I Find This Disturbing

[emmie]

no graphic pictures, i was listening to this on the news and couldn't believe what i was hearing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23479813

[jno]

can't explain that, viv - if you'd definitely logged out last time you were on Hotmail, you should stay logged out. On the other hand, if it was perhaps open on another window, or you'd closed it down without logging out, it could still be called up.

For further explanations, see tony "the Hotmail Hacker" av.

[tonyav]

I can't understand it and tony doesn't seem to want to explain .....

viv, I have explained it was by complete accident, it should have been a link to a petition but instead of copying and pasting that link I copied and pasted the link for hotmail instead.

[viv38]

Thanks jno, I don't really think he's a hacker obviously, but it was such a shock to click on the post and see my name and all my hotmail posts right in front of me ! I know it wasn't open, so can't explain it, but thank you for trying - appreciate it.

[viv38]

See above tony.

[humbersloop]

viv, for reassurance, I've never had a hotmail account and it still took me to a sign in page. I was scared enough of tony's hacking abilities to report it under "pure stupidity"

[tonyav]

When I clicked on my own link it took me to my own hotmail account, viv.

[tonyav]

I was scared enough of tony's hacking abilities to report it under "pure stupidity"


LOL, I can't even remember my own passwords most of the time.

[viv38]

Panic over now.

[tonyav]

Thank gawd for that.

[gness]

And you laugh at my inability to do things technical, Goatboy!!! xx

[jno]

personally, I thought viv's emails were a lot more entertaining than tony's.

[tonyav]

gness
And you laugh at my inability to do things technical, Goatboy!!! xx


Now when have I done that, gness lol.

[tonyav]

Got a link, jno ?.

[jno]

scared to give it out, tony, it might take you to mine by mistake, and you really don't want to see my discussions with Nigerian bankers.

[Svejk]

Oh Tony, what av you been up to.
Never mind, I'll be your pal. ;)

[EDDIE51]

When people who posted hate / threat messages on facebook and twitter have been prosecuted recently , why does the same not apply here?
There was a guy who threatened to plant a bomb on a plane, he was arrested and charged within a day or so even though he said it was a joke.

[tonyav]

Blimey jno, so you have won the Nigerian lottery as well.

Hi ya, sweaty.

[tonyav]

I know doesn't make any sense does it EDDIE.

[LazyGun]

I do think there should be a "report tweet" button associated with the specific tweet.

I would imagine she became a target because of her high profile following organising a campaign to get womens faces on UK banknotes- Jane Austen on the £10.

There is a trend right across different interest groups on the internet right now to target women who develop a high profile. These women then get death threats vile language and threats of rape. It must be borne largely out of low self-esteem by some males, who, when they view the world, see only preferential treatment for women and loss of power status and respect for men. There are even organisations for this - MRA - Mens Rights Association or similar- where you will find odious and mysogynistic articles and comment.

At least some of it is idiot teenagers jumping on some bandwagon that they think is cool without fully appreciating how disturbing such threats could be, but even discounting them, you will have a whole bunch from sad males who think women are getting uppity.

I am not entirely sure how twitter works. I don't know, for instance, if all tweets are saved for posterity - I understand that there are 400,000,000 tweets a day, so that takes some archiving. And I know that when I log in to my twitter account, I only scan back for the last few hours worth of tweets, so it can be epheremeral - but imagine how disturbing it would be to get 10s, 100s of threats and vile language every hour simply for campaiging for an equality issue?

[Gromit]

A 21 year old 'man' from Manchester has been arrested.