It's been suggested that Matthew Keys, the indicted defendant in a case involving hacker charges under the CFAA, might do well to keep his mouth shut in the days before his trial.
That hasn't stopped him from continuing to comment about his case to reporters and well-wishers -- and to engage in heckling of me as a critical blogger about his case in the comments at the Los Angeles Times.
Here they are in case they get deleted:
Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick · Top Commenter · Blogger at 3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state
So you guys didn't mind being hacked then? Or?
http://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/03/social-media-is-in-the-hands-of-the-enemy-in-any-company-mathewkeys.html
http://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/03/social-media-is-in-the-hands-of-the-enemy-in-any-company-mathewkeys.html
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Matthew Keys · Following · Top Commenter · Deputy Social Media Editor at Reuters · 21,588 subscribersDear Catherine,
Setting up a Google Alert with my name, reading all the articles on me and then commenting with your conspiracy theories is not a good use of time. There are soup kitchens, homeless shelters and food banks that are in dire need of volunteers -- take an hour or two out of your day to do some good.
In other words, get a better hobby.
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Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick · Top Commenter · Blogger at 3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_stateHi, Matthew. Has anyone told you that you have the right to remain silent and anything you say may be used against you in a court of law? For example, heckling of bloggers covering your case critically could hardly be said to be helpful in building a character reference, but I suppose you stopped caring about things like that when you first began using the Internet to harass other people years ago. I haven't set up any "Google Alert" for your name, don't flatter yourself. I hardly have to look even in Google to stumble across breathless articles about you everywhere in Atlantic, etc. I don't have a "conspiracy theory," but I have a lot of hard questions of the sort journalists don't always seem to be asking. Perhaps the LAT could supply some evidence in this case. I don't need to volunteer at any soup kitchens as I have a family to feed and plenty of work to do, paid and unpaid. And I chose to do good in this world by writing about and challenging thugs like Anonymous and those who make common cause with them like you. Shame on you. You should have gotten a hobby yourself instead of harassing your former employer and others you don't like. But I guess that's a resume-builder in today's world, especially for Reuters.
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Matthew Keys · Following · Top Commenter · Deputy Social Media Editor at Reuters · 21,588 subscribers
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Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick · Top Commenter · Blogger at 3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_stateIf trials don't play out on the blogosphere, big guy, then why do you keep spouting about your case on Twitter and fora?! As for your slur about Second Life, let me tell you, I'm not the one living in virtuality with thugs from Anonymous for years on end playing Internet tough guy and harassing people endlessly -- as you have been doing your whole life. You're a disgrace to your news organization and they harm their reputation by having you there defiantly heckling people and brazenly declaring your innocence. No matter what the outcome of your trial, you will never be able to fix your reputation of cunning alliance with thugs.
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Matthew Keys · Following · Top Commenter · Deputy Social Media Editor at Reuters · 21,588 subscribers
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Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick · Top Commenter · Blogger at 3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_stateOh, sure, Matthew, everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. That's a liberal value of civilization that we wish you and Anonymous had when you serve as judge and jury on individuals and corporations and punish them with hacking and DDoS attacks and doxing and worse.
No, I just don't believe your alibi. Due to your past bad behaviour and the bad faith you exhibit now in heckling me on the Internet, *I simply don't believe your story*. Maybe you'll get it to stand up in court, maybe not. But you aren't credible. Both you and your lawyers are dancing around the key issues and mumbling about some of them. You're going to claim you were hacked and didn't control your account the whole time? Mkay. -
Matthew Keys · Following · Top Commenter · Deputy Social Media Editor at Reuters · 21,588 subscribers
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Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick · Top Commenter · Blogger at 3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_stateOh, nonsense. I'm not a "bitter old woman" but a critical blogger, and it's perfectly legitimate to call into question "social media journalists" on their ethics and behaviour as public figures. Regardless of how your trial turns out, big guy, I'm not going to have any apologizing to do whatsoever. I haven't made any false claims, I've reported on the many dubious and contradictory aspects of your story. I think it's wrong to apologize for and make common cause with the thuggish hackers in Anonymous, and that's *exactly* what you did, and bragged about repeatedly. Chumming around with them in the IRC channel and actually hacking or "pretending to hack" in order "to get the story" just doesn't impress me. That line hasn't worked since the Food Lion case. If you and your lawyers are going to hustle and come up with an alibi like "I was hacked," no one will ever really believe you after all the victory-dancing you did. And what is this really all about? Wanting to fit in with the cool kids? To feel "needed"? http://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/03/boomerangs-dont-always-return-to-the-thrower-this-one-will.html And who cares if I didn't focus on you personally before your indictment? I certainly followed your superior, Anthony de Rosa, and saw his cunning and duplicitious antics on Facebook promoting the "progressive" line, and challenged him any number of times. If I didn't focus on his deputy, so what? We all know what it's about: your struggle for power and influence.
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