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Offline bj229r

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Internet back-tracking, neat stuff
« on: September 01, 2008, 10:25:00 AM »
Well...neat to ME, folks like Skuzzy obviously already know this. A smear site deriding Palin showed up, which at first glance, would seem to be from a right-wing anti-gay group. Then the guy from LGF started following the link backwards: http://www.sarahpalingayrights.com/

blah, blah, then at the end:
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Sarah Palin’s veto gave gays the same rights as married couples in Alaska.

A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for gay marriage.
I don't really care about the gist of this either way, but here's where the neat stuff starts:

(From LGF)
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Interesting. There’s nothing else on the page. This sure looks like the work of the dastardly right-wing anti-gay attack machine, doesn’t it?

But look who’s really behind this.

In the Linux console, if you enter the following commands, you can learn the secrets of a political dirty trick. First, look up the host of ‘sarahpalingayrights.com’ to get the site’s IP address.

    host sarahpalingayrights.com
    sarahpalingayrights.com has address 74.208.74.232

Then use the same command to look up the domain name pointer of that IP address.

    host 74.208.74.232
    232.74.208.74.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer obamadefense.com

Well, well. “Obamadefense.com,” eh?

And what happens if you enter obamadefense.com on your browser’s address line?

Why, you’re redirected to none other than FightTheSmears.com, the official Barack Obama site that’s supposed to be defending him against smears.

Looks like they may have a second purpose: to generate a few smears of their own.


Intardnet is neat stuff :aok


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Re: Internet back-tracking, neat stuff
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2008, 10:30:46 AM »
my god , you discovered inet redirection

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Re: Internet back-tracking, neat stuff
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2008, 10:33:06 AM »
my god , you discovered inet redirection
Lol as I said... "neat to ME".... really have no idea how the stuff works, only that dial-up is waaaayyy slower than cable :)
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Re: Internet back-tracking, neat stuff
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2008, 10:33:17 AM »
 :aok     :D
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Re: Internet back-tracking, neat stuff
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 01:13:18 PM »
bj

send that exact copy to your local newspaper or TV station action journalist - neat stuff... its the extremists who cause all the problems and something like this needs to be put out to the public...  I don't think Obama would support this type of crap...but I admit I could be wrong..so if he does have knowledge of it... he deserves the crap to be outed...same if there was a backtrack to a McCain site...
Until crap like that gets outed...there will never be a truly informed electorate...


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Re: Internet back-tracking, neat stuff
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 01:19:11 PM »
obamadefense.com did not redirect me to FightTheSmears.com like the quote stated.

I did do a tracert on the IP address provided (74.208.74.232) and got hit back to obamataxcuts.com.

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Re: Internet back-tracking, neat stuff
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2008, 03:19:49 PM »
The link no longer goes anywhere, also looks like they backing off the story, as the whole thing now looks more like a spoof from yet another party, some unofficial Obama koolaid drinker :lol http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/busted-obama-camp-behind-palin-smear.html
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