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NEWS: Gundam 00 Assistant Director Masaki Kitamura Arrested for Massacre Threat

According to the police, the suspect denied the charges, saying, "I'm completely innocent."

According to the authorities, they analyzed the IP address that originated the threat and discovered it was linked to an high-speed wireless LAN device owned by Kitamura.

"I will commit a massacre in Otaroad [in Osaka's Nipponbashi area] next Sunday. I will ram into pedestrian paradise, and after stabbing indiscriminately with a knife, I will commit suicide"

NOW Just imagine if Tomino Made that comment

If it's a "hi-speed wireless" device it's likely a wimax router that sets up a local wireless network.

In fact that's how I'm posting this from a starbucks right now.

These things default to WPA2 password protection at least, but it's theoretically possible it was hacked. Or it's possible he lost the thing or someone stole it and read off the password from the sticker on the back.

But he's gonna have a hell of a time proving his innocence if he's still got the router in his possession, as you can't hack the node address (that's how they make sure it's only paying customers that can access the wimax network, they lock it per device ID)

Butchering the Gundam franchise isn't enough for them, they need real people now....

samuelp wrote:

If it's a "hi-speed wireless" device it's likely a wimax router that sets up a local wireless network. In fact that's how I'm posting this from a starbucks right now. These things default to WPA2 password protection at least, but it's theoretically possible it was hacked. Or it's possible he lost the thing or someone stole it and read off the password from the sticker on the back. But he's gonna have a hell of a time proving his innocence if he's still got the router in his possession, as you can't hack the node address (that's how they make sure it's only paying customers that can access the wimax network, they lock it per device ID)

I'm not all that familure with wimax, but Kitamura could very well be the victim of a man-in-the-middle attack or a variation of IP spoofing.

You saying that someone else - like a neighbour - could have been using the wireless, and they're possibly the ones who made the threat?

If so, Kitamura deserved to be arrested anyway, for being so stupid as to not put a password on his wireless. And no, I'm not being serious, but still, that would be pretty slack on his part. (Assuming it really happened and it wasn't him all along.)

Time for Celestial Being to stage an intervention.