For five years a group of posters have been scanning newsgroups to
find posters to harass, intimidate, abuse, and stalk. They operate
with stealthy identities that are registered at their sites. The
leader of this group (or gang as some call them) is Kevin A. Cannon
who created
insurgent.org as a home site from which they operate.
Kevin A. Cannon is easy to locate. He works for TSB Bearings in New
Jersey. Another leader in these groups is Peter J Ross located in
Frome, Somerset County, UK. He is also easy to locate. The others
are more difficult to find. They use their stealth as an advantage:
they know who you are but you can't find who they are. They will
attempt to harass a poster and get the poster to cross post to
alt.usenet.kooks which is a newsgroup started by them or attempt to
get a poster so agitated that he or she violates an acceptable user
practice and is subject to an abuse complaint that they will file.
They will also build a page or site about a poster to further their
harassment and abuse. They will then post the URL of this site as a
reply to the targeted poster's posts as a means of harassment, abuse,
and stalking. They think the Usenet has more of its share of
conspiracy theorists and kooks as they call them and alt.usenet.kooks
has been created for the discussion, harassment, stalking, and abuse ...
