She was also one hell of a social engineering hacker.

One of the last chapters in Cyberpunk, she's in an office of some big corporate big wigs and asked to demonstrate her hacking skills. Within ten minutes she had the system passwords for their network.

Interesting. But, still, the threats of violence and general dehumanization of her by several people is pretty horrible (someone has suggested she got someone arrested, but I don't see confirmation of that or an explanation for why...if they threatened violence against her, as several messages in the archive do, I wouldn't begrudge her for reporting those threats to police, for example).

Really it's a bunch of people trying to impress and out-do each other. "Dave Starr", "Susan Thunder", and "Roscoe Dupran" tangled with each other through almost any format available to them.

Here's more old-school sources of all this rivalry: http://www.flyingsnail.com/missingbbs/ http://phrack.org/issues/10/2.html

It takes a truly epic troll to span decades...impressive, in a way. Embarrassing, too.

Could be reusable handle(s) in an extended psychology experiment. One person could use multiple handles, or one handle could be used by multiple people.