Why you never threaten harm online. #stopgamergate2014

All these morons who are threatening bodily harm online, making it spill into the real world, are only going to harm themselves. Why?

Posting the threat only gives the law enforcement officers and/or lawyers reason to persue you.  Any competitent (or easily teachable) officer/lawyer can follow some easy steps.

1. Get the IP address and timestamp of the threat.  LEO's can use a "pen register" to get that, but a reasonable judge can easy issue a search warrant.  (Come on, extreme injury or death? No judge is going to pass that and stay a judge!)


2. Geolocate the IP address and locate the ISP.  There are public databases on those.  This will also let the lawyer file to move a case to the right state.  A LEO may move the case to the national level (in the USA, that's the FBI).


3. Supeona the ISP in the geolocated state to cough up the name and address of the account holder who had that IP at this time.  (Yes, it's not the perp but it gets close).


4. Now, with address and some LEO's in tow, the main LEO or lawyer pays a visit to the house, and asks "Do you have a kid who's constantly on the Internet?"

This catches most of them, the young, dumb, and ugly group.  They basically just need a clue, some time offline, and maybe a few conventions (I suggest Anthrocon, who has delt with /b/ before and "turned them to the dark side").

The smart ones, they use Tor or an anonymizing relay.  If #4 ends with "No,"

• Ask "Are you running Tor or an anonymizing relay?  We have a death threat being traced here and it looks like your systems are being illegally abused."

If the node gets shut down, so be it.  If it's overseas, then it's a technical problem -- the abuser needs a bit more authentication and repeated TOS notifications.

Slight change of Apple plans...

So Apple relased a new set of equipment on their Mac and iPad lines.  It's affected my replacement plans slightly.

Here's what I was thinking of:

iPhone 6 (not the 6+)
iPad Air
iMac 21.5" w/NVidia GPU.
Thunderbolt cables for external display, possibly external Firewire drives.

The change?  Well, looks like it'll be the iPad Air 2.