Remember this incident?
Well, the Alice Springs News reports:
RACIST STICKERS: MAN FINGERED IN INTERNET CHASE.
Report by by ERWIN CHLANDA.
A Sydney man tracing racial vilification and political extremism on the internet claims he’s found out who placed racist stickers on the office window in Alice Springs of Opposition Whip Richard Lim.
Mat Henderson-Hau says the man is Trevor Lewis, but Mr Lewis has denied to the Alice Springs News that he is politically active on the web. (Mr Lewis is not listed in the Alice phone book.) When Mr Henderson provided further evidence against Mr Lewis, including an email in which he apparently bragged about placing the stickers (pictured), the News left several messages for Mr Lewis, but he did not return our calls.
He has since been sacked by the company for which he’d worked in an information technology role. A company spokesman says the sacking was related to unauthorized use of computers.
Dr Lim, who is of Chinese origin, says he is pleased that the person placing the stickers has apparently been identified.
“People who have issues such as this should be up front,” says Dr Lim.
“Mr Lewis has not come and met with me.
“As a politician I’m fair game for anyone, but my skin is thick enough.
“But I don’t want anyone to take such actions against someone who may be traumatised.
“It is vilification.”
Mr Henderson-Hau says his web site, Fight dem back, has been taken offline “by one of the biggest cyber-crimes ever committed in Australasia”.
He claims Fight dem back was “emerging from a triumphant week which saw them close down a massive gathering of neo-Nazis in Sydney and also saw them successfully lobby to prevent two guest speakers from Germany’s far-right National Democratic Party from entering Australia.
“On Monday afternoon, the FDB server was flooded with what is known as a distributed denial of service attack.
“This is where hundreds of thousands of requests are sent to the site thus eating up bandwidth and forcing the server offline.
“They threw the equivalent of a major university’s bandwidth at us.
“This would have been a world-wide effort with every neo-Nazi who can click a mouse taking part.
“We are working with the authorities to ascertain the origin of this attack. Early investigations are looking promising.”
Mr Henderson-Hau says over the last 12 months, Fight dem back has been monitoring the activities of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Australia and New Zealand.
“Our campaigning has resulted in the effective disbandment of the New Zealand National Front and in the decimation of groups like the White Pride Coalition of Australia and the Patriotic Youth League.”
