Earthcomber has sued TechCrunch for no apparent reason other than trying to get free press.

President Jim Brady of Earthcomber has been desperately trying to get Michael Arrington on the phone but hasn’t been able to, so he decided to sue TechCrunch instead.

I think it’s a great idea actually for guerilla marketing, too bad Michael got pissed off:

Did Earthcomber also sue iMeem, RockTheVote and NRDC, the other filtered search options? No. Because that doesn’t get them all this free press.

We will not be bullied, and people who file frivolous lawsuits need to be put down. I would rather run TechCrunch into the ground and go out of business than let this guy win.

I don’t think you need to react that way, it’s only going to give Earthcomber more free marketing, that’s what they were going for, Michael should have not even posted the blog post if he really wanted to shut Earthcomber down.

Well, maybe it’s already part of his plan, all paid for by Earthcomber months ahead.  Now that would be some serious bullying on the readers like myself.

This reminds me of that Palin hacker, I don’t think it’s the guy being indicted, it’s some random hacker outside the U.S. who probably made the FBI “think” it’s someone traceable.

via blogherald, TC

MySpace Founder Tom Anderson was a Serial Hacker in the 80s!

This famous image of Tom at MySpace isn’t correct since Tom Anderson is now 37 but regardless of the fact that Tom on MySpace isn’t real, Tom Anderson is a real hacker from the 80s and have history of hacking Chase Manhattan Bank to cause one of the biggest FBI raids in history.

Now we’ve learned a much more colorful part of Anderson’s history: In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. He was never arrested because he was a minor, but the FBI confiscated all of his computer equipment and some newspaper accounts of the incident stated incorrectly (see image below from a 1986 LA Times story) that he was “convicted in federal court of computer hacking and placed on probation” (the statements were corrected in subsequent articles). Anderson used the hacker name “Lord Flathead.”

via techcrunch