Comments on: Bounty On The Blawger? http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2007/12/10/bounty-on-the-blawger/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bounty-on-the-blawger Freshly Brewed Bio/Pharma Chat. Served Up Daily. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patent Baristas » Troll Tracker Sued For Defamation By Lawyers http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2007/12/10/bounty-on-the-blawger/comment-page-1/#comment-45076 Patent Baristas » Troll Tracker Sued For Defamation By Lawyers Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:58:16 +0000 http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2007/12/10/bounty-on-the-blawger/#comment-45076 [...] Bounty On The Blawger? [...] [...] Bounty On The Blawger? [...]

]]> By: Patent Baristas » Raymond Niro Responds to Patent Troll Tracker http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2007/12/10/bounty-on-the-blawger/comment-page-1/#comment-32932 Patent Baristas » Raymond Niro Responds to Patent Troll Tracker Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:06:38 +0000 http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2007/12/10/bounty-on-the-blawger/#comment-32932 [...] See the earlier story here. Posted December 12th, 2007 by Stephen Albainy-Jenei in Patent Reform, Current Affairs | | [...] [...] See the earlier story here. Posted December 12th, 2007 by Stephen Albainy-Jenei in Patent Reform, Current Affairs | | [...]

]]> By: Ned Ulbricht http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2007/12/10/bounty-on-the-blawger/comment-page-1/#comment-32759 Ned Ulbricht Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:27:39 +0000 http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2007/12/10/bounty-on-the-blawger/#comment-32759 If Ray Niro wants to sue the person known as "Troll Tracker", then there's a legal procedure for that. The procedure aims at protecting the target's first amendment right to operate his electronic press anonymously. See, for instance, Greenbaum v Google and Mobilisa v John Doe 1: http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/manalapan/Exh%20N%20-%20greenbaum.pdf http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/manalapan/Exh%20O%20-%20mobilisa.pdf Ray Niro has instead placed a $5,000 bounty on the person known as "Troll Tracker". Ray Niro has chosen a reckless course. The computer security community has become alarmed at the emergence of underground markets for computer vulnerabilities. See Franklin, J., Paxson, V. Perrig, A., and Savage, S., "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants", CCS '07, October 29 - November 2, 2007, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jfrankli/acmccs07/ccs07_franklin_eCrime.pdf "First and foremost among these changes is the widespread observation that Internet-based criminal activity has been transformed from a reputation economy (i.e., receiving "street cred" for defacing Web sites or authoring viruses) to a cash economy (e.g., via SPAM, phishing, DDoS extortion, etc)." Also see Sutton, M. and Nagle, F. Emerging Economic Models for Vulnerability Research, WEIS, May 2006 http://weis2006.econinfosec.org/docs/17.pdf The forseeable consequence of Ray Niro's $5,000 bounty is attempted computer intrusion. The "Troll Tracker" blog is hosted by Google. Not only is the target's computer placed at risk, but Ray Niro has chosen to risk Google's computers. And Ray Niro has chosen to risk the computers of those who use Google's services. This is outrageous. If Ray Niro wants to sue the person known as “Troll Tracker”, then there’s a legal procedure for that. The procedure aims at protecting the target’s first amendment right to operate his electronic press anonymously.

See, for instance, Greenbaum v Google and Mobilisa v John Doe 1:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/manalapan/Exh%20N%20-%20greenbaum.pdf
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/manalapan/Exh%20O%20-%20mobilisa.pdf

Ray Niro has instead placed a $5,000 bounty on the person known as “Troll Tracker”.

Ray Niro has chosen a reckless course.

The computer security community has become alarmed at the emergence of underground markets for computer vulnerabilities.

See Franklin, J., Paxson, V. Perrig, A., and Savage, S., “An Inquiry
into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants”, CCS
’07, October 29 – November 2, 2007, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jfrankli/acmccs07/ccs07_franklin_eCrime.pdf

“First and foremost among these changes is the widespread observation
that Internet-based criminal activity has been transformed from a
reputation economy (i.e., receiving “street cred” for defacing Web
sites or authoring viruses) to a cash economy (e.g., via SPAM,
phishing, DDoS extortion, etc).”

Also see Sutton, M. and Nagle, F. Emerging Economic Models for
Vulnerability Research, WEIS, May 2006
http://weis2006.econinfosec.org/docs/17.pdf

The forseeable consequence of Ray Niro’s $5,000 bounty is attempted computer intrusion.

The “Troll Tracker” blog is hosted by Google. Not only is the target’s computer placed at risk, but Ray Niro has chosen to risk Google’s computers. And Ray Niro has chosen to risk the computers of those who use Google’s services.

This is outrageous.

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