Comment by arp242
3 years ago
Daniel Stenberg has also gotten some ... interesting ... emails because people found the curl license somewhere and assumed he was responsible for $stuff.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/11/tales-from-my-inbox-p...
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/19/subject-urgent-warnin...
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/02/16/why-is-your-email-in-...
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/
I've always wondered if Daniel gets a particular amount of email of this sort because his address includes "haxx"--for someone without tech savvy, it's not all that much of a jump to assume an email that includes something sounding like hacking is the email of the hacker that has attacked them.
Yes, that seems to be the likely explanation at least for the second linked email which closes with:
”Please see attached screen dump for a screen shot of your contact info included in Spotify (or what more likely seems to be a hacked Spotify developed illegally by a third party).”
The last one has to be an elaborate troll. Only a 4chan user would type "RIP Terry A. Davis" anywhere.
What makes it so that only 4chan users would have empathy for the death of other programmers? Terry's death was quite tragic and his work was often discussed in technical circles for it's novelty...despite his eccentricities. Love him or hate him, no human being deserved the circumstances of his life or of his death.
RIP Terry. A. Davis
Check the ‘apology’ follow up. The person claims to be schizophrenic. Even the apology mail makes no sense and is full of paranoia and read like a group stalking delusion.