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The name is used by the 4chan folks (many of them are "anonymous") as an internal joke. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+site:pastebin.com+...



Those were all created today. It seems more likely that they're mocking him.


The cached contact page for Tapanaris shows he uses a nick "t4pan"

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PPhOZgL...

After some googling:

t4paN 01-29-2008 11:33 AM

"4chan will get them, don't worry."

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=781716

Looking like he is associated with anon to me and that it isn't a false flag


WTF, of course he is associated to anon: he wrote the freaking press release!?!


This discussion is over whether he actually wrote the press release, or whether someone else did and put his name in the metadata to make him take the flak for it.


Sorry but it seems I am talking to a bunch of stupid, here.

Here you bring two evidence that he is in fact a victim of 4chan. 1) a bunch of pastebins, ALL CREATED AFTER THE PRESS RELEASE, mocking the guy 2) a forum post, older than that date, where he mentions 4chan, using his alias t4pan.

The first one only proves 4channers are making fun of him The latter, only shows he knows about 4chan - which he must if he wrote the press release.

Where is the evidence he didn't write. NOWHERE. And now start downvoting, then the next thread go bully this place is better than reddit.


The original comment poster thought the attacks had been taking place for awhile, he thought it look like 4chan previously had a grudge against this man. In the discussion following the comment it was figured out that the attacks started afterward. You're not talking to "a bunch of stupid, here", you could have just asked for someone to explain it to you.


Or he's executing a Joe Job on himself in an effort to bury his mistake in the resulting noise floor...




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