On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:07:01AM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > >>Tracing route to nsa.gov [12.110.110.204] > > >>10 1133 ms 208 ms 198 ms ar2-a3120s6.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.8.65] > >>11 590 ms 1022 ms 224 ms 12.127.209.214 > >>12 671 ms 1040 ms 214 ms 12.110.110.131 > >>13 * * * Request timed out. > >>[Followed by lines 14-30, which all time out.] > >> > >>Trace complete. > >> > > > > > >My reading (I am not educated in these things) is not important. I've > >copied this to a list where others can review it and comment. > > > >Looking forward to more family email. > > > > Interesting: > > > > Address: 9861 Broken Land Parkway > Address: Suite 300 > City: Columbia > StateProv: MD > PostalCode: 21046 > Country: US > > NetRange: 12.110.110.192 - 12.110.110.255 > CIDR: 12.110.110.192/26 > NetName: LINGUALI77-110-192 > NetHandle: NET-12-110-110-192-1 > Parent: NET-12-0-0-0-1 > NetType: Reassigned > Comment: > RegDate: 2003-10-06 > Updated: 2003-10-06 > > OrgTechHandle: MLO42-ARIN > OrgTechName: Louis, Montas > OrgTechPhone: +1-410-953-0300 > OrgTechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Lingual Information System Technologies, Inc (LinguaLISTek) is dedicated > to providing state-of-the-art business solutions to customers in various > industries providing support throughout the life cycle of a project." > > > PGA
The trace is from my nephew, Christopher, who lives in Wyoming and isn't AFAIK on any watch lists except that he graduated from a Quaker HS, and thus is probably considered a dangerous pacifist. The company whose server his email appears to be sifted through is a beltway services company with vague objectives and hiring linguists for the following languages: "Albanian, Amharic/Tigrinya, Arabic, Chechen, Chinese, Dari, Dinka, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Korean, Korean, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Tagalog/Filipino, Tajik, Urdu/Punjabi, Uzbek, and others." http://www.lingualistek.com/LinguaLISTek/careers/linguistAnalyst.htm "... and others" probably covers Wyoming. The company claims to be woman and minority owned (Elizabeth Rendon, CEO, and I cannot determine if there is a link to John Rendon of the Rendon Group, the ad agency responsible for coordinating Bush's disinformation campaign to sell the Iraq war to Americans), and to have Homeland Security contracts. Sooo ... the appearance of their server on Chris's trace is probably just coincidental. Absolutely no reason to suspect he's being watched. -- Lan Barnes Linux Guy, SCM Specialist Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. - Alan Kay -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
