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• Nov 20, 2017 @ 11:32am

  Re:

  on Angry Lawyer Already Engaged In A SLAPP Suit Promises To Sue More Critics, Use His Machine Gun If Sanctioned

  God I hope this guy isn't sitting on a fully functional P-38 lightning.

  You and me both.

• Jan 07, 2015 @ 11:26am

  Re: Visa

  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  Neither Einstein nor Churchill had the type of visa that O'Brien brags about:
  https://twitter.com/AsherLangton/status/521054855725457408

• Oct 21, 2014 @ 08:51pm

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  on Another Story Of A 'Fake' Brilliant Inventor? Is 'Scorpion Walter O'Brien' A Real Computer Security Genius?

  Einstein didn't have an EB-1 either.

• Oct 09, 2014 @ 08:04pm

  Re: Re: And yet...

  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  Of course it's an ad for the TV show. But it aired as a news segment and promoted false claims using CBS News's reputation; that's the problem.

• Oct 08, 2014 @ 09:09am

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  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  I emailed Hackemack about 10 days ago through his personal email (from his amateur radio license callsign), but also no reply.

• Oct 07, 2014 @ 03:35pm
  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  And now some Wikipedia editor removed all mentions that O'Brien might not be legitimate, because (among other things) "the Mike Masnick piece is a self-published group blog and doesn't appear to be subject to editorial oversight." As opposed to the rigorous oversight over at CBS...

• Oct 07, 2014 @ 07:26am

  Re: And yet...

  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  I left a (reasonably) polite comment there last night linking back to this story and it was deleted...

• Oct 06, 2014 @ 03:29pm

  Re:

  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  Looks like AEEI is defunct, but it's tied to Pantheon Energy, for which O'Brien is a board member. Here's an SEC filing:
  
  http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1491636/000149163610000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml
  
  Any accountants following this story?

• Oct 06, 2014 @ 02:49pm

  Re:

  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  I've tried to contact everyone I can find connected to Scorpion. Of the four you mention:
  
  Charlap: Emailed questions; no reply.
  Schmidt-Cornelius: Contacted via Twitter; he stopped replying when I mentioned Scorpion/O'Brien.
  Allin: Contacted via Twitter. "Walter's a good friend and colleague and am 100% supportive of him. The TV is entertainment and based on his life, period."
  Casey: Couldn't find contact information.

• Oct 06, 2014 @ 11:47am

  Re:

  on The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow

  Read the second paragraph. It's not about a stupid TV show; it's about Walter O'Brien trying to con people into believing his claims. Look at how he reached out to Stratfor in 2009. With all the credibility he now has based on these unresearched stories in major news outlets, O'Brien's fraudulent and grandiose claims of experience could lead to actual harm.

• Oct 05, 2014 @ 08:32pm

  Re: Re:

  on Another Story Of A 'Fake' Brilliant Inventor? Is 'Scorpion Walter O'Brien' A Real Computer Security Genius?

  O'Brien's site says the visa was granted in 2001:
  http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/usgov_intro.html
  There were 3375 other EB1-1 visas granted that year.

• Oct 03, 2014 @ 09:04pm

  Re: Complete Shit

  on Another Story Of A 'Fake' Brilliant Inventor? Is 'Scorpion Walter O'Brien' A Real Computer Security Genius?

  Secondly why the fuck would someone go through all this trouble just to fucking lie.
  
  First time on the internet?