Month: April 2024

Hi Josh:

I’ve been trying to get answers from your team (you, Podhradsky or Miller) for the last three years about why you helped the government railroad me. Podhradsky told me to talk to Miller & Miller told me to “go away”. I’m not going away, nor will I ever “let this go” until I find out what happened.

Last year, while doing research, I came across the paper your team authored regarding the FBI’s NIT for a conference in 2016. Needless to say, it angered me. Sections 2.6 & 2.7 were particularly infuriating. While I am an “expert”, I’m not at your level, but I knew that the FBI was lying about how their NIT worked and that you were actively helping them lie about it. (That’s why I fired Joe Gross Jr. to fire your team in February of 2015.)

The “smoking gun” regarding your team’s participation in this travesty of justice, is this sentence in section 2.6 – where you declare: 

The DNS requests go over UDP and thus they can be spoofed. However, the cornhusker log indicates that DNS request was made via the proxy server and thus that data was not logged in this case. 

As you surely know, that – in regards to the flash player – was impossible.

The proxy server was TOR and the NIT attack relied on the flash player ignoring TOR (thus making direct connections to  cpimagegallery.com. Therefore, flash player’s UDP (DNS) & TCP (Socket) communications must bypass TOR. So the scenario your team omitted from your June 2015 report (where flash used TOR for UDP but didn’t for TCP) was such a HUGE RED FLAG – that FBI shenanigans were afoot – that experts such as yourselves must have withheld it on purpose. If you have a conscious, you should feel very guilty about that. Furthermore, in 2022, I had Nathan Zaugg (of Mindfire Technology) answer 3 questions that your team willfully refused to answer in your June 2015 report. Those 3 questions were:

1) Does Tinyboard have a visitors table?
2) Does Tinyboard issue session ids to clients?
3) Does Tinyboard track user activity in any way?

Nathan’s answer to all 3 questions was NO! That means that your team’s Figure I is perjury and that my conviction was totally fraudulent, without considering the NIT’s additional fraud (discussed above). As I told Miller, the statute of limitations has passed for your team’s perjury, and I cannot sue you for your lies. However, if you come clean about your team’s misdeeds (which my pending FOIA litigation may uncover anyway) I may be able to get exonerated.

So, if you have any decency, I would like you to answer the following 6 questions:

1) When and how did you become involved with NE case no. 8:13CR108?

2) Why did your team examine the wrong server for your first report (January of 2015)?

3) Why did you parrot the government’s lie that the NIT was just a flash application?

4) When and how did Attorney Joseph Howard keep you involved with my case (I desperately tried to fire your team because I knew you were lying)?

5) Why did you lie about Tinyboard Software in your June 2015 Report (Claiming the visitors table was legitimate & Tinyboard issued Session IDs to visitors)?

6) What did you communicate with Keith A. Becker about and when (Please provide dates so I can amend my FOIA litigation for these communications)?

Thank you for your time. I hope you’ll help me uncover your team’s part in railroading me…

– Kirk Cottom

So about two weeks ago I was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy. According to the literature, I should have been seeing some improvement this week if my situation was caused by inflammation only. Unfortunately, I’ve seen no improvement, thus my paralysis is probably caused by Ramsay Hunt Syndrome.

In sum, it means my recovery will likely be measured in months, not weeks.

April 30 Update: As of today, I’m at 75% recovered. After 3 weeks of no progress, my fourth week has shown daily improvement of about 25% a day, so I may be 100% by Friday.

May 13 Update: As of today, I’m at 90% recovered. I can now raise my left eyebrow and my lip control is almost back. I’m able to drink for a soda can again. Left lips and cheek are at 90%. So I think my recovery time will be about 8 weeks…

June 24 Update: As of today, I’m 95% recovered. My left side is a little weaker than my right side. I’m thinking it may stay that way. But I can eat and talk 100% normal now…

So, I was minding my own business this weekend when (on Friday) I developed an odd ear ache. It was a twitching sharp pain that would occur periodically. So, I chalked it up to another ache/pain of being a member of AARP.

But, when I woke up Sunday the left side of my face was basically paralyzed. So, I gave myself the stroke tests in a pamphlet I have because I’m a member of AARP and we need to know these things. I passed all the stroke tests, so I diagnosed myself with what the pamphlet called Bell’s Palsy. On Monday I went to an urgent care that will see you for a flat fee of $125. (Since I’m a struggling sole proprietorship making little (read “no”) money, I do not have any health care coverage, thus my reluctance to go to the emergency room; BUT, I don’t think I’d gone to emergency even if I did… IMO, that is really just a place for gun wounds, car accidents and heart attacks.)

The nurse practitioner chastised me for self diagnosing BUT concurred that I “presented” as text book Bell’s Palsy. He said that it might be have been caused by the virus that causes shingles (chickenpox) and that it attacked my cranial nerve seven. So he put me on an antiviral to combat the possible underlying cause (that cost $80) and a steroid to deal with the inflammation that was continuing to irritate nerve seven (that cost $17).

Now, I just have to wait and hope nerve seven returns to normal giving me the left side of my face back sometime in the next few weeks.