RE: Hunting for Mr Badmouth

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

  Well, I think you have three basic options:

1.  Get somebody who knows him to tell you who he is.  Since you haven't
    given us any way to recognize him, I guess you're not pursuing that
    here.

2.  Find someone (to/who can) hack into Yahoo's profile system.  This
    would presumably be illegal (even if Yahoo goofed and accidentally
    made it trivial...), so I'd be kinda surprised and disappointed if 
    you got any takers here.

3.  The court order to Yahoo.  (If the message board captures and displays
    a source IP address, that may give you someone else to direct a court
    order to, his ISP -- or a relay he was using at that moment.

  It may be simpler (and perhaps better in the long run) to refute his 
comments and so undermine his credibility, than to seek some kind of 
legal relief.

David Gillett


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Walker [mailto:bobwalker8 () comcast net]
> Sent: August 26, 2003 16:46
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Hunting for Mr Badmouth
>
>
>
> 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 
>
>
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