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> Who charged you?

Sylint pressed the charges through the FBI.

Originally, they also insisted I caused damage days before the date of incident and tried to tack on $32k in damages. I pointed out that I do not possess a time machine, and they shifted it from (June 18-24) to (June 21-27) and lowered the dollar amount to $9k.

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Too late now, but would it have been useful/possible to go public about it or threaten to talk the media and cause way worse problems for them? Considering that security is their game, I wonder if the bad PR would've made them re-think targeting you.

I was too depressed and scared to consider that then.

I haven't really thought about that angle since, either.

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