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Snow means peace in Baghdad … and also in Ramallah:
Men in long Arab robes pelted each other with snowballs in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and the West Bank city of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian government, came to a standstill.
“I’m originally from Gaza where snow never falls,” said Bothaina Smairi, 28, who was out in Ramallah taking photographs. “The white snow is covering the old world and I feel like I am in a new world where everything is white, clean, and beautiful.”
All those years of conflict … and the place only ever needed just a little global coolening. There’s plenty to go around.
(Via an gus)
Andrea posted a few email addresses for the turd troll of recent.
As per Andrea’s suggestion, I sent the turd troll a minor ‘up your arse’ and got an email from him/her detailing my intimate family info.
I’ve gone to the police to report it. But I’m not satisfied. Does anyone have thoughts re how we can nail this prick. He works with access to legally protected data. I want his arse.
I sent a report on this to Andrea and as yet haven’t had a response.
I know she’ll be onto it.
Any ideas anyone??
Here’s a picture of Gaza in the Winter…
Heh.
#17 Ash. I note below the email I received in response to the minor ‘get a life’ that I sent to garry.logan8@gmail.com
I’ve put my Blair blog name and false family names into the gentleman’s email to me. As follows:
“I don’t know mehaul but perhaps I’ll pop around to the pharmacy and have a talk with sue later. Life here on the Gold Coast sure is fun don’t you think?
By the way is Philip looking forward to starting this year at UQ?
Maybe I’ll send some pizzas around. Remind me again you do live at xxxxxx don’t you?
home phone number xxxxxxxx
That’s the problem with being rude to strangers on the internet you don’t know what they’re capable of finding out do you.
Keep in touch Mehaul
On Jan 30, 2008 9:48 PM, mehaul wrote:
Will you be a nice boy when you grow up?
So…this vomit has access to my name, wife’s details and family business, my youngest son’s university details, my home address and home phone number.
This creep shits me for being rude to someone I don’t know on the internet, after he was the proverbial stuck stool on a Blair blog. He’s going to see his arse.
Any ideas anyone??
My suggestion would be the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
Also, at the risk betraying my woeful lack of IT savvy, can Andrea H identify the ISP that clown posted here from? If it’s from a government department, you could try getting an MP (presumably from our side of the fence) to kick up a fuss about it. I can’t, though, readily identify what department’s database would include all that information; Dept of Education is the only thing that came to mind.
Hope this helps.
Oh, one more suggestion – is it worth alerting the administrators of the Gmail site? Would they be cool with the use it’s just been put to?
Posted by Renegade Lawyer on 2008 01 31 at 08:47 AM • permalink
- mehaul… how would he get that info based on an anonymous email? Did you use your real name in the email?
Just curious.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 01 31 at 08:52 AM • permalink
#30 GO WITH THE LAWYER! I ain’t no #31!
#31 Possibly, depending on the software Andrea has, and whether the IP address* is a real one. And any Labor Minister would feel for a person having their personal** family*** details revealed****.
*Computer/modem “fingerprint” set by ISP.
**Kevni hated telling us about living in a car.
***Kevni didn’t want to talk about his father and how he really died.
****Kevni really hated it when it all came out.
- A complaint straight to the service provider made by a solicitor should work wonders at prying out the name of this tick turd. A friend of the missus got badly hacked, phone calls, kis services etc from a lovely lady in forumland she used to visit. Bugger all happened with her complaints till a letter was drafted by her hubbies soliciter (cost a bit) but that got the name, and a restraining order pretty quick.
Only a suggestion, it was an Australian based server/forum, so if its overseas it prob wont work.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 01 31 at 08:53 AM • permalink
- #32 Daddy Dave. No DD I in my sedentary mindset sent the twist an email saying ‘grow up’.
All he had to do was right click on my email title, go to properties and get my email address, just as he would on any cursory Blair blog email sent to him.He has then taken that info and dug down and broken my confidentiality virginity and it has hurt. Oooooh.So this has become my 2008 task. To not only find him/her…but bury it in whatever I can.
I hope it’s packing its bags because that light is the train.
All of this help is wonderful. I will follow up on every lead. Thank God I’m half retired. Now I have reason to do other than rework the cellar, feed the cat and shake the Australian at Canberra in frustration.
Thanks Renegade…that’s good advice and I’ll let you know the outcome.
Thanks to everyone else. I hope sludge funnel is reading and choking on his copy of ‘I am master bates’ because here we come.
Tell the Gazans that every snowflake makes a perfect Star of David.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 01 31 at 11:56 AM • permalink
All we need is snow! (dun duh dun duh duh)
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 01 31 at 03:17 PM • permalink
- Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 01 31 at 03:18 PM • permalink
#26 Peter he has much more than that. As per the email details in notice 24
But what if he’s reading your Emails? ie He is an Email administrator with your Email provider?
Isn’t this the bloke who masqueraded as others on this blog? 1.618? Thin Man? Others? I wonder if they are with the same ISP or Email provider as you?
Mehaul: just read your info on the harrassment you’re getting from “Garry Logan.: I didn’t get an email from you—I think, I get so much spam it clogs my email servers—but anyway, here are the ISPs I have from the creep:
220.233.195.161
193.200.150.23
58.6.38.226
206.221.184.108I think that’s all of them. However, I don’t know how much help they will be, if he is spoofing or posting from a library or other public machine. I guess your best bet is to contact gmail—he seems to get all his emails from there.
I’m also going to email this info to you.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 01 31 at 05:02 PM • permalink
Good luck on your quest, mehaul!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 31 at 06:46 PM • permalink
#43 Thanks Andrea. It seems it is difficult to talk to gmail. They have a section on privacy/security where they note they only respond to complaints if the complainant approaches them using the services of a solicitor. Which is what I’ll do.
So…any solicitors want to get involved in this?
The hunt will be interesting and could set some precedence for deterring and flushing out future trolls. Another first for the Blair blog.
#46 Thanks for the great response team solicitors.
If we don’t have this guy nailed soon then I’ll fake a streak at the local nunnery. He sent me two more dick stroking emails today. Clearly in need of treatment.
And thanks for all that info and assistance regarding him Andrea, Kae and Ash. He genuinely thinks he’s a technical wiz.
We’ll pickle him in his own brine.
Who’s that walking up the path glhj yuity?
mehaul, here is the pertinent schedule of the Criminal code…(Click me, and it pays to expand the history under the Part 10.6 – Telecommunications Services heading, the juicy bits you wave under the Carrier’s nose until they cough up the miscreant.)
The gist:
CHAPTER 10 – NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Part 10.6 – Telecommunications Services
Division 474 – Telecommunications Offences
Definitions
Subdivision C – Offences related to use of telecommunications
SECTION 474.17 Using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence(1)
A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person uses a carriage service; and
(b) the person does so in a way (whether by the method of use or the content of a communication, or both) that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, menacing, harassing or offensive.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 01 at 07:45 AM • permalink
#48 Mental. Superb. 36 months. With his estranged mother from his second father twice removed he should be out within 35 minutes. Surrounded by social workers and the 48 family members from his various family links (he’s still in the cell yard) he won’t feel bad at all. But that won’t stop the social community from offering him free rent, work opportunities and a glimmer of hope. All the qualities the wanker doesn’t espouse currently.
mehaul, here’s a simple trace from me in melbourne to him on the first IP Andrea provided:
C:\Documents and Settings\slashusr>tracert 220.233.195.161
Tracing route to 161.195.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.195.161] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 36 ms 46 ms 46 ms 172.18.112.129
2 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms 172.18.68.2
3 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms 61.9.133.7
4 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms 10GigabitEthernet1-1.win13.melbourne.telstra.net
[165.228.108.101] 5 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms TenGigabitEthernet9-2.lon42.Melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.79.52] 6 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms ozemail12.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.248.10] 7 77 ms 46 ms 46 ms 32.so-2-0-0.XR1.MEL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.32.13] 8 46 ms 46 ms 62 ms 0.so-0-1-.XT1.SYD2.ALTER.NET [210.80.33.105] 9 61 ms 77 ms 46 ms so-3-3-0.GW8.SYD2.Alter.Net [210.80.38.222] 10 46 ms 46 ms 61 ms exetel-syd-gw.aspac.customer.alter.net [203.166.
92.58] 11 46 ms 62 ms 46 ms 37.2.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.2.37] 12 * * * Request timed out.
13 59 ms 59 ms 46 ms 251.0.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.251] 14 62 ms 61 ms 62 ms 254.0.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.254] 15 * * * Request timed out.
16 59 ms 62 ms 46 ms 251.0.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.251] 17 62 ms 59 ms 61 ms 254.0.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.254] 18 * ^CSo, looks like he’s behind a firewall provided by the fine folks at Exetel, here. This would be my first stop, waving Courier-New formatted documents around like they meant something.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 01 at 08:02 AM • permalink
Now, the last IP is more interesting because the trace resolves without timing out:
C:\Documents and Settings\slashusr>tracert 206.221.184.108
Tracing route to 206-221-184-108.fndns.net 206.221.184.108] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 43 ms 45 ms 46 ms 72.18.112.129
2 46 ms 46 ms 77 ms 172.18.68.2
3 46 ms 43 ms 46 ms 61.9.133.7
4 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms 0GigabitEthernet1-1.win13.melbourne.telstra.net [165.228.108.101] 5 46 ms 45 ms 46 ms Bundle-OS1.win-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.6.22] 6 46 ms 46 ms 62 ms Bundle-Ethernet3.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.30] 7 46 ms 62 ms 57 ms Port-Channel1.pad-gw2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50
.6.29] 8 46 ms 46 ms 61 ms 10GigabitEthernet1-0.sydp-core02.Sydney.reach.co
m [203.50.13.46] 9 202 ms 202 ms 202 ms i-0-0.wil-core02.net.reach.com [202.84.144.101]10 249 ms 405 ms 405 ms i-3-1.wil03.net.reach.com [202.84.251.166] 11 218 ms 218 ms 217 ms Cogent.wil03.net.reach.com [134.159.63.70] 12 202 ms 202 ms 202 ms vl3493.mpd01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.229] 13 233 ms * * te8-.mpd01.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.2.1
97] 14 243 ms 264 ms 249 ms te7-.mpd01.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.1
29] 15 279 ms 327 ms 280 ms te4-3.mpd01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.1
58] 16 280 ms 280 ms 280 ms te2-3.mpd01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.1
37] 17 296 ms 280 ms 311 ms gi12-0-.core01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.1.97] 18 296 ms 296 ms 295 ms po14-.core01.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1
.57] 19 311 ms 311 ms 309 ms po5-0.core01.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.
26] 20 311 ms 311 ms 311 ms te7-1.mpd01.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.2
2] 21 311 ms 311 ms 311 ms te4-3.ccr01.ymq01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.0.2
1] 22 311 ms 311 ms 311 ms xibi-group.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.152.10] 23 311 ms 311 ms 311 ms 206-221-184-108.fndns.net [206.221.184.108]Trace complete.
(Sorry about the formatting—it’s a bitch coming from a “cmd” Window—I might have cut off a number/letter—but you can run the trace as well as I can).
Now this result is more interesting because we’re talking about a BIG provider, Congetco.com. They might not be your next stop (personally I don’t think the twat works for them, but the route is hopping overseas and back again—but notice there is a Domain Name Server at the last entry…hmmm, maybe exetel’s link, dunno.)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 01 at 08:24 AM • permalink
Now, the two middle IP’s indicate the guy’s a shitsucking wanker, but he’s not dumb. He’s hiding behind a host server custom made for spammers and stalkers (anonymouse) in Frankfurt:
C:\Documents and Settings\slashusr>tracert 193.200.150.23
Tracing route to mail23.anonymouse.org [193.200.150.23] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 21 ms 19 ms 21 ms 172.18.112.129
2 19 ms 23 ms 19 ms 172.18.68.2
3 17 ms 21 ms 19 ms 61.9.133.7
4 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms 10GigabitEthernet1-1.win13.melbourne.telstra.net
[165.228.108.101] 5 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms Bundle-POS1.win-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net [203
.50.6.22] 6 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms Bundle-Ethernet3.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [2
03.50.6.30] 7 35 ms 34 ms 32 ms Port-Channel1.pad-gw2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50
.6.29] 8 33 ms 34 ms 32 ms 10GigabitEthernet2-0.sydp-core02.Sydney.reach.co
m [203.50.13.50] 9 35 ms 32 ms 34 ms i-5-0.syd-core04.net.reach.com [202.84.144.250]10 191 ms 190 ms 190 ms i-4-0.paix-core02.net.reach.com [202.84.144.154]
11 190 ms 190 ms 192 ms static.net.reach.com [202.84.251.66] 12 189 ms 192 ms 190 ms GBLX.peer.paix05.net.reach.com [134.159.62.98] 13 378 ms 376 ms 378 ms VELIA-NET-INTERNETDIENSTE-GMBH.TenGigabitEtherne
t4-2.ar1.FRA4.gblx.net [64.215.80.42] 14 382 ms 376 ms 378 ms ggbt.celsius.router.frankfurt.de.velia.net [85.1
95.113.2] 15 389 ms 409 ms 393 ms mail23.anonymouse.org [193.200.150.23]Trace complete.
Sure as hell proves intent, though, don’t it…this guys trying to hide his tracks sumpin fierce.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 01 at 08:28 AM • permalink
Which brings us back home to OZ:
C:\Documents and Settings\slashusr>tracert 58.6.38.226
Tracing route to dsl-58-6-38-226.nsw.westnet.com.au [58.6.38.226] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 21 ms 22 ms 22 ms 172.18.112.129
2 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms 172.18.68.2
3 20 ms 21 ms 23 ms 61.9.133.7
4 19 ms 21 ms 19 ms 10GigabitEthernet1-1.win13.melbourne.telstra.net [165.228.108.101] 5 20 ms 21 ms 19 ms Bundle-POS1.win-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.6.22] 6 34 ms 32 ms 32 ms 0GigabitEthernet0-1-0-2.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.20.1] 7 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms TenGigabitEthernet9-2.ken12.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.20.22] 8 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms optus4.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.65.146] 9 31 ms 32 ms 32 ms 61.88.221.47
10 35 ms 33 ms 34 ms westnetltd.52gdc76f02.optus.net.au [59.154.21.90] 11 33 ms 34 ms 32 ms gi3-1-0.syd-lns2.nsw.westnet.com.au [202.173.128.93] 12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 ^C
C:\Documents and Settings\slashusr>So, this is where he slips up—Two OZ ISP’s: Exetel and Westnet.
I don;’t want to be alarmist—I reckon you’ve got things well in perspective—but I’d listen to everything everyone has told you here, and don’t wait—this joker sounds like he could very well be dangerous.
Get in touch with the folks at that that .gov link I gave you up top, call the Telecommunications Ombudsman, and get on to Exetel and Westnet.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 01 at 08:39 AM • permalink
Oh, sorry, mate—I wasn’t reading your reposnse in between, how rude of me—kinda got caught up in the chase.
There’s some real boffin’s out there in Blairdom that’s be able to help you more’n me.
Luck to you and safe harbours.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 01 at 08:43 AM • permalink
Sorry mehaul – wasn’t trying to abandon you! Dunno about the other lawyers here, but it’s usually only in the evenings I read this blog properly.
I’m usually reluctant to get deeply into acting in an area of law that’s not part of my actual practice: I’m but an employee solicitor, and the fate of the lawyer who caused this particular calamity for her employer tends to be a bit of a cautionary tale.
If it’s OK with you, I’l give it a bit of thought at the weekend and either post here or email you any bright ideas I have?
Posted by Renegade Lawyer on 2008 02 01 at 09:19 AM • permalink
One more thing: If you are casting around for a firm in Queensland that might be able to help, can I recommend Gilshenan & Luton? I’ve dealt with them a bit where we have clients with inter-state matters and they’ve always struck me as a very skilful and acute firm. Not sure if this is strictly within their field of activity but it might be worth a phone call, maybe?
Posted by Renegade Lawyer on 2008 02 01 at 09:29 AM • permalink
It would have been a unique experience for many of them. And better to fight with snowballs than real weapons.