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues<br>
> at all and our flight leaves in less than 5hrs from now but we are having<br>
> problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave<br>
> until we settle the bills about ($1,950 USD) Can you help us out,Get back to<br>
> immediately to let you know the easiest way to get the fund to us or How<br>
> much can you help with?<br>
><br>
> We are freaked out at the moment.<br>
><br>
> Regrads,<br>
> Kathy<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><div class="im">-- <br>Ronald Cotoni<div>Systems Engineer</div><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Ronald Cotoni<div>Systems Engineer</div><br>
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