Its evil. Making people believe that someone is dead, publicly, and placing
obituaries online shows no regard for the thoughts & feelings of the person
being trolled or the others who may read them.
In a community where whispers and hear-say can even get SANS to look for an
OpenSSH 0day "doing-the-rounds", spreading 'misinformation' about a well-liked
individual who worked on a project for the community is unpleasant - making out
they are dead is just horrible.
There are people at the end of the computers. Don't ever forget it.
--- On Wed, 4/11/09, frank^2 <fra...@dc949.org> wrote:
> From: frank^2 <fra...@dc949.org>
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Apple ptrace panic PoC - R.I.P str0ke
> To: "Micheal Turner" <wh1t3h...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
> Date: Wednesday, 4 November, 2009, 11:08 PM
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:58 PM,
> Micheal Turner <wh1t3h...@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > It seems the whole thing was a Hoax rumor put about by
> people who I can only describe as pure evil. Glad to know he
> is fine.
>
> What's "pure evil" about exploiting the ease by which one
> can spread
> misinformation? If anything, it exposes how willing even a
> community
> like this is to believe a single blogpost and spread it
> around without
> truly confirming its origins.
>
> I was trolled, I have lost. Feel free to admit it yourself
> instead of
> calling this prank "pure evil."
>
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