{"id":13483,"date":"2010-07-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/07\/07\/crackpots-in-computer-security-the-neighbors-are-looking-at-me-weird\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T07:00:00","slug":"crackpots-in-computer-security-the-neighbors-are-looking-at-me-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100707-00\/?p=13483","title":{"rendered":"Crackpots in computer security: The neighbors are looking at me weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The security team gets all sorts of email to report security issues. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/editors\/23100\/\"> Nearly 200,000 each year<\/a>. And of course the reports vary in quality greatly. The ones I&#8217;m fascinated by are the crackpots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"baseline\"><b>Subject:<\/b>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"baseline\">IMMEDIATE THREAT AND NW INTRUSION,     SAME AS FRIDAY <font color=\"red\">MM\/DD\/YY<\/font>, <font color=\"red\">TOWN NAME<\/font>     YR SOFTW STOPPEDM SOME BUT ACCESS IS STILL THEREN 1000 YD FROM MY HOUSE      <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"baseline\"><b>Importance:<\/b>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>High<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>  IMMEDIATE HELP NEEDED, PHONES &nbsp;<font color=\"red\">PHONE NUMBERS DELETED<\/font>, EM <font color=\"red\">XXXXXXXX<\/font>@ GMAIL,HOTMAIL,LIVE,AOL.YAHOO. IM ALMOST POSITIVE HE IS USING BLUETOOTH. &nbsp;BUT HE CAN INTRUDE AT WILL. HE COULD &nbsp;BE VERY DANGEROUS. LAST FRIDAY YOUR DEPT HAS GPS SEARCHING, BUT THE HACKER CUT US OFF. THEN TRASHED 4 OF MY PCS.PLEASE ON CONTACT ME IMMEDEDIATLY, LOOK IN THE RECORDS. &nbsp;HE MAY BE IN MY AREA, THE NEIGHB ORS ARE LOOKING AT ME WEIRD, AS THIS CANT BE DONE. &nbsp;im NOT ON DRUGS. &nbsp;JUST CONTACT ME. <font color=\"red\">NAME AND ADDRESS DELETED<\/font> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Capitalization is preserved from the original, but identifying information has been deleted.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s possible that he&#8217;s actually onto something. After all, just because you&#8217;re paranoid doesn&#8217;t mean they <i>aren&#8217;t<\/i> out to get you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security team gets all sorts of email to report security issues. Nearly 200,000 each year. And of course the reports vary in quality greatly. The ones I&#8217;m fascinated by are the crackpots. Subject:&nbsp; IMMEDIATE THREAT AND NW INTRUSION, SAME AS FRIDAY MM\/DD\/YY, TOWN NAME YR SOFTW STOPPEDM SOME BUT ACCESS IS STILL THEREN 1000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-13483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The security team gets all sorts of email to report security issues. Nearly 200,000 each year. And of course the reports vary in quality greatly. The ones I&#8217;m fascinated by are the crackpots. Subject:&nbsp; IMMEDIATE THREAT AND NW INTRUSION, SAME AS FRIDAY MM\/DD\/YY, TOWN NAME YR SOFTW STOPPEDM SOME BUT ACCESS IS STILL THEREN 1000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}