Comments on: Cyberstalking

By: Drunken Economist

Drunken Economist — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:03:54 +0000

Hana-san. This is just my 2 yen, but you shouldn’t take syslogs or analytics too seriously.

If I look at the syslogs of my torrent Mini, I see that I’m “attacked” at least 200 times a day by DSL and University users in China. Probably part of a botnet because they start with user ‘a’ and end with user ‘z’ and then start over. From different IP addresses even.

Are these people or infected machines? Hard to say.

Your problem is one ip block half a world away.

If this is happening too many times a day, the only thing that occurs to me is that someone may be running an SEO script to ‘boost those search terms’. Or if it’s only 1-2 times then someone has put that Google page as their homepage (so that it automatically loads).

Maybe you DO have some jealous luser on the other side of the world. Who wants to promote those key words. That’s all they or their script can do.

Who knows what drives some people to do dumb things like this? Especially so-called ‘fans’.

Most folks who search don’t even know that their searches are not private. Just like most college kids using scripts against another PC don’t know that their actions are logged by SOMEONE (the target, both ISPs, etc).

Just like the ssh attacks on my machine, there’s little you can do other than keep your identity private, and soldier on.

Not blogging means.. well that the luser has won.

-Drunken Economist
http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/
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By: Kirito

Kirito — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:29:02 +0000

Just wondering if the situation has improved since and you have any plans of returning to blogging. I miss this place. There aren’t that many anime-related blogs that can give me the feeling of lying on a grassy hilltop with my arms stretched out, looking at the shifting, fleeting cloud-shapes in the blue sky, imagining. In fact, without yours there are none.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:47:05 +0000

Sorry to hear. I like reading your posts. Not as often as I should, but it’s a joy every time. However, as I’m sure bloggers and web inhabitants are aware, real estate in cyberspace will carry some negative potential blues. I hope this wind passes quickly, and you continue to be your old, informative self.

By: Luna

Luna — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:16:04 +0000

This sounds very horrible. (Ans somewhat scary, too.)
I hope the current situation will not last all that long. I wonder if it has already done some good…?(As two month almost passed by.)

By: Fionajude

Fionajude — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:41:40 +0000

I’m sorry to learn of this bad news,I´m wholeheartedly with you. Take care of yourself. I’ve been reading your articles for a long time. I’ve always found it interesting, I’ve learned a lot grace to you. Thanks for all.

By: Mocomi

Mocomi — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:24:26 +0000

Ahh, how pity. i’ve always found a big pleasure to read your blog. For me it’s not only fun, but also very informative and even educational. I also secretly admire your excellent writing skill of English. I’d wished to be just as good as you. But if you consider to start a new blog in another language, may i suggest Chinese? Because it would be easier for meXD(just a joke, hope you don’t mind)总而言之，博主加油！everything will be fine.

By: Wabisabi

Wabisabi — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:15:36 +0000

Noted with thanks.

By: bangin

bangin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:40:44 +0000

Oh no, it is a bit sad you didn’t tell me this. I am sorry about that. I am not familiar with that sort of thing, so there is nothing I can do for you. But you know, eh, I hope things will be better so you will be able to blog again.

By: ayame

ayame — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:22:24 +0000

!!!Creepy! And I just thought that you were busy :( It’s really sad that you’d stop blogging in English since apart from German ,I don’t know any other language. I hope Google translation will come in hand. But this aside, why would anyone in an unknown place to you would try to harass you like this? Plus, if anyone meant to threaten your life, wouldn’t (s)he try inserting the term ‘iwanihana murdered’ ? It seems to me more like an internet addict or even perhaps someone with bad humour…

Anyways, I hope you’ll be safe and find a solution out of this. Isn’t there any organization against e-terror or about e-safety?

By: Wabisabi

Wabisabi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:06:55 +0000

ado:

It is not the search terms in themselves but the frequency of the search terms from one person.

susperia:

Thank you very much for your understanding. I hope that person will lose interest after enough time has passed.

Mosuke:

Thank you again. I hope this will blow over soon too.

Snoop’:

Long time no see. Are you still on the same email address?

Rabid fans can be worrying as rabid anti-fans too, you know…

Ridiculus:

Many thanks for your kind understanding.

By: Ridiculus

Ridiculus — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:41:55 +0000

Damn, I thought that everything was not going well… I’ve been missing your posts greatly.

I would prefer the membership-based blog, but it is yours to do as you please. As I hone my Japanese language skills, I would be able to follow your other blog.

Best wishes and hope to hear from you soon.

By: Snoop'

Snoop' — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:20:49 +0000

I’m sorry to hear this as well (hey, long time no see !). :/
But as creepy as this looks, is it not possible that that person is a rabid fan who wondered what happened to your blog and thought maybe you died, trying to find evidence of this on the Internet ? (yeah I know this is stupid because one would google “iwanihana dead” in that case)

By: Mosuke

Mosuke — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:48:34 +0000

I am not very well-versed on the ins and outs of cyber-bullying, but what you have described is rather worrying, and it is very distressing that there is a chance this person may be able to find sensitive information such as your address and phone number and continue this off-line. If you need to take a break, take a break. It is a shame that I will not be able to continue to read your entries in English, but your mental health comes first, and besides, I need to brush up on my Japanese (and perhaps finally pick up another language aside from that) so I am glad I will be able to follow you in some way.

I hope this person ceases harassing you. I’ve always enjoyed what you have to say, and it’s a pity that this person is ruining this for everyone. Good luck. We’re all supporting you.

By: susperia

susperia — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:52:24 +0000

:O i’m sorry to hear this, must be a bit scary and hard to ignore, what a weird creep that person must be, i hope everything will get better! and things will be sorted out for you and this person will at least stop :O!! they must have some reason.
shame you wont be continuing in English, i’ll still keep a lookout for the next entry though!

By: ado

ado — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:11:53 +0000

It’s a pity to read that you will no longer post in english, oh well google translation will come handy for the others languages…

I am surprised you get emotional just for a few keyword on google search term result, though if you have this kind of harassment in real life, it would be troublesome for mental health to get some too on the internet…but be wary that this is the current internet and unless you restrict yourself to read news website, there will be always this kind of attitude on blog and forums.

Just take it easy, ignore the spam/bad word filter and don’t let it get you up to RL.