WARNING: Someone is Trying to Set Up Liberty Activists Using Child Porn
This a warning to
all of our members, readers, supporters, and to the general liberty movement.
Please be extremely
careful with email, and do not open any attachments from anyone who you don't
know, or from any suspicious email, such as tormail. And even if it seems
to be from someone you know, take the time to read the email address carefully,
to see if it is from a Tormail account, or other anonymous email service.
It could be someone impersonating someone you know, to trick you into opening
files with child-porn on them.
No one here at Oath Keepers uses tormail or any other anonymous email
service, so if you see an email purporting to be from Oath Keepers, or from
anyone in leadership at Oath Keepers, from such an email service, do not open it.
There have been a string of anonymous
attacks on liberty activists, all attempting to trick people into opening email
attachments containing child-porn. We know of at least four such
attempts within the past few weeks.
The first was when
someone emailed Luke Rudkowski, Founder of We Are Change and tried to trick him
into opening attached jpeg files containing child porn. Luke was
able to use the "view" function of his email to see that the images
were child porn and he did not open them.
Then, someone using a
tormail account tried to do the same thing to Dan Johnson, Founder of People
Against the NDAA (PANDA). Whoever emailed Dan Johnson pretended to
be me, Stewart Rhodes, but using a Tormail account.
Fortunately, Dan knew that I don't use Tormail, and therefore he did not open
the attachments. Instead, he had a computer security expert examine
the files, and that expert determined that they contained child
porn. You can read more about that attack, and watch a video we
made about it, here.
Well, a few days later
it happened again, to two other liberty activists we know. They
have chosen, for the time being, to not go public about it, in the hopes that
the FBI will have a better chance of catching the perp. All of us have
reported these incidents to the FBI, through attorney Sue Basko.
Sue has written a very
well done description of what happened, what we did to report it, and some
important advice on how you can keep from being victimized by whoever is doing
this. Here is an excerpt of that tutorial. Please take her
advice to heart, and be very careful online.
Stewart Rhodes
TUTORIAL BY ATTORNEY SUE BASKO:
Child Porn Emailed to
Activists to Try to Frame Them
by Sue Basko
