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Someone has hacked Jeremy Sear’s blogs. I was once subject to a similar, but not anywhere near so thorough, attack; as I said at the time, “If ever a right-winger tries to pull the same dumb stunt on a lefty, well, let me condemn you in advance.”
UPDATE. Andrew Landeryou contacts Sear after being accused of hackerizing:
The legal professional had to be reminded that by making that claim he was accusing me of engaging in a serious crime under Australian law. Clearly no genius, his stuttering and stammering indicated he hadn’t quite thought about that.
Sear’s claim has been removed.
UPDATE II. Chris Chittleborough:
This sort of stunt is almost always the work of young male social failures trying to find at least one area of activity in which they aren’t total losers (and even then they have to rely more on obsessive effort than skill).
Agreed … although Tim Lambert isn’t very young.
- Hacked? Ah, the trials and tribulations of a pioneering blgging leftist having their dissent crushed. Ironies abound.Posted by CB on 2006 12 23 at 10:25 PM • permalink
- He may be a dick, but rudeness of that sort is unforgiveable.
How easy is it to hack/steal someone elses blogspot anyway?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 12 23 at 10:26 PM • permalink
- It was a cat burglar.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 23 at 10:30 PM • permalink
- He thinks it was me having posted this in the comment of one of my blog posts.
In favour of people hijacking other people’s blogs, Iain?
As much as I have reason to hate the chap I much prefer that he is out there giving new meaning to the term “Hoisted on his own Petard” given that blogger require word verifacation after a couple of failded logins some one has spent a lot of time working on this; unless Jeremy’s pass word was some thing really obvious. I gather too from his post at his new blog that he has not backed up all of his words of wisdom either,well that is no great loss.
- stupid thing to do -if the hacker’s from the right it’s counterproductive
nothing does more damage to lefty causes than when they’re given free reign to express themselves , so why would anyone bother trying to do this.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 23 at 11:22 PM • permalink
- This is pretty lame, people. I disagree with just about everything AL writes, but whoever did this is obviously some sad little creep with too much time on his/her hands. Catallaxy’s take is here.Posted by skepticlawyer on 2006 12 24 at 12:12 AM • permalink
- I’ll try that again. Here: http://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=2256Posted by skepticlawyer on 2006 12 24 at 12:13 AM • permalink
- Has Sear considered the root causes? Has he asked, “why do they hate us?”
Hardy har har.
More seriously, the retard who did this needs a good smack.
Posted by Don’t Bogart that Midget, Comrade! on 2006 12 24 at 12:18 AM • permalink
- I’m willing to bet the little toe-rag did it himself. And when did we start believing anything that comes out of a leftards mouth?.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 12 24 at 12:21 AM • permalink
- THISis my take on the situation; as some one who has had to endure a year of Jeremy’s fellow travellers attacking me I should be cheering but I just can’t.There, but for the grace of god, go all who want to blog about politics. Be safe out there people :o)
- According to the principles as laid out in the concept documents of 4th Generation Warfare, he’s fair game. So’s our Mr. Tim fair game from the oppostion.
This war is global and comprehensive, uniformed service or not, you’re in it and on the line. The fight for the “info space” is as desperate and demanded for victory as is the fight over the traditional battlefields.
I know I didnt do it becuase I have no skills for that sort of thing. But I refuse to fall into the “business as usual” civil ettiquite on such stuff. Any attack on a supporter of my enemy is an attack on my enemy.
No excuses
No forgiveness
No mercy.
- First Melbourne Lefty. Then Anonymouse Lefty. Then Boltwatch. This clown is incapable of sticking to anything, let alone a cogent and rational argument.
I read his post, but it came out as ‘Wah wah wah…’ Meh, maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else think the court shark protesteth too much? About frickin’ everything?
- People are fighting and dying right now, as we write these comments and ponder what’s for Christmas dinner tomorrow, to defend freedom, including freedom of expression. They (rightfully) get a lot of support here. Yet commenters here think someone else’s expression, however retarded, is “fair game”?
The only time I’ve ever seen my father – who lied about his age so he could sign up for WWII – break down was when some self-important yokel in a position of authority tried to curb those freedoms and he felt powerless to fight back. It brought home for me the reality of what it’s all about.
Freedom includes the right to hold, and express opinions. Including stupid ones.
The person who did this is driven by the same mindset as the maddest free-speech-suppressing mullah.
It’s unconscionable. And I would have expected indefensible. Sadly it seems I was wrong.
- “I’m willing to bet the little toe-rag did it himself”
It isn’t the first time for him. Coincidence or convenient?
He’s a case study on Adult Factitious Disorder and cognitive dissonance.
Posted by armageddon on 2006 12 24 at 01:27 AM • permalink
- The enemy and those that support them use lies and distortions and work to spread defeatism and equivocation. They work to benifit the enemy.
“Freedom of speech” has never been a protection to hide behind for those that work in acordance with the goals, aims or wants of the enemy during a time of war.
that is idiocy.
Thats right up there with that “dissent is the greatest form of patriotism” bullshit.
- Rex, regardless of the moral or ethical implications of someone hijacking the leftard, it could hardly be considered the crushing of his freedom of expression. Just try shutting him up. See, he’s already gotten another site, and more traffic from Tim than he gets in a month. It’s certainly not plumbing the depths of sharia as you gamely put it.
A mad mullah proclaims a fatwa and calls for the death of the infidel. Sears the barista is on the receiving end of a protracted metaphysical attack. Not the same game at all, old bean.
- Christmas Eve, and there I was, leaning back to grab some shut-eye in the middle of a holiday season madder than John Read on national TV, when he burst in.
“Joint’s closed, buddy,” I said.
The heavy aroma of cigarette caught my attention. My cigarettes. I could feel that old sixth sense kicking in already. This was trouble, with a capital T.
Opening just the one eye to keep it all looking casual, while my right hand idly slipped under the desk to that trusty .38 taped beneath, I took a gander at the intruder.
My height, my build. A silhoette in the light of the frosted glass of my front door. No mistaking that fedora, though, or the coat. And then he spoke.
“Get the hell away from my desk.”
As he moved inside, I could see he already had the drop on me. I sat up straight, both eyes wide, tracking the steady barrel of his snub-nosed .38 pointed at my head. My .38.
It was then Sheila, coming through the inner door, caught sight of him. The shot of bourbon, meant for me, slipped form her paralysed fingers and shattered. I was ready to make my move, but the stranger never flinched. Instead, he stepped into the light.
“Mr Paco!” Sheila’s jaw dropped like a judge’s pants at Madam Rouge’s. Her head whipped in my direction. “Mr Paco!”
“Take it easy honey. Looks like we got ourselves an imposter.”
The stranger sneered my sneer. “Get up.”
Slowly, I rolled my chair back and stood up. Now, face to face, the resemblance was uncanny.
“Who’s your surgeon, pal?” I asked him.
“Shut up,” he barked. “Sheila, over here, honey. You – stay still.” When Sheila had edged her way over to him, he wrapped his free arm around her shoulders, my way.
“Got tipped off from Jeremy. Looks like we got ourselves a doppleganger.” He waved the gun in my face. “Any last words, creep?”
I gulped. Couldn’t stop beads of sweat trickling down my cheek like the first spring melt.
“Er…sorry?”
He laughed. Ugly like. “Yeah, you are now. Sheila, look away.”
- He’s blaming Andrew Landeryou(sp?) now. COnsidering there’s been so much anti AL stuff happening, I think it’s a bit precious to then name him as the culprit.
But he likes his pussycat, so I count that as a plus.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 03:08 AM • permalink
- I can understand Jeremy’s outrage, and I think that the hacker needs a good smacking.
OTOH, Jeremy stepped up to this very public forum to express his opinions. That someone doesn’t like his opinions should hardly be a surprise, and that they express their dislike in such a manner is equally unsurprising. It’s a common tactic amongst blogs; offhand, I can think of several bloggers (left and right) who had similar problems.
And most of them dealt with the problem and then moved on.
Take a hint, Jeremy. Part of life is falling down, and then getting back up. And maybe learn a thing or two in the process.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 24 at 03:28 AM • permalink
By the way, I’m more than happy for friendly bloggers to start referring to me with my real name, Jeremy Sear. At present it’s only those who detest me who use it, whilst decent friendly types respect my use of a pseudonym. Unfortunately this has the effect that if you google “Jeremy Sear”, all that comes up are attacks on me, rather than the more balanced list of references which you’d get if you googled “AnonymousLefty” or “MrLefty”. So, please feel free to use my real name.
He has finally admitted his name and good on him for doing so ,the only way to save any face at all I suppose.
- #20 RexW
Yet commenters here think someone else’s expression, however retarded, is “fair game”?
Relax, Rex. Almost, but not quite, everybody here disapproves of the hacking.
#21 Armageddon
It isn’t the first time for him. Coincidence or convenient?
This is the second time he has had a blog stolen?? Christ Jeremy, it’s not that hard to come up with a decent password…!
- I confess: it was wronwright.
Nah, couldn’t be—wronwright’s been busy in Russia.
- Could somebody please hack the ABC? They just showed a Christmas Carols program featuring a fistful of lefty calling cards, such as: acknowledgement of the local tribe on whose ground the church was built, and, worst of all, reading a Leunig piece as if it were holy writ.
I preferred the earlier segment, called something like “Hard Knocks Choir”, where a whole lot of people (looked like ABC employees) sang quite nicely.
- #41 blogstrop,. I’m taping it. I nearly fell over when they started bleating about the land the church is on being sacred to the traditional owners of the land.
I was thinking of a nice christmas message, but I’ll have to refrain for a couple of days, I think. It’s shaping up to be a megarant.
I also don’t appreciate the idiot from ABC Classics introducing this dreck with a comment about ‘a jewish boy, who is revered as a prophet by muslims and the messiah by christians, but don’t tell the romans’ or some such.
I’ll shut up now.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 24 at 05:31 AM • permalink
- The latest from Jeremy Sear:
UPDATE #4:
A blogger whose name coincidentally rhymes with “slanderyou” has asked me not to suspect that the hacker is someone affiliated with him. Because this blogger is such a paragon of ethical behaviour, and because I found his clever photoshopping effort of last week inspiring (he photoshopped my head onto the patrons at a brothel! What a genius!), and because frankly the idea of hearing from him again makes the bile churn in my stomach, I’ve removed the remark. Hopefully he’ll be able to enjoy his Christmas now.Poor old Jeremy didn’t know whether he was Arfur (Daley) or Marfa (Farker) when I called him to express my concern about his false allegation that I’d hacked his blogs.
The legal professional had to be reminded that by making that claim he was accusing me of engaging in a serious crime under Australian law. Clearly no genius, his stuttering and stammering indicated he hadn’t quite thought about that.
I’m being far too uncharitable (for Christmas Eve) but his very defensive tone made me strongly suspect this is all a cheap attempt to get one of my friends at Fairfax to write it up and attract him some publicity for his rather odious boring work.
There is never – just never – a dull moment in this blogging caper. Not even on Christmas Eve!
I wish all the patriots in these parts well and Merry Christmas or happy end to Channukah as the case may be. And may 2007 be prosperous and peaceful for all of you and yours. And of course, a big thanks to Tim Blair for his brilliant work which is enough to keep the rest of us both humble and inspired.
Posted by Andrew Landeryou on 2006 12 24 at 05:49 AM • permalink
- While I often disagree with Mr Lefty and his posts, that’s a horrible thing to do to anybody. That kind of vicious stuff is really out of line (regardless of whether one is left or right, or whether one agrees or disagrees with the posts in question).Posted by Legal Eagle on 2006 12 24 at 07:14 AM • permalink
- #46 And I can tell you are horrified – horrified,I say! with this crushing of dissension.Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 24 at 07:53 AM • permalink
- To all of the commenters here, both furrin (to use Grimmy’s turn of phrase) and domestic, Merry Christmas, and remember, don’t punch your cousins, as much as you might want to. Upsets the family, and you tend to break your knuckles. 🙂
Headbutting is acceptable, provided you have the head for it though.
Not you though Jeremy, with that little neck, you might hurt yourself, sooky la la’s.
Could somebody please hack the ABC? They just showed a Christmas Carols program featuring a fistful of lefty calling cards, such as: acknowledgement of the local tribe on whose ground the church was built, and, worst of all, reading a Leunig piece as if it were holy writ.
I preferred the earlier segment, called something like “Hard Knocks Choir”, where a whole lot of people (looked like ABC employees) sang quite nicely.Didn’t know, don’t care. We watched the ‘Trek segment on the Sci Fi channel. Enterprise was trotting out annoying lefty wishful thinking that the death of Lenin in 1915 allowed the Nazis to occupy the Eastern USA during WWII. It was STILL more “Christian” than anything the ABC runs that would carry that label!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 08:30 AM • permalink
- Hmm.
Both old and new sites belong to “MrLefty”, but they are different MrLeftys. The old site belongs to a MrLefty created in November this year, the new site to a MrLefty from 2004 – evidently the original one. (Blogger displays your “screen name” but hides your login name, which is good for security but lousy for identity theft.)
Okay.
There are two ways this could have happened: Either someone used Sear’s login and password to get into Blogger and delete the blogs so that they could be recreated under their own account, or someone worked out how to break into Blogger and the only person affected was Sears.
Clearly, the former case is more likely. Given this, either someone guessed Sear’s login name and password – which is possible; people do tend to choose passwords that are easily guessed, and the login name could have been something obvious like “mrlefty” – or it was an inside job, done by someone who already knew the login details.
What didn’t happen is an attack of dazzling technical elegance. Hackers are, almost without exception, complete idiots. At least, hackers who attack blogs are idiots; hackers with any actual talent have better things to do.
So basically it was someone who guessed or knew the login. Yes, I have my suspicions about this, but I’ve been a sysadmin for twelve years; I get paid to be suspicious.
- How did the attacker take over the Sear’s blogs? Maybe he* found a security hole in blogger; if so, we’ll be seeing lots more blogs stolen. Or maybe he just cyberstalked Sear for so long that he managed to spy out or guess Sear’s blogger password. The second option seems much more likely, and very creepy. I do not (warning: understatement ahead) have a high opinion of Mr Sear, but I feel sorry for the poor guy right now.
*I say he, because this sort of stunt is almost always the work of young male social failures trying to find at least one area of activity in which they aren’t total losers (and even then they have to rely more on obsessive effort than skill).
Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2006 12 24 at 09:02 AM • permalink
- #52 Ash_ :You would be absolved in my personal church (Of Saint Violent the Redeemer) for the sin of kinslaying, if you decided to clean up the family gene pool a bit. 🙂
Seriously, my cousins are nearly as annoying, I met one today (hence me not sleeping right now, despite Dirty Harriet telling me that if I am on this laptop when she went to bed there would be ‘trouble’).
It’s a crappy thing that was done to little Jeremy, but he’s still a knob in my book, along with the person who did it.
- It’s a shame someone would get so wrapped up in overblown, malicious left-right tribalism to bother going to all that trouble. Sometimes the demonising and pathologising of political opponents goes too far, and people lose perspective—they forget that the mainstream left and the right really aren’t that far apart (at least in Australia).
What a dull life it would be if everyone shared everyone else’s views. For a start, Tim would have nothing to write about and I’d be unable to enjoy his (and his commenters’) wit.
- #55, or 185600, I personally believe I would be serving mankind in all its glory if I was to clean up the family gene pool. I suspect the part I’m talking about are all inbred, but one cannot prove such things, though I believe if I could, the Pope (we’re Roman Catholic) would step in and absolve me of guilt. Though I may just convert to your church, do you have many harsh, fun preventing rules like us Roman Catholics do?
I agree, it was nasty that Jeremy’s blogs were taken over, but he has to have been fairly predictable for someone to take over his blogs. I can already guess the kinds of posts we can expect in the future. In other words, nothing new.
- #55, please, absolve me!
I’m in Hawaii, so I’m 4 hours, 1 day behind the rest of you, but I just got called a little Aussie-Italian skip by my cousin, and that the Lebanese Muslims are right (when they say that we deserve rape for wearing long skirts and short sleeved shirts like I was at the time). Please, someone, give me the right to kill.
Self control is the way… deep breath… deep breath.
- #58 Ash: I am really risking the incurred wrath of Dirty Harriet by being awake right now and typing this, but all I can say mate is, “By all the powers vested in me by Saint Violent The Redeemer, make sure you take his ears for trophies”. Yes, we are a small splinter of the Catholic church, but definitely the most militant, my son. Not looking to take holy orders at all are you? 🙂
His cat did it!
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if his password was Polly, or some version thereof.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 05:15 PM • permalink
- Jeremy Sear
“I say he, because this sort of stunt is almost always the work of young male social failures trying to find at least one area of activity in which they aren’t total losers (and even then they have to rely more on obsessive effort than skill). “—Chris Chittleborough
Posted by armageddon on 2006 12 24 at 05:22 PM • permalink
- Landeryou’s self-serving version of his creepy multiple phone calls to me last night neglects to point out:
1. My remarks on the blog didn’t accuse him in any way that would be actionable; I said “I suspect that” he might be involved and no more;
2. Landeryou’s phone manner is as follows: he rings you up, immediately starts making threats (before you can even respond to his denial) and then starts swearing at you;
3. I didn’t delete the remark because of Landeryou’s pathetic threats, I deleted it because, frankly, getting into the mud with the idiot is more trouble than it’s worth. Sure, it’d be a simple matter to defeat his laughable claims in court, but what a waste of time. Anyway, there was no real point in leaving the remark up. It doesn’t matter who I “suspect” at this time – either blogspot will reveal the IPs of the party responsible for stealing my blogs or it won’t. Guesses in the meantime are really irrelevant.
4. And regarding defamation, we are talking about a blogger who the week before last photoshopped my face onto a picture of people at a brothel and published it on his website under the caption “Barrister Jeremy Sear Up To No Good”, so if anyone was going to be sued for content on blogspot (not likely, of course, for a number of reasons), you’d have to suspect Andy wouldn’t be the bloody plaintiff.But then, I doubt anyone has visited his “OC” blog and not immediately realised what a nutcase Landeryou is. (“Game on!!!!”) It’s bizarre that anyone – even those here – would take his claims seriously for even a second.
Meanwhile, thank you to those who’ve expressed sympathy and publicised the fact that I’m no longer in control of my former blog sites. Having your blog stolen is a highly unpleasant experience.
I strongly recommend that everyone regularly update both their passwords AND their computer’s firewall/anti-virus software.
Cheers.
- 26, 37. I believe your explanation most closely approximates reality.Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 12 24 at 08:22 PM • permalink
- A cunning stunt attacks a ….Posted by curious george on 2006 12 25 at 12:46 AM • permalink
. Landeryou’s phone manner is as follows: he rings you up, immediately starts making threats (before you can even respond to his denial) and then starts swearing at you;
Having already expressed disbelieve at your rather blatant naming of him (without even the slightest evidence or show of an attempt at other possible explanations/suspects) in this thread further above, I’m not bloody surprised. If you’d said the culprit probably rymed with Tallberry Clifton, I’d be on the phone to you too, using language that would make a sailor blush (but probably not a barrister)!
BTW, doesn’t a Barrister make fancy, pricey coffee?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 25 at 01:13 AM • permalink
- #72. Nope. That’s a Bar-tender. A barrister help poor fancy, pricey coffee makers when they get sacked for making slop and ruins the business.
#63. For Hire? I have a few of those Xmas time relatives I would not miss this time next year 🙂 And one of them MAY be left handed at least, very sinister!
Posted by curious george on 2006 12 25 at 02:37 AM • permalink
- #69. I think the hacker must be back!
Mr Lofty (yes, intended) is obviously a humourist, Never has Jeremy beaten anyone, not even their shadow in a debate. His efforts, even rated by the Lancet must still rate at less that 2% win ratio. (He has been known to pick up a typo and count it as a win hence the 2%)
Posted by curious george on 2006 12 25 at 02:43 AM • permalink
- #76. I have $15.98? Can cover travel to Dandenong or Preston. 🙂
#59. Nobody catches Paco. They seek him high, they seek him low. But nobody catches the Paco… Bloody time machines!Posted by curious george on 2006 12 25 at 05:17 AM • permalink
- #76 Sorry for the redundundundacy..
Please see #75 and pass me a beer!Posted by curious george on 2006 12 25 at 05:18 AM • permalink
- Before this dies away to the back pages, I’d like to make one more attempt at getting folk to begin considering reality as it applies in our war against islamofascism.
First, the perversion of PC-ism that come sputtering out with the “my (insert relative here) fought in (insert war here) so that (insert mindless yada yada about freedom here)”.
You are dealing with a delusional non-reality there sunshine.
Your relative would not have just blithely walked on by a gathering of nazi or imperial Japanese supporters gathered around a wireless, boning up on their rhetoric of sedition and propaganda to support our enemy during a war. Wouldn’t have happened. Not on your freekin life would he have just walked on by saying “aint freedom of speech wonderful?” He’d have turned them in and they’d have either been arrested and convicted by the authorities or grabbed up and beaten, probably hanged, by the locals.
Yeah, I’m Soho harsh and mean and probably …whatever. Bite me.
Ask yourselves this, numbnuts. How are you gonna feel the after the next mass casualty event that strikes your own citizenry?
How are you going to feel when the mass casualty event occurs and it wasn’t “Ahmed, Mohammad and Jamar” but was “Jim, Julie and Joe” and they weren’t islamic nor converts but simply idiot 20somethings that got their coaching and clues and indoctrination from forums and websites that are owned and operated by your own citizens who have been allowed by the craven cowardice so prevalent in our society to spread their poison with zero fear of repercussion?
Unless and until we, as a culture, pull our heads out of the bullshit and idiocy that has been hammered into us by grotesque corruptions and hostile philosophies and start treating traitors and enemy sympathizers as the real and present danger that they are, we not only have no hope of victory, we have no hope of survival as a culture.
4th Generation Warfare includes all previous generations of war-fighting methodology from mass troops, through mass firepower and then fast movement, and now includes comprehensive global campaigns in the “info spaces”. The net is part of the battlefield in every possible way.
The fight for hearts and minds is global and being conducted in every living room in every home that has access to global media.
Every man and woman has their place on the parapet in this new warfare form. To refuse to step up is to simply be derelict in your duty to yourself and your fellow citizens.
This is not a war being fought exclusively “over there” by our soldiers. We have our duty to support them by refusing the field to any of those that sympathies with the enemy or work to dissolve our will and ability to fight.
This is not about domestic politics, gay rights, abortion or any of the other red herrings thrown up by the confused. This has to do with ending the enemy’s ability to reach out and use our simple and easily duped citizenry and turn them into tools to use against the rest of us.
You want to know where the weakness that keeps us from fighting as if our lives depend on it comes from? Look no farther than the mirror.
- #73 bar-tenders serve beer and wine and other alcoholic beberages.
Baristas make fancy, pricey coffees.
Barristers stand up in court and defend the aforementioned when they leave decomposed snails in the coffee in the absence of opaque bottles to put them in.
Boy, do I feel silly posting this after Grimmy’s grim but timely piece.
Posted by carpefraise on 2006 12 25 at 10:34 AM • permalink
- I don’t think Jeremy Sear’s pro-Islamofascism or the enemy (just inept and an embarrassment to the legal profession). But his and others running interference by dog whistling that those who highlight the acts of Islamofascism are anti-Islam, I can understand Grimmy,s accusations.
Sear’s known for deleting his more loony comments when possible.
Posted by armageddon on 2006 12 26 at 07:19 AM • permalink
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