Mike Basciano from the Poughkeepsie Cyber Terrorist Story
Mike Basciano from the Poughkeepsie Cyber Terrorist Story
Report #: 33
Date Reported: Sunday, February 27, 2011
Status: Active and Ongoing
Severity: Severe - Cyberterrorism
Primary Weapon: Website Defacement
Specific Location: South East Poughkeepsie
City/Local Area: Poughkeepsie
State/Territory: New York
Region: United States
This is a really funny story about a National Terror Alert issued for Mike Basciano in Poughkeepsie, New York after he abused one of my websites called STD Carriers by falsely accusing someone of being a convicted rapist. At the time I had a cyber terrorist watch list called "Evil Doers" featuring the IP addresses of people who had abused my services in conjunction with a bunch of rhetoric written to sound like stuff George W. Bush would say. The day I published the list I decided that I would make a public example of the first "Evil Doer" that I could identify by name and Mike Basciano happened to be that guy. The result was a national news story due to a combination of his stupidity and effective press release marketing.
Mike Basciano joined STD Carriers under the user name Dipset_All_Day back in 2009 and quickly became my most active member posting around 100 comments about a guy in California who had been listed as having Genital Herpes. The accused HSV sufferer had sent me extortionist threats which had been published in the Threats section of the website after which it seems Mike felt entitled to say whatever he wanted to about the man. In the process Mike falsely accused the man of being a convicted rapist and admitted that he had lied about the conviction in response to an email that I sent him regarding his conduct. Mike also admitted to being the owner of a website called "Internet Ownage" which is nothing more than a simple blog with a crying baby for a logo and stuff about people the site claims to own on the internet.
Mike’s confession was all I needed to prove that he had engaged in "the premeditated use of disruptive activities, or the threat thereof, against computers and/or networks, with the intention to cause harm or further social, ideological, religious, political or similar objectives. Or to intimidate any person in furtherance of such objective" thus falling within the scope of the broad definition of cyberterrorism as listed on Wikipedia. My response was to issue a press release announcing that STD Carriers Disease Control and Prevention Services was looking for a cyber terrorist named Mike Basciano in Poughkeepsie, New York. The release was sent out to several dozen news sites in that state and on March 12, 2010 WKTV in Utica, New York published it as an article no questions asked. It was sloppy journalism in my opinion, but a testament none the less to my excellent press release writing skills. Eventually NationalTerrorAlert.com picked up the story and listed his actions in incident reports next to stories about Al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The story eventual got taken down by WKTV no doubt to a combination of Basciano crying to them like the baby he uses as a logo for his "Internet Ownage" site and their realization that they had published the word of one guy as if it came from the government or something. I also misspelled his name as "Bascaino" repeatedly, so I’m sure that played a factor. Nevertheless it doesn’t change that fact that everything I said was 100% technically true, just taken out of context. Still due to the viral nature of the internet you will always be able to find proof on numerous sites of the first of 2 of my press releases that were published as articles in 2010 no questions asked with the second having nothing to do with a guy who creates a site called "Internet Ownage" getting owned on the internet.
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