<story><title>How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-triggering GIF</title><url>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3520966-FBI-Complaint-vs-John-Rivello-in-Kurt-Eichenwald.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vmarsy</author><text>From an article related to the case [1]:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  charged with criminal cyberstalking with the intent to kill or cause bodily harm and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted,&lt;p&gt;What is even more sad:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; More than 40 Twitter users sent similar strobes to Mr. Eichenwald after they realized they could trigger seizures, he tweeted Friday.&lt;p&gt;The agent went through these steps to identify the suspect:&lt;p&gt;- Asked Twitter about account information. (w&amp;#x2F; search warrant)&lt;p&gt;- Got phone number&lt;p&gt;- Phone number was Tracfone prepaid but asked AT&amp;amp;T for information about phone number. AT&amp;amp;T could map [phone number] -&amp;gt; [specific iPhone model] (&amp;quot;DPD sent a request to AT&amp;amp;T&amp;quot;)&lt;p&gt;- Asked apple about iCloud  account related to [phone number] (w&amp;#x2F; search warrant)&lt;p&gt;- Find selfie of accused with his DL in hand in iCloud pictures, and also a screenshot of the seizure-triggering GIF, and many other incriminating&amp;#x2F;stalking behavior items.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;mar&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;twitter-user-charged-cyberstalking-over-seizure-in&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;mar&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;twitter-user...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Added (w&amp;#x2F; warrant search) to clarify what &amp;quot;Asked&amp;quot; meant in my summary.</text></comment>
<story><title>How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-triggering GIF</title><url>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3520966-FBI-Complaint-vs-John-Rivello-in-Kurt-Eichenwald.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>This is as close to a real life &amp;#x27;snowcrash&amp;#x27; as you could get and whoever did this (and the copycats) should be thrown the book at.&lt;p&gt;50K people die in the USA alone each year due to seizures, this is really no joking matter.</text></comment>