Hackergate part four - PLEASE READ!

Wolsey

There are people who are on the list AND who have other concerns such as abusive exes. Whilst MNHQ are no doubt taking your request seriously, they do need to triage and prioritise.

Wolsey "All I am after is an acknowledgment [sic] of a message sent two days ago confirming that they will take steps to remove my positing history and then account for the site."

I'm sure you will get a response. MN are actually pretty good at responding quickly in normal circumstances.

Well wolsey - for you to come on here and say that they "have handled this whole debacle in a slow and ineffective way" rather implies you know how to handle these things.

I'm sure your advice and expertise in reacting to hacking scandals would be most appreciated.

Oh fgs. Well- I am not Jeffrey because I can't even bold text to quote it!

*Today 10:44 DontTellThePrincessBride

I don't think there are as many of them as they claim either. I think it's been one person and it's snowballed so hers gotten a couple of his mates in to help and I think that with the furore that has erupted it is rapidly escalating beyond their control.*

I agree with this.

Calm down Jeffrey.
It's a free world, anyone can reply to your posts wolsey

wolsey feel free to pop over to MN Towers and show them how to handle this situation! Maybe make a power point showing them what they should have done? I'm sure they'd appreciate it!

I am rather imagining Jeffrey being a bit deflated - he didn't get all that much attention form this. He was all over the boards and Tiwtter etc and all "Oh ho! total 1337 and a madhax0r - gonna bring Mumsnet down for keks"

And then Ashley Madison happened.

I don't think there are as many of them as they claim either. I think it's been one person and it's snowballed so hers gotten a couple of his mates in to help and I think that with the furore that has erupted it is rapidly escalating beyond their control.

No one who has children of their own would send a swat team to a house knowing there was children sleeping there.
I dont think they are fathers either. But if they are, this proves that their ex-partners are entirely justified in withholding access to the children.

I addressed my comment to MNHQ (who have handled this whole debacle in a slow and ineffective way).

3000 People were on that list, there has been an actual attack on the staff and they have been coming online to post at all hours of the night, they are clearly doing things as fast as they can.

What make you so special, that you think they should stop everything so they can delete your posting history, which as has been explained won't make any difference?

*Ashley Madison

I think it's possible to disregard the effect of a SWAT if you're a young teenager/mentally a young teenager as many of his followers seem to be. Much of this will be eclipsed by the Ashey Mdadison hack though, I think, or the next big one that comes along. I hope only that MNHQ learn this lesson for our future.

I didn't "actively seek him out". There were several of us chatting about the DDOS attack, he got @'d into the conversation. However investigation has shown that he didn't get my address details from MN.

I think in this sort of situation it's all too easy to link unrelated events and put hem down to one cause when really they're not due to the same issue. My opinion is that until there is evidence to say otherwise then the email issue isn't related

And Lavri, can I please wish you all the very best for some positive news. Please don't feel chased away from MN. The things that make it great (that's all of us btw) haven't changed.

I was going to PM you but I think the PM system is probably best left alone for now.

FFS. Fed up of MN double posting everything I write now. Grr.

Wolsey It's not a priority right now, because it makes no difference. It won't remove your posts anyway, they will be accessible through the cache if someone wanted to look for them, so it makes no difference.

Put in a dereg request and log off, if that's what you need to do, but you're wasting your time waiting for MNHQ to delete your posts before you go because they are on the internet anyway, deleting them now is an exercise in futility.

Everyone using the internet should be aware that you can't decide to remove everything after the fact. Once you've posted it, it's there, for good. Asking for it to be removed now is useless.

Wolsey It's not a priority right now, because it makes no difference. It won't remove your posts anyway, they will be accessible through the cache if someone wanted to look for them, so it makes no difference.

Put in a dereg request and log off, if that's what you need to do, but you're wasting your time waiting for MNHQ to delete your posts before you go because they are on the internet anyway, deleting them now is an exercise in futility.

Everyone using the internet should be aware that you can't decide to remove everything after the fact. Once you've posted it, it's there, for good. Asking for it to be removed now is useless.

Thanks RebeccaMumsnet. It's reassuring to know you're about. It's a bit like hearing the Today programme and knowing we're not under nuclear attack.

I think I might have figured something out about Jeffrey. I've let MNHQ know but obviously don't want to post here as he will be watching this thread.

On another note I think if there was a swatting last night we would have heard about it by now. I don't buy the story about it being revenge for fathers. No one who has children of their own would send a swat team to a house knowing there was children sleeping there.

Wolsey But your username and posting history have always been openly available on the internet? And even if MN removes all the posts, they will still be available on the internet...