I remember some huge DDOS attacks like a decade ago, and people were speculating who could be behind it. The three top theories were Russian intelligence, the Mossad, and this guy on 4chan who claimed to have a Botnet doing it.

That was the start of living in the future for me.

My favorite example of this is when I saw references to "Goatse Security" on the front page of the Wall Street Journal

This felt like something straight out of a post modern novel during the whole WSB press rodeo, where some user names being used on TV were somewhere between absurd to repulsive.

Loved it.

>journalists reporting serious events

A facet I don't love is journalism devolving to reposting unverified, anonymous reddit posts.

"Discussed in Hacker News, the user that goes by the 'huevosabio' handle, stated as a fact that..."

I got quoted as noir_lord in the press.

My bbs handle from 30 years ago.

Apparently Facebook HQ didn't like how ramenporn handled the situation. His account has been deleted, as well as all his messages about the incident.

They work at facebook. Can’t imagine they have any illusions regarding their privacy/anonymity.

That said, it will be interesting to read their post-mortem next year and compare it with what ramenporn wrote.

lol no one cares. we're all laughing about this too (all of us except the networks people at least...)

Well, seems like FB shutdowned his post...