A.J.
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"Despite succumbing to substance abuse to cope with the childhood trauma, Bennington chose not to pursue retribution against his abuser. After discovering that his abuser had himself been a victim of abuse, Bennington said, "I didn't need revenge."
WTF....
"In 2006, a cyberstalker took control of almost every online account belonging to Bennington and his second wife, Talinda. The female stalker reportedly called the couple at random hours of the night and made terrifying remarks like "I know where your kids are," and "I have complete control of your lives."
In a gripping investigation reported by Wired, the situation turned critical when a former Secret Service agent traced the stalker's activity to a computer at Sandia National Laboratories, a nuclear weapons facility in Albuquerque, N.M. The agent reportedly learned that the stalker was a computer technologist at the facility and also an obsessive Linkin Park fan. When confronted at work, Devan Townsend told the investigator that she had terrorized the Benningtons because "she was bored. Her job at Sandia took about half an hour a day, and she was looking to pass the time."
After Townsend's arrest, Bennington remained on edge. "When you find out some total stranger has personal pictures of your kids in the bath, has phone numbers of your parents and close friends and every business associate, listens to every voicemail you've had for the last year, intercepts every email you've written or received…it fuels my desire to make sure this kind of action is viewed as criminal," he told Wired. As a precaution, Bennington and his wife began using lengthy passwords for all their online activity, "and it drives me out of my f**king mind," he said. "I want to go back."
WTF....
"In 2006, a cyberstalker took control of almost every online account belonging to Bennington and his second wife, Talinda. The female stalker reportedly called the couple at random hours of the night and made terrifying remarks like "I know where your kids are," and "I have complete control of your lives."
In a gripping investigation reported by Wired, the situation turned critical when a former Secret Service agent traced the stalker's activity to a computer at Sandia National Laboratories, a nuclear weapons facility in Albuquerque, N.M. The agent reportedly learned that the stalker was a computer technologist at the facility and also an obsessive Linkin Park fan. When confronted at work, Devan Townsend told the investigator that she had terrorized the Benningtons because "she was bored. Her job at Sandia took about half an hour a day, and she was looking to pass the time."
After Townsend's arrest, Bennington remained on edge. "When you find out some total stranger has personal pictures of your kids in the bath, has phone numbers of your parents and close friends and every business associate, listens to every voicemail you've had for the last year, intercepts every email you've written or received…it fuels my desire to make sure this kind of action is viewed as criminal," he told Wired. As a precaution, Bennington and his wife began using lengthy passwords for all their online activity, "and it drives me out of my f**king mind," he said. "I want to go back."
