Yoooo hoooo, Mr. NSA man...
Bomb, jihad, explosives, cell phone, lincoln tunnel, al jazeera.
Just thought I might draw a little government traffic to my blog on this slow Friday. Not much else going on. Just submitting myself to the great fascist search engine. And from what I can tell, they seem to be looking for something to read.
Just thought I might draw a little government traffic to my blog on this slow Friday. Not much else going on. Just submitting myself to the great fascist search engine. And from what I can tell, they seem to be looking for something to read.
posted by mikevotes at
1:04 PM
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Oh, you'll get them alright. I have made it a policy to post the event everytime I get hit by one (mostly naval intelligence).
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Anonymous, at 1:26 PM
To date Blognonymous has been surfed by the DoJ, the Army, the DoI, the IRS, the DoD, the USAID, 2 US senator's (offices), 4 representatives, a gaggle of CA state organizations, and one disgruntled wacko from NJ who insisted that he was John Ashcroft.
May you have as much fun. :-)
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Anonymous, at 2:34 PM
Yeah, being the privacy freak that I am, I don't have a counter anymore. I figure you have a right to privacy(at least from me if not from blogger/google) when you come to my site.
I had a stripped down counter at one point a friend gave me, but it just didn't feel like me. Yeah, sure, I'm curious, but that curiousity isn't stronger than the value I place on your privacy rights.
But then again, I'm a freak about it.
And, I have had a few pretty interesting visitors whose names you might recognize, especially around my Plame Gossip posts, who have contacted me through email even though I don't list it, and am not sure how they tracked it down. Outsider press and one very loosely affiliated legal team looking for a source.
Got a really interesting email from somebody in the Fed gov't during Katrina when I was writing about Red Cross policies, and a few others.
In all cases, they asked me to keep them out of the blog and I complied because they were sincere, and I felt not working against the greater good.
(I hope those descriptions are vague enough to leave them unidentified.)
But I figure I must have a cross referenced file somewhere, or blogger is totally insecure, because they contacted me through email which I try to avoid.
Anyway, at least somebody's reading me, right?
Mike
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mikevotes, at 3:15 PM
And, Binky,
You're getting hit by ONI???? Ohh, you'd better be careful, that's the BIG TIME The "land navy" is one of the scariest groups out there. I hope its just a political sympathizer.
But I gotta admit, I'm pretty impressed.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 3:19 PM
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NEWSGUY, at 3:51 PM
I'd like to think it was just someone surfing by at lunch, but do you really think they would be careless enough to use the work computers? One of my colleagues - who is a specialist in national security and computers - speculates that it might be a 'bot crawling around looking for keywords. Since we write about foreign policy a good it, and one of my co-bloggers works on military/war issues, I'm sure we've got all the right words. Not to mention my raving about civil liberties.
It's funny that you started this conversation, or maybe not so funny, because this afternoon we got another hit from the Naval Research Lab. Some highlights:
The Major Shared Resource Center, HPC again, and again, DOJ, and GSA. Maybe we're just really popular with the gubment.
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Anonymous, at 5:20 PM
That's pretty messed up, you know? I would hope that that's all bots, because otherwise, think of the absolute waste of money of having me, for instance, evaluated as a threat buy some real person.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 6:25 PM
But that seems to be par for the course on the mistakes that the government is making with the domestic spying, and intel in general.
It's an unenviable job to begin with, and the "signal to noise" ration is low. But when they don't have a good way to figure out "oh, cranky blogger, delete from future searches" is when there is the waste of resources. Either that or they have a special cranky blogger file, and they are checking up.
You know, it's sad to think about a new version of COINTELPRO, but it's not outside the realm of possibility.
On the other hand, it might be some poor dude surfing while he eats his PB&J, and we've got an overinflated sense of self-importance.
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Anonymous, at 6:40 PM
That would be "ratio" if I could type.
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Anonymous, at 6:42 PM
Me again. I just saw this link about the Vegan Threat. Georgia is bad about this. I remember in the 80s this happening to anti-death penalty protesters.
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Anonymous, at 7:00 PM
I think it's the DoD spying on the Quakers that flipped me out. As parallel, I would think we're in the early part of cointelpro. It is going on, but it's still fairly tightly held.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 10:29 PM
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