This is so off-topic and non-business related that I would almost expect a
few flames, but I'm curious, and a friend of mine is rather scared, so I'm
hoping a few of you might help out.
A friend of mine chats online on a service call "PalTalk". Apparently, she's
run into a guy that, I think, is trying to intimidate her. She doesn't know
much about computers, and where she knows I work with them, she asked me a
question about her situation. However, I've never worked with a T1 line, so
I can't really answer her.
Here's the deal. I guess on PalTalk, you can chat in an open room, or you
can chat with someone in what they call a private message, or private chat,
or something. Apparently, he's been kind of stalking her. He'll tell her
things like he can see who she talks to and what she says in these private
chats. He's told her that he worked for the DoD in "computer intelligence".
For many years. She didn't believe much of this until one day he actually
*did* repeat some stuff to her that she said in a private chat with someone
else, so now she's scared.
Here's a snippet of her words to me about what he's told her:
"He talks about his T1 Connection as a "backbone" and "the network". He says
that periodically, and each time it goes down and comes back online, he is
required by government regulations to go over network activity reports that
are generated. He says they are all to do with whatever he is involved
with.. and if he's involved with chat rooms.. then he sees "contacts"
between people in the room. He is supposed to "check off" on the activity
to verify that its correct. And if he sees any irregular activity or if
something is incorrect, he has to report it. He says that he had to get a
$50,000 bond just to have this T1 connection."
This sounds to me like utter bologna, but before I giver her bad
information, I wanted to check with those of you that maybe do use T1 lines
and see if any of this could be true?
Thanks,
Evan
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