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Re: Hunting for Mr Badmouth
From: Tim Greer <chatmaster () charter net>
Date: 27 Aug 2003 09:38:38 -0700
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:46, Bob Walker wrote:
I'm hoping this board can help me. I've been tasked with trying to track down an individual who posted some comments to a yahoo message board defaming a company. Is there any way to track this individual, short of a court order to yahoo? His profile is private, and (duh!) he's not responding to postings to email. Any ideas on a direction to look or a tool to use would be greatly appreciated. Bob
You'd have to get a court order, it's not for Yahoo! Inc. to decide if something is libel/defamation or not. And, once you do, if you do (it's usually better to ignore the posts and since it's a public forum, you have every right and ability to respond to defend yourself (thus making it more difficult to hold Yahoo! Inc. liable in any manner that would allow you to use a court order to make them provide logs to the authoritative entity) or for anyone to have reason bother with your problem. I don't mean that in a non sympathetic way when I say that. Also, you have to remember that it will take a while and the person could be using a proxy server or some other less (or non) track-able method to access the board where the comments are being posted. And, are these really damaging your reputation to where it's costing you enough money, or are you just angry about it? Most people will ignore people blasting each other on web boards and don't believe everything they read. The people that do, well, they are not worth worrying about anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training Federal, September 29-30 (Training), October 1-2 (Briefings) in Tysons Corner, VA; the world's premier technical IT security event. Modeled after the famous Black Hat event in Las Vegas! 6 tracks, 12 training sessions, top speakers and sponsors. Symantec is the Diamond sponsor. Early-bird registration ends September 6.Visit us: www.blackhat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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