Re: Hunting for Mr Badmouth

["Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>]

Welcome to the wonderful world to "track the hacker!"  A relevant
question:  Do you desire just "tracking him down" or do you wish the
evidence suitable for admission into a court of law?  There are
different requirements and if you start one without consideration for
the other you may accidently "poison the well"...

Jim

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
>
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James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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