Prank or paranoid?

April 3, 2003 6:30 AM

Prank or paranoid? Just spotted a referrer linking from http://homeland.fbi.gov/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp?record=nnnnnn. Is that a prank? I know you can forcefully set referrers and I would assume that those guys would know how to avoid such an easy trace back clue. What do you think?
posted by vowe (9 comments total)

Self-link warning... incoming criticism!

Duck & cover!
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 6:35 AM on April 3, 2003

delete-ify
posted by psychotic_venom at 6:35 AM on April 3, 2003

Huh?
posted by vowe at 6:39 AM on April 3, 2003

Oh. I see what you mean. Then go diretly to the place where I found the referrer. Right hand column, towards the end under "Aktuelle Referrer", if that is easier.
posted by vowe at 6:44 AM on April 3, 2003

This would be, at best, a topic for MetaTalk...
posted by JollyWanker at 6:44 AM on April 3, 2003

No way in hell that's real.
posted by dhoyt at 6:59 AM on April 3, 2003

"Huh?"

You are asking a personal tech support question on MetaFilter. Huh?
posted by y6y6y6 at 7:02 AM on April 3, 2003

Huh?!?!?!?
Where are the pancakes, let's eat.
posted by Outlawyr at 7:07 AM on April 3, 2003

I got that in my logs, too, evidently a lot of people have. Looks like a prank. Spoofing your referrer is fairly easy to do.
posted by RylandDotNet at 7:12 AM on April 3, 2003