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Department of Homeland Security Monitoring Progressive Clothing Sites (for IP)


From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:07:16 -0500

Maybe they want to buy some buttons :-) djf


Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:52:58 -0600
From: John Lyon <jelyon () mac com>
Subject: Department of Homeland Security Monitoring Progressive Clothing Sites
 (for IP)
To: dave () farber net

Might be of interest to Ipers.

> Department of Homeland Security Monitoring Progressive Clothing Sites
>
> Hey Tom Ridge, we're watching you too!
>
> Website access logs are wonderful things. If the Department of Justice visits > us, we get a line telling us they've been there. If the Department of Homeland
> Security stops by a couple of hours later, we know all about it. We can see
> how they found us, what they looked at, and how many times they visited. We're
> watching them watching us - John Ashcroft would be proud!
>
> At first we were amused that the Department of Justice and the Department of
> Homeland Security were looking at our little site. We hope they liked the
> Ashcroft Fascist button! But when they returned, we noticed something that
> wasn't so funny.
>
> Note the lines:
>
> n021.dhs.gov - - [26/Jan/2004:04:13:29 -0500] "GET /faq.html HTTP/1.1" 200
> 8215
> "http://sidesearch.lycos.com/results.asp?tab=web&query=progressive%20clothing&;
> loc=1&rf=sidesearch&" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
>
> n021.dhs.gov - - [29/Jan/2004:08:09:55 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 807
> "http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=progressive+clothing&avkw=aapt";
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"

More at:  http://www.outspokenclothing.com/homelandsecurity.html

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