The Sloppy Trail

 

It wasn't totally clear at first.

I initially suspected Bev of soliciting a hacker on the Usenet newsgroup alt.hackers.malicious since she made claims to he a "part-time hacker". It made sense so I never bothered to really dig into the headers of that original post from "stacy@graffiti.net".

I decided to check alt.hackers.malicious to see if there had been any new posts and low and behold, there was. This one was not soliciting a hacker but rather trying desperately to cover tracks that could lead to serious trouble for a few women

The second post from "stacy@graffiti.net"soliciting a hacker to destroy our fine site tells the story perfectly. The NNTP posting host is none other than Bev's ISP - singa.pore.net. There's no way out of this one...it's fully traceable.

The third post from "stacy@graffiti.net" shows an even different location. If it hadn't been for Bev getting sloppy when sending that second post, it would have been a little harder to figure it out.

So what we have here is Beverly trying to cover for her lack of intelligence. She made repeated claims that she was an accomplished hacker. She claimed that she had free run of our server and even had been able to look at the access logs. When pressed to tell us some very basic points about our server, she clammed up.

Now the word gets out that Bev has inserted her foot in her mouth again and really screwed up. MelissaM decides to take the matter into her own hands and solve the prroblem, much like she prefers her message boards to be rrun. If something is posted that she doesn't like, she get's it deleted. However unbeknownst to Melissa, USENET isn't a messageboard. Messages are stored on thousands of servers all over the world.

This attempt to solicit someone to commit a crime is not going to be deleted so easily.

The response to MelissaM's request to "delete the thread" is too good to ignore.

You girls are getting dumber all the time.

.