xHamster is quick about helping the cops - over a fake profile reputation bomb
 

Lulz --- http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.c...principal?lite

The profile Esparza posted on xHamster ? a video-sharing and online community porn hub ? included Hendricsen's full name, photos of both the assistant principal and his wife scraped, or copied,from the Gateway Pointe Elementary School website, and described the couple as "swingers" looking to play.

For further humiliation, Esparza included four photos of male genitals (scraped from Craiglist personal ads, but identified as Hendricsen's), and more than a dozen "favorited" videos on the porn hub, all deliberately chosen by Esparza for their naughty school girl themes.

And to ensure the incriminating content would be among the first results for anyone who Googled Hendricsen's name, Esparza accessed the profile at least 25 times, Ogorchock said, communicating with other xHamster members and using the profile in the casual connections section of Craigslist.

The reputation bomb worked so well, the detective quickly tracked down Esparza via the IP address provided by the happy-to-help xHamster webmasters, who also removed the fake profile after Hendricsen contacted the site.

The Internet trail led to a computer which belonged to Esparza's employer ? Safeguard, a locally owned, home-security company (where, the Arizona Repubic reports, Esparz no longer works). Ogorchock was able to connect Esparza via the police report the angry father filed against Hendricsen for allegedly taking his son's iPod, an accusation that was never proven.

That led to a warrant and search on Esparza's work laptop, which revealed visits to xHamster, Craigslist, the school website where he scraped the photos, and the Google Gmail account he created using Hendricsen's name. Despite the evidence and the confession, Esparza turned down probation and went to trial, which Ogorchock thinks Esparza did, hoping the jury would be sympathetic to him. Now he'll be lucky if he avoids jail time.

Some people are just fuckin idiots - there is no other conclusion to reach. That's news about xHam - there are some profile changes going on there I'm sure.

"People who think these kinds of pranks are funny don't really understand how the Internet works," he said. "In this case, who knows what's been done with the information (on the fake profile) before it was taken down, who's seen it and how many copies are out there? Once something's posted on the Internet, it's out there forever."

I miss the dark ages of the internet.. :upsidedow

try freenet :)

I thought it was funny as hell, although the guy just got convicted or two felonies over it.

well, what I thought was interesting about it was how cooperatove the xhamster owners and staff were to help the cops with the case.

xhamster is usually listed with the hardcase tubes, the ones that can't be sued, or at least are copyright lawsuit resistant.

thats why people like boneprone get targeted for embedding - boneprone is suable, even tho arguably judgement proof, but a tube like xhamster is harder to sue because of it's offshored and non-US owned nature.

isn't that the common understanding, that xhamster is one of the hardcases?

Seems like a passive aggressive faggot to me.

Was that on purpose?

His troll game is strong!