... pizza delivery ~

maybe by drone?

 

Nothing in the world is anonymous, takes willpower to trace it back.

if .gov is lacking the willpower to do the work I’m surprised that some homegrown hackers aren’t locating the guilty parties and sending them pizzas.

 

The very first thing you do after you develop a new weapon is try to come up with a defense for it.

ONE PARTY in particular weaponized doxing, and now they're shocked, SHOCKED that somebody else finds a way to use the same tactic more effectively and without the icky 'publicizing' of PII that attended other examples of this tactic.

I delivered pizza as a side-hustle back in the day on a semi-resort island and I learned several important life lessons:
Wealthy people are more likely to be rude and poor tippers.
If you take excess and 'blem' pizzas to police, fire, and charities you develop a local and very useful 'diplomatic immunity.'


If I were a federal judge and I was getting a bunch of anonymous pizzas delivered I would (and some likely HAVE) turned that frown upside down by having them sent to LEOs, first responders, ERs, churches and local media outlets - just to cover all the bases.
Media outlets in particular would probably be a good counter if they align more favorably to the 'not-quite-doxed' judicial target!

It takes intestinal fortitude to put on the robes.
A great many activist judges on both sides of the political divide do so every day with courage and dignity.
If you're offended or intimidated by having a mysterious free pizza delivered?

You may need to consider a career change.

 

My stint in the federal judiciary didn't involve any robes. I was in the clerk's office, and the Chief of Court Operations was determined not to run the kind of operation where members of the public would get "oh that's not my job, go to so-and-so" runarounds like you get in corporate culture. So even though the job I was hired for was upstairs and not very public-facing, I was trained on every aspect. I was a window clerk if I happened to be by the window when a member of the public showed up. I knew how to docket. And for part of one day in my orientation I was countersigning arrest warrants.

I remember wondering aloud "so, do any of these folks come out years later thinking «I'm gonna get that SOB whose signature was on my warrant»?" and people smiled and said nah, doesn't happen much.

If there's one thing recent times are making clear, it's that it might be worth thanking people for all their forms of service to the country, in uniform or out. We know those who serve in uniform are anticipating physical risks as part of the job, but we see more and more that even serving in a position we don't think of that way will still expose you to risk, even physical risk, for trying to do your job conscientiously and well.