FITUG e.V. Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft

FBI Web Cache Mirror

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:20:04 -0500 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@wasabisystems.com From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: FBI Web Cache Mirror

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Status: U Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:57:02 -0800 To: cypherpunks@lne.com From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> Subject: FBI Web Cache Mirror Sender: owner-cypherpunks@lne.com

We had an e-mail exchange today with the FBI about a bot coming to Cryptome daily to grab new files and to check on old ones. We complained about the bot taking over the site during its visit. The FBI explained that the visits are part of a "web cache mirroring process:"

http://cryptome.org/fbi-web-mirror.htm

We would appreciate hearing of other sites being mirrored by the FBI. The IP address range of the MAS program:

65.207.53.xxx

We have no objection to the FBI mirroring or by anybody else, but misconfigured bots have been an annoyance for repeatedly downloading old files, racking up tens of thousands error logs. One today produced over 16MB of log files before we got the user to wake up. Misconfigured WGet, as often, was the culprit.

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