Cory Doctorow is hot on the trail of someone using a Rogers e-mail address, who is purporting to be a Canadian lawyer. The writer’s inability to spell "lawyer", "Queen’s Counsel" and "libel" was the first tip-off that "Don Deveny" might not be a real lawyer.
After checking with various provincial law societies, Doctorow found no such lawyer registered, and is turning up the heat with research into the person who owns the e-mail account that was used.
I’m dying to see how this story ends.
Lesson: You’re not as anonymous as you think you are.
Trivia: Queen’s Counsel is a designation granted by a law society, denoting that someone is a senior lawyer with an excellent reputation. It doesn’t come with any extra powers, and has been superseded in some provinces.