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Someone in DC is gathering information on me – Tallbill

TallBill

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From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
While perusing my website's log file for yesterday, I discovered that some people in DC want to know about me. They apparently hired a company to do a very specific web search on my name (not my online identity, my real name, which almost no one who knows me calls me by, or even thinks about I would wager). I do realize that not everyone in DC is connected to the government, but I also know of a certain DC area resident who is not openly connected to the government, but who is someone that I would not want to meet even in a brightly lit boulevard much less a dark alley.

Anyway, after all that, I ask you to pray as the LORD leads you.

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

spade89

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Registered: 11-28-2006
are you sure it's a human? have you heard of the fbi carnivore program??

maybe you showed some red flags when you said some stuff over the net or on phone?

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ArchAngel

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I wish I was that important...

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CPUFreak91

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The RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft come to mind .

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TallBill

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From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
I kind of doubt that the FBI or the other organizations mentioned would be involved here. Whoever it is, they are going through a rather small company (it only has 8 IP addresses) that is owned by women. As I implied above, there is a resident of the DC area who doesn’t exactly have me on his Christmas card list (I wrote an article in which he didn’t shine too brightly). He has been known to send in sycophants in order to harass and intimidate those who say less than spectacular things about what he engages in; in fact past adversaries of his have reported receiving death threats. He is one reason that I try to make certain that I have a working answering machine system—whether that system be an actual answering machine, or software that does the same trick (and more ). For example, with the software, I can set the maximum message length, and I currently have it set long enough to give anyone plenty of rope with which to hang themselves. On the other hand, if my pastor, or a missionary friend of mine should choose to call and leave a devotional, well, they have 15 minutes to talk.

I also have a couple of other options set up at the moment: You can hear a short message (approx. 5 minutes), or you can sit through one of my unedited Chats, with, of course, the third option being to leave a message.

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Never Forget to Pray!

"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

MastaLlama

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what's the company that he's using?
TallBill

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From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
Janya, Inc.

Also, later in the day, another DC area company tried to get past my IP block with 286 hits in a matter of seconds, which is why I'm assuming that the Janya accesses were from their DC office.

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Never Forget to Pray!

"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

spade89

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From: houston,tx
Registered: 11-28-2006
it's a women-owned company is it a girl that's after you tallbill?

why don't you setup a trap like let a server run on a certan port and accept requests and have certain flaws that allows the take over of your pc except it only simulates that but logs what the intruder is searching for ....getting the idea???

or in other words why don't you be found but not where they want you to be at.

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John 14:6

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

TallBill

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From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
quote:
Originally posted by spade89:
it's a women-owned company is it a girl that's after you tallbill?

No.

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why don't you setup a trap like let a server run on a certan port and accept requests and have certain flaws that allows the take over of your pc except it only simulates that but logs what the intruder is searching for ....getting the idea???

Unfortunately for that really cool idea, my site is hosted, but it could be a really cool game idea too, don't you think?

quote:
or in other words why don't you be found but not where they want you to be at.

You know, I think we have a God who specializes in that kind of thing.

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Never Forget to Pray!

"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

spade89

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From: houston,tx
Registered: 11-28-2006
quote:

You know, I think we have a God who specializes in that kind of thing.


didn't think of that.

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John 14:6

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Mene-Mene

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From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Registered: 10-23-2006
Man, this is like a movie... Have you talked to any officials in the company yet? Also you can pray that God would lead you to the instigator, and that a peaceful realization would occur between you two. This might be far fetched but have you ever thought of the Secondary company that's actually doing the looking being computer drones? What other information do you have? Any IP addresses?

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TallBill

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From: St. Louis, MO
Registered: 11-22-2002
I have already contacted them—to no response so far.

Of course, I didn't break out the velvet tongue, either. I have an IP address, the knowledge that they only have 8 IP addresses, their web site, and a decided dislike of matters of skulduggery (which I told them about while advising them to tell their client to contact me directly instead of by hiding behind mommy's skirts).

Now, they're not going to like that, but then, I don't care if they like it. I don't like people spying on me—for whatever reason or purpose—especially when everything they would want to know is available on my website.

If they want a cordial relationship with me, they can contact me themselves—in the open; once they play the skulduggery game, they've made an enemy.

I don't like being spied on.

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Never Forget to Pray!

"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"