From Doc Searls (read his full post here)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:25:52 -0700
From: alan herrell
To: Doc Searls
Subject: Kathy Sierra | | (sorry I haven't written before this as I have been doing damage control for my clients) |
| | I am writing this to you as the guy who can forward it to everybody that matters. |
| | I am writing this from a new computer, using an email address that will be deleted at the end of this. |
| | I am no longer me. My main machine despite my best efforts has been hacked, my accounts compromised including my email. and has been disconnected from the internet. |
| | How did this happen? When did this happen? shit doc, i don't have a fucking clue. I thought i was pretty sharp. I guess not. |
| | just about every online account that i have has been compromised. Most importantly my digital identity and user/password for typepad and wordpress. I have been doing damage control, for my clients. How the fuck i got to be part of this mess is revolting. |
| | The Kathy Sierra mess is horrific. I am not who ever used my identity and my picture!! |
| | I am sick beyond words over this whole episode. Kathy Sierra may not be on my top 10 list , but nobody deserves this filthy character assaination. |
| | But everything I have written about her or anyone else has been in public. |
| | Jesus Doc, In the ten years I have been online, i have never used any sort of screen name or hidden behind psedonyms. |
| | I have always posted and written as me. I have prided myself on the fact that I stand behind everything I wrote. Blogging made it much better in keeping the dialogue public. |
| | That folks think that this mess is the sort they believe I would do is disheartening. |
| | I may not be the the most popular guy, but I like to think i have been honest. And I say again I have *always* done this publicly. |
| | For Kathy and Maryam and anybody else I am deeply sorry. Nobody deserves this. |
| | Whatever credibility I may have had is down the toilet. For this I am profoundly saddened. |
| | I liked being who I was warts and all. |
| | I have over the course of my time online met some of the brightest people that I would never have the abilty to sit across from to break bread or share coffee with from around the world. How wonderful is that. |
| | In 1997 I wrote that I believed that the internet was the most important invention of the human race. I believe it even more today as I write this. |
| | It will probably some time before I attempt to join the great conversation again, but, Please don't let bastards grind you down. |
| | alan herrell the head lemur (retired) |
Whoa. Things are just beginning to get interesting. Whoa.
