Forocoches and Burbuja.info publish the data of the woman victim of 'the herd'

Forocoches and Burbuja.info users track the pieces of data of the victim of 'the herd' broadcast on television and end up finding her name, photos and various YouTube videos where she appears and use them to attack her.

There is a fine line between humor and disgust. Forocoches in recent years has become a forum full of trolls, capable of sending Jon Cobra to RTVE, for the selection of candidates for Eurovision, something that ended up causing the format to be changed. It is not the only great laundry they have achieved, since they have trolled polls and many television programs with fabricated information. As well, Burbuja.info and Forocoches this morning have crossed the line and for a while the name, photos and even the LinkedIn profile of the woman sexually assaulted by 'the pack' has been published.

The name or other information of the woman has not been given in any medium, to preserve her privacy and to make public derision with her, but some characters that flood this forum have obtained, by crossing data, information about the woman and have published it . The ball has grown large and photos and videos of the victim have been found and of course, with all this a public lynching of the victim has begun.

The techniques would be similar to those of the CSI. A group of users searches for unimportant data, circumstantial data, to narrow the fence until they find all the victim's data. Through the brute force of the users and crossing the data of dozens of people, it ends up reaching the profile of the desired person. This is a practice inherited from other forums, such as 4chan, the largest in the world. Logically, with anonymity, the mess begins.

The thread, already deleted, begins like this: A 'user' publishes the data he has heard on television. Another user contrasts the data with those obtained in another medium. A third party searches the network for hours, crossing data and finally, the data is obtained. They find images and videos of the victim. It is a kind of Big Data screening, but more crappy, through users who do not have better things to do.

This is how they have found two photos of the victim, her name, her surname and even some videos of the girl on YouTube where she is out with some friends. Part of the data has been published in Zeronet, a subnet within the Internet, which is decentralized and where users connect through the P2P system. Vozpopuli has found the files and links in various threads within Forocoches.

The Spanish Penal Code, in articles 197 to 201, establishes and considers the discovery, disclosure and dissemination of secrets as a crime. In addition, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection recently fined € 100.000 a website that disseminated the content of a judicial summary on the internet where personal data of the injured from the 11M attack in Madrid appeared.

It is serious, but it is more serious to see how more brainless have taken the data and used it to insult and laugh at the victim, justifying the investigation and dissemination of the information. It is pathetic to see this on the internet and we are not going to give these brains a field. We would not like to see the freedom of the network be regulated or narrowed, but neither do we see coherent and good what has just happened, since a victim of sexual assault is being attacked. In addition, defending that her data be seen and her face known, is regrettable and something that can prevent the woman from resuming her life after this unfortunate situation.

It is clear that the forum needs an efficient management and control system, that leaving it to free will and self-regulating and managing is not exactly smart. But that is not the problem, the problem is that many hide behind the anonymity offered by the internet and dedicate themselves to insulting and attacking with impunity, something that seems impossible to change, since on the internet there is a lot of brainless and child rats who have nothing better to do.

It must also be made clear that not all Forocoches users are morons and rat children with nothing better to do in life, they are the minority group, but of course, the one that usually makes the most noise, because we know that among the users, there are good people and people who dislike what four brains have said and done.