Ioannis Vranos <ivranos@freemail.gr> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div> Why is a cracker like this after your PCs? -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <A href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</A> </div> <div> </div> <div>Here's the whole (sordid story):</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> This is a long and rather convoluted story. It started last June (2003), and it continues until this day. I used to operate a Yahoo group, it had a member on it named "Rev." Silver Crow, or 'Corvus Argentum', or 'David Screeton', or take your pick of probably a hundred other I.D.'s. This all started with a disagreement about words and titles. Someone on my old (first) Yahoo e-list asked me about folks who use titles like "Reverend", and "Master", and such. I personally dislike titles and labels like these. Anyway, I digress, when I publically said that I didn't care for such titles, this person 'went off' (so-to-speak). This debate went on for several days, and when I asked for it to cease, this person threw a fit, and when I threatened to moderate him, he got downright nasty and vile. I removed him from the list. Well, it turned out that he was an expert computer hacker, and the lady who 'set up' the beginning of this argument over titles was his lover (and she was married.......incidently). I think now, that the whole thing was just set up by her, as she disagreed with me on a whole gamut of things, but instead of dealing with this upfront, she subtletly 'set up' this argument with someone that she already KNEW was an expert computer hacker. It turns out later, that I was given a recorded (on audio tape) telephone conversation between she and this hacker, by a friend. In Arkansas, the law says only ONE person has to know if a conversation is being recorded during a telephone conversation. This was the start of a 13 month battle, that continues til this day, as I said above. I lost my first PC to this man, as he 'turned off' the video card on it, so that it would no longer work, and he finally gave it the 'My Doom' virus, which even damages the computer's hardware! He also ruined two more loaner PC's from friends of mine. Finally, some like minded friends (who's PC's he had also hacked) and myself went to the F.B.I., last October 6th, 2004, about this man. We gave them (the F.B.I.) PROOF, the recorded audio tape of him bragging about hacking people's PC's, and a log of him hacking through MANY computers, using the computers at the hospital, where he USED to be employed. As it turned out, the F.B.I. ALREADY KNEW ABOUT HIM, but refused to prosecute him as he had (at that time) not met a supposed $10,000.00 ceiling for damages that occured while he was hacking our PC's. That is, a hacker has to cause at least $10,000.00 in damages, to be Federally prosecuted. I knew (as did everyone else who's computers that he had hacked) that he worked in the largest hospital in Arkansas, in Little Rock, as one of their main tele-communications people. After he had put some of my Medical information on the internet (in a Yahoo group), which violates the HIPPA Act, I called them on June 1st, and by June the 6th, 2005, he was no longer an employee there. He had been employed there for a long time, around 8 years, I understand. He has also 'taken captive' two of my old personal e-mail accounts, and thus, because I had only MYSELF as 'an owner' of my e-mail groups, he also took the e-lists 'captive' too. He went to my old high school website where I graduated from in 1970, and told them that I was 'dead', they even posted a photo of me taken from my old high school year book, in 'the deceased' section of their 1970 Graduates. It took me SIX MONTHS to NOT be "dead", at this high school website, after he did what he did. He sent a girlfriend to my front door in Arkansas, posing as a County D.H.S. worker (this too, is a felony), scoping out where, and how, I lived. My feeling is that this was for a potential 'hit' on me. Once when I had an angiogram at The Little Rock Cardiology Clinic (a part of the St. Vincent's Medical System), I had the procedure done, and was back home by 7:00 PM. But David had hacked their computers and put a message on them "that Albion Guppy was not supposed to survive through the night". Friends of mine called up the Clinic there on the phone, and were actually told this!! He's had a friend of his in prison call my sister, as she was 'my next of kin', on my hospital forms (which of course, he hacked). He HAD a legal license to "Minister" in the Arkansas Prison System, til I had a little chat with the Director of the Ministry section there on the phone. He's an "ordained" and licensed Minister, in the state of Arkansas. My sister and her husband finally had to call the Arkansas Attorney General to have these calls to their home cease. He attacked another person's computer (at work) who just happens to work for the Arkansas Secretary of State. I later learned that both the F.B.I. and the Arkansas State Police raided the Secretary of State's office and confiscated many computer hard drives and other PC items, but still, this man was NOT prosecuted. He later ran this lady off of the road, with his van, to where she had to get a restraining order against him, as she was terrified that he would kill her. He had his cronies follow me late at night in Arkansas to where I had to travel armed (which if you knew me personally, is really hard to believe). After he was fired recently from Saint Vincent's, he shot out a friend of mine's truck window, just as a not so subtle threat, because this friend helped me to get him fired from his job. Still he was not prosecuted, for lack of evidence (he used an exploding bullet, which cannot be traced). We currently have reformatted our current PC, 3 times (I had reformatted my old PC 9 TIMES, and my friend in Arkansas has reformatted his PC, 24 TIMES!), and we have a proxy server with a firewall, two more external firewalls, one internal firewall, and still he has hacked our PC, even though we're almost 700 miles from Arkansas! When I first joined this group, I had one ID, that lasted one whole day, then I had to change the password, and now when I post, I DON'T have to sign in, or out, which leads me to believe, that Silver Crow, is also 'riding in' on my ID, and password, for this group. I have an old IP address (from last October) for him should you want it. I guess that my question is, what would cause someone to be so sick that they would stalk me all around the internet, just over an argument about titles? What must have actually happened to this man in his life to NEED this sort of twisted and perverted 'power'? This is just a small part of a much longer story, that is actually MUCH darker than I've told here. I just needed to gripe, I hope that that is OK with everyone. Albion P.S. I have one more thought.....that probably, this man is in 'The Witness Protection Program'. This is really the ONLY thing that I can think of, that makes ANY sense, as to just WHY, he has not yet been arrested! Now (today) Oct.27th, 2006. Here's the rest of the story..........one night in August of 2005, a Mason City Police woman shows up at our front door at 1:30 AM, because this psycho had had one of his girlfriends call my brother, who then called my mother and wakes her up, and then they call my ex-wife who calls the Mason City Police Dept. with all of them thinking that I had been killed in a horrible car crash (this is what he had one of his girlfriends tell my brother in the initial phone call)..........and the Police woman wants to know if I am Albion Guppy, and have I been in some horrible car crash? Next, he has our HOME TELEPHONE disconnected. Literally. He goes in and hacks Qwest's computers, plus, he calls them using >MY Social Security number<, pretends to BE ME, and TURNS OFF our home telephone!!! I had to go to my Doctor and get a statement saying because of my medical conditions, we HAD to have a telephone connected ASAP. It took them THREE DAYS to get our telephone service restored, and about another WEEK to get our old telephone number back. At that point Qwest was so angry, they were talking about prosecuting him, but so far.........NOTHING has come from this. He's like Bill Clinton, he's pretty much 'teflon', at least so far! He at this moment has our ISP HACKED, and they know it, but will so far, do NOTHING to stop him! We've had "items" put on our telephone line (by the Police) to catch his hang up or breathing calls where he is saying nothing on the phone, and the calls are coming from Arkansas........it has just gone on and on and on......................for three years now! I have lost probably 6 or 7 e-mail accounts to this mad man. We cannot NOT write certain people because he blocks the e-mails from going anywhere, I suppose they disappear into cyber space, or go into one of his computers. We are NOW on our 6th (SIXTH) computer. But you know, I USED to think, as I said above, that he was "an expert" hacker, but now that I see that Panda software has actually STOPPED him, he's only a medium grade hacker (if THAT!). But as a friend of mine says; "He's just an URBAN TERRORIST", and after all of the Government's TALK about stopping terrorist's, they are only talking about folks who blow up buildings and such............and NOT this kind of 'urban terrorist'. Tell me that this is NOT a sad and pitiful story of TOTAL Govt. FAILURE! For Freedom! Albion </div></BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51733/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ "> Try it now.</a>