Hi, I'm Ren Levy, and this is Malicious Life in collaboration with cyber reason.

A warning before we begin, this episode contains references to sexual harassment and

domestic violence. One year old computer science graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was sentenced to

17 years in prison. He'd been found guilty of perpetrating a severe year-long

campaign of coordinated cyber harassment against his former roommate.

He recruited others online to send messages threatening to rape and kill her and her friends.

They broke into all of her devices and sent her personal photos, videos,

medical and sexual history to all her friends and family.

They sent child pornography to her mother and friends.

They put up her personal information on pornography websites, encouraging men to visit her home address.

Three did.

The details go on, but you get the idea.

Ryan Lynn is a very extreme example of a very common phenomenon today, cyber harassment. He was not only more aggressive

than even most stalkers are, but he knew what he was doing better than most stalkers do. He used Tor to disguise his IP address, a

VPN to disguise his internet connection, and various apps to disguise himself

in texts and emails.

In contrast, most people who commit cyber stalking and harassment do not have computer science

degrees from respected technical universities.

In fact, all you need to commit government-grade cyber-spying today is a monthly subscription payment.

Laudrina Churn is a digital forensics instructor for the Sans Institute and a product manager at Cyber Reason.

Stockaware is software that can track somebody using a device.

Typically we're talking about some kind of tracking that is not consensual by the person being tracked.

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