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I've never had to deal with this firsthand. If it's a public university, and their personnel are getting death threats regarding university work, the universit
by neilv 2y ago
I've never had to deal with this firsthand.
If it's a public university, and their personnel are getting death threats regarding university work, the university had better make an effort to help -- if not for decency, then for liability. Including working with law enforcement.
One easy thing the university can do themselves (under the direction of a lawyer or administrator) is to ask IT for the Web server logs (or analytics) for accesses to the person's pages. They don't have to subpoena ISPs to see that, right before the most recent threat, there was a burst of referrers from `https://webforum.example/bobs-basement-militia?post=1232767 https://webforum.example/bobs-basement-militia?post=1232767`.
- UncleMeat 2y agoWell let me tell you very clearly: this is not how any of this works. The FBI won't care. The local cops won't care. The university won't pull logs for network traffic, nor would the existence of this information be meaningful to anybody to take any action.
- neilv 2y agoUniversities can grow some of the most arrogant and unaccountable people, even worse than a bad for-profit company. But two things that can get the attention of many of the bad apples are journalists and lawyers.