NY Times columnist Paul Krugman says hacker 'compromised' his IP address to 'download child pornography'

Fox News ^ | 1/8/2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is appearing to be having technical difficulties as he acknowledged Wednesday on Twitter that his IP address had been "compromised" and used to "download child pornography."

"Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography," Krugman wrote in the tweet. "I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there."

Qanon is a reference to the group of conspiracy theorists who in recent years spread incriminating myths against many high-profile Democrats on social media.

[yldstrk]

That’s the ticket

[Steely Tom]

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman says hacker 'compromised' his IP address to 'download child pornography'

And he's telling the world... why, exactly?

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm not sure. Being a bit of a fan of the Crime Channel I seem to recall that police can use IP addresses to identify Internet activity. However I'm far from certain that that's what I've seen. I'm sure that some geek here on FR can confirm,or refute,your belief.

[Mr. K]

LOL - it doesn’t work that way

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I assume he has been brought in for questioning.

[humblegunner]

Oh, sure.
Everyone is a pedo these days.

Since a couple years ago everyone we dislike has suddenly become a pedophile.

It’s trendy.

And they dig secret tunnels too, and eat up Haitian kids and shoot up Adrenochromes, yup.

[laweeks]

Right! Sure! That’s what you tell the judge!

[vikingd00d]

next, he’ll claim he’s only downloading it “for the articles”

[the_daug]

Static ip is for business and DHCP is dynamic ip address

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Your ISP keeps a log of who is assigned to which IP at any given point in time.

The Feds see an IP address doing something bad and they look up which ISP is assigned to that IP range, then they issue a subpoena to the ISP to reveal the name attached to that IP at that time.

[MAGAlady]

“My dog ate my IP”

[a fool in paradise]

“Hammer time, ohhh ohhh ohh oh wee ohh!”

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Yea, just like Anthony Weiner, yea?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Static. Unless you have a VPN and erase cookies, IIRC.

[RAldrich]

Wait for it. He’ll come out with a column blaming a Putin/Trump conspiracy.

[supremedoctrine]

Wasn’t this the first scenario Anthony Weiner put out there when his dick pix got exposed?

[VanShuyten]

“The cat was playing on the keyboard! That’s it! That darn cat!”

[dead]

[Ikeon]

Hey! it could happen, someone stole my apple ID, I dont even have an apple account, but I keep getting threats to suspend it if I dont contact them. And it gets paid by someone in germany every month.. so... it could happen.

[allendale]

Just one of the reasons he left Princeton and is heavily medicated.