Some female bloggers are shutting down their sites, fearing their safety

ABC News reports that some female bloggers are being threatened by readers of their blogs:

Kathy Sierra, a software developer, gained a large following on her design blog. She never dreamed her benign postings would attract an online attacker.

"I started getting comments on my own blog that were really threatening like, 'I'm going to slit your throat,'" Sierra said.

Then the threats became more personal. Her attacker posted a photo of Sierra in a muzzle as if she was being smothered, along with the words, "I dream of Kathy Sierra."

"At the time, I thought, 'This is something serious. This is not some kids. This is someone going to great lengths to frighten me,'" she said.

She shut down her blog, and in her final posting wrote, "I am afraid to leave my yard. I will never feel the same. I will never be the same."

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