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‘Anonymous,’ a group of hackers apparently and whom they were claiming could get inside anyone’s computer and ruin anyone’s life. A quick Google search for this group seemed to prove its existence, and I spent all of that night lying awake in a sweat wondering just what the hell I had gotten myself into. I tossed and turned in the dark all night, unable to sleep with worry at what was coming for me though the phone cables that reached into my house. I had visions of some gang of uber-nerds sitting in a basement in New York reaching their digital hands into my computer, pulling out my own ‘dox’ and then mercilessly going to work on it.
     
    Eventually, come six o’clock in the morning and still having slept none, I jumped out of bed, ran into my living room, switched on the computer and deleted my outing page along with the account that went with it, one ‘Billy Gruff.’ After much torturous debate with myself as to the rights and wrongs of backing down from such evil, panic had overtaken me and I reasoned with myself that I would still try to do something, but not that. I would try again to get some media interested, maybe even American media. But I was never going up directly against this ‘Anonymous’ again!
     
    I laugh at that now. I was an innocent then taking his first steps into a bigger world full of unknown terrors. Yes, there is a group/movement/idea/cult/whatever known as Anonymous, and yes it is responsible for all sorts of computer attacks and even real cyber-hacks, but the good news is that even though that many of the Internet’s RIP trolls may style themselves as ‘Anonymous,’ all is not as it seems. A somewhat tangled subject of which I will return to in more detail later. But here now is basically all that you need to know - the Anonymous which has been making the headlines worldwide for their organised attacks on computer systems and their hacking into police emails are very unlikely to be the same individuals as are in the RIP trolling gangs, some of whose members also wear that now familiar Guy Fawkes mask, symbol of that ‘movement.’ If this were not so, then I and others would probably have had some conflict with them by now. 
     
    So for the next two or three months I dipped in and out of their world, promising myself that I would never forget about it but being too fearful of what I may be taking unto myself to begin trying to dox any of these bastards again. I made some more approaches to newspapers but none of them were interested. Around early March, though - and perhaps because of my failure to get the media to take an interest - something snapped in me and, disgusted with myself for having backed down on that occasion, I began making a real effort to dox some more of them. I knew this sort of tactic wasn’t going to stop all of them but CS did seem to stop his trolling very shortly after I outed him, and at least for the first several months after Sean Duffy’s doxing he too also appeared to have ceased his campaign of persecution against the families of dead teenagers. This was a small something and a small something is better than a nothing.
     
    My efforts paid off when I was soon able to discover the identity of one very active RIP troller who was then going under the name and picture of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He had posted on his completely open Facebook profile a screengrab taken from his real account. It was a discussion about Doctor Who that he had earlier had with some friends of his and something in it seemed so important to him that he had felt the need to post it up for his trolling buddies to see. ‘Dmitri’ had used a paint program to scribble out the names of the people in the screengrab, but the ‘sad clown of Facebook’ as he was later memorably described as hadn’t done a good enough job of making his own name unreadable and after 10 minutes of careful study I was able to piece it together. It read ‘Hunter Mello,’ and that one little