My guess, the old fashioned way. I'll bet he bragged about it to his
friends.
Alternately it would depend on the systems involved but if he was
doing dial up they could have traced the connection back to his phone
number. Trace the Email back to the account used, check the logs for access
to that account, track that back to the incoming modem, check the logs for
the phone number used and backtrack to the house. Depending on the systems
the university has and how much they log this is also a good way to have
found the source.
> ----------
> From: Brandon Keller
> Reply To: oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [oxfordgamers] Re: Moron of the day....
>
> They say he did it from another person's e-mail. My first question I
> would
> ask is, how would they know it was him then? My second would be does
> anyone
> remember an article that said how the feds were questioning all foreign
> students at IU? While the prank was indeed dumb, the whole situation does
> make me wonder.
> Os, who thinks he will start developing a conspiracy theory with his
> massive
> anmount of free time this spring break
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oxfordgamers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:oxfordgamers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bolenbaugh, Tom
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:15 PM
> To: newgamers (E-mail)
> Subject: [oxfordgamers] Moron of the day....
>
>
>
> Let's see, less than two years after September 11th, mere days from a war
> with Iraq and with North Korea rattling their nuclear saber. What to do,
> what to do. How about threaten to detonate a nuclear bomb on Perdue's
> campus? And we thought Miami's day off Email prank was bad.
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailynews/072/nation/Purdue_student_arrested_after_:
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