You want wierd shit. Ok. Tell me why I come back from vacation to find my room mate dead in his bedroom with his throat slashed and my account hacked here on Lazlo????

The police found his bloodly fingerprints all over the computer and are declaring his death a sucicide. They say he has been dead for days. I am at my G/f's place now because my home is a god dammed crime scene.

Why would my room mate hack my account and then kill hmself.

Hell that whole Jersey Devil bit was for shits and giggles that I posted after we had one too many beers that night. We saw some douchebag posted something about seeing The Jersey Devil on Craigslist so we ran with it. It was supposed to be a gag.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!!??

Then someone named David Holtz is hacking the account I set up?
How? The only prints on my computer were my room mate's?
is name was Bruce by the way.

There was so much blood, all over the room. and some dame e-mail message flashing across the fricking screen " WE WILL NEVER FORGET " or some shit like that. I was is shock you know. My friend just killed himself in my room and all.

What did you people do to him?

Wait there guy. No one here did anything to your friend. Someone calling himself Davis Holtz was using your account and goading people with it. Just read the posts yourself. Either your room mate was nuts or some one really wanted to use your account.

That e-mail message, are sure about what it said.

" We have not forgotten. "

We got that same e-mail at the sheriff station according to the guys and Derik couldn't trace the source either.

Kelly wrote:We'll talk when I get there!

Holister wrote:Fine. Sheesh.

Holister wrote:Listen, we'll talk more when you get here ok.

Kelly wrote:FINE

Sounds to me like you got lots to talk about.
Very little of it related to the break-in.
If you need some phone numbers, let me know, I've got aplenty.

I agree.
I'm here to help and that's why I only talk about the things that I know about.

And remember that getting defensive is a symptom.

(As a side note, if you don't want comments on private conversations, keep them in private.
If it's posted, it stands to get a reply.)

Colloquially speaking, yes.

I'm always willing to help my colleagues here at the Society.
Perhaps too willing....

skeptic wrote:I'm always willing to help my colleagues here at the Society.
Perhaps too willing....

Something we agree on.

Holister wrote:Could madness be the result of a contagion? Like a parasite or virus?

A little too vague, but there can certainly are organic catalysts that lead to behaviour that is apparently "mad".
A basic example is booze but even a high fever can make one delusional.
Medication side effects.
All kinds of stuff. Would have to look at the facts of the case in great detail and certainly consult pathologists, infectious disease experts, and the like.

I'm in D.C. currently, but have access to some field equipment.
More likely I'll just hook up with my contact in the Dept. of Defense here.
Their infectious disease research institute is top notch.
Get in touch.

skeptic wrote:I'm in D.C. currently, but have access to some field equipment.
More likely I'll just hook up with my contact in the Dept. of Defense here.
Their infectious disease research institute is top notch.
Get in touch.

You may also wish to talk to Technocrat as well. He brought some toys with him. Mostly computers and tools but you never know.

I'll repeat what I said before... there is no real security here, you can't easily find out info on anyone from this list. I could probably track someone down who posts here, but not with any reliable accuracy, and not without a field person who is doing the legwork...

If it is security here you are looking for, you would be looking at either a LOT of changes, or hiring someone to look into everyone who has access to this site. The first would make this site less accessable to people who are not used to lots of high tech stuff...

The second would involve hiring a security team, one who is tech savy who can track down access, and one who is gun savy who can go to the places and track down accessers. This won't stop people from being able to hack the site, but it would mean we could find the hackers after the fact.

This is a doable thing, but it means that you would all need to expect a visit in person from said gun savy person, at least to confirm your identity.

Fi