Posted on 12/22/2009 11:24:47 PM PST by LibWhacker
An escaped prisoner, Craig Lynch, has set up a Facebook page and is using it to taunt police by posting messages about his whereabouts.
Craig "Lazie" Lynch vanished from Hollesley Bay Prison in Suffolk in September this year close to the end of a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary.
Instead of hiding away from police Lynch has set up a Facebook account complete with a photograph sticking his middle finger up and boasts about eating 12lb steaks and his home being so warm it feels like the Caribbean.
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I can’t help but to find this just a little funny, but very stupid on his part.
If the police had half a brain, they would be on his location quickly based on the location of the IP he’s using to post from. Since he’s a fugitive, I’m sure Facebook and the ISP he was using are being cooperative with the authorities.
My thoughts exactly.
thats funny
Wouldn’t that idea run aground if he used a proxy server to mask his actual whereabouts?
Wouldn’t that idea run aground if he used a proxy server to mask his actual whereabouts?
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Most thieves are not this technical.
Ex Governor Taunts President on Facebook
Thats nothing, we have a criminal usurper sitting in the Whitehouse taunting America every day on all the media stations..
“Lynch vanished from Hollesley Bay Prison in Suffolk in September this year close to the end of a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary.”
Can you blame this guy for taking off...I mean isn’t a 7-year sentence considered harsh, maybe inhumane, in Europe these days?
“If the police had half a brain, they would be on his location quickly based on the location of the IP he’s using to post from. Since he’s a fugitive, I’m sure Facebook and the ISP he was using are being cooperative with the authorities.”
Everyone’s an armchair cop these days. Sorry, but this is Europe...do you really think that police would be allowed to invade the privacy of a citizen, even if he is an escaped convict. Don’t you realize that spying is limited to law-abiding, straight, non-Muslim, people over there.
You can easily install a proxy plugin for firefox, then use a proxy, say in Russia. Then using that proxy, visit facebook via an HTTP proxy in say, China... doing it all while either War-Driving or from a Starbucks far from your actual whereabouts and they will NEVER find you.
Hey, mkjessup! Nice to see you. A Happy Christmas to you, too — and a safe and prosperous New Year!
Lately I’ve been wondering about the push by the FBI and others in law enforcement, back in the late 80s iirc, to get OEMs, Microsoft (and other OS producers) to stamp every file with a unique identifier so that law enforcement could trace it back to the computer on which it was created. It could be a serial number of a computer, or a registration number for an operating system, etc. You don’t hear much about it anymore but I’ve always assumed such a system was in place.
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