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Some info on this guy to make the story clearer.

People can be wrong about things, and comment scores are useful information that helps us know if they are.

Only after clicking on more info, do you get an option to override.

They often bring a crowd with them, they often have great researched stories, infographics you name it.

Again beautiful, I used to kill for decent info graphics coming in.

Within an hour, somebody said:I'd like to read this but I'm unable to without giving them my FB login info.

HTP told Linode to just publicly acknowledge that HTP was the group that broke into Linode, and they'd delete the sensitive info.

HTP threatened to widely publish all this sensitive information if Linode didn't stay quiet.

So, HTP tried to strong-arm Linode into staying quiet until May 1st. HTP had obtained the customer information and credit cards of all the Linode customers.

Because in 2006 I received an unsolicited phone call from somewhere in Nebraska claiming to be Paypal and informing me they needed to verify my account credentials.

Using your stored CC info to auto-bill you for an unrelated product that you never consented to be billed for is quite likely in violation of their merchant agreement with the CC processor.

The only reason that it would take months to implement is because they're using some authoritative method - maybe ISP customer info, or government supplied info- to correlate users to reveal real identity.