Bernard Murphy hires PI, lawyers against Jackie Singh & plan a memecoin

OnaForums’s Bernard Murphy has recently been more openly discussing how he has hired lawyers and private investigators both on X and onaforums.

It appears he first retained a lawyer to deal with Jackie Singh shortly before an OWASP presentation on the forums that she was presenting.

After this event, he would discuss with higher ranking forum members that his lawyers had contacted the event and threatened to sue them. He claimed that the content of Jackie Singh’s presentation had been stripped to a fraction of it’s size and information about himself and others had been removed.

Around a year after the OWASP event and a month before this article, Bernard confirmed with other members there was a private investigator that he had also hired.

Behind the scenes forum members say the private investigator is actually “cafrozed” or Brad Dennis, the same man that worked on the torswats case. I haven’t found a way to verify this for myself, but I can’t argue that the timeline of their claims does fit. Unless their finances become public in the future somehow we may never know.

Bernard claiming that he hired a private investigator to “build a counter case” against Jackie Singh begs the question, what kind of case against him does he expect? What actions has he taken where he feels the need to mount that kind of expensive defense in expectations of lawsuits or charges?

Members have also began working on an idea for a Solana memecoin of their own, in hopes of funding future harassment campaigns. User Robert Prongay outlined the basics of the plan in this post

Anyone can make these coins, so it’s possible we will see something like this in the future. It’s referenced that memecoins are already being used, so maybe we could see a version of this piggybacking off another coin. With the recent changes to X’s moderation styles, if malicious actors like Robert Prongay do find a way to mass fund paid accounts under their own financial umbrella, they will gain two key advantages. One, the forums could gain a significant foothold on X’s algorithm in a way never seen before. Two, the users operating the paid accounts must do the forums bidding to keep the accounts free.

Time will tell what ends up happening here, but it seems some gears are already in motion.