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June 19th, 2007

The U.S. Terrorist Screening Center user (host: techtrack.gov, ip: 67.108.115.178) conducted the following Google search: “national security analysis center”

The user clicked on this Google cache page of a Cryptogon story about the National Security Analysis Center, but I saw it in the log anyway (explained below). In fact, I saw two visits simultaneously. The one above along with one from something called cypresscom.net (host: 64-190-60-164.static.cypresscom.net, ip:64.190.60.164). It contained the same referrer info as the visit above, and arrived at the same time.

The techtrack.gov ip comes back to XO infrastructure in Virginia:

OrgName: XO Communications

OrgID: XOXO

Address: Corporate Headquarters

Address: 11111 Sunset Hills Road

City: Reston

StateProv: VA

PostalCode: 20190-5339

Country: US

cypresscom.net ip 64.190.60.164 comes back to:

OrgName: Cypress Communications

OrgID: CYPC

Address: 15 Piedmont Center Suite 100

City: Atlanta

StateProv: GA

PostalCode: 30305

Country: US

But look at the DNS machine names:

NameServer: LOYAL.CYPRESSCOMM.COM

NameServer: CLEAN.CYPRESSCOMM.COM

NameServer: BRAVE.CYPRESSCOMM.COM

Loyal. Clean. Brave.

(I almost don’t want to know.) UPDATE: I was just about the only one who didn’t know the Boyscout Law. Many Cryptogon readers did.

I’m not really sure why both of those visits happened at the same exact moment. And both user agent headers were the same. Does it have something to do with the fact that that the TSC user clicked the Google cache link instead of clicking the direct link to Cryptogon? Something to do with the spooky splice jobs?

Now, you might be wondering, “Kevin, how do you know it’s the Terrorist Screening Center if the hostname is techtrack.gov?”

In Review of the Terrorist Screening Center (Redacted for Public Release) Audit Report 05-27 June 2005 Office of the Inspector General Appendix IV Terrorist Screening Center Response, under IT Operations, Grasshopper will find exactly two sentences that have not been redacted:

For SBU connectivity, each of the partner agencies has brought its system into TSC space and used those paths to pass data to and from the home systems. Purely unclassified connectivity is provided by the Techtrack system.

Grasshopper may also refer to page 14 of the Michigan Chapter of The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials – International, Inc. – APCO International Newsletter from May/June 2005 which mentions the “possible terrorist alert” handling codes and procedures for law enforcement. This information was provided by the Terrorist Screening Center. Note the email address and domain name to which questions about the TSC should be sent. That’s right. It goes to techtrack.gov. That thing is some kind of TSC gateway to the public Internet.

(Now, I don’t know about you, but I think that the Michigan Chapter of The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials – International, Inc. f#@*%d up big time by placing that document on the Internet. Let me know if they remove that information.)

Since the number of people being added to the terrorist watch list is “out of control” there is an increasing chance that you might find yourself in a situation where a cop is handling you according to the directives on page 14 of that document above. In short, NOT volunteering information to pigs is more important than ever, since the Homeland’s Magic 8-Ball might have you listed with the “handling codes” 3 or 4. If that system lists you with the “handling codes” 1 or 2, you’re going to be arrested/detained on terrorism related offenses regardless of what you say or don’t say to the cop.

Note to the TSC user (and other clueless computer users) about trying to avoid showing up in server logs by using Google cache:

Google caches only the text of the Web page. All the external files (Javascript, Cascading Style Sheets, images, Flash, etc.) are not saved by Google. If a Web site deletes its style sheet, for instance, and the old page is viewed in Google’s cache, it will render without the style sheet. Same thing for images, etc. When a browser requests a file from a Web server, that request is stored in the Web site’s logs. So it is only if a Web page has no external files that you will not show up in someone’s Web log by viewing Google’s cache.

Thanks Terrorist Screening Center user. Because of your stupidity, we learned some interesting information about how evil works today.