RE: Hunting for Mr Badmouth

["Champion, Steve" <SChampion () tmh tmc edu>]

An excellent comment Mr. James.   Could you elaborate on what the
differences in the approaches would be?

Thank You
Steve Champion
Sr. Data Security Analyst
The Methodist Hospital.

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From: Meritt James [mailto:meritt_james () bah com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:40 AM
To: Bob Walker
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Hunting for Mr Badmouth


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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