So, pretty much unless you've been living in a cave you've heard the story about how Boston College is no doubt *THE* dumbest college in the United States and how their police department has pretty much committed one of the biggest blunders in law enforcement history. Now, if you'd like to hear more about BC's incredible boner I invite you to "CYB3RCRIM3" run by a "law professor" named Susan Brenner:
http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2009/04/boston-college-case.html
...now...I'm guessing here that Susan is just some fuckjob RL who stumbled on in to the grid one day and a few weeks later after bumbling about on the most pedestrian of online cookie cutter constructs decided to declare herself an expert on the Internet. But, hey, we all know that's not exactly a unique trait, those poser class dipshits like Susan are pretty much a dime a dozen these days. Heck, it's practically a trend to run around trying to pass yourself off as some kind of tech savvy computer wiz or whatever. And of course peppering your blog title with some near TWO DECADE OLD l33t speak...whoa...yeah ya know she's k-rad! *nods*
Anyway, back to the story at hand. Susan does her absolute best to actually try and defend the incredible idiocy of Boston College's police department...and starts off doing a ~fairly~ decent job of presenting them in a good light...but then about halfway through her argument just falls all apart with THIS paragraph:
Here, Christopher relied on the investigation Escalante conducted, in which he traced the “suspect e-mails” to Calixte’s dorm room computer. Application for Search Warrant, supra. In the memorandum he submitted in support of his motion to quash the warrant, Calixte does not challege “the veracity of” Escalante’s conclusion or the investigation that led him to that conclusion. Memo in Support, supra. So we’ll assume Escalante correctly identified Calixte as the person who sent the emails that claimed the student informant was gay.
First of all, at this point I must presume that Susan is *NOT* who she claims to be ("a law professor who speaks, writes and consults on cybercrime and cyberconflict")...or if she is she really ought to shut her fuckin mouth. Now, it certainly did not take me more than like...five minutes of effort to find out that the logs at the school showed that there were in fact *TWO* computers connected to the network that were ~supposedly~ running Linux. Now, apparently, when you're as *STUPID* as Susan, you just...ASSume that the only person you know with Linux *MUST* have been the perpetrator of this ~heinous~ cri-er...wait a minute...is going online and claiming you or anyone else as being gay actually a crime? Hrmmm...well, obviously Susan Brenner seems to think that being gay *IS* in fact a crime. Yes, Susan Brenner wants all those gawd damn fucking homosexuals locked up and burned at the stake just as soon as we can hunt them all down by what operating system they're using!
The thing that really gets me about this stupid ass n00b.job, Susan Brenner...is just how incredibly shortsighted she is regarding the online world. I mean you would think that someone running around giving out advice on "cybercrime" would have the gawd damn fool sense to know that you can *NEVER* know anything online with *ANY* degree of absolute certainty. As stupid as she is, she must be completely clueless to the fact that things like IP addresses, header info and all the like can *ALL* be *SPOOFED*. Yes, that's right, all that fun information that shows up in system logs...you have no fucking idea if it's actually real or not! LOL In fact, some trolls, actually get quite a big kick out of trying to bait the MPAA and RIAA into going after innocent people with spoofed headers. Oh, I'm sorry, did I just make you sick to your stomach? LOL, yeah, you didn't know, did you? *nods* The ~inconvenient~ truth of the matter is that many...perhaps even most, lawsuits and the like regarding "evidence" based on log information...*snicker*...it's all bullshit. ^__^ Yup, people like Susan have been helping to put innocent people behind bars and burying them in endless debt all because those like herself couldn't understand something as simplistic as IP spoofing.
Of course, given Susan's hatred of the gay and lesbian community I guess maybe we shouldn't be ~too~ surprised that she is.
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just fyi, TCP/IP is nontrivial to spoof when a full connection is involved
it's easy to proxy, but you can't just say "hey i wanna come from apple.com today" if you want to transact with the remote site.
Ahhh, but it *IS* possible, and in most cases quite easy, to alter server logs. The fact is, when you look at log data, you *REALLY* don't know, nor is there any easy, direct means of confirming whether or not what you're looking at is genuine on any level. And most all forms have their own quirks, flaws, exploitability and the like, from IRC, to Usenet, to torrents, to you name it, there are no shortage of ways to blur the line between reality and fiction.
The point here is that when it comes to the Internet you *CANNOT* know with any degree of *ABSOLUTE* certainty what is, and what isn't real. A fact that seems to easily escape the judicial system on a whole variety of levels.
And again, keep in mind, there are no shortage of uber nasty trolls going around and taking delight in the misery of idiot RLs who can't discern between reality and the Internet.
I myself haven't done anything so horrible to a person as to actually get them convicted of a crime they didn't commit, but even I've done some pretty nth level nastiness to those who don't recognize the nature of this construct...
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.flame/msg/7c40a63eea26ff44
For reference that girl “Trinity” ...never existed, just one of my sock puppets. I made the guy fall in love with one of my characters, then viciously attacked my own character to enrage them even moar ...and then later exposed the fact that his online lover was nothing more than a one-way fantasy ...he’s net.dead now. And although online it is possible to be resurrected, sometimes under new identities ...that’s one that WON’T be coming back, trust me on this. ^__^
you entirely missed the point in order to mask that you were fucking wrong. great job!
Perhaps if I was as pathetic as you are I would have just screamed out, URWRONG!!1!
Do be sure and let me know if you ever sum up enough intelligence to, you know, actually counter something I said in my reply up there. *nods*
I have. If you're too thick to miss that, then go ahead and be that way.
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