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Paul Christoforo won't quit "wwebsite as on the Internet-ing"
Ricardo Trejo
When Paul Christoforo unknowingly opened Pandora’s box in the shape of internet rage and viral campaigns against him, I don’t truly believe that he thought it was going to do any permanent damage to his persona, either professional or personall IRL. Well, even after becoming the freshest meme to hit the webs, as well as even getting poked at humorously by even Geico’s twitter staff, you think he would’ve learnt his lesson, right? Word off the street is that’s far from the truth, and he’s holding N-Control’s email addresses, domains, and even replying as others accounts to customer emails.
During an AMA session on Reddit, N-Control’s new PR guy is trying to patch up all the holes Christoforo left behind. Problem is Christoforo still has adminstrator access to their server and is holding their social and email accounts hostage:
I’ve been trying to get him to give up the access to these things he’s been holding hostage (email accounts, Twitter, etc) by asking nicely for a couple of days. The gloves are off now.
Paul told me on the phone two hours ago that “Eight months ago, I locked down all this stuff so they wouldn’t be able to fuck with me. If they don’t give me what I want, it’s war.” His demands include a contract written on his terms and substantial compensation, both immediate and for as long as the company continues to exist. He flaunted the PR debacle he created as proof that he “made the company a success”, citing all the media and public attention as the “best thing that ever happened to Avenger”.
He didn’t count on the fact that I anticipated all of this and have been a computer hardware and web tech since I was 14.
The thing we did have is control over the AvengerController.com domain. It was transferred away from its original account, which Paul has complete control of. Because of how GoDaddy works, that old account retained all of the email addresses and their master control settings (forwarding and so on). He has continued to respond to customer emails from his personal GMail account and lied to me repeatedly about doing so.
I tried to play nice, and Paul played stupid, acting like he didn’t have access to this master account, blaming his “Indian outsourced tech team” being on vacation. I gave him two days to give over N-Control’s digital property.
He finally leveled with me tonight that he knew I wasn’t that stupid and that he was lying about his access to all these accounts. That’s when he issued the above-mentioned threat. He reiterated that he had the hosting, email, and everything on lockdown.
Christoforo seriously doesn’t know when to quit. Oh, and were you aware he’s got some issues with roid rage? Yeah, you might wanna check out this story penned out by Kotaku on the subject.
It’s pretty unfortunate what’s happened to N-Control, who simply picked the wrong guy to do their PR. The Avenger controller peripheral is actually a pretty good device, we even got to check one out in the past and it was definitely a product that’s got something to it. We can only hope that N-Control can muster its way through this PR nightmare, but with Christoforo still holding some of the keys, blowing raspberries across the way, we’ll just have to keep laughing and posting his antics along the way until it’s all said and done.
