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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)

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

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.

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Alexander

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

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daniel:// stenberg://: In my #inbox today --- 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) https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/26/you-have-hacked-into-my-devices/ Posted 26 Nov 2023, 14:14

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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/2023/11/26…


“you have hacked into my devices” | daniel.haxx.se

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Dan Herbert

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.
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vana vqlc

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.

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