The book I read to research this post was Hackers On Steroids which is a very good book which I downloaded from kindle. This book is around 300 pages but is free on kindle at least at the moment and is really good value. This book is mainly about trolls and to a lesser extent RIP trolls, hackers and paedophiles. According to this book these people are often very well organised co ordinating mass attacks particularly on sites dedicated to dead people on Facebook but almost any site can be a target. In 2010 there was a kind of troll wars and these people split into smaller groups. They often use Facebook groups and one issue in the book was Facebook don’t take enough action. They do stay with in the law though. The title of the book was taken from a vigilante group for trolls on Facebook that is now defunct. This book does name a lot of these trolls and similar folk. I haven’t in case it glorifies what they do. The author of the book is British and does help the police track down these trolls, some of whom have ended up in prison. In America they are streets ahead of Britain in dealing with this kind of behaviour and where as in Britain they might get locked up for a few months, in the States they are looking at many years. One problem with policing sites like Twitter & Facebook is first they are often policed by people in foreign countries often at around $1 per hour, but also if they bar someones account which Facebook does to 20,000 accounts per day these people can circumnavigate it. Let’s face it, it’s 7 million accounts per year which I think in a lot of cases is the same people over and over again. Many of these criminals meet up on social media sites like Facebook & Twitter and also use instant messaging to stay in contact. This is quite an interesting book which I thought makes an interesting book review and blog post. It’s a bit of an unpleasant subject though.
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