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Lothlauren -> RE: Maybe leaving CM.. A warning (7/13/2007 8:59:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Petronius
I am amazed at the level of paranoia in the BDSM community reflected in this conversation.
One person presents a paranoid fantasy of almost classical style, of a nefarious hacker of inhuman brilliance discovering a bug in software, and then using it to stalk her in various ways.
The rest of the community buys into it.
When I challenged her fantasy, Lockit responded with more fantasy and imagination.
Why, I asked, would somebody who discovered a bug worth millions and millions and millions of dollars decide to stalk her instead of robbing banks.
Lockit responded "maybe he doesn't need money... maybe he needs a lil slave girl with the right body parts, that comes in an intelligent package and he's a sick puck..."
But this is simply the invention of a new reality to support the old paranoid reality. In the entire history of the world, has there ever been a case where some multimillionaire with a hankering for a slave didn't simply pay to have the slave kidnapped? Look at Lookit's fantasy: he doesn't need the money that the brilliant hack would give him; he wants a slave; he doesn't use his money to kidnap the slave; he uses the multimillion dollar bug to harass somebody online. Again I say it is pure paranoid fantasy, supporting itself with newly invented fantasies of the genius wealthy hacker too stupid and poor to simply buy a kidnapping.
Then almost everybody else in the BDSM community interested enough in the topic buys into it, rushing to help the poor stalker victim and punish the big bad monster under the bed.
Petronius
PS: Actually, another person suggested the core problem may not be paranoia but a narcissist out for attention and using paranoia to get it. That may well be true but doesn't contradict the paranoid actions.
Well looking at the overall situation there is one of several possibilities going on here.
1.) she is doing exactly what you say she is doing.... well thats really unfortunate but that situation does come up from time to time. the advice I gave is good for anyone to check and ensure that they have made secure anything they can. With the number of people out there that like to perform random assaults of a malicious nature its just good practice.
2.) You as a person can not believe that a situation can exist like this. Somehow I dont think that you are this closeminded.
3.) You are the person harrassing / stalking her, again this seems far fetched but in this age of information, many people can develop the skills necessary to do this kind of thing.
4.) The situation she states is happening, and you as a very suspicious minded individual want to see some concrete proof of his (The Stalker) activity.
The only thing that can be done here in all honesty when the pros and cons are weighed are to give her the best advice for her situation and let the chips fall where they may. My first question to you would be "Have you ever been stalked?" I and several of the people I know have been at one time or another and I can say without doubt it is a haunting experience and one main objectives of the stalker is to force the individuals state of mind to become as unbalanced as possible while maintaining a state of innocence so to speak.
The individual in question may not have used the exploit in question against a corporation where money would be the objective because most companys hire technical savvy guys to ensure that exploits like this DO NOT happen.
Increasingly the hacks and attacks of this nature are perpertrated on the home user than any business's computer network. (Many people keep their business records on personal home machines and this is why that is happening)
Anyways that was my two cents.
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