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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 12:45 PM
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Is anyone getting an unusual number of hits to their website from Saint Paul, MN?
I was just checking the stats to our website and we have someone visiting the site continuously from Saint Paul. I'm not getting the usual amount of info. on the visitor because he/she is using "Secure Computing" which seems to block the exact pages being visited and the referring link. The browser being used is Larbin (which I have never seen before) and it, too, is blocking some of the usual browser info. like OS, etc.

The visits are multiple and spread out over more than one day and seem to have started on the 29th.

Our website is a literary journal that contains the names of some poets/writers who are activists, so I am wondering if this has any connection to the RNC protests and raids. Are they gathering info. on potential protesters?

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but the continuous hits from a mystery person in Saint Paul are unusual for us.
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Torn_Scorned_Ignored Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 12:52 PM
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1. forget the popcorn
:scared:
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 12:56 PM
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2. I have a detailed counter/tracker on my web page
And nothing unusual is going on, AFAIK.

Then again, my web site has absolutely nothing controversial, and contains zero that would be of interest to the authorities or any political types.
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lurky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 12:59 PM
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3. Larbin is an automated web crawler.
The fact that it started yesterday and is originating from St. Paul makes me think you may be right. Maybe they are using it to monitor activist websites for clues about "suspicious" activity. :shrug:
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HillbillyBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 01:18 PM
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4. Be Paranoid, 'they' really are after you,
RNC is the new Authoritarian Rule by Terror, they are the direct political descendants of the nazis/fascists.
They have been doing the run up for years.
I experienced being followed around years ago.
All I did was tell the Repuk mayor of Montgomery that he was a little dictator and refused to
shake his hand at a public event. He had six burly body guards.
I told him he just thought he was important enough to need body guards.
He made life hard for black and gay people.
He had a cow when the gay bar allowed black and white people and gay and straight folks
all dance together you would have thought we were sacrificing babies under the full moon.
I worked at another gay bar sometimes. I found out i was being followed, the house was under surveillance, so were my friends then one night we were at a friends house and 14 undercover cops came pounding in slammed us against the wall and cuffed us, they left my partner face down on the floor. He had a seizure they just kicked him until he was still.
Me they hauled in and chained me to a desk , bright lights, and by the questions they asked and what they said we saw you on night of june so and so you were at and on the night of so and so you were at....on and on dates over the 2+ years I had lived in Monkeytown.
We were supposed to have 5 pounds of pot..the only thing we sold was used furniture we would buy at yard sales, refinish and sell.
We also used to have kkkrestians visit every saturday morning early like 7 am to bring us heathens to gawd. all gut pukes. When that did not work they gathered in front of the house and were threatening to burn it down around us.
We eventually got afraid and moved, but not before shooting at the white sheets with a 12g pump loaded with bacon rind and rock salt..they ain't so brave when you shoot back.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 01:18 PM
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5. Just DHS keeping you safe. But as a precaution, flush all your feces. nt
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 01:53 PM
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6. UPDATE: Now getting continuous hits from an address in Minneapolis as well as Saint Paul:
Edited on Sun Aug-31-08 01:54 PM by paxmusa
I just discovered that a Qwest address has been hitting the site continuously since the 22nd.

The title page of our site which includes writers' names is being hit nearly every hour around the clock. It looks automated.

Very unusual activity for our website.
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