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FC: Kid-porn vigilante hacked media, nobody else
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Feb 8 09:26:07 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:51:24 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 07:27:34 -0500
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Kid-porn vigilante hacked media, nobody else
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>Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 05:01:06 -0700 (MST)
>From: mea culpa <jericho@dimensional.com>
>Subject: Kid-Porn Vigilante Hacked Media (fwd)
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/culture/story/17775.html?wnpg=all
>Kid-Porn Vigilante Hacked Media
>by Steve Silberman
>3:00 a.m. 8.Feb.99.PST
>
>A self-proclaimed ex-hacker with the charismatic pseudonyms "Christian
>Valor" and "Se7en" has been making headlines around the world for his
>alleged vigilante campaign against online pedophiles.
>
>In the past two years, profiles in Forbes, the London Independent, the Los
>Angeles Times, Newsday, Wired News, and many other publications have
>portrayed Valor as an old-school renegade with a cause: exposing the
>identities -- and trashing the hard drives -- of those who traffic in
>sexual imagery of children.
>
>The illegal techniques he used were those honed during 17 years in the
>hacker underground, the publications reported.
>
>In fact, the primary target of Valor's hacking has turned out to be the
>news media.
>
>Several of Valor's former colleagues have come forward to brand him a
>technologically inept poseur with a genius for self-promotion, who was
>unable to safeguard his own Net account against hacker exploits, much less
>mount a sophisticated campaign of attacks against anyone else's.
>
>"He never deleted a single kiddie porn server himself. He's a compulsive
>liar, always looking for some new thing to impress people with," said
>Brian Martin, an independent consultant known among hackers as jericho,
>who lived and worked with Valor.
>
>Information-systems specialist and online diarist Lisa Rabey, a former
>intimate of Valor's, also discounted his claims: "I was there. We were
>reading the same newsgroups. It never happened. He doesn't have the skill
>to do it."
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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