ACS: Law.

[All information was gained through a third party, who shared what he read with me]

I'm sure that by now you have heard the story of ACS-Law, and the media field day(or, more specifically, to talk shit about how we are in a "WE ARE IN A FULL SCALE CYBER WAR")

First of all, the method Andrew Crossley and his mafia-like family used was honey potting people, which is, as far as I know,(in the UK) illegal. The problem is that the way both ACS and its customers went about their work was very sloppy.

For starters, a series of unencrypted, completely unsecured databases of suspected file-sharers were sent back and forth between ACS and their customers (included two of the big three in the UK ISP market)

Didn't one of the Neanderthals at ACS consider that its probably best NOT to let personal information get sent around in an unsecured form?

Secondly, ACS:Law didn't seem to give a damn about who they wanted to bully. In one example, a letter was sent to a elderly couple, who can only just about e-mail their grandchildren, saying they had been found guilty of downloading pornographic movies. The letter was responded to explaining that the only income the couple had was their train pension, and after a long email conversation, someone at ACS found a slight bit of compassion and understanding.

Thirdly, why was "Jasp" (believed to be from a porn site called Relish) agreeing to the idea of using both Relish and another supplier simultaneously? This meant that, basically, if you downloaded one Relish film(which if your a victim of ACS you probably didn't) you could be charged with downloaded 2+ relish films or films from relish and the other supplier. The idea of this is, to of course, make money.

The second supplier in question may be the "Freddie's whatever.whatever.whatever" company, as most of the content people apparently downloaded was from this "Freddie"

It would also be nice to know why Andrew Crossley had a addiction to bringing his personal life into the workplace. In a email entitled "bed and ice" Andrew blasted his ex-wife and her new partner, describing her as a druggie and her new partner as a hermit.

Other analysis of Andrew's emails shows him joking and boasting about the amount of money he makes, and joking about what car to buy(expensive choices ehh, Andrew?)

Lets sum this up:

ACS:Law:
Beefed up accusations with additional charges
Let employees send offensive and harassing emails
Agreed to manipulate accusations for financial gain
Fail at security
Get on average nearly £300 for each case(on a ministry of sound album)



Oh yeah. Their super secret technology is "Eyenet" by NG3 Systems (mg3sys.com)