On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2008/12/11 Fran Rogers <fran(a)nutmeg.ws>ws>:
Personally, I'm utterly bamboozled. This kid
is nineteen years old and in
college; he's an adult, and he has his entire life ahead of him. Yet he
still continues to anonymously threaten and harass people on the
Internet,
even though he's clearly stepped into illegal
territory, his identity is
known along with reams of evidence of his misdeeds connecting them to
him,
and his parent upon whom he's still dependent
has been alerted. And he
still
soldiers on, using Mom's broadband to move
pages on Wikipedia to titles
"I
will rape and murder (insert admin here)."
What could possibly be running
through his mind? And how can he be stopped?
If he's making threats of violence and stalking then you should
contact his local police. They'll probably at least discuss it with
him and he'll either stop or eventually criminal proceedings will
occur. Doesn't sound like there's any other option.
Forensic analysis of his computer could doubtless prove it was him
doing this, not his mother who shares the same IP.
You could also contact his ISP. It puts them in a bad light to have
someone like that on their networks and nearly always violates T&C-
they might well want to terminate his service. But he'll probably just
get another ISP; but depending on where he lives there might not be
many ISPs in his area.
Perhaps the Foundation could send a cease-and-desist letter to both her and
him, cc the ISP?
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com