Thanks for taking the time to reply here.

From my perspective, your logic here is broken. You are claiming that you don't know who I am and yet you know what I am doing. Since you don't know who I am, at best you are projecting here that your beliefs about Miles apply equally to me. Do you REALLY KNOW what I am doing? I am very clear you do not.

You have stated that I do not have access to his private life and you are correct, I have never stated that I do and I have never stated that I can prove you are wrong in your claims, with regards to activity he (or anyone else) may be involved with beyond my field of vision. I have no way of knowing what he, you or most other people are doing on a daily basis.

Since you know I don't have access to his private life, is it not surely obvious then that there is no reason to blindly assume that I am participating in whatever you are claiming he is involved with?

If Miles (or anyone) agrees with someone that they will perform a task, whether it be to setup a website or to change a door in a house, that does not imply that that person has any involvement whatsoever with any other activities that are going on beyond their field of vision.

I am a professional software engineer who offered my services for free to help Miles when his site was broken because I liked some of the material he had put out and that he was interviewing people that I would not have heard from otherwise. That is the extent of my involvement with his project, beyond having been interviewed myself once.

I understand you feel harassed and uncomfortable and I am not able to comment on that while staying in integrity, since I do not know all of the details. I request that you offer the same non-hostile courtesy to me. You were once someone who supported the bases project and who has now changed your position - so for you to claim in a blanket way that anyone who is involved with them is essentially evil and possibly involved in serious crimes is questionable, since it could easily be the other way around. If someone had made these claims about Miles while you were supporting the project, they may then have been blindly accusing you of such crimes too - is that something you want to really be doing here?

I aim to uphold high standards of ethics in my work and I have asked you politely to provide the evidence that you say exists that proves that Miles is involved with criminal activity. So far I have not seen any - I have only seen a list of partial domain names with absolutely no way of tying Miles to them and no source for the information that can be checked.

I am more than capable of investigating evidence myself and so far I have not found any at all, nor I have I been pointed to any that he is involved with the alleged porn websites that he has been connected to. Furthermore, you should realise now that the hacking of websites, planting of such material and then false accusation of the operators of the sites is well within the realms of possibility for some of the shadowy groups on this planet. So although your actions may seem to you like a noble act, when you involve innocent parties (such as myself) who have access to a web server which you claim contains illegal material (but actually which couldn't because it has never even had enough storage space to hold such material), your actions could easily be construed as emotional harassment, which carries a jail sentence of up to 6 months. The claim on its own is unpleasant, but when there is an outside chance that some agency or other could actually hack and plant the material on there maliciously, the situation becomes all the more disturbing.

When challenging monsters (real or imaginary) it is important not to become one yourself.

I will state here one final time. If you provide the evidence that you claim exists which proves Miles' involvement with criminal activity of the nature claimed, then I will investigate and if I agree then I will surely take appropriate action and end my support of his work. I have worked significantly over the last 10 years to expose child abuse and help those involved to find justice - I guarantee you I am not about to help those who are abusing others.

However, if you continue to avoid meeting this call for evidence to substantiate your claim and continue to make public accusations which you are not backing up in any way - I will have no choice but to contact the police myself and take legal action. I sincerely hope this does not need to be the case and I wish you well in your life.