Encylopedia Dramatica's Ryan Cleary Arrested, split from older ED topic Options

[Greaser]

Ryan has been arrested by Scotland Yard, working in conjunction with the FBI.

[Michaeldsuarez]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_...and_vigilantism

Is this satisfactory?

[Daniel Brandt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_...and_vigilantism

Is this satisfactory?

Moore also accused Brandt of harassing his fiancée at her workplace.

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[May 24 2011 00:10:29] <garrett> Hello!
[May 24 2011 00:10:35] <garrett> Daniel Brandt dox have been updated.
[May 24 2011 00:10:42] <garrett>     Power word: Daniel Leslie Brandt
[May 24 2011 00:10:42] <garrett>     Age: [redacted]
[May 24 2011 00:10:42] <garrett>     DOB: [redacted]
[May 24 2011 00:10:42] <garrett>     Height: 6'0"
[May 24 2011 00:10:42] <garrett>     Weight: "Some extra baggage"
[May 24 2011 00:10:44] <garrett>     Address: [redacted]
[May 24 2011 00:10:47] <garrett>     Company name: Public Information Research
[May 24 2011 00:10:50] <garrett>     Company address: [redacted]
[May 24 2011 00:10:53] <garrett>     Company phone number: [redacted]
[May 24 2011 00:10:55] <garrett>     Known e-mail addresses: [redacted]
[May 24 2011 00:11:04] <garrett> just putting that out there
[May 24 2011 00:11:16] <Xero> nice

By the way, the height and weight are arbitrary guesses from a fake Myspace page put up in my name in 2006, presumably by some Wikipediot.

Just several minutes after this IRC chat happened, I began receiving new spam emails. These were in the form of "Welcome to our mailing list" emails, and most of them had an unsubscribe link. I proceeded to unsubscribe as many as I could. One of them offered up the IP address of the party that had signed me up for the list. I did a reverse lookup on that IP address, which was 69.16.222.138. This is what came back: kaeroseen.wks.liquidweb.com. (It no longer reverse resolves to that. But the slightly modified domain of kaeroseen.liquidweb.com still forward resolves to that same 69.16.222.138.)

I knew already that this was the nick for Karen Shinaver, who is a sysadmin at Liquid Web Inc. in Lansing, Michigan, and I knew that she was a close associate of Garrett's. She had been on the ED.ch chatroom.

I complained to the management at Liquid Web that Ms. Shinaver, or someone using her company shell account, had signed me up for mailing lists so that I would get email that I didn't want. They investigated and a few days later said that it was against company policy to sign up people on mailing lists without their consent. They added that they would handle the matter internally.

I wasn't happy with this, but I dropped the issue. I never telephoned her employer trying to get her home address, but it doesn't surprise me if someone else tried this. In any case, Ms. Shinaver was complicit in the harassment of me. Either she let Garrett use her shell account on equipment owned by her employer, or she did it herself.

Twice I've had Mormon missionaries knock on my door because someone in the chatroom thought it would be funny. And I have to let the answering machine pick up my phone because I was getting crank calls.

My interest in emphasizing Ms. Shinaver's role is also motivated by my desire to geolocate Garrett more precisely. I feel that it would be worthwhile for the FBI to interview him, because he has friends in LulzSec. Now that it has been established that Ms. Shinaver is his fiancée, all the FBI has to do is flash a badge at Liquid Web in Lansing, Michigan, and get her home address. Then they'll be able to find Garrett and ask him about his role on Anonops, Anonymous, and possibly LulzSec. They could also track him down by looking for school and other records in Zanesville, Ohio, and then perhaps locate one or both parents. But they're probably too lazy to do that.

Remember, Garrett, you don't have to talk to them. But if you do, you shouldn't lie to them because that would be a felony.