Paul Krugman Tweets His IP Is Compromised; Used for Downloading CP

Paul Krugman: Hacker Downloaded 'Child Porn' Using My IP

"Someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography."

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Paul Krugman: Hacker Downloaded 'Child Porn' Using My IP

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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed on Twitter Wednesday that a hacker is attempting to use his IP address to “download child pornography.”

“Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography,” wrote the Nobel Prize winning economist.

An Internet Protocol (IP) number is a virtual address connected to any given computer hardware that assists with connecting said devices to a broader network like the internet; it also allows devices to be addressed to a specific location of the user.

“I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me,” he added, referencing the far-right online conspiracy QAnon which brazenly alleges that President Donald Trump is secretly working to unmask and take down a global network of elite pedophiles, who are in-turn working with the so-called “deep state” to take down his administration. “It’s an ugly world out there.”

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Paul Krugman on Twitter

“Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography. I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there.”

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Today, Paul Krugman, author and New York Times contributor, tweeted the following: "Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography. I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there."

He then proceeded to respond to his own tweet with "The Times is now on the case."

I'm not sure what is more retarded, that he thinks people will buy this bullshit, or that he somehow turned the word "Qanon" into a verb. Either way, fear not citizen, the New York Times will be extensively reviewing all child porn photos involved in this incident and reporting back to you.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Maybe he can use this time to find out how the market for porn works in prison.

 

[Absolutego]

Ah, the Eichenwald gambit. It's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for them.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Is this what they call "getting out in front of the story"? It seems like pretty transparent damage control lol

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Is this what they call "getting out in front of the story"? It seems like pretty transparent damage control lol

Indeed, this reeks of them setting it up to be called a conspiracy theory and brush it aside.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Why is The Times having any involvement with this? Shouldn't the FBI be seizing his computer and going through his accounts right now?

 

[SiccDicc]

What computer security service goes around looking for your IP on child porn sites? Does he mean ISP calling to ask what the fuck do you think you're doing?

 

[Knojkamarangasan_#4]

Never change boomers.

 

[Disheveled Human]

Is that even a defense that could hold up in court? Like some sort of "reasonable doubt clause"? Hope shit sticks in any case people like this need to get their nuts clipped.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Indeed, this reeks of them setting it up to be called a conspiracy theory and brush it aside.

If you were innocent, you would never tweet about CP on your computer. He hasn't thought this through!

 

[kcbbq]

Its not that hard to believe Krugman is too computer illiterate to describe what happened, but blaming qanon for whatever he would have done to turn himself into an open proxy or whatever is stupid.

 

[Absolutego]

Why is The Times having any involvement with this? Shouldn't the FBI be seizing his computer and going through his accounts right now?

Moreso than any other publication except MAYBE the New Yorker, I find that in-house NYT columnists like Krugman (who haven't had any kind of threat to their job security for the last 30 years) treat the Times like a parental figure and will never shut up about their involvement with it.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize for an utterly shit understanding of markets is far more horrifying than any pr0n on his computer.

 

[F_Break]

Why the fuck would you announce something like that on twitter?! I'm not a networking expert, but my understanding is that you can spoof somebody's IP address, but I have no idea what the fuck "compromising an IP address" is even supposed to mean. If he was caught with actual CP on one of his devices I'm going to assume he is 100% lying.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

A boomer crying about being hacked by another boomer.

 

[SiccDicc]

Is that even a defense that could hold up in court? Like some sort of "reasonable doubt clause"? Hope shit sticks in any case people like this need to get their nuts clipped.

He's probably hoping he can use the same defense that several people have successfully used against the RIAA and MPAA - more often the porn industry and their hounds - where an IP alone is not sufficient evidence to suggest the defendant did the deed.

 

[Spergetti]

Wouldn't it be fucking funny if we get a video in a few days from Veritas featuring Krugman talking to a hidden camera about downloading child porn?

 

[potato fan]

at least it's not "Believe it or not I tried to convince my wife that tentacle hentai existed"

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Moreso than any other publication except MAYBE the New Yorker, I find that in-house NYT columnists like Krugman (who haven't had any kind of threat to their job security for the last 30 years) treat the Times like a parental figure and will never shut up about their involvement with it.

Unless I misread it, I inferred that he was meaning that The Times were doing an investigation into this "crime". I don't know why he would make that claim as I don't know why The Times would even humor investigating a supposed IP spoofing involving CP. I get what you're saying about the weird reverence he'd have for the paper but to include them in this weird, flex I guess, is just bizarre.

 

[Yotsubaaa]

Here's Paul Krugman, just FYI. The boomer against which all boomers are judged.