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Name squatting and cryptic javascript blocks

Friday, June 27th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg

As you can probably tell, I recently switched from my old Blogger-hosted blog to this nice clean, self-hosted Wordpress blog. While I was doing some cleanup on Blogger a couple weeks ago, I noticed that my old blog URI was now redirecting to some strange new page/blog after I had previously changed the root prefix from “bdeseattle” to “infinitelymeta”.

Now, when I go to http://bdeseattle.blogspot.com, I get someone else’s page with an odd post about Cameras. If you view the source of this page, there is some very interesting meta buried in the code.

From the source code, I’m able to see that the userID who claimed the blog URI is: braeden

Towards the bottom of the source, I also see the following script block, which appears to be a for loop with some very cryptic variable names.

Interestingly cryptic javascript code snippet

I’m not so concerned about the name squatting thing, as I did abandon my old blog URI, but it just seems a bit odd that someone else snapped up my blog URI and put this page up in its place. Here’s another site that is referenced by some of the script blocks in the source: http://oedemera.com/

A quick traceroute and whois reveals the following information:

OrgName:    HopOne Internet Corporation
OrgID:      HOPO
Address:    3311 South 120th Place
City:       Tukwila
StateProv:  WA
PostalCode: 98168-5125
Country:    US

ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.hopone.net:4321

NetRange:   209.160.0.0 - 209.160.79.255
CIDR:       209.160.0.0/18, 209.160.64.0/20
NetName:    HOPONE-MULTI-SITE-1
NetHandle:  NET-209-160-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-209-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.HOPONE.NET
NameServer: NS5.HOPONE.NET
NameServer: NS3.HOPONE.NET
NameServer: NS2.HOPONE.NET
NameServer: NS6.HOPONE.NET
NameServer: NS4.HOPONE.NET
Comment:    HopOne Internet Corp.(R)
Comment:    The Foundation of Internet Success.(R)
RegDate:    2004-02-04
Updated:    2007-05-08

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE958-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Abuse Department
OrgAbusePhone:  206-438-5909
OrgAbuseEmail:  abuse@hopone.net

OrgTechHandle: HJ48-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Jass, Haralds
OrgTechPhone:  +1-206-438-5909
OrgTechEmail:  hjass@hopone.net

Should I be concerned?

A time for exploration

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Welcome to the next phase in the exploration of some ideas that I and several others had just over a year ago. This is one of many new sites we will be bringing online in the coming weeks, and hopefully months. Hold on tight, things could get a little crazy again. We’re going to try and build a couple of the engines I’ve so desperately wanted to code up and deploy to the cloud.

Please do keep in mind that I am only able to devote a very limited amount of my precious time to exploring these ideas for now, as I have a full time job in the enterprise software industry where I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Software AG Inc., and also own/manage Eastlake Associates LLC, a commercial property management business in Seattle, WA.

Major props to @kibmcz,  my stealth coding ninja from parts way up north for helping pull this stuff all together so quickly. Be sure to check out KComputer Zone for all the meta. Special thanks to Chris Pirillo for a truly stellar Wordpress theme. Well done! Bravo.

Now that I’ve got this nifty new Wordpress blog, I will be retiring (not deleting) my old blog which I recently changed from http://bdeseattle.blogspot.com to infinitelymeta.blogspot.com. Please also be sure to follow me on Friendfeed and Twitter, as they are where you can figure out all the other socnets I frequent.

And now the fun continues.

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