To Dox or Not to Dox: That’s Not Even a Question
Someone is trying to dox the retired stock market conspiracy theorist Phillip Ross Saunders.
One of the more odious Wall Street conspiracy theorists was a guy named Phillip Ross Saunders, who went by the pseudonym “Bob O’Brien.” For a time in the mid-2000s, he ran a website called “TheSanityCheck.com” that pushed ridiculous stock market conspiracy theories and attacked short sellers and members of the financial press, myself included.
His message was simple: if you bought a crummy stock like Overstock.com or NovaStar Financial, when it eventually crumbled it was not because you made a bad stock pick. It was because of shadowy “stock counterfeiters.”
I wrote about Saunders a fair amount in my blog, and he was mentioned in this Fortune article on the naked shorting craziness. He was a nasty son of a bitch who once targeted the son of short-seller Marc Cohodes.
As Bill Alpert reported in the 2005 story linked above (replicated here):
On April 19, “O’Brien” used a screen name “dirtydirtydeeds” to post on the Yahoo! chat board devoted to Novastar Financial. The subject line of one message consisted simply of Cohodes’ home address. The message said:
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