Thursday, June 02, 2005
June 2, 2005
Well, I'm back. I was going to start a public or private journal on AOL just to spew venom at Micro$oft and my a-hole hackers. Then I read the "community guidelines" I was expected to follow if I wanted to be on "hometown AOL." Give me a break. AOL really is a Republican thing, don't you think? But I like playing with all the gizmos and and fun features it provides. Earthlink was absolutely horrible, even though I got it for free. And it costs $21.95 to AOL's $17.something.
Also, I googled this blog to find it again. And what to my surprise do I see, but some ad saying it is now worth $12/share. I have no idea what this is all about, but they aren't selling MY blog out from under me.
So here's the update I feel compelled to write:
I am now on computer #4 since April of 2003, and I am still hacked. You can't imagine. I've had this one since Jan of this year. Soon it will pass on like the previous three: Turn it on and nothing. And this after having Dell tech install a new power supply. I am saying that when the hackers are done with the computer, they somehow manage to completely destroy it so that it won't even show lights or make a peep when you turn it on.
I have been to hell and back trying to simply have a computer so I can look things up on the internet, as well as read, research and write. As I mentioned in my last post, I sent a box of evidence to the head of computer crime at the Chicago Dept of Justice. Mr. Bob Podlasek told me he didn't have time to see me, but he would look at it.
I sent him detailed notes and evidence just before Christmas of last year. I have about 50 floppies, a bunch of CD's and 30+ notebooks of evidence, but, of course, I didn't send but a small representational sample because he had told me he was a busy man. I absolutely couldn't phathom that no one could find these hacker asswipes with the amount of evidence I had. As of today, the only thing I have heard from him after repeated letters, e-mails and phone calls is, "They'll never catch these guys." I guess not, if no one even tries. I mean, I sent photos of the hackers I found in the files including their crummy European vacation pics. I sent all the aliases attached to one photo of someone whom I am sure is one of my hackers. I sent IP addresses, names of companies they did business with (one of their businesses is apparently designing websites), and more. That's all he had to say. Mr. P, my last hope: "They'll never catch these guys." He could offer me nothing. I had asked for months if he could, at the very least, write me a letter to show friends, family and co-workers that this fucking XP is really hacked and I am not nuts. I also asked him to return my evidence so I could write a book about what I've gone through since I bought my first XP in April of 2003. But I guess he is a busy, busy man.
The point of my article or book will be, I think, that hackees have nowhere to turn for help. If you read back on this blog you will see that I tried to elicit help from everyone from CERT to the Secret Service to Homeland Security to the FBI and so many more agencies that SEEM to provide help to hackees. CERT has a 24-hour "hotline" to report hacker activity. When I called them the guy who answered the phone listened to me and said something along the lines of "Bummer, really, but we can't help." Well then who do they help? Who do any of these so-called anti-hacker hotlines and agencies really help? From what I could make out if I were a 10-year-old child being preyed upon sexually over the internet they would immediately help. If I don't have a lot of identity and financial info of some worth, they could care less. Oprah, for example, could get instant help, but no one was willing to help the likes of me.
So I am left not being able to have a computer period. I can't imagine buying computer #5 and telling myself, "This time they'll leave me alone." And I am not stupid about security either. I have had to learn enough stuff to be an IT professional, if I wanted to take the classes and make it official.
Someone, I think, is out to get me, and even paranoids are right sometimes.
I am not crazy as my friends, family and co-workers assume. What is "crazy" about believing that the most wide-open, vulnerable, piece of crap computer made could be hacked?
I wrote Bill Gates twice and told him what I thought, but, whatdoyouknow, he never responded. He has his billions, and doesn't give a damn if this shit works or not.
I called the Micro$oft hotline many times. The purpose of these consumer friendly hotlines, as I understand it, is to make up for the fact that Windows XP really is a lot of open windows, with open backdoors thrown in for good measure. So M$ said, they would offer additional help at no charge to customers having trouble. This was back in the day (last year I think) when they were publishing these nauseating articles about Micro$oft being "trustworthy". Give me a break.
When I last called again, hoping to connect to someone who would apologize and send me a computer I could use, I was transferred from desk to desk until I reached an M$ engineer. (One of the few probably that hasn't made a run to Google yet.) After letting me tell him the problems in detail for about the 100th time in my life and the 8th time that day, he assured me that there was absolutely nothing M$ could do to help.
Nice, huh? I said, "Should I just throw the latest computer out the window and forget ever even trying to use a computer?" He agreed that most likely computer #5 would also end up hacked and destroyed. He then repeated that Micro$soft couldn't help. Fuck you, in otherwords. We've got your money. Maybe Longhorn won't be as much as a catastrophe as XP, I bet they're thinking while counting the days. Like I would ever buy M$ products again. I am headed towards Linux, that is, if I can somehow save this computer first.
Well, this may be my last post for a while again. I rarely am allowed to get online, and when I do I must go through their broadband proxy even though I am a dial-up user. This way they can decide which sites I can and can't go to. Miraculously, I have now been online for three whole days for the first time in months. I normally go to the library to read my e-mail and look up things on the internet. And pay a dime a page for printing when I have a perfectly good printer at home that I can't use.
People ask me, "What makes you so special? Why would anyone want to hack you?" Say what? Am I the only XP owner in the world that has ever been hacked?
Book is forthcoming. I just hope it doesn't get to long, what with the evidence, refusals of help agencies, manifestos from the hackers, detailed accounts of their break-ins to my apartment and the damage they did, etc.
"Trustworthy computing" indeed! Look up that article from M$ just for laughs.
Well, I'm back. I was going to start a public or private journal on AOL just to spew venom at Micro$oft and my a-hole hackers. Then I read the "community guidelines" I was expected to follow if I wanted to be on "hometown AOL." Give me a break. AOL really is a Republican thing, don't you think? But I like playing with all the gizmos and and fun features it provides. Earthlink was absolutely horrible, even though I got it for free. And it costs $21.95 to AOL's $17.something.
Also, I googled this blog to find it again. And what to my surprise do I see, but some ad saying it is now worth $12/share. I have no idea what this is all about, but they aren't selling MY blog out from under me.
So here's the update I feel compelled to write:
I am now on computer #4 since April of 2003, and I am still hacked. You can't imagine. I've had this one since Jan of this year. Soon it will pass on like the previous three: Turn it on and nothing. And this after having Dell tech install a new power supply. I am saying that when the hackers are done with the computer, they somehow manage to completely destroy it so that it won't even show lights or make a peep when you turn it on.
I have been to hell and back trying to simply have a computer so I can look things up on the internet, as well as read, research and write. As I mentioned in my last post, I sent a box of evidence to the head of computer crime at the Chicago Dept of Justice. Mr. Bob Podlasek told me he didn't have time to see me, but he would look at it.
I sent him detailed notes and evidence just before Christmas of last year. I have about 50 floppies, a bunch of CD's and 30+ notebooks of evidence, but, of course, I didn't send but a small representational sample because he had told me he was a busy man. I absolutely couldn't phathom that no one could find these hacker asswipes with the amount of evidence I had. As of today, the only thing I have heard from him after repeated letters, e-mails and phone calls is, "They'll never catch these guys." I guess not, if no one even tries. I mean, I sent photos of the hackers I found in the files including their crummy European vacation pics. I sent all the aliases attached to one photo of someone whom I am sure is one of my hackers. I sent IP addresses, names of companies they did business with (one of their businesses is apparently designing websites), and more. That's all he had to say. Mr. P, my last hope: "They'll never catch these guys." He could offer me nothing. I had asked for months if he could, at the very least, write me a letter to show friends, family and co-workers that this fucking XP is really hacked and I am not nuts. I also asked him to return my evidence so I could write a book about what I've gone through since I bought my first XP in April of 2003. But I guess he is a busy, busy man.
The point of my article or book will be, I think, that hackees have nowhere to turn for help. If you read back on this blog you will see that I tried to elicit help from everyone from CERT to the Secret Service to Homeland Security to the FBI and so many more agencies that SEEM to provide help to hackees. CERT has a 24-hour "hotline" to report hacker activity. When I called them the guy who answered the phone listened to me and said something along the lines of "Bummer, really, but we can't help." Well then who do they help? Who do any of these so-called anti-hacker hotlines and agencies really help? From what I could make out if I were a 10-year-old child being preyed upon sexually over the internet they would immediately help. If I don't have a lot of identity and financial info of some worth, they could care less. Oprah, for example, could get instant help, but no one was willing to help the likes of me.
So I am left not being able to have a computer period. I can't imagine buying computer #5 and telling myself, "This time they'll leave me alone." And I am not stupid about security either. I have had to learn enough stuff to be an IT professional, if I wanted to take the classes and make it official.
Someone, I think, is out to get me, and even paranoids are right sometimes.
I am not crazy as my friends, family and co-workers assume. What is "crazy" about believing that the most wide-open, vulnerable, piece of crap computer made could be hacked?
I wrote Bill Gates twice and told him what I thought, but, whatdoyouknow, he never responded. He has his billions, and doesn't give a damn if this shit works or not.
I called the Micro$oft hotline many times. The purpose of these consumer friendly hotlines, as I understand it, is to make up for the fact that Windows XP really is a lot of open windows, with open backdoors thrown in for good measure. So M$ said, they would offer additional help at no charge to customers having trouble. This was back in the day (last year I think) when they were publishing these nauseating articles about Micro$oft being "trustworthy". Give me a break.
When I last called again, hoping to connect to someone who would apologize and send me a computer I could use, I was transferred from desk to desk until I reached an M$ engineer. (One of the few probably that hasn't made a run to Google yet.) After letting me tell him the problems in detail for about the 100th time in my life and the 8th time that day, he assured me that there was absolutely nothing M$ could do to help.
Nice, huh? I said, "Should I just throw the latest computer out the window and forget ever even trying to use a computer?" He agreed that most likely computer #5 would also end up hacked and destroyed. He then repeated that Micro$soft couldn't help. Fuck you, in otherwords. We've got your money. Maybe Longhorn won't be as much as a catastrophe as XP, I bet they're thinking while counting the days. Like I would ever buy M$ products again. I am headed towards Linux, that is, if I can somehow save this computer first.
Well, this may be my last post for a while again. I rarely am allowed to get online, and when I do I must go through their broadband proxy even though I am a dial-up user. This way they can decide which sites I can and can't go to. Miraculously, I have now been online for three whole days for the first time in months. I normally go to the library to read my e-mail and look up things on the internet. And pay a dime a page for printing when I have a perfectly good printer at home that I can't use.
People ask me, "What makes you so special? Why would anyone want to hack you?" Say what? Am I the only XP owner in the world that has ever been hacked?
Book is forthcoming. I just hope it doesn't get to long, what with the evidence, refusals of help agencies, manifestos from the hackers, detailed accounts of their break-ins to my apartment and the damage they did, etc.
"Trustworthy computing" indeed! Look up that article from M$ just for laughs.
