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- Jun 11, 2018
I remember a time when sysadmins who received such threats would take them seriously enough to deem the senders unstable, block the senders from their network, and share the senders' details with their fellow sysadmins so the latter could proactively block the senders as well.Who wouldn’t read this and their first thought be, is this person threatening me? That would make me get my back up instantly. It’s horrifying that these badly written grade school attempts at threatening people and their livelihoods have been working.
Once again, it seems worth it to remind everyone that the same people who screech on social media about targeted harassment engage in the very same thing as we see here.
Oddly enough, the sys admins who used to discuss such threats via a newgsroup would call these types of e-mails cartooney threats -- often stylized as "cart00neys" because of the over the top nature of the threats involved if the demanded action wasn't done.I have a very low opinion of the T-level of any man who would read this cartoonish shit