Monday, March 7, 2011

Bad News for Bobobots?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-nolongeranonymous,0,6983949.story

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's actually a bad day for BOB since I suspect 1 or more of the Bots are him under other names. What a moron.

Anonymous said...

Here is the actual IndyStar article:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110302/LOCAL18/103020335/Judge-Star-IBJ-must-identify-anonymous-poster

Phil Swaim said...

Didn't I tell him? Didn't I tell all of you?

Shield Law only applies to actual sources who secretly report anonymously to a reporter, not to people who post online. You may think you are anonymous online, but you never truly are.... unless you have 1000 wireless network cards and go to different McDonald's to use their wifi to do your defamation and then throw away the card or destroy it.

And pay for it in cash, because the MAC address on the network cards can be traced from source to seller to buyer if the card was purchased with credit card.

but who would want to go through all the trouble?

And you would want to make sure you do not log in to gmail or any other clients, just go directly to the site, put in a fake name, and comment away.

Because then they could possibly get your gmail info and use that to find you.

Brian said...

This will never stand under the scrutiny if an appeal.