Notably, the previous maintainer of this fork stepped down a couple of days ago, after a harassment campaign from 4chan allegedly escalated to a violent attack.
After alleged harassment campaign. What we know for sure is the following – the former maintainer ran poll for github's users opinion on the project name, added «sneedacity» as valid choice, and then... declared the poll results invalid blaming foreign influence for the winner as well as for subsequent criticism.
Even up-to-date The Register article states: 'a search of the forum shows no evidence of cookiengineer's address details being shared nor calls for physical violence'.
How comes what there is a proof of genuine Jenna Jameson visit to /b/ while absolutely no evidence to back up the claims for very recent event?
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1) The maintainer is telling the truth, and I assume they're lying.
The maintainer's life is now even worse, because not only do they fear for their safety, but no one even believes it's happening!
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2) The maintainer is lying, and I believe them.
I guess I'll end up feeling unnecessarily sorry for someone? I'm having trouble seeing the negative consequences here.
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Suffice to say, I'd much rather just take their story at face value.
Well... being easily manipulated into believing the hoax and taking a side in silly fork war. And implicitly approving what rigged poll is just fine for community.
I don't want to condemn anyone nor to clear anyone, but your analysis is binary and misses two important cases ③ maintainer didn't lie, just exaggerated things a bit, ④ exploiting public fears about 4chan.
The maintainer filed a police report for what it's worth, so any evidence beyond what's been provided and which is already more than enough will come out in court and not before.
Hackers on Steroids stories are welcome and appreciated!
PS: Looks like curtain is already involved in this case. All we need to find is a dog.
> "The safety of my family is worth more than an open source project. They found out my address via a YouTube video where someone was posting my nickname combined with my real legal name (which meanwhile got taken down due to my asking). The incident happened shortly 23:00 CEST [21:00 UTC], today; and the police took over this case."
And people call me "paranoid" when I go to inconvenient-but-practicible lengths to keep my dox off the internet.
I am not discounting the effects of the harrasment. Shit online is one thing, but once they start coming to people's place of living is an entirely different thing altogether. That's beyond ridiculous, and I really hope the police take this seriously. I'm going through similiar/different home harrasment issues, and I can definitely sympathize.
Doing this shit because someone with a software package does something you don't agree with? Really sounds like mental problems to me, as that's the only thing I can think of. Rational people don't do that.
We in Cyberpunk shit nao
I've long since lost count of how many times I've been ridiculed as "paranoid" by the clueless over various absolutely basic and obvious security practices. If choosing to be wise and safe is "paranoid", then count me in. I'd rather be "paranoid" in the eyes of people who actively fight tooth and nail to stay ignorant about online/network security than fall victim to one of the many consequences of not choosing safety over convenience and ignorance.