goodreverend

It's a utility.

And, frankly, we shouldn't be referring to your mom as "it" -- she is a person, with feelings.

This is one of the greatest things I've ever read. Thank you for sharing it. My favorite part so far:

"I am at sixes and sevens trying to figure out how critic after critic could have listened to this record and not come away disturbed and filled with dark wonder. I am fairly confused as to how it came to pass that at least one critic, hearing “Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box,” didn’t put on a ‘40s style reporter’s hat with a little “press” card sticking out of its band and immediately wire the editor: NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM STOP THREAT TO GLOBAL EMOTIONAL WELLBEING STOP SONGS LIKE RUBIKS CUBES WITH COLORS SANDED OFF STOP PLEASE SEND RYE WHISKEY NOW STOP."

Ha. That's me. Don't worry, I've been following along here and on Twitter. I just wanted to build some evidence and describe how the scam operates, and share with people how to track down scammers, similar to the series Popehat did. I was using some purposefully vague language about it maybe being a scam to avoid the risk of defamation liability.

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that she emailed the photos to someone else. So what? That has no bearing on the allegation (which is backed by more evidence than the victim's say-so) that the owner of the site paid someone else to socially engineer email accounts in order to find these kinds of photos.

Have you ever seen a ghost?

Follow-up question: is FIRE working with one firm in particular? Or is there a way for other litigators to get involved?