Piss-Poor OpSec for @OccupyRebellion: The @Bullyville vs. Neal Rauhauser Saga

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Late last night, I reported how the popular anti-bullying site Bullyville.com had been targeted by death threats after writing about Neal Rauhauser, the disgraced Democrat operative who has spent two years harassing Brett Kimberlin’s enemies online. What I didn’t know was why Bullyville decided to go after Neal Rauhauser. Given that it is the wee hours, I’ll tell the story as I now understand it.

It involved @OccupyRebellion, one of many sockpuppet accounts Rauhauser has created over the years, and arguably his most successful. As with many other of his “socks,” Neal shared the login information for @OccupyRebellion with various of his associates, including at least one woman who was part of a group of Rauhauser fangirls whom Neal has occasionally referred to as “AnonyMiss.”

Neal Rauhauser has a fetish for online secrecy and deception, and a key part of that is “OpSec” (operational security), meaning the way that anonymous online accounts protect their anonymity, so that they can’t be “doxed” (documented, i.e., exposed).

OK, in May 2012, as soon as I started covering The Kimberlin Files, I was immediately targeted for Twitter harassment, the two most prominent perpetrators of which were @BreitbartUnmask and @OccupyRebellion. The latter of these accounts was arguably more effective, because it had more than 20,000 followers, many of them associated with the “Occupy” or “Anonymous” movements.

In short, @OccupyRebellion was the most precious sockpuppet princess in Rauhauser’s evil troll kingdom. But then . . . @Bullyville.

What happened was this: Reality TV star Kate Gosselin was the target of vicious online harassment. @Bullyville became aware of this “damsel in distress” situation and began “doxing” harassers left and right, rolling up the troll swarm and, at some point, came across @OccupyRebellion. Exactly how that happened, I don’t know. Maybe one of the anti-Gosselyn trolls was a friend of @OccupyRebellion, but however the conflict started, when @OccupyRebellion got in trouble, she evidently called on Neal Rauhauser to try to save her from exposure by @Bullyville.

Alas, it seems, whoever had been operating @OccupyRebellion had not been diligent in practicing the anonymity-protection necessary to online “OpSec” and, because Neal Rauhauser realized that the account was vulnerable, the account got deleted.

“Poof!” Two years of relentless online evil, an account that had collected more than 20,000 followers, was destroyed because of a silly squabble over a reality-TV star and . . . @Bullyville.

That’s the story as I understand it and, amid all that, Bullyville “received a call that entailed a death threat towards his children.”

Oops. The weird thing is how @Bullyville isn’t about politics, and never gave a damn about the whole Brett Kimberlin thing, yet arguably did more real damage to Rauhauser’s operation than any of the rest of us who have tangled with Neal over the years.

And now Bullyville has vowed to put Neal Rauhauser in prison.

Everybody should follow @Bullyville.

 


61 comments

  2. Small Error:
    Kate Gosselin (correct spelling) is from “Jon and Kate plus 8.”
    Nadya Suleman is the nutjob commonly called “Octomom.”
    They would both be horrified by the conflation.

  4. I remember when I first heard the story about Bullyville, Gosselin and Rauhauser. With all of the surreal situations that swirl around Team Kimberlin, it still seemed ‘out there’.

  7. As a casual observer of these events, my $64,000 question is, WHO pays to organize and keep all this wickedness glued together? Maybe I’m wrong but none of this seems attributable to garden variety internet thug alliances or mere craziness – not at the root of it all. It seems to cohesive and orchestrated. There’s got to be a unifying vision and goal, meaning there’s got to be some entity funding and promoting it.

    IF there is, who would that be and why?

    If this has already been explained somewhere I ask your pardon, I hadn’t noticed it.

  9. Good question. Hypothetical: non-profit gets large donations from leftist foundations, like Heinz, Tides, and Streisand. On the books, the money is paid to “consultants.” If the hypothetical non profit seems to produce nothing but cheap, cheesy, amateurish DVD’s, many of which are cut and paste jobs of YouTube videos, what on earth are the so-called consultants getting paid to do?

  10. Poor, poor widdle douchebags. Bullies don’t like it much when you punch back twice as hard.

    It will be funny when NR’s house of cards comes crashing down on him. He’ll probably never even acknowledge that it will happen because of his own hubris and stupidity. Trolls always trip themselves up eventually. ALWAYS.

  13. Joe, a lot of us have been asking that question for more than a year. I can tell you this: According to IRS documents, in 2011, the 501(c)4 Velvet Revolution reported spending $35,000 for “public relations” — the first time since Brett Kimberlin founded it that a “public relations” expenditure had been reported by the organization.

    Was Neal Rauhauser paid as part of this “public relations” effort? We don’t know. In fact, other than public statements and actions by Neal and Brett indicating that Kimberlin is Rauhauser’s “client” (and Neal is Brett’s “colleague”) the nature and extent of their relationship is unknown, in part because Kimberlin refused to comply with discovery in the Walker v. Kimberlin lawsuit that was dismissed last December.

    The observable pattern of behavior, however, certainly leads to the common-sense conclusion that after mid-2011, Rauhauser (and his various online allies and sockpuppet accounts) were targeting an Enemies List that included Patrick Frey, Mandy Nagy, Aaron Walker, Lee Stranahan and others.

  15. You can get good or cheap, and $35k in today’s culture war market is peanuts. Especially when, as @Occupy Rebellion ‘s 20K followers indicates, we have a culture full of malignant mental and moral dwarves prepared to believe and spread the filth for free once it’s launched.

  18. Good on @Bullyville. I cannot for the life of me understand how any self-identifying leftist could possibly excuse the actions of Rauhauser or any of his equally narcissistic psychopath groupies. Blaming rape victims in a real way?

    Not cool. Not cool at all, and claiming to hold the proper “politics” is not an offset, sorry.

  19. The thing I had not read in the past was that Rauhauser used “hot” credit cards. Or if I had read it, I’d forgotten it. That is interesting, and also very likely to sink him.

  20. Doesn’t the crumb trail seem to lead more or less to the Hillary! campaign? Is this gang of nutjob thugs the dredges of that campaign, their online “ratfuckers” (to put it in Watergate terms)? Hillary is well-funded, and maybe some of those campaign dollars trickle all the way down to Kimberlin’s nonprofits. And the Clintons have always been known for political thuggary.

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