Further to that hacking ...

[blamebrampton]

I joined marmalade_fish  to check out updates on the hacking of sarahtales , and two important points were raised.

The first is that if you have sarahtales  friended, the hackers currently have access to all of your private posts. So it may be a good idea to defriend for a little while.  ETA, she's back, but you should still consider the fishies, it looks like a fun comm, too!

The second is that there is a suspicion the hacker is not an opportunistic Russian con artist, but someone from fandom acting malevolently. Given some of fandom's history, that does not seem as unlikely as we might hope. Why some people feel it's necessary to pour crap on those who add hard work to their talent in order to become successful is a mystery to me. Wankers, the lot of them.

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

No, she is a writer. She has always written out issues in her lj before, even ones that have been stressful, and her language has never been that bare bones.

It could very well be her, I am not saying that it is certainly not. But in and of itself, that message is not enough to make me say 'Oh, good, that's sorted.'

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

Like I said, the message doesn't matter. Giving away her IP via comments -- to anyone who knows how to grab IPs from other people's posts -- does.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Can you just confirm that it's Sarah's then? I would love to think it was all sorted!

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're the one with suspicions and I should do the work? lol.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I'm the Luddite! And happy to live with my suspicions! :-P

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, okay -- it'll take a bit of time 'cause I'm at work and have to do it the lo-tech way.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Or we could both just hang around for an hour or two until someone updates the sticky post at marmalade_fish ...

Get back to work, and thanks for the offer, I was momentarily terrified I might need to learn more tech: I'm in my 40s! Every young person skill I learn is another set of French verbs I forget!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's HER!

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

Well, I knew that anyway. >.>

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are wise and I have spent far too much time demanding three or four pieces of corroborating evidence in my life ;-P (But I do prefer being sceptical and slow to the alternative!)

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

My tracker also just came back and the IP is definitely hers. So that's two pieces of corroborating evidence. XD

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

She had me at loquacious.
:-)