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Comment by pierrefar | Hacker News Reader

Of course the counter is that the meta data is faked.

Although I think it's not faked and a silly oversight.

If you search google for Alex Tapanaris you quickly see that his name is already being targeted by this so-called anonymous.

http://pastebin.com/F2VcJXkK

They've decided that they want his name to be associated with 'liking cock' in google.

I think this is most likely another attempt to harass and bully him.

Heh, that's a Greek mobile phone number (Cosmote). Maybe I should interview him :p

If it is then props to him but I think the chances of that are slight to non-existent.

One of the very good reasons why you should think twice before 'anonymously' harassing people online is that you are almost never as anonymous as you think you are.

We had a guy harassing a woman on ww.com for months on end, all it took was the one time he forgot to check the headers of the proxy that he used to do it again. Being anonymous is hard work, the more you do it the bigger the chances of slipping up.

Slipping up once is enough, assuming the other side is awake and watching.

Non-existent, indeed, unless he also changed all the advanced metadata inside the pdf, and give them the same fake name: http://img.skitch.com/20101211-rwkgk3i7e5jq477ayyxudff883.jp...

If you fake it in OpenOffice then the meta data is carried through to th PDF. As far as I know, the default meta data in OO is what your operating system username is but is changeable.

Reminds me of that DeNiro movie "Ronin." In it a woman is saying to DeNiro's character, something like: You have to escape him every time, but he just has to catch you once.

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