Really bad transport service.

[Agent]

NYC, Chicago, Nashville, This guy is all over the place.

[Alexii]

Daaaaamn. America. The land of opportunity... And the masses demand more service at lesser prices and fast fast fast. So to get ahead , i guess certain companys can perform a data recovery on ur drive and teach u some meen blues riffs at the same time.

[Dmitry Postrigan]

I have just received this very entertaining communication from Eugene (he deals with abuse and legal issues for several quite big projects including HDD Guru):

Graham Jorgenson gramcracker64 @ yahoo.com wrote:

This thread:

really-bad-transport-service-t17254.html

Contains personal identifying information on a freely accessible web forum platform.
Legal action could result because of the identifying nature.

Please remove the identifying content which is in a violation of privacy, or else a privacy violation report could be filed.

Eugene (abuse dept) wrote:

Hello,

Can you please point to the specific personal information you are
referring to?

Thank you

Eugene
IT7 Abuse Department

Graham Jorgenson gramcracker64 @ yahoo.com wrote:

The posting on the bottom by "drc" Posted: October 21st, 2010, 15:14

Please remove all of these various invasions of privacy publishing multiple instances of personal information, profiles, identifying information, images and phone numbers.

Several hours later (no reply from Eugene) Graham Jorgenson gramcracker64 @ yahoo.com wrote:

http://forum.hddguru.com/really-bad-transport-service-t17254.html

Remove this identifying information immediately from this public forum.
These multiple and egregious offenses are illegal under current internet privacy law. These actions are of an endangering and threatening nature.
Remove this identifying information immediately from this public forum.

"Anonymity should not be considered a secure shield because, ultimately, any data may be intercepted. Vicarious liability, even without knowledge, may result when either the web page designer or the ISP (1) has the right and ability to control the infringer's acts and (2) receives a direct financial benefit from the infringement."

Eugene (abuse dept) wrote:

Hello Graham,

From your message:
... "and (2) receives a direct financial benefit from the infringement."

This clearly does not apply to HDD Guru forum. And, besides, all that
data was copied by the forum member from open public resources.

Eugene
IT7 Abuse Department

Graham Jorgenson gramcracker64 @ yahoo.com wrote:

Either remove the material or face swift legal and criminal action against yourself and the individual who posted the material.

Eugene (abuse dept) wrote:

Graham,

You are very welcome to proceed. Please keep us informed.

In the meantime, I will suggest moderators of HDD Guru to post this
conversation for a public review.

Eugene
IT7 Abuse Department

Graham Jorgenson gramcracker64 @ yahoo.com wrote:

Instead of removing a post containing several invasions of privacy in the form of
a matrix of information intended to discredit and identify an individual and advertise the personal opinions of one of your registered users, you are actually seeking to
contribute to further violations and encourage publicity of privacy violations
within the forum of this website for the purposes of intimidation and defamation?

Your noncompliance with privacy concerns reflects a wider failure of webmasters to protect the privacy rights of visitors.

Your 'moderators' are not licensed to troll about investigating, defaming and accusing hundreds of technicians, websites and companies and organizations they know the least bit about, publishing sensitive information and commenting for the purpose of causing loss of property or business in a public forum.

I don't need to pursue legal or criminal action, I will merely publish the details of these transgressions on relevant or competing websites and file complaints wherever applicable in public forums that will appear in search results.

[fzabkar]

What I would suggest to Graham is to forget any thoughts about legal action. Instead, the best way to handle your detractors is to join the forum and show them what you know and what you can do. Even better still, show them and their peers what they don't know.

Of course you will be relying on an impartial referee, not someone who looks the other way while you cop a beating, and then throws in the towel when you start to hit back.

[Removal]

This post is in regards to Dr. Currin, otherwise known as 'drc'

Seeing as you posted an abundance of my personal information,
including pictures, links etc, phone numbers, addresses with no knowledge
whatsoever of what I do, you have earned yourself the the reputation of:

1.) Stalker
2.) Troll
3.) Privacy Violator
4.) (Criminal?)
5.) twat

Although, I'm not certain, but posting volumes of information on an individual
in a public forum can result in a variety of legal actions such as a Restraining Order,
Defamation, I believe the list goes on.

So, let's have three cheers for Dr. Currin, the Hard Drive Nazi, addicted to insulting HD noobs, who spends his time on a forum violating your privacy and publishing the results in public forums along with his own half-baked personal commentary!

What? you say there's a similar posting of Dr. Currin's complete information in some other public forums? Oh the information age is a great age indeed!

Oh . . . if only the admin had just removed the post as I had requested . . .

[Dmitry Postrigan]

Oh . . . if only the admin had just removed the post as I had requested . . .

I am sorry, but we do not remove posts just because someone does not like them. Especially when someone sends us emails like yours. If we did that, we would have to remove half of the posts on this forum.

[pclab]

Did the guy already get a job to pay a lawyer?
Or dis some recoveries to earn money? Or is he still finding pennies on the street?

What an IDIOT....

[drc]

Dmitry, I apologize if my posting has caused you any headaches

I guess from here we just have to wait to hear about the great Graham-vs-Google legal action

[Removal]

What would be idiotic would be sit back and do nothing while somebody takes the time out of their day to assemble a incomplete picture, or catalog of information about you and posts it in a PUBLIC FORUM with the idea of misleading, misinforming and generally having a laugh. You see it is OH SO funny, until it happens to YOU.

Do I teach guitar lessons? Do I live and work in Manhattan? Did I bum around Nashville 2 years ago for a month and get salty as hell? Do I have a bachelor's in 3D visualization and media arts? Am I engaged to be married and pursuing a graduate degree in Earth and Atmospheric Science? Am I a songwriter from Chicago? Do I operate a graphic design business? Have I saved many hard drives from the blundering actions and opinions and of untrained computer shop workers and retail employees from Geek Squad, Staples and the Apple Store? All of the above.

Good luck with your work at Salvage Data in Reston, VA and hope you put up your 4talents.com website soon.