Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats

[jeff47]

104. The target's easy to find - they're going to the police, after all.

It's the person making the threat that can be difficult to track down.

You have to subpoena Twitter to get what IP address logged in to that account. Then you have to subpoena those ISPs to find out who had that IP at the time in question. And those ISPs are probably not in the same jurisdiction as Twitter. Then you have to get a search warrant to find and seize that person's computers so you can prove they actually sent the Tweet. And that's probably in yet another jurisdiction.

And that's just if the person making the threat doesn't know enough to try and cover their tracks. Add in multiple countries and technologies like TOR, and it gets even harder.

So it's been difficult to get the local police to start the ball rolling, since they probably will not be able to do anything themselves.