I think you would need the original email to keep the original headers. Maybe as an attachment? But this geocities era website from the domain in the screenshot makes a good case. The media contact lines up too.
Okay, @Zay-Two-Kay forwarded me the email they received from the cops, and it definitely looks legit to me. The nested version of Zay's original email that the cops received contains a warning about the email being from "outside of the organization" (as one would expect from an email system that a police department would have set up), the purported email address of the cop is real and listed on their official site, and the cop's reply contains a phone number and address for the department, the PNG of their county seal, and the department's official Facebook and Twitter accounts.
FYI; he was charged as an adult, so he wouldn't have the same legal protection as a juvenile.
Yeah but still, it's surprising nobody else involved with the case has leaked the name yet, and it's equally surprising that you're seemingly the first one to obtain it.
Me and Zay are frens so I can vouch for this being legitimate. Journos tend to moralfag when it comes to the names of minors so that's probably why. I assume most of the other people interested are too worried about their privacy to contact government employees
They're trying him as an adult and while the press often doesn't name juveniles, there's no law about it in Florida that I know of. Wired just chose not to name him. Anyone else including the cops can.
If so, then this is another case against miscegenation. Looks like this boy will be spending a long time in big boy prison
Is it possible he just set this up as a deadman's switch to replace the site with the taunting message after x amount of days of inactivity on his end?
Its possible but I dont tknow if thats likely. It doesnt seem like a usefull deadman's switch
Not good. Alan is 17.
That guy is way too old unfortunately.
It's the sort of Death Note nonsense a 17 year old would come up with to establish his innocence in case he ever gets caught. I'm not convinced that this is really what happened though, it seems overly elaborate for him.
Back in the mid-late 2000's, practically everyone that frequented /i/ affiliated irc's were teenagers or in college. Lot of them were hotheads, egotistical, smarter than thou, and some incredibly gifted, all willing to test the waters, in some cases to very dangerous degrees. Nothing new has happened outside the fact that the age demographic of these particular habitats on the internet as a whole has changed, or rather, expanded upon as the internet grows older and the first generation that grew up with the internet as kids are now in their early 30s. If someone was known to be over the age of 30 back then on gaming forums or communities like SA/*chans/YTMND/Newgrounds/ect and their offshoots, they were a peculiar outlier. The type of age group that people like Maddox and Lowtax belonged to were far more sparse and you were open to a stigma or jokes relating to being an old timer. I know a lot of people protest the idea of underage fags, but remember people like moot founded 4chan at the age of 14. I'm not surprised this hacker was a 17 year old whatsoever. Though I will admit that it does feel very surreal (in the matter of how fast time passes) that a kid who wasn't even born yet when I got out of high school committed this much mayhem.
This. Serious crimes that involve 17 year olds usually are tried as adults. Since he's going to Florida, thats an absolutely what will happen. Now will it set an example? Probably not, after all Tyler Barriss was sentenced to 20 years in prison and it hasn't phased other swatters. But considering Torswats went after elected officials along with government buildings, he's probably going to get a far larger sentence even if he didn't get anyone killed in the process. I just hope the people who hired him for his craftwork are tossed in the fire as well.
Me neither. Not at all. I just think somebody older would've been less stupid, as in less underestimating others while overestimating himself.
this makes it more plausible to me for some reason
He's fortunate for that. Florida's juvenile facilities are notoriously worse than their adult prisons.
