TLA Indexing and Mirroring

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Wed Feb 13 23:20:22 EST 2002


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Status:  U
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:12:02 -0800
To: cypherpunks at lne.com
From: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>
Subject: TLA Indexing and Mirroring
Sender: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com

To supplement the FBI bot message we note that
several TLAs and others visit each day to download
Cryptome home page, and sometimes individual
files. We assume the file listings are part of a general
Web gathering for internal distribtution. In the case of
NSA and the venerable bot of several years's almost
daily visits, it now just takes the home page and no
files. Later, various machines in the domain retrieve
files directly, that is bypassing the home page.

CIA began to visit daily recently, at least under an identifiable
domain name, ucia.gov. Before CIA visitors came via an
IP address not domain name. Not many files taken daily.
But a few are taken directly after the bot visits.

Dozens from .mil daily and, once or twice a week, eop.gov.
But never nro.mil or nro.gov, nor a visitor from fbi.gov.

The TLAs from other countries, what can be said of
them: they too are hungry for recognition after the years
of obscurity. It must be a bitch using anonymizers when
you ache for being noticed, like Hanssen and Ames and
all the others filled with hatred of spotlighted babbling
heads of agencies.

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