Subject: Fwd: The Government is Watching
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:19:35 -0500
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From: Jim Hardin freedompag-@mindspring.com
Subject: The Government is Watching
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Friends,
Hi Folks,
I'll try to get right to the point here.
Ever since the "Justice" Department decided that the American People were the ENEMY OF THE STATE and decided to track Internet activity and email communications of private, law abiding citizens under the BOGUS excuse that anyone could at anytime be conducting criminal or terrorist activity on the Internet I have been curious as to how this tracking was taking place.
The first method that I found to look at the connections I was making via the Interent was with a little utility that comes with Microsoft Windows 98. The utility is called TRACERT. A friend of mine told me about that utility.
If you want to see how many connections you have to go through in order to get to YOUR ISP, do this: Shell out to the Dos command line and type the following:
TRACERT (YOUR ISP ADDRESS)
As an example, if earthlink.net was your ISP you would type the following:
TRACERT EARTHLINK.NET
The report you will get back will look something like this below:
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Tracing route to www.earthlink.net [207.217.78.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 127 ms 118 ms 111 ms tnt1.coos-bay.or.da.uu.net [206.115.154.135]
2 120 ms 116 ms 120 ms 207.76.37.77
3 125 ms 116 ms 120 ms Fddi0-0.GW1.POR2.ALTER.NET [137.39.44.67]
4 129 ms 131 ms 116 ms 121.ATM3-0.XR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.200.186]
5 125 ms 117 ms 119 ms 195.ATM2-0.TR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.200.98]
6 164 ms 168 ms 157 ms 110.ATM7-0.TR1.LAX2.ALTER.NET [146.188.137.149]
7 158 ms 157 ms 158 ms 199.ATM7-0.XR1.LAX4.ALTER.NET [146.188.248.245]
8 169 ms * * 193.ATM7-0.GW4.LAX4.ALTER.NET [152.63.113.97]
9 153 ms 157 ms 160 ms earthlink-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.231.222]
10 162 ms 169 ms 170 ms f4-1-0-br02-pas.neteng.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.1.2]
11 f0-0-0-ds01-pas.neteng.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.50.142] reports: Destination net unreachable.
Trace complete.
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While that report showed me that I had to actually go through various systems to get to my Earthlink ISP (on line 9) that information really didn't tell me WHERE those various other systems were located *OR* who was operating them. At the time that I was using the TRACERT utility I was quite curious about that 207.76.37.77 address which is shown on line #2.
Just the other day that same friend who had told me about TRACERT called me up and told me about another rather interesting program called VISUAL ROUTE.
What this program did, he said, was that it actually showed you, all the stops or "hops" along the Internet that your telephone connection makes as you log onto the Internet and connect to your ISP. It then can show you how many stops or "hops" your computer connection has made on the Internet as you go about your way browsing the World Wide Web with a web browser.
What this program did, which was rather interesting, It provide some additional information on WHERE those ISP connections were PHYSICALLY located.
The first time I used this program was after I had dialed into the Internet with my web browser. What I did was to log onto the Internet and connect up with Earthlink using my web browser. Then I stopped and loaded up Visual Route and typed in the "earthlink.net" address in the upper left hand corner where it asks for an ISP address. I then clicked the green arrow. The Visual Route program then showed me that IN ORDER TO GET TO MY ISP, Earthlink, I had to **FIRST** go through a whole number of systems INCLUDING a system located in Fairfax, Virginia.
You know what's in Virginia, don't you? That's where Langley Air Force Base is located. That where the Navy keeps major naval intelligence related facilities. Fairfax, Virginia is also where the FBI keeps one of their main national forensic offices.....including information on cyber terrorism! In addition, the CIA also maintains operations out of some offices in Virginia. Interesting, no?
So, just *WHY* do you suppose they are routing ISP connections through Fairfax, Virginia, eh? Well, this is only MY own personal opinion, but what it looks like is that it is *IN* FAIRFAX VIRGINIA that the FBI has set up the Internet monitoring computer system for the purpose of watching U.S. Citizens as they conduct their PRIVATE business affairs on the Internet.
Well, back to the Visual Route program... Are you curious to see if *YOU* are being FIRST routed to Fairfax, Virginia BEFORE being allowed to go anywhere else on the Internet? ( As you will learn later in this letter, not "ALL" U.S. citizens are being tracked like this via Fairfax Virginia.)
Ok then, the first thing you need to do is to download a shareware program called Visual Route.
Here's the url to the official download page of the Visual Route shareware program. The program is a tad over 2 megs in size:
Visual Route Download Page
After you download that program and install it, load it up the next time you are on-line on the Internet with your web browser.
Once the program is loaded up, type in your ISP web address in the upper left-hand corner like what is shown below in the screen captures.
My Internet ISP address is earthlink.net. So, I entered "earthlink.net" in the slot up in the upper left hand corner.
After you enter your ISP address hit that little green arrow next to where you just entered your ISP web address and the Visual Route program will go out and log (list) all the locations (Computer systems) that you had to go through in order to get to your present destination.
What you will see on the Visual Route screen is a ton of information INCLUDING ISP addresses that you have been routed through in order to get to where you are on the Internet.. Look at the screen capture below.
After the program is finished logging in all the various connections you have made look over to the right under LOCATION.
Does your program list FAIRFAX VIRGINIA 22031?
Look at the screen captures below. I've posted three screen captures below. (1) One of the screen captures shows all the ISP systems I had been routed through in order to get onto the Internet. (2) The Second screen capture shows all the ISP computer systems I had to go through before getting to an AUSTRALIAN web site. (3) And the third screen capture shows information relating to all of the ISP systems I had been routed through in order to get to a web site located in England.
Please note that no matter where I went, after I ran the Visual Route program to see where I had been I ALWAYS found that I had FIRST been routed through FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA!
SO YOU WILL KNOW:
NOT ALL people ARE being routed through Fairfax, Virginia!
If you ARE NOT politically outspoken and/or if you have NOT publically voiced your disgust with the utterly corrupt and moral degenerate Administration in Washington D.C. then the chances are that you are *NOT* being routed THROUGH Fairfax, Virginia before gaining access to the Internet. Apparently ONLY THOSE who the government doesn't like are being watched and/or tracked.
I've talked to a good friend of mine who told me what he discovered after letting some of HIS friends know about the Visual Route program. He told me that he had talked to some folks who ARE NOT politically outspoken and who do not "advertise" their political beliefs. THOSE PEOPLE, who pretty much kept to themselves and who did not advertise their political opinions had also installed the Visual Route program and ran it.
THOSE PEOPLE...the people who have been quiet about their political beliefs WERE NOT ROUTED THROUGH FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA!!
Interesting, no?
Here's some screen snapshots I've made after I (1) connected to the Internet with my web browser, (2) after I went to an Australian News site, and (3) after I went to the Electronic Telegraph located in England. Notice that in all three situations after connecting to the Internet I'm being immediately routed to Fairfax, Virginia AND THEN on to my destination.
Welcome to the New American verson of the Russian KGB - THE FBI!
In the screen snapshot I logged onto the Internet with my web browser, then I loaded up Visual Route and plugged in the address of "earthlink.net" to see how many places I had been routed to BEFORE getting to the Earthlink.Net ISP site. Notice first stop is Fairfax, Virginia.
In the screen snapshot below you can see the information which was returned after I went to the Australian web site and entered THAT information into the "Host/URL" box in the upper left hand corner. Notice, first stop is Fairfax, Virginia.
In this last screen capture notice that after plugging in the information for the Electronic Telegraph website "http://www.telegraph.co.uk" that Visual Route showed all the connections which were made across the country. Also notice that FIRST STOP, at Fairfax, Virginia.
Go and get that program - Visual Route - install it and run it when you are on the Internet. See for yourself if you are being watched by the perverts back east who have nothing better to do with their time at their high paying jobs than to stick their sick, pathetic, noses into the private affairs of law abiding citizens of this country.
Les
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Note: I have downloaded this software, and indeed, my internet travels seem to be making an unscheduled stop in Herndon, VA. When I questioned Sprint about this all I got was the usual ignorance.
If anyone else cares to download this, I would be very interested in hearing the results.
Regards
-- Infidel (Barbarians@thegate.com), December 14, 1999
Let's practice our deep breathing exercises...
Can law enforcement gain access to and monitor your network traffic if
they so desire? Absolutely. But as was pointed out, this would not be
the ideal way to do it.
Kris is correct. MAE East (Metropolitan Area Exchange/Metropolitan
Area Ethernet)is a major Internet traffic hub. It's one of the main
locations where companies like UUNet, AGIS, GTE, MCI WorldCom, PSInet,
and many others come together to interconnect their various private
backbones (networks).
That you would regularly be routed through the Washington DC/Vienna,
Va area is not surprising. But it has more to do with your
geographical and topographical location than it does with your
political pursuasion.
However, here's the clincher. From the trace you provided, it is
likely that you live somewhere in the vicinity of Coos Bay, OR Your
ISP is UUNet (or a smaller ISP that gets their connectivity directly
from UUNet). And guess where UUNet's headquarters is at:
UUNET Technologies, Inc. (NETBLK-UU-DIALUP-1996)
3060 Williams Drive, Suite 601
Fairfax, VA 22031 US
The IP address in question (207.76.37.77) is registered to UUnet. It
belongs to a block of IP address that UUnet has named
"NETBLK-UU-DIALUP-1996". From this, I would assume that the address
block is used to provide dial-up Internet access services. (no big
jump of logic there) From the trace, I suspect that it is a small
router.
Traceroute (or the DOS version 'TRACERT') is a basic tool that is
very, very old in Internet years. Traceroute and Ping are two
protocols that network administrators frequently use to trouble-shoot
connectivity problems.
Sorry, nothing ominous here that I can see.
-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), December 14, 1999.