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In my #inbox today
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From: Lindsay

Thank you for making it so easy for me to see that you have hacked into 3 of my very own devices throughout the year. I'm going to be holding onto all of my finds that have your name all over it and not by me because I have absolutely no reason to hack my own belongings. I will be adding this to stuff I have already for my attorney.

(plus another 40 lines of rambling in the same style)

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/26โ€ฆ

This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Juanjo Cuellar

@juanjosaurio a troubled person finds my name and email somewhere. Fantasy conclusions and conspiracy theories make me the villain in a world where everyone clearly is out for her...
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I guess that's the not so nice side of being part of something public.
I'll send you a very normal thank you note.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

what I always wonder is, how do people that are so clueless even come upon your contact info? I just tried to find specifically the curl license on my device and failed. You need to step up your hacking game.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

This makes me wonder when you team up with Bill Gates to put chips in people's heads. Are Bills chips running CURL? ๐Ÿ˜‚.

But jokes aside, every time i talk to someone maintaining a public E-mail for some Organisation they drop stories that make me doubt humanity.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

when I ran the answer column at securityportal.com we got stuff like this all the time. Mental illness is a heckuva thing. The really ugly part is that if you Google โ€œlandlord spies on tenantโ€ or โ€œSchool district spies on childrenโ€, thereโ€™s a lot of actual cases of this kind of thing happening, and have been prosecuted in court.
in reply to kurtseifried (he/him)

@kurtseifried oh yes it is absolutely a real thing and of course there is nothing that is fun about that. In this case, it adds a level of scary that I am being identified as a villain in this confused story.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

This is strangely similar to Acme Software's Attack of the Repo Men. TL;DR: Acme makes a tiny http daemon (thttpd), some idiots in the repossession "industry" got hacked, found traces of it on a Russian forum with the data "hosted by thttpd" and all of a sudden its author starts getting threats from these idiots who just can't be reasoned with.

acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.โ€ฆ

in reply to Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

Actually reading a bit further it seems more like someone in dire need of psychological help. ๐Ÿซค
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

in fairness, I also get the impression that curl is following me around ๐Ÿคท
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daniel:// stenberg://
@ascherbaum @jpmens I'm not a very clever hacker, clearly =)
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Andreas Scherbaum
@jpmens Of course Daniel made it easy to track his tracks by leaving his name around all over the place.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Looks like the person found curl as user agent and assumed that the author of curl must be hacking their computer

From @bagder

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In my #inbox today
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From: Lindsay

Thank you for making it so easy for me to see that you have hacked into 3 of my very own devices throughout the year. I'm going to be holding onto all of my finds that have your name all over it and not by me because I have absolutely no reason to hack my own belongings. I will be adding this to stuff I have already for my attorney.

(plus another 40 lines of rambling in the same style)

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/26โ€ฆ


in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I get the feeling that the most plausible explanation here is that she received a few of those phishing scams that say "you have been hacked" and asked for ransom in Bitcoin. The scammers spoofed your email as the sender and this person isn't tech savvy enough to understand that the sender in emails is as secure as the return address on a snail mail envelope.
in reply to Dan Herbert

@danherbert could be, sure. In lots of other cases the person found my name and email in the curl license in one of their commonly used apps and then just concluded that since they are hacked (which always is questionable) and my name is in there, the logical conclusion is that I was the attacker...
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

hey i'm just a random curl user so feel free to ignore me but posting that email publicly makes me a bit uncomfortable. i understand getting mail and legal threats like that all the time is awful, but this person is obviously not well and it comes across completely differently than some idiot corporation thinking you owe them support.

at best we're having a laugh at the expense of their apparently severe life issues, at worst they're gonna find that post and get even more paranoid. idk.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Again? I swear Iโ€™ve heard a variation of this from you before. Crazy.
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