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>http://www.unknownnews.net/a0201.html#tweak0124
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>My government reads Unknown News, just like I do!
>by Tweak
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>Welcome to our free country.
>
>For the less tech-savvy readers here, one of the oldest network functions
>built into TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is
>called Tracert or "Trace Route". When your computer talks to another over
>a network, both machines transmit their ones and zeroes in little groups,
>appropriately called "packets". Each packet contains some basic info, such
>as the senders address and the destination address, plus the actual data.
>The bulk of the ones and zeros are, of course, the picture or song (for
>example) you're downloading, or a small slice of it when the file is big.
>But it's the addressing I want you to think about for a minute.
>
>I recently noticed that my connection was a bit slower than usual. Seeing
>as I pay big bucks for a fast connection, I decided to troubleshoot the
>problem. The first thing I did was "ping" Yahoo.com. Pinging is basically
>transmitting one packet, and timing how long it takes for the remote
>machine to transmit an acknowledgement. A "good" DSL/Cable ping for Yahoo
>(unless you're in Belarus) should be about 30-80 milliseconds. Or, it took
>80ms for my machine to receive a reply from Yahoo.com's server. This is
>like bouncing a laser off the moon, and calculating the distance by timing
>the round trip.
>
>My ping to Yahoo took over 1000ms. Quite unacceptable, and furthermore,
>quite unexpected. Of course, the 'Net is made up of bazillions of
>computers, not least of which are the central "backbone" servers that do
>nothing but manage the flow of millions of packets per second. When I send
>a packet to Yahoo, there are at least seven major network routers between
>us, or seven "hops". This is important to note, because any one of several
>backbone computers could be slowing this transmission down. Imagine the
>child's game of "telephone" and imagine that one person always takes
>longer to pass along the secret phrase to the next fellow. Slows the whole
>game down. Make sense? Good.
>
>This is where Tracert comes in, and in fact is the reason it was created
>30-odd years ago. I, computer guru that I am, want to know who is slowing
>my transmissions down. So I program my packet to tell every computer it
>travels through to send back some identifying data to me. Thus, a "tracert
>yahoo.com" command gives me a list of every server between me and yahoo,
>with names, locations, and transmission time. This makes it a whole lot
>easier to find (and avoid) any network congestion. It also provides a
>useful map of which computers had seen my packet on it's journey.
>
>If you're still awake, this is where the story gets interesting.
>
>It seems my packets, when traveling from California (me) to California
>(Yahoo), are taking a detour through a computer licensed to: Government
>Systems Division, 13221 Woodland Park Road, Herndon, VA 22071, US.
>
>Well well! Virginia! Government! Interesting!
>
>Seems like a round-about way for two Californian computers to talk, eh?
>Especially when you know that the central backbone routers are designed to
>find the shortest route between the two, thereby maximizing efficiency by
>decreasing network load. There is no "natural" explanation for this, by
>which I mean, no network admin in his/her right mind would do this to make
>his network run faster. So I apply Occam's razor, and the simplest
>solution is that my packets are being routed via a government server for
>reasons other than speed.
>
>Because I'm a smarty-pants and care about this stuff, I run Sygate
>Personal Firewall (simple to use and highly recommended) which has a built
>in tracert command, and a packet logger. I started checking the route
>taken for my email(s), for Google, for Unknownnews, etc. Guess what? All
>go through that same server in Virginia. If I reboot my connection and/or
>my computer, it stays the same. No matter where I go online, my
>communications are always being routed through a government server in Virginia.
>
>Good thing that Total Information Awareness is just an idea, not yet law,
>eh? That Illuminati eye isn't really watching me, because our
>"democratically elected leaders" would never spy on it's citizens without
>the sanctity of the color of law.
>
>HAHAHAHAHA.... Excuse me while I go freak out for a minute. Deep breath.
>
>Well, it's a good thing that I don't do anything wrong. Well, unless you
>count a whole lot of anti-tyranny surfing and posting. Isn't that the old
>justification: if you don't break the law, you don't have anything to
>worry about?
>
>Well, start worrying, because what is not illegal today might be illegal
>tomorrow, and then you're $#!^ outta luck. BTW, that is the stupidest
>denial I've ever heard, and it's used all day long by chickenhawk draft
>dodgers like O'Reilly, Rumsfeld, and Cheney.
>
>Maybe I am a terrorist. After all, I'm terrified, and so should you be. I
>ask you once:
>
>What power do YOU have to ensure that OUR government will NOT falsify it's
>records for a prosecution?
>
>I'm pretty sure that the feds have no problem faking evidence, if ya know
>what I mean.
>
>Let me close with some advice. Our RULERS are insane. Totally off their
>Illuminati rockers (yes, I said "Illuminati", check your facts if you
>disagree). They think that they deserve to rule, and then do things like
>this. Let there be no doubt that the blame rests squarely on the shoulders
>of us sovereign citizens, who should have revolted with the Warren Report,
>if not before. There is no way to get our freedoms back passively. We must
>actively elect (lol) those who will dismantle these systems, and the
>agencies that want them. There is no way to solve our constitutional
>crises and still leave the culprits with their positions, money, and
>freedoms. Not that they deserve them, after the many murders and
>obstructions of justice. If you know your history, you know it's time for
>the CIA to be un-chartered, and it's law-breaking employees prosecuted for
>the myriad crimes they have committed. If you, like I, believe that this
>country is being played like a violin by forces that seek to permanently
>terminate democratic rule via infiltrating legitimate institutions, We The
>People have no recourse except to start rounding up these criminals in
>bulk and imprisoning them for extremely long sentences, under statutes
>like RICO, treason, and sedition. There is nothing I'd like to see more
>than Poindexter finally face trial for his countless high crimes.
>
>Wouldn't that be a treat? The Bushes, after all the evidence came out in
>court, being sentenced to 30-50 years hard labor in the states they
>committed the crimes, ie: New York. State's rights, indeed! DAMN!
>
>Of course, when I send this to Helen and Harry, they won't be the first
>folks to see it. A server in Virginia will have copied it all down, for
>Big Brother to read. Surely we are all safer for this, right? Right?
>
>© 2003, by the author.
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>telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
>George Orwell
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