Tag: STALKING

'The Bodyguard,' a piece of '90s schlock best known for turning the excellent Dolly Parton song 'I Will Always Love You' into a histrionics lesson from Whitney Houston, is slated for a 21st century update. The new version will weave social networking and Internet stalking into the thin, haphazard plot. If there is any justice in the world, this film -- along with 'The Chronicles of Rick Roll' -- ...

When they're not launching ill-advised DDoS attacks, flooding Tea Party forums with LOLcats or attempting to send Justin Bieber to North Korea, the members of 4chan like to pass around naked pics of dumb teens, and generally make life a living hell for everyone they can. [Ed. Note: They also like to party at Barcade, apparently.] An unidentified student from Philadelphia was the victim of a recent ...

A new site called JustSpotted provides Web surfers with the latest geographic locations of over 7,000 celebrities, based on user-submitted sightings and aggregated data from social networking sites. Set to launch on Tuesday, the site was originally designed with licensed software from Twitter, which would've allowed the company to automatically filter out every tweet pertaining to high-profile ...

Trend story or bona fide trend? The Guardian reports that the birth parents of adopted children are flocking to Facebook to locate and contact their descendants. The article claims that, at least in the U.K., two-thirds of adopted children are removed from their birth parents due to abuse or neglect; and now "huge numbers" of adoptive parents are reporting that their children are being contacted ...

One of the newest weapons in the arsenal of stalkers is text messaging. Texting has two major perks for those hell-bent on harassment: the constant attachment folks have to their cell phones and the tendency of handsets to pester their owners until unopened messages are viewed. These aspects make harassment via text message particularly difficult to ignore or escape. So-called "textual ...

A new search engine has made its Internet debut, but this time its refined aim is to locate people, GeekSugar.com posted earlier this week. 123People.com requires only an individual's name to yield search results categorized into pictures, Web sites, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, videos, news, blogs, street addresses, and still more. While the layout of the site is commendably clean, and ...

We joke about how gaming, especially online first person shooters (in this case 'Halo'), are the domain of basement dwelling uber-dorks and sociopaths. Sadly every once in a while someone has to go and do something that gives the entire online gaming community a bad name. The emotionally unbalanced loon in question this time is Joshua Stetar. Stetar, 20, was arrested last week in Spokane, ...