Episode 164: A Can't-Look-Away Nightmare Involving A Sci-Fi Writer, A Maybe-Formerly-Racist Cybersecurity Expert, And, Somehow, A Cabal Of Online "Opie And Anthony" Fundamentalists (Part 1)
05/15/23 • 60 min
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This week on the show, Katie Herzog tells Jesse Singal how a tweet about Norm MacDonald led to an unhinged five-year harassment campaign, and the woman trying to solve the mystery of who is behind it.
Jackie Singh’s HackingButLegal.com
Jackie Singh: The Swedish Connection: Unraveling America’s Swatting Terror
Vice News: “A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America”
Encyclopedia Dramatica on Patrick Tomlinson
Daily Beast: “Internet Trolls Have Tormented This Sci-Fi Writer for Years—and He Can’t Stop Them”
Patrick Tomlinson: “How Trolls Hack Twitter to Silence the Rest of Us”
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This week on the show, Katie Herzog tells Jesse Singal how a tweet about Norm MacDonald led to an unhinged five-year harassment campaign, and the woman trying to solve the mystery of who is behind it.
Jackie Singh’s HackingButLegal.com
Jackie Singh: The Swedish Connection: Unraveling America’s Swatting Terror
Vice News: “A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America”
Encyclopedia Dramatica on Patrick Tomlinson
Daily Beast: “Internet Trolls Have Tormented This Sci-Fi Writer for Years—and He Can’t Stop Them”
Patrick Tomlinson: “How Trolls Hack Twitter to Silence the Rest of Us”
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe
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Episode 165: A Can't-Look-Away Nightmare Involving A Sci-Fi Writer, A Maybe-Formerly-Racist Cybersecurity Expert, And, Somehow, A Cabal Of Online "Opie And Anthony" Fundamentalists (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our series on the unhinged five-year harassment campaign against Patrick Tomlison, Katie and Jesse discuss the suspects. (Listen to Part 1 first.)
Jackie Singh: “The Swedish Connection: Unraveling America’s Swatting Terror”
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