"investigator hackers"?

[Tom Buskey]

There are services that create entries that you prefer to come up that
crowd out others.

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/05/29/187080236/Online-Reputation

An example in the news:
 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160816/07482735256/former-uc-davis-chancellor-katehi-way-more-obsessed-with-her-online-reputation-than-initially-thought.shtml
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160816/07482735256/former-uc-davis-chancellor-katehi-way-more-obsessed-with-her-online-reputation-than-initially-thought.shtml>

I imagine there are other names for this type of thing.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:30 AM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> A friend-of-a-friend is having trouble online. Someone is posting fake
> reports on various sites, maybe stalking. I don't know the details, but
> what I heard didn't sound actionable-by-the-police.
>
> Our common friend asked me if anything like an "investigator hacker"
> existed that could look into these things, trace it back, send take-down
> requests, etc.
>
> I don't particularly want to get involved myself, but I did say it
> sounded like a pretty lucrative (although possibly not that effective)
> business plan. Has anyone else heard of something like this?
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