[The first thing that should be noted, is that ALWAYS, Vranesevich
 and Meinel never give the URL of the supposed threats. They make vague and
 libelous accusations against Williams and PacketStorm, then cry that he
 is maintaining an archive with libelous material in it. When several people
 looked through the other public mirrors of the '/jp' directory, the only thing
 close to the description was a picture of JP and what appears to be his
 sister. This picture includes her name, but no address or any other info.
 It was taken from a public copy of their highschool yearbook.]

http://www.antionline.com/archives/editorials/packetstorm.html

PacketStorm Is Shut Down
An AntiOnline Editorial
Thursday , July 01 1999

Apparently for some time now, PacketStorm Security, a popular underground
collection of security related tools and information, has been maintaining a
vast archive of materials about AntiOnline. These materials included entire
stories, copies of the weekly mailbag, e-mails, and other materials
copyrighted by AntiOnline LLP.

On top of that, and what was far more serious, the site contained dozens and
dozens of items which included: e-mails, messages, documents, images, and
even public surveys. These materials were libelous, and in some cases, were
blatant threats against members of my immediate family, myself, and my
company.

[There were no threats on the site. The survey referenced was just
 that, a user survey with a single option saying 'JP should be killed'.
 That is not a threat from Ken Williams or PacketStorm.]

While I value the right to free speech as much, if not more, than the
average American, I do not believe in individuals posting threatening and
harassing documents about another individual, and their family members. It

[Yet one former (?) associate of Vranesevich is well known for
 making personal and physical threats against other people over IRC.
 Vranesevich tolerated these threats..]

was for this reason, and no other, that I contacted Harvard University,
which was hosting the PacketStorm Website, and requested that it be shut
down. I did not threaten legal action, but simply directed University

[He makes it very clear here. He did not follow the standard internet
 etiquette in contacting a site to resolve a problem. For over a decade,
 there has been an unwritten chain of command for any issue that needs
 resolving. One of those is to contact the site owner and ask for offensive
 material to be removed. Vranesevich did not contact Ken Williams and
 ask for it to be removed. Vranesevich did not contact Attrition staff
 before complaining to our upstream ISP either. Instead, he resorts to
 vague mail designed to ellicit a hasty and irrational response. Even in
 contacting Harvard, he did not ask for the offending material to be 
 removed, he asked for the entire site to be shut down. Apparently, JV
 is not familiar with the idea of archiving information. Sometimes, 
 questionable material may slip in. This is why you contact the site and 
 make sure they are aware it is offending, then move on.

 Readers should be aware that JV/AntiOnline conveniently sent a letter
 to our upstream claiming many of the same things. This is not JV
 doing what he thinks is right. This is a systematic campaign to rid
 the net of those speaking against him.]

Administration to the website, for them to view, and to judge, on their own.
Below is a copy of that letter:

[A copy of the letter.. but no copy of the material that *JV* deemed
 offensive. Sory kids, you don't get to make that decision until you find
 the other public mirrors of /jp around the net.]

Greetings:

May I first say that I did my best to see that this letter got sent to the
appropriate individuals.  I had some difficulty determining who those
individuals may be, so if I have made an error, I would greatly appreciate
it if you would forward this letter on to the appropriate individual(s).

[This is an outright lie. The appropriate individual is Ken Williams,
 and JV knew that. Worse, he did not attempt to mail root@, postmaster@, or 
 abuse@ packetstorm.harvard.edu, the obvious "appropriate individuals".]

My name is John Vranesevich, and I am the Founder and General Partner of
AntiOnline LLP, a computer security company based outside of Pittsburgh, PA.

Earlier today, one of my colleagues forwarded me the following URL:

http://packetstorm.harvard.edu/jp/

[snip..]

I have worked to help several educational institutions develop 'Acceptable
Use Policies', and if Harvard is similar to them, the above URL would be a
clear violation of that policy.

[And of course JV will not quote which educational institutions
 those are. I somehow doubt his resume has any such work.]

[snip..]

Tonight, Ken Williams, the founder of Packet Storm Security, released a
letter to the public. The letter read in part:

Funny how I spent the past few years donating my time, literally thousands
of hours, to "the security community", never making even a penny off the
time and work I invested, and have now lost it all because some asshole
named John Vranesevich is able to make a quick phone call, fabricate absurd
stories about criminal activity and bullshit I never did, and effectively
ruin years of work, my education, my career, my life.

Ken, I know what it's like to dedicate many, many, thankless hours into a
project, believe me. But, you did not loose your site because of me, you

[Notice JV conveniently left off the part about making money.
 The real motive behind his actions. It will come as no surprise to
 us when AntiOnline announces a new or improved tool archive.]

[snip..]