Wiping a drive MEANS overwriting the files...idiot.
Then why does it matter if you logged on to his forum? He doesn't get your VPN PW by you logging on to a forum.
Birds of a feather and all. I figured that you couldn't actually be serious about what you're posting here...and your association with drug users tends to support that.
GIGO
No. No it does not.
I didn't say he got my VPN password by me logging onto a forum. As I said, your reading comprehension is a joke. I said he got my VPN password from hacking me. He got another password I use (for internet accounts, such as my Reddit password) because I signed up for a forum he was admin of (without realizing he was admin...he had multiple accounts there). I think. Not sure if passwords on forums are encrypted and he hacked to get this other password as well. He was able to see my email address, anyway, and was able to doxx me from that, since it contained my full name.
Like, what is so hard to believe? You people won't even logically address what I wrote. The one person who claimed to be "humoring" me demonstrated he doesn't even understand how this stuff works.
Every step is perfectly logical. It's a long way from A to Z, but none of the individual steps are absurd leaps in logic.
1. A guy I encountered on Reddit doxxed me last year and made numerous cryptic threats via PM (and later via emails he sent via anonymous gmail accounts). He told me he knew who I was and said that if I dropped off $20,000 to an undisclosed location, he "wouldn't ruin my life." I, of course, refused.
2. While this was going on, he kept making cryptic threats, including sending me a link to the torture scene from Reservoir Dogs and saying it was "one of his favorite scenes ever."
3. Eventually, he agreed to call a "truce," but told me that he would be "watching" me and if he saw any searching, our truce would be off. I saw this message in the morning (I used to leave my computer on all the time). After I saw it, I saw that I was logged out of my VPN (which my friend used as well), and the saved password wouldn't work. I told my friend about this and he had to reset the password, and was freaked out about it having changed. Also, at some point, my Reddit account was deactivated (obviously by him).
4. I submitted an online report to the FBI, and contacted my local police department, to report his threats. The cop who came over read the messages from the guy (which I took screen shots of) and told me to break off contact from him, but that there was nothing they could really do at this point. He did claim they were going to at least start the case file (or whatever term he used) for this, and told me to contact them if he ever goes further with it.
5. I eventually managed to doxx this guy back via research (luckily he had very specific niche interests, and used his real full name on a certain forum), and called the FBI (operator) to tell them to add it to the report. Everything there is very dismissive and you get the sense they do not care and will never do anything.
6. I also tried contacting the local police again about the new information, and found out my case had been given to some female detective there. I twice left messages on her voicemail, and she never returned my calls. In the second message, I told her the guy's name and location. My guess is she just blew it all off.
7. Fast forward to this year, and I was watching suggested Youtube videos, and came across stories people had from prison. I became very uncomfortable with using a computer I figured this guy had hacked (and could therefore plant/have planted illegal stuff on), and decided it wasn't worth risking keeping it in my possession.
8. I don't think well under duress and got to thinking that I would really regret it if I waited even a short while to get rid of the thing, so I rushed to order a new computer and took the old one out to the garbage.
9. I checked two days later and did not see the bag in the dumpster. I do not know what days the garbage collection comes at this apartment, but I don't think either of those two mornings after were when they do.
10. I figure this guy was watching my internet activity the whole time, and saw that I was searching for a new computer, and that caused him to pounce on his plan (which I figure would be leaving an anonymous tip for law enforcement that he knows of somebody who had illegal stuff on his computer (which he planted)). And from there, the cops responded to that tip by searching the dumpsters (although I never saw any of this)
You guys don't know this guy. I normally would blow off threats made to me on the internet, but there are certain contextual things about what I found out about him that freaked me out.
