Brain Attacked! Film at eleven!
I think it is important to share openly within this forum the details of our individual and group attacks so that we are all better prepared to face them. It has become obvious at this point that there are indeed individuals and/or groups actively seeking to undermine or destroy the Adult Blogger community. I think it would be unwise to view this any other way. This does not however, mean that we must succumb to these threats or not fight back. Speaking only for myself, I have not yet begun to fight.
With that in mind I thought I would open the shadows on my most recent attacker. Perhaps in the light of the sun his or her deeds will illuminate us all.
Yesterday (January 28th) a person calling themselves ONE VISION began posting on sites linked to The Secret Brain. The first thing that I noticed was that ONE VISION was using as his/her profile image a photo of my good friend, the photo of him available on his companies website. I quickly visited other sites and found ONE VISION comments on almost all of them! This began to be very concerning to me. Clicking on the comments took me to ONE VISION's profile which listed two Blogs, secretbrian and secretbryan. Those Blogs contained my friends picture along with links to his professional company blog AND his companies website. They also contained the threat to expose my friend as Artfuldodger! I immediately left a comment warning ONE VISION that what they were doing was CRIMINAL and that my friend and I both viewed this with the utmost concern and would prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
I immediately wrote all of the bloggers I had email addresses for to alert them to ONE VISION and ask that they delete any and al comments from this criminal. They agreed and the word began to spread. Within a half hour ONE VISION had removed the content from both blogs, and they are now empty.
At that time I had no idea how extensive or far-reaching this attack was and decided that the best course of action was to remove The Secret Brain and see where this would lead. That decision was prompted by the fact that my friend, a married, professional, innocent man, had been dragged into my Sex Blog by association. I did not want, not do I want, any harm to come to him or his reputation. We've been friends for over twenty years, and although we live 400 miles apart we stay in close contact with each other. It is that contact that I believe resulted in the problem in the first place. And it was my mistake that led to it. Again, I have no proof, but the only tie that binds us is a favor I asked of him. In order to post banner images on site such as Clix, LicList and others, you need to post them to public servers. I asked my friend if he had available server space to do so for me. He agreed and created a new site simply to host those images for me. That site is registered in his name. I believe that is the weak link and resulted in him being accused of being the Artfuldodger. That was my mistake, not his.
Last week a comment (from a known blogger) was posted on The Secret Brain that caused me to begin comment moderation. This comment, in quotes, revealed the name of my friends company. I took this very seriously, the blogger in question had never commented on my site previously and has a history with my site. At this time I am not going to name anyone, I certainly will not be the one to attack someone without proof. Suffice it to say that several additional clues have come to light since yesterday that all point to this particular individual. Circumstantial proofs, but I believe by early next week I will have more concrete proof in hand. If that individual is reading this please know that my friend and I plan to pursue this criminal action to the fullest extent available to us. Identity theft is a serious crime and we take it very seriously, as do many of our friends and colleagues. However, there is ONE way out that will result in our forgiveness. Admit it. Simply own up to the fact in public, on your blog, and all charges and future charges will be dropped. Otherwise we will never stop looking for you, now and in the future. I can promise you that much.
Again, I believe that we all must stick together in the face of these ongoing attacks. In my personal case I am currenly considering returning the Secret Brain to operation and taking away my attackers primary weapon against me, my anonymity. Obviously this is a big decision, but if they are so hell-bent on exposing me, perhaps I should do it for them, so they'll leave my friends alone. This is something that I am thinking about for the next few days. There are lots of things to consider before doing that, but currently I am leaning in that direction.
As always, if anyone has any additional information that might help in our investigation, please share it no matter how trivial it might seem. You can do so by leaving a comment here on SIC or by emailing one of the contributors and they can get the information to me. Thank you all. And good luck.
With that in mind I thought I would open the shadows on my most recent attacker. Perhaps in the light of the sun his or her deeds will illuminate us all.
Yesterday (January 28th) a person calling themselves ONE VISION began posting on sites linked to The Secret Brain. The first thing that I noticed was that ONE VISION was using as his/her profile image a photo of my good friend, the photo of him available on his companies website. I quickly visited other sites and found ONE VISION comments on almost all of them! This began to be very concerning to me. Clicking on the comments took me to ONE VISION's profile which listed two Blogs, secretbrian and secretbryan. Those Blogs contained my friends picture along with links to his professional company blog AND his companies website. They also contained the threat to expose my friend as Artfuldodger! I immediately left a comment warning ONE VISION that what they were doing was CRIMINAL and that my friend and I both viewed this with the utmost concern and would prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
I immediately wrote all of the bloggers I had email addresses for to alert them to ONE VISION and ask that they delete any and al comments from this criminal. They agreed and the word began to spread. Within a half hour ONE VISION had removed the content from both blogs, and they are now empty.
At that time I had no idea how extensive or far-reaching this attack was and decided that the best course of action was to remove The Secret Brain and see where this would lead. That decision was prompted by the fact that my friend, a married, professional, innocent man, had been dragged into my Sex Blog by association. I did not want, not do I want, any harm to come to him or his reputation. We've been friends for over twenty years, and although we live 400 miles apart we stay in close contact with each other. It is that contact that I believe resulted in the problem in the first place. And it was my mistake that led to it. Again, I have no proof, but the only tie that binds us is a favor I asked of him. In order to post banner images on site such as Clix, LicList and others, you need to post them to public servers. I asked my friend if he had available server space to do so for me. He agreed and created a new site simply to host those images for me. That site is registered in his name. I believe that is the weak link and resulted in him being accused of being the Artfuldodger. That was my mistake, not his.
Last week a comment (from a known blogger) was posted on The Secret Brain that caused me to begin comment moderation. This comment, in quotes, revealed the name of my friends company. I took this very seriously, the blogger in question had never commented on my site previously and has a history with my site. At this time I am not going to name anyone, I certainly will not be the one to attack someone without proof. Suffice it to say that several additional clues have come to light since yesterday that all point to this particular individual. Circumstantial proofs, but I believe by early next week I will have more concrete proof in hand. If that individual is reading this please know that my friend and I plan to pursue this criminal action to the fullest extent available to us. Identity theft is a serious crime and we take it very seriously, as do many of our friends and colleagues. However, there is ONE way out that will result in our forgiveness. Admit it. Simply own up to the fact in public, on your blog, and all charges and future charges will be dropped. Otherwise we will never stop looking for you, now and in the future. I can promise you that much.
Again, I believe that we all must stick together in the face of these ongoing attacks. In my personal case I am currenly considering returning the Secret Brain to operation and taking away my attackers primary weapon against me, my anonymity. Obviously this is a big decision, but if they are so hell-bent on exposing me, perhaps I should do it for them, so they'll leave my friends alone. This is something that I am thinking about for the next few days. There are lots of things to consider before doing that, but currently I am leaning in that direction.
As always, if anyone has any additional information that might help in our investigation, please share it no matter how trivial it might seem. You can do so by leaving a comment here on SIC or by emailing one of the contributors and they can get the information to me. Thank you all. And good luck.
posted by ArtfulDodger at 4:53 AM
5 Comments:
"In my personal case I am currenly considering returning the Secret Brain to operation and taking away my attackers primary weapon against me, my anonymity."
Go to it, Art. All power to you.
Minxxxxx
Is this a differnet guy than the one listed at the bottom of the page?
Goose
Gigi - I believe the motivation is pure spite and the personal hubris it takes to uncover a mystery at any cost. My mistake was laying out clues from the beginning that someone was obviously not willing to let go.
At this time I believe there MAY be a connection between us. But right now I have NO proof of that.
Goose - The HACKER and ATTACKER are different people. The HACKER we know, the ATTACKER we are still on the trail of. But the net is getting tighter.
Count me in, whatever I can do to help.
AD, I think you are right. It looks to me as if there are two separate sorts of problems right now: 1) the Hacker, who is identified by name in a previous post, and does this as a scheme to direct our traffic to his shitty porn sites, and 2) Some Attacker, who threatens people personally with the exposure of their identities. Maybe this is also the person who attacked GiGi.
I hope you don't give up your blog, and I agree that if you chose to 'out' yourself, or keep your blog and say damn the consequences, you could take away this person's only real weapon against you.
But this is such a difficult decision to make. It's hard to see all the possible consequences in advance. Whatever you decide you have my sympathy and full support.
Thanks for posting about what happened to you. I think it is important that people tell their individual accounts--we might find out more in this way.
Love
O
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