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Call me a skeptic...
...But I'm not sure all the 'proof' of bad things done by Tazmo is actual proof...
Don't get me wrong, though. I don't think NarutoFan.com is exactly a good thing. And just from looking at it, looks like a high probability of being just a scam. However, such things as the porn seem... Dubious to me.
I'll just dissect some of it for a bit...
I highly doubt the likelyhood of being able to know, for certain, that someone is someone else from their typing style. Even such use of all-caps... It's nowhere near conclusive. By any stretch.Originally Posted by Brian Shiel
And using the IP address isn't definite either. You think Tazmo might be smart enough to use an anonymous proxy, perhaps, if he were to post something like that. And unless the IP is identical, it's not conclusive, either, as Shaw only provides cable internet, and the IP is not dynamic. It's quite static. In the ~2.5 years I've been keeping track of my own (Shaw, as well - but BC, not Alberta), it's changed a grand total of a single time.
So, it's possible it's the same person, but by no means definite...
Next case... The child porn...
The messages in question all appear to be to public mailing lists, and all appear to be the same message.
And, as spammers do, e-mail addresses can be faked. Easily. All one has to do to fake a "From" header is to simply set it the e-mail address as that. And with some skills, writing a script to send mass e-mails with a fake From header would be simple. Without access to the full headers (which are not provided on a mailing list), determining where it was sent from is impossible.
If you don't believe me, go to your e-mail client, add a new account, and set the e-mail address to whatever you want. Set the SMTP server to one you know, and try sending an e-mail. The From address will appear as whatever you set it as. Open SMTP servers are very plentiful, and easy to find, so it's very, very easy to do such a thing. And as I said, the average spammer does it all the time. You didn't think they sent spam from their own e-mail accounts, did you?
Second, I doubt anyone would be truly stupid enough to send notices claiming to provide access to child porn to public mailing lists, with one's real name and website attached. The chance of being tracked down by the <insert local government branch handling this sort of thing here - FBI, police, whatever> is far too great.
It seems simply like a lame defamation attempt to me, with almost zero chance of actually being real.
(Oh, yeah, and if you're looking at the "Anti Spam Policy" at the bottom - which doesn't make any sense of what it is meant to be - it's just a part of the sent message - in other words, it's something tacked onto the end of the spam message when it was sent. Check the other messages on those mailing lists, and you'll note it's missing from every single one - so it's not added by the mailing list managing software.)
Now, I think I'll look at What is going on with Tazmo? Read this!...
First, the subsection labelled "WHY NARUTOFAN ARE CON-ARTISTS!!"... It seems like a silly bashing-fest... without any proof, to me. Sorry, but without *any* proof, I'm very skeptical of this 'life-story'...
Next, the section labelled "Server Fraud"... Highly probable, due to the fact that those redundant ftp servers don't exist anymore. However that also closes any possibility for any further investigation by myself or others... Also let me note that the number of IP addresses one can assign to a machine depends on the number of network interfaces it has. Any given machine usually has no more than a handful of interfaces, because of a complete lack of the need for more than a few. And remember, just because the IP addresses are similar, does not mean at all that there are only a few servers. It is possible that there were indeed many servers at one point. Not certain, either way.
And on to "Tazmo's (Wife Beater) Donation Stealing"... Can't argue with the later points about his lack of providing proof, but I don't see anything relating to proof of a $2000+ laptop...
"Tazmo's (Wife Beater) Attacks Against the Anime Community"... I seem to find a recurring theme of a minor lack of any real proof of these illegal acts... It seems a bit weak too, and I resent the implication that IRC users are a 'bad' group... Although it is highly unfortunate that IRC has been given a bad name by warez groups, and is rarely used for pure chatting anymore. (I actually help run a small IRC network, where people only use it for chatting, of all things! It's actually quite a fun way of communicating.)
Just to reiterate my original note, I definitely do not think Tazmo is innocent, by any means, but I do think that providing calm, rational, provable arguments is the best way to have people pay attention, and not just brush it off as angry rants... Like I said, the lack of proof for some of the illegal acts (porn, DDoS attacks, abuse, etc.), and some of the seemingly mindless bashing detracts from the arguments more than anything else...
I dunno, maybe I'm one of the few people who thinks that simple bashing and lack of proof really isn't a constructive way to get an idea across, and is much more harmful than helpful...
(Please, if you disagree with me (or even if you agree!), take the time to think, find what you need to, write, and edit any replies... I spent a good deal of time writing this post, and I'd enjoy if it turns into a good discussion, rather than degrading into some form of flame-fest.)
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