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Friday, April 4, 2003 |
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Roger points out that the Google on homeland.fbi.gov also points to this:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/062702tenet.html
"Databases can identify and help stop terrorists bent on entering the US or causing harm once they get here. We are examining how best to create and share a multi-agency, government-wide database that captures all information relevant to any of the many watchlists that are currently managed by a variety of agencies. " -- Testimony of the Director of Central Intelligence Tenet before Government Affairs Subcommittee 27 June 2002.
The referrers that many bloggers are seeing do look like queries returned from a database: the record IDs are different every time. Maybe some freelance programmer in Los Angeles has been hired by the feds to build a crawler that's looking for certain things... scary to think that a bot could get you in dutch with the feds...Whoa... can you say 'paranoia'? It could still be a script with a variable that randomizes or increments the ID number... |
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Hey, "homeland.fbi.gov" is online: try
No home page, but it would appear to be a Windows NT or 98 machine with IIS turned on. Here's the Netcraft query. And, no, it doesn't answer the .jsp queries in the referrer string... |
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Brent thinks homeland.fbi.gov is a prank, maybe a script that somebody runs to spook bloggers. Here are 212 other references from other sites, mostly geeky, that saw it on April 2, too. A reverse lookup on the incoming IP address shows a GTE dsl account as the source... Comments 2:49:59 PM 
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homeland.fbi.gov log entries for 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)"
So I guess it's not exercising 1st Amendment rights that's attracting attention? These hits are on a post about Weblog Metrics. Curiouser, and curiouser... the log references appear to be retrieved from a database... |
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Interesting Domain from gulker.com's referrer log:
http://homeland.fbi.gov/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp
Does this mean publishing opinions that can be construed as anti-war qualify one for FBI surveillance? Sad, but Martin Luther King (who was assassinated 35 years ago today, on April 4,1968) was also a target of FBI surveillance. As of 4/4 there's no DNS record for 'homeland.fbi.gov'... my guess is that it's an intranet server, and a browser pointed to it from within an FBI office would nevertheless send the referrer listing... |
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NYT: war heightens fear of recession. " The conflict with Iraq seems to have damaged economic growth, first by helping cause a rise in oil prices early this year. Many economists say the war has made executives uncertain of the future and wary of expanding their companies. It has also kept consumers indoors, near their televisions and away from public places. But the war's effect is difficult to measure." Not much of a surprise here... Comments 12:52:22 PM
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 Space Imaging Eurasia has published some satellite before-and-after photos showing the effects of bomb damage in Basra. More fodder for pixel peepers... amazing the reach that anyone with a net connection has these days... tip from Bernie...Comments 12:16:18 PM
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Gavin checked in: he's having problems updating his Radio blog from London, where he's currently pounding the pavement, looking for work as a writer. Takes me back... I spent a summer looking for work as a photographer in London when I was 19... not much luck, but I sure had a lot of fun, and the experience shaped me and my first career as a press photographer... Comments 11:28:38 AM
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Doc Searls used to be a press photographer. Didn't know that... Comments 11:13:27 AM
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 Another Saddam grab: you can see something in the sky in the backdrop, whether clouds or smoke is hard to say... there was some very large monumant visible in the background at one point... any Baghdad experts recognize the neighborhood? More pixel snooping...Comments 10:45:07 AM
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 Saddam? Amateur (and professional) image sleuths will be looking this stuff over. Is there bomb damage? Smoke in the sky? Strange.. the .png files that xawtv makes will open in GIMP on Linux, but not in Photoshop on OS X...Comments 10:41:21 AM
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Akamai ends service to Al-Jazeera: Akamai, whose co-founder was a victim of the 9/11 attacks, say they briefly worked with Al-Jazeera before deciding not to go forward. It is amazing how closely tied we all are on this planet now... now if we can just begin to learn from that... Comments 9:08:16 AM
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Roger: read it and weep: the story of a new UK war widow. I'm looking out at the daffodils I planted earlier this year, and which are already up in our California clime... Comments 8:50:20 AM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:31:13 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:31:13 PM
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