Anyone know what's up with this?

by **Floyd Smoots** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:00 pm

"Deatherage", as in DEATH RAGE, leaving out the central "e"? Hugh, you know Papa Jeff don't like "finger pointing", or trying to "out" agents, or their "bad actor" clients! I think Iroquois made a telling connection between the film, its anti-hero, and the registered name of the "so-called" site owner. Or are you maybe trying to imply that that was deliberate, in order to leave our collective boots "quakier" than they already are? Just askin', mind'ya.

by **Iroquois** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:04 pm

jonvalis, I got the same thing. I'll post it anyway, despite the redundancy. --- The canonical name for www.wgtcsmv.com is ns2.dwdhosts.us. In other words this site is hosted in the US, not Germany, but from Texas via an EV1.net IP address. (More on them in my next comment.) The dwdonline.us domain is registered by Philip N. Deatherage of Deatherage Web Development according to <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/dotus/US-topregistrants-l-5.html.">cyber.law.harvard.edu/peo...-l-5.html.</a> Maybe Mr. Deatherage can help explain what's going on. Here's the whois entry for dwdonline.com: Domain Name: DWDONLINE.COM Registrar: ONLINENIC, INC. Whois Server: whois.OnlineNIC.com Referral URL: <a href="http://www.OnlineNIC.com">www.OnlineNIC.com</a> Name Server: NS1.DWDHOST.COM Name Server: NS2.DWDHOST.COM Status: ACTIVE Updated Date: 22-may-2005 Creation Date: 26-may-2000 Expiration Date: 26-may-2006 Registrant: Deatherage Web Development HC 73, Box 74-A Drury,MO,US 65638 Domain servers in listed order: ns1.dwdhost.com ns2.dwdhost.com Administrator: name<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("> Philip Deatherage) Email<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("> sales@dwdonline.com) tel-- +1.4172612110 Deatherage Web Development HC 73, Box 74-A \r t Drury MO, United States zipcode:65638 Technical Contactor: name<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("> Deatherage, Philip) Email<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("> techsupport@dwdonline.com) tel-- 417-261-2399 HC 73, Box 74-A \r t Drury , US zipcode:65638 Billing Contactor: name<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("> Philip Deatherage) Email<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("> sales@dwdonline.com) tel-- +1.4172612110 Deatherage Web Development HC 73, Box 74-A \r t Drury MO, United States zipcode:65638 Registration Service Provider: name: Deatherage Web Development tel: +1.8655888869 fax: +1.2678214409 web:<a href="http://www.dwdonline.com">www.dwdonline.com</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=iroquois@rigorousintuition>Iroquois</A> at: 12/24/05 12:24 am

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:07 pm

(Walking back just one step from suspicion of 'broken links.' On edit: The urls got truncated but are now fixed. I still contend that article about the Psychological Strategy Board is the most dangerous expose of the Myth of America available. Look into it.) Here's the Wired article about spam filtering tactics. Perhaps I had linked to the 'print' version url which doesn't work anymore. But the original with links in it is there and here it is to read: Spam Wars: Filters Strike Back <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61012,00.html">www.wired.com/news/busine...12,00.html</a> By Amit Asaravala 2003-11-04 18:21:00.0 Fearing that spammers are increasingly finding ways to slip their unwanted messages past the current generation of filtering technologies, activists are taking a second look at a proposal to use denial-of-service attacks in the fight against spam. Such attacks, which are illegal and can disrupt a company's communications network by burying its servers in unnecessary requests, have traditionally been associated with pranksters who use viruses to distribute their attack software on thousands of computers. Under the proposal, which was initially published in August by antispam activist Paul Graham, the attacks would be launched automatically by the next generation of spam filters. The attacks would be initiated whenever the filters received a new piece of spam containing a Web link. If enough people used filters with the feature, the resulting amount of traffic to the spammers' links could dramatically raise the spammers' bandwidth costs or even shut down their websites. "Technically, it's beautifully balanced," said Graham, whose 2002 proposal on using Bayesian algorithms to fight spam led to the rise of the current generation of filters. "It's a way to raise spammers' bandwidth costs in exact proportion to the amount of spam that they send out." Graham's latest proposal is not without its critics, however, who say that a sudden burst of requests coming from thousands or maybe even millions of spam filters around the world could drain Internet resources. Graham readily dismisses the argument. "That's identical to saying that you shouldn't have police chase down criminals because it uses up resources," he said. "Yeah, there's an increase in bandwidth initially, but the net effect is worth it." He adds that developers of antispam products should allow users to limit the number of times that their filters try to access a particular link during an attack, or even to disable the feature completely if they choose. But even when presented with this solution, opponents say Graham's plan has other problems that render it unsuitable -- the most important of which is its potential to harm legitimate companies. According to Francois Lavaste, vice president of marketing for Brightmail, an antispam software firm, some spammers set up their Web pages on free Web-hosting services. "Launching any type of DoS attack on those pages could actually damage the entire service," said Lavaste. Additionally, spammers and pranksters could abuse the system by sending out junk mail containing links to innocent websites that they simply don't like. If enough filters flagged the mail as spam, they could inadvertently launch an attack against those sites. As a precaution against such abuses, Graham notes in his proposal that filter developers should require their products to check all links against a blacklist of domain names belonging to known spammers before launching an attack. But some developers have been burned by blacklists in the past and note that the lists themselves can be abused. "At Matterform, we've been victimized more than once by falsified spams that supposedly advertise our URL in an attempt to annoy us," said Matterform Media President Michael Herrick, whose company develops the Spamfire filter. "The antispam vigilantes caused us all kinds of problems by blacklisting us without any human investigation," added Herrick. "The vigilantes told us we should be angry with the spammers, not them. Somehow, it didn't work that way." Herrick says he's not completely against Graham's idea, though. Indeed, Matterform's Spamfire already features a "Bug the WegBugs" option designed to confuse spammers. Whenever a Spamfire user selects the option, the program searches through messages for "Web bugs" -- images used for tracking purposes -- and then repeatedly sends back false tracking data to the spammer's server. The tactic is not going to shut down the spamming industry overnight, admits Herrick. However, he does believe that antispammers can make a significant dent. "It's a cat-and-mouse game with spammers," he said. "They mutate, we adapt. We fight back, they parry. But (this tactic) can be another hoop the spammers have to jump through. The more hoops, the more likely they are to fall down." Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 12/23/05 8:33 pm

by **Iroquois** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:11 pm

Ok, this will be it for me for now. I did a bit of googling on EV1.net's full name, Everyone's Internet. I came up with <a href="http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0502/0502qassam.htm">this article</a>. Is American ISP hosting terrorist web site? By Jeremy Reynalds web posted May 6, 2002 Being in the nonprofit "business," I am obligated to write regular appeals for money, so I have sympathy for those who need funds for good causes. Especially since 9/11, funds are hard to come by. Consequently, my curiosity was aroused last week when I received an e-mail containing among other things a story from British newspaper The Independent detailing one group's attempts to raise money. However, the funds this outfit's looking for aren't to provide a warm safe place to stay and hot, nourishing meals for homeless women and families. No, the thrust of this horrifying story was that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, a prime perpetrator of the suicide bombings against Israel, is appealing for funds on its web site to buy weapons and explosives for attacks. Being a pretty curious guy, I went right over to the web site to check things out and there it was, plain as day. The appeal was headlined, " A call for donation from Martyr Izz el-Deen el-Qassam Phalanxes." After quite a lot of rhetoric, the writer got down to the point: " ... Muslim brothers ... all over the world ... Martyr Izz el-Deen el-Qassam Phalanxes, your own defending phalanxes, the military wing of Hamas movement in Palestine, is calling upon you to donate with what you can to assist the cause of Jihad and resistance until the occupation is eliminated and every span of the Muslim Palestine is liberated ... The price of Kalashnicov bullet is $3 and the price of the Kalashnicov gun itself now is $2,000 and it was $3,500 couple of months ago, and do you know that the the price of R-B-G is $12,000 and the price of T.N.T that's used by your mujahideen brothers is $100 a kilo, also Martyr Izz el-Deen el-Qassam Phalanxes now manufactures Al-Qassam land-to-land missiles in different sizes and also the anti-shields Al-Banna bomber, Martyr Izz el-Deen el-Qassam Phalanxes also supervises the development of fighting, defensive and attacking weapons and other much projects mustn't be elaborated for confidentiality purposes ... " The writer went on to claim that the group has managed to kill 65 percent "of what has been killed of Zionists since the start of the intifada (uprise) of Al-Aqsa." The writer added that contributions would go toward helping build a strong Islamic army. "Thousands and thousands of ... youth in Palestine long for carrying any kind of weapons ... but no one is giving a hand . Ammunition ran out while facing the Zionists. My ... brothers ... you'll have no excuse in front of Allah, So contribute with what you can." The writer moved in for the financial kill., writing "Dear donator brother, send us at the e-mail available at (the) web site and send us a fake name and the amount that you want to donate and we will secure handing this money . And may Allah SWT bless you ... Your brothers Martyr Izz el-Deen el-Qassam Phalanxes. The military wing of Hamas movement- Palestine." Now here's the real shocker. The same individual who sent me the original story claimed that an American Internet Service Provider is hosting the site for this terrorist group. Rather than just believe the e mail (as any good reporter should do), I went to the source and checked out the web site (www.qassam.org) at an Internet registration site – www.internic.com. It turned out that the site is indeed being hosted by an American ISP, www.rackshack.net, which also does business as Everyone's Internet. I called the outfit on their the convenient toll free number (1-800-504-7873) and asked for someone who could speak on behalf of the company. When I was directed to a public relations firm, I asked "Are you sure they can speak for you?" The woman said something to the effect of, "Well, what do you want?" I told her I was calling to get reaction as to why her company is hosting a web site for Palestinian terrorists. She did not appear to be familiar with Hamas (or the web site I was referring to) but said that conditions for hosting sites are clearly laid out in the company's terms of service. That document does prohibit use of the company's web services for illegal activities. However, before Rackshack pulls a site, she said, the company would need something in writing. I suggested she might like to investigate before her bosses receive a not too friendly visit from federal officials who would pull the site for them. "If they choose to do it they can, but we need something in writing," she said. The employee, who was only willing to identify herself as "Jessica," did add that the company might not be directly hosting the site. She said that Rackshack may be leasing the server out to the group which is then running its own mini hosting company. While there could be some creedence to that, it still sounded like a very convenient way of weaseling out of a difficult problem. After all, while support for this issue is split between the Israelis and the Palestinians, tolerance levels tend to diminish rapidly when it comes to internet solicitation for weapons. With that in mind, I suggest you contact the ISP and suggest they pull the plug in the site. A call to law enforcement authorities might be a good idea as well. Rackshack's address is: Everyone's Internet, 2600 Southwest Frwy Suite 500 Houston, TX 77098, United States. Rackshack CEO Robert Marsh may be reached at headsurfer@ev1.net. Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter. He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is pursuing his PhD in intercultural education at Biola University in Los Angeles. He is married with five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work can be viewed here and weekly at www.americasvoices.org. He may be contacted by e-mail at reynalds@joyjunction.org.

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:13 pm

I didn't mean to imply that posting the review of 'M' was a tactic but that whover created that mirror site using that name might have tailored it for this site's audience. And yah, with the 'Deatherage' name, there seems to be a little game goin' on by a trickster element playing with the internet for psy-ops purposes. I'm curious what other gags have been strewn by the same perp and would bet their are large resources in the intel biz messing with the internet just as they do conventional media. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 12/23/05 8:19 pm

by **anotherdrew** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:16 pm

as if the other stuff wasn't odd, the word press template the spamjacketed version uses is called "kubrick" what are the odds?

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:23 pm

What is that? Have we really got a live one here? Perhaps it is time to codify the tactics used on the internet to disable seekers. It only makes sense that this crap would happen as the internet grows in influence. Sigh.

by **slimmouse** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:31 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Anyone have an idea what the deal is here?<hr></blockquote> Just a desperate attempt to hide the truth, by a bunch of real moral no-hopers. Ive sent a few emails out myself lately. It should be interesting to see how many of these folks recieved them when I next speak to them personally . One might say "shame on them", but of course these comedians know little, if any shame. Thats my best guess. Didnt Judas hang himself eventually ? Keep saying it as you see it, Jeff. Aarghhh. On edit. My 666th post. 66.6 degrees. The angle that the earth sits at to the sun. 66,600 mph . The speed that earth travels at thru the uniververse. 66.66666 million mph . The speed of light. 6x6x60 the diameter of the moon. 66.6 the volume of a sphere left at the top end of a double tetrahedron ( inside a circle - planet ). 6 x 6 x 6, the average span of the human being ( 6ft tall by 6 feet arm to arm, by 6 feet, front to back.) Thank heavens for other such 'coincidences' <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=slimmouse@rigorousintuition>slimmouse</A> at: 12/23/05 8:46 pm

by **Dreams End** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:40 pm

pretty sure it is an automated and underhanded spam blog or "splog". They are beginning to really jam up the system, particularly Blogspot (now Google owned...thanks...knew that was going to be bad news.) Likely not targeting your blog for its content but for the number of hits it achieves. Sometimes the text is just nonsense and sometimes they grab text from other blogs. It could be targeting you for political reasons but "splogs" are really becoming a problem right now, so I don't think you are alone. The one difference, though, now that I think about it, is that this site that mimics yours has its own domain name. Splogging is mainly on blog services...particularly Google owned blogging services. All of the ads also point to the site itself. Very odd. Go click on an ad. It just gets you to another page on the same site which has a bunch of nonsense text and then other links that seem rather random. It looks as if the whole thing is being generated automatically somehow...way to cumbersome to hand code all that bizarre randomness. The source code doesn't show any automated scripts, so somehow they are grabbing this content in some automated way and the putting it up. I THINK what they may be doing is simply generating as many hits as possible to their own site and then to these links which may be sponsored links. In other words, the more clicks the more cash, with little thought for content. I'd definitely contact the webhosting service though.

by **Floyd Smoots** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:42 pm

As usual, just to be a good boy scout, I entered my user name before my first post here on this thread, and sure enough, I'm once again, listed as "Unregistered User" instead of "Registered Member". Just as a double-blind check, I logged in again to post this complaint. Personally, as long as "they" let us have our say, I don't really care. But, since we ARE discussing "web-nomalies", here, I find it a little more than annoying. My annoyance stems from the idea (intuition?) that it's not always MY fault. We ALL make typos, etc., but as someone who actually learned to type on a "typewriter" (Wikipedia: Ancient Communications Device, Used Widely B.I. - Before Internet.) in 1965, I just really cannot bring myself to believe that everytime I log in without recognition, that it's always MY FAULT. I kind of think that this mini-rant qualifies as sort of staying on the subject of this thread. Is it just me, or have any of the rest of you Registered Members had this experience?

by **professorpan** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:44 pm

There's a simple explanation. I've found some of my material on a spam site like this before (my article on the sex/torture/mind control nexus). Excerpts of it were embedded with all sorts of spam links. Here's what I think happens, and it doesn't require a concerted effort by nefarious PTBs: 1. Spammer looks for blogs with high traffic. 2. Spammer lifts content wholesale -- entire page of a blog, in this case -- and dumps it into a template with oodles of spam links. 3. Voila! A page with interesting stolen content set up to catch the unwary, in the hopes one of them will want a knock-off Rolex. And I think some people are confusing the issue of email spam with a spam page. The two are not equal -- the page Jeff found cannot have any effect on *email* filters.

by **Dreams End** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:58 pm

I think Pan is right. I notice the "blogroll" was all sites of people involved with "wordpress" which is a blogger software or something similar. I think it's all automated, though I can't see exactly how they get their money. I contacted one person on the "blogroll" and the other site linked as a "contributor" just to see what I could stir up.

by **Floyd Smoots** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:29 am

Actually, Page One of this OP. First, I was once again, ratted out by the bedeviled blogspot as a useless eater, I mean, Unregistered USER. Thanks a lot, brother slimmouse, for "encouraging" me to register. It hasn't seemed to make a danged bit of difference. Anyhoo, here's da jist uv it...... BECAUSE I was raised here in Ol' Virginny, USA, and just because of the individual I am, I have always had an ear for dialect, or was that "dialectic"? Bear with me for a moment, and my assertion will be clear to all of you. I have read many many books which had many characters (bad actors?) speaking in their native dialects. I think that my 13-year quest for a lousy B.A. in studio art, had a little bit to do with it, having to read many books that I would not have chosen to read on my own. Hang on, I'm getting there. I will now "cut to the chase", and defend my assertions later. My Rigorous Intuition (and education) tells me that the plea for "Jihad Money" quoted on page one was written by a (probably) Harvard-educated PsyOp agent. C'mon, cowboys 'n' cowgurls, Ah been writin' in hillneck redbilly dialect jist fer fun fer abowt danged near onta Forty yeers, naow! 'N' Ah started it long 'fore Ah wint ta collige! 'N', yo, yo, yo, mah bruthas, don' n'even git me goin' on afrik'n-'merikin thangs, ya dig, noam sayin? I am not racist, but I do have an ear for local dialects (loved Carrol O'Connor's Archie Bunker Brooklinisms). The main point, as if we all didn't already get it, is that the money plea from the "Jihaddists" wuz fer sure written by someone who thinks they know how to mimic the mangled English that might be posted by an "ignorant arab". I assert here and now (and for the record, slimmouse), that the dumbass Texican who wrote that crap really thinks he/she is fooling anyone with a functioning brain. So dere!!! P.S. Phalanx is a Latin word, and would more than likely, NEVER be used as a name by anyone in the Arab world. Smooty

by **anotherdrew** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:29 am

Here's some links that should help get it shut down. RI is getting a fair bit of attention, it's fairly highly ranked at del.icio.us for some basic tags. since the blog contains many popular search terms, it was inevitable that someone would try to use your content like this I guess. Seems like it might be someone who's familiar with the site. Getting them pulled from google search results is probably the first step. Going after their hosting after that. Probably a few emails will get rid of it. It's a shame this type of thing is hapening so much these days, I find it hard to believe there's any money to be made in putting up splogs, but I guess somehow there is. You see though... any money has to come from the 'advertisers' and have you ever noticed how often a link in a email spam or these web-sites, don't even work? Almost as if someone were dishing out money just to monkey with the works. The adware/spyware/malware plague has finally started to subside at least. <a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000335.html">www.sifry.com/alerts/arch...00335.html</a> <a href="http://www.fightsplog.com/take-action.php">www.fightsplog.com/take-action.php</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog</a>

by **anotherdrew** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:39 am

Fyold, are you removing or not letting the ezboard session cookie get set? That's what keeps you logged in, for a good long time anyway. My current ezboard session cookie expires: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:02:20 PM So unless I remove that cookie, I won't have to log in again 'til after that time. (by then I'll probably have forgotten the password but that's my problem) You may have some anti-spyware software that's killing all cookies or perhaps you've got your browser set to not accept any. Check this: when you first come to the board at <a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition">p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition</a> look in the upper right part of the browser it shoudl say there whether you're logged in or not. If not, just log in and you'll be recognised as your registered self. Does any of that help? now keep in mind that ezboard can clear that cookie or just ignore it, a few times I think they have changed their cookie format and forced me to login for that reason.

Anyone know what's up with this?

Izzit Jist Me???

dwdonline.us

Edit- The Wired and PsychStatBoard articles links work.

Everyone's Internet

Floyd-No, I'm not pointing at posters here, the mirrorers.

on top of all that

"word press template"? Hunh?

Just how sad are these folks ?

Re: Anyone know what's up with this?

Kinda, Sorta, still Almost on Subject

A simple explanation

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