Thursday, September 20, 2007

Weird things on the net

Occasionally, I'll come across some really odd things while going around on the net. For example, today I was looking up how to open up on Google the following search term:
ASP.NET C# "open csv file in Excel"
The results weren't many, but that is what I expect when refining my searches enough. However the majority of pages that came back were listing pages, such as "http://jl.ucabo.cn/zenwbkv.html" [Don't link to it if you are not prepared for potential security issues], almost all of them from China.

Having enough firewalls, checkers, etc installed on my system, I was curious to see what they were. They are just pages full of text - nothing exciting, just junk words to get search engines to find it... So I looked at the source code, and again, nothing exciting - except that it had a javascript from a server based in Germany (http://goodnserver.info/), near Frankfurt. I then went and looked at the script and found that the script referred a signal to a test page on a server near Washington D.C (http://mystats.name/).

Now, for all the conspiracy theorists out there, isn't it interesting that soon after the U.S. claims that its security systems were breached I find a trail of junk web pages on different servers in China that link back to Washington? Where is my tin hat?

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