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'homeland.fbi.gov' visits dozens of Weblogs
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 00:48:40 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Chris Gulker <cg () gulker com> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:51:40 -0800 To: dave () farber net Subject: 'homeland.fbi.gov' visits dozens of Weblogs Dave- Think computer scientists may appreciate this mystery: Starting on April 2, dozens (maybe hundreds by now) of bloggers began seeing a referrer of 'homeland.fbi.gov' in their http server logs. Here are the entries from my log for http://www.gulker.com/ : 66.12.154.134 - - [02/Apr/2003:19:21:10 -0800] "GET /2002/12/16.html HTTP/1.0" 200 26489 "http://homeland.fbi.gov/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp?record=895754" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5)" 66.12.154.134 - - [02/Apr/2003:19:51:54 -0800] "GET /categories/WeblogMetrics/ HTTP/1.0" 200 31173 "http://homeland.fbi.gov/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp?record=948082" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5)" Note the /Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp?record=xxxx looks like some sort of spooky database. However homeland.fbi.gov doesn't resolve to an IP address. Some of the blogs, including my own voice or point to anti-war sentiments (let's hear it for the 1st Amendment!): others have no opinion one way or the other. One such site, among the first to be hit, is programmer Brent Simmons blog, where he has an interesting conversation about faking referrers, prank scripts etc.: http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2462 On the other hand, a London-based journalist, Roger Ridey, dug up a page of congressional testimony by the CIA director referring to the creation of a database of Watchlists: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/062702tenet.html Anyway, be interesting to hear from expert IPers. The incoming IP address maps to a DSL account, and the machine in question responds to http requests. Best, Chris -- Chris Gulker cg () gulker com http://www.gulker.com/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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