Connecticut Woman Charged After Using Internet to Harass Ex-boyfriend’s Wife

When strange men started call­ing a Water­ford woman’s house last sum­mer, say­ing they had seen her pro­file on an adult Web site, her hus­band booted up his own com­puter to inves­ti­gate. The woman’s hus­band dis­cov­ered some­one had cre­ated a pro­file for her on sev­eral Inter­net sites and included her home and work phone num­bers and […]

American Greetings thinks we need “stalker” cards now?

hi. how are you? you don’t know me but I know you I watch you a lot your every move your every breath does this make you uncom­fort­able? … you don’t know me but I know you & lynn does it bother you that I know your beau­ti­ful blue eyes your soft blonde hair you can turn this off, you know and I’ll […]

Blogging, cyberstalking, and paranoia

As I read an arti­cle this morn­ing, Blog­ging can be a dan­ger­ous game, I was reminded that one rea­son I began this blog is that I hoped to be a more mod­er­ate voice than some of those who are already speak­ing. While I respect many of those peo­ple, I can’t agree with some of their […]

Establishing authorship of IMs and text messages

Texts to reveal “who­dun­nit” Psy­chol­o­gists at the Uni­ver­sity of Leices­ter are to inves­ti­gate tex­ting lan­guage to pro­vide new tools for crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion. The foren­sic lin­guis­tic study based in the Foren­sic Sec­tion of the School of Psy­chol­ogy will exam­ine how well an indi­vid­ual can be iden­ti­fied by their tex­ting style. This study has obvi­ous impli­ca­tions for identifying […]

Welcome!

I’m Cyn­thia Armis­tead, known as Tech­noMom to many peo­ple I’ve encoun­tered online since 1995. I’m a mother, a writer, a com­puter geek, and many other things. I’m also a sur­vivor of inter­net harass­ment, because a mul­ti­ply con­victed felon, Richard Hill­yard, tar­geted me and my daugh­ter Katie for harass­ment in 1996. Our story has been online for […]