Debris
«chaque notaire porte en soi les débris d’un poète.»Archive for meta-blogging
Is Big Brother watching me, or just surfing?
According to my referrer log, someone from the National Computer Security Center visited Debris earlier today.
sundown.ncsc.mil (National Computer Security Center) [Label IP Address]
Maryland, Baltimore, United States, 0 returning visits
Date Time WebPage 24th August 2007 13:07:06 No referring link
I’d never heard of NCSC, but according to Wikipedia, it is part of the National Security Agency “responsible for testing and evaluating computer equipment for use in high security and/or confidential applications”. I couldn’t find anything about the NCSC from my quick perusal of the NSA website. But I was amused to learn that the NSA has a “Kids’ Page“.
Much as I’d like to believe that someone really considers me to be a dangerous subversive, it is probably more likely that it was merely a bored civil servant surfing the web. If the NSA were really snooping on me, I suppose they’d mask their IP address. Or could they really be that inept?
P.S. Re-checking the referrer log, I see that NCSC uses Firefox, which is a great endorsement, I suppose.
International Women’s Day/Blog Against Sexism
Having nothing of my own to offer for Blog Against Sexism Day, I would merely recommend a few topical posts I’ve enjoyed today:
- Feministe: “Hi, I’m Jill, and scummy law school sleazebags have gone after me too.”
- Feministing:New report on gender-based violence in Iraq.
- Norbizness: “Finally … A rare chance for a man to get some things off his chest!“
- Feminist Law Professors: “Does the Yahoo avatar pictured below look ‘plus-sized to you?“
