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.

 

[Slimy Time]

Am I getting this right. He allegedly get's hacked and has CP downloaded onto his phone. His first reaction is to tweet to everyone about it and let everyone know that he now has CP on his phone? Because all the news stories I see of this source his tweet as the originator of this grand piece of information.

So either this did happen, and he's a boomer, or he's obviously lying about why he has CP, and is an idiot for putting this out.

Edit: Or 3, he's trying to get ahead of what would have been a story of him having CP on his phone.

 

[GethN7]

My guess is dumbass fell for scam that allowed scumbag to use his IP to download skeevy shit or it's just an excuse to absolve himself.

Either way, it's pretty stupid to tweet to the whole world your IP is associated with kiddie porn even if you are just a dumbass who got used by another party.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Scammers use both malware and call centers in conjunction to seal the deal, yes. It's hugely popular for Indian-based scammers due to how many legitimate companies use them for tech support.
Less likely is that someone found out his wi-fi password and started downloading all the nefarious shit they could, but the odds are slim to none. I'm definitely willing to give him the benefit of the doubt due to how common these scams are becoming, but more clever people have been caught doing dumb shit before so there's always a chance he actually did it.

He's probably using the default password on his router because he either didn't change it or reset it and didn't change it. I bet he didn't set up his own home network and either his ISP did it or some Puerto Rican working at Nestor's Computer Service & Repair on W86th Street did it and either gave it out or is downloading CP and God knows what.

I download torrents on WiFi networks this all the time, you'd be surprised. Or he could be a perv and is downloading CP and got caught and this is his attempt to explain it away to his boomer readship. All of these possibilities work for me.

Also the replies to his post lol

 

[Prompt Critical]

Krugman lives in a mansion on a large private lot. Someone sneakily getting onto his wifi seems rather implausible to me.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Krugman lives in a mansion on a large private lot. Someone sneakily getting onto his wifi seems rather implausible to me.

QAnon sheathes his machete and draws his laptop, opening it, turning it on, and flipping the wi-fi switch. "I'm in," he whispers to his boomers, broadcasting on bitchute dot org, having just typed 'password1' to access gigabutt speeds across Krugmansteinberg's network. He fires up his homebrewed Limewire client, locates that lone torrent of 'The Guy Game' on the dark web, and begins to download it.

 

[WonderWino]

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Krugman lives in a mansion on a large private lot. Someone sneakily getting onto his wifi seems rather implausible to me.

Peasant! Don't you see the QAnon trolls hiding in the bushes with that laptop?! He's clearly being set up by QAnon agents working for trump

 

[neverendingmidi]

It's Paul Krugman. I don't think he's had a single accurate prediction unless you count "someday something will happen somewhere, and the stock market will drop and you'll all see I was right all along and forevermore!" as accurate. But he's a "respected economist".

 

[Oskar Dirlewanger]

Me on the telephone right after I accidentally murdered a prostitute in my basement while high on meth:

"- ugh 911 yeah hi, i want to report a crime, someone just left a dead prostitute and lots of meth in my basement"

Spoiler

200 IQ

 

[HollaGemini]

*Gets caught doing absolutely ANYTHING*
"HACKERS!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it looks like I downloaded that CP, but it was just dark web hackers at 3AM gone wrong."

 

[Marissa Moira]

The Boomer cries out in pain as he asks you how to discreetly download kiddy porn.

 

[Evilronald]

If he really wants to eichenwald it, he could say he was downloading it for “research” on how the child porn black market works, much like how eichenwald did with the child porn site back in the 2000s.

 

[crocodilian]

He says his IP address was "compromised," but it's not difficult to determine the MAC address of the hardware that initiated the downloads, nor other relevant metadata like log records which help determine exact association.

Not that I suspect anything will happen to him (((given what he is))), but if any of that information correlates with his desktop computer or phone it will blow his "hijacked IP" story out of the water without a doubt.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

"Server? You mean like a tray?"
"Wipe? Like with a cloth?"
I love boomers and their real and sometimes feigned understanding of technology.

 

[Miller Hayward]

Why can't the trolls see that they're persecuted minorities?

 

[FlightOfTheBumbleBee]

When he says that someone Qanon'd him he means that the NSA put child porn on his computer.

 

[RodgerDodger]

“They’re using my IP to download Child Porn!! Those Qanon fiends!”

in other words Paul stepped into an FBI CP Honey Pot and is panic’ing. Does anybody honestly think that this smug smarmy asshole isn’t jerking off to six year olds on the internet?

 

[Kosher Dill]

What I'm betting happened is that he saw some scam ad that said "KIDDY PRON DETECTED ON YOUR COMPUTER, click here to disinfect", and he panicked because he did have CP on his computer and thought they were really "detecting" him.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

DFE BUT LEAVE UP THE ONE SAYING SAYING THAT THE TIME IS WORKING ON IT!!!

Paul Krugman on Twitter

“Deleted original tweet. Times thinks it may have been a scam. Anyway, will have more security in future”

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https://archive.ph/PUgtT

You were already alleging it was scam Paul so why bother deleting the original? Be a damn shame if someone archived the original...

 

[Miller Hayward]

DFE BUT LEAVE UP THE ONE SAYING SAYING THAT THE TIME IS WORKING ON IT!!!

Paul Krugman on Twitter

“Deleted original tweet. Times thinks it may have been a scam. Anyway, will have more security in future”

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https://archive.ph/PUgtT

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You were already alleging it was scam Paul so why bother deleting the original? Be a damn shame if someone archived the original...

Why would he consult The Times?

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Why would he consult The Times?

He works for them. For a deeper answer, I'm leaning towards @Absolutego's reasoning.

I did a poor job translating from Upper West Side to English, let me try again.

"These internet hackers targeted me, Paul Krugman. PAUL KRUGMAN!! Don't they know I write for the Times??? Wait, that must be why I'm being targeted! Paul, you genius! Now, who would target me? Probably some angry people in the Magasphere who cannot handle the truth I preach in my weekly column. What's their internet warrior branch again? 2? No, right, Q. They tried to Qanon me! This is a major story! I'll call my coworkers and we'll start penning op-eds about how this latest attack on the press merits greater social media censorship, regulations on something on the internet, the canceling of the other guy we're mad at this week, whatever! The Times is now on the case!"

The key is assuming all of this pinheads are literally trying to live as the superhero to their own lives and assume out of narcissism everyone else is with the program.