So, yesterday I went a little berserk to discover that Cyveillance had been back on my site, and as I explained on yesterday’s post, I kind of went off on Pete Nappi.

Well, today is a different day, and time to give credit where credit is due.

Keeping an Eye Out

Today I called Pete, apologized for my rant yesterday, and explained why the company’s presence is so distressing to me.

He told me he understood and let me know I’d put on the company’s ‘exclude’ list.

Thank you, Pete. And again, I’m sorry about yesterday.

So okay, I got out of bed this morning and first thing checked my logs to see who’d been on this site and my mfcooke.com site – yeah, okay, if that sounds a little compulsive, a tad obsessive, it probably is, but anyway: it is what it is.

Keeping an Eye Out

And, for reasons I won’t go into, checking the logs these days requires a great deal of effort. Not fun.

So anyway what I find is that IP 38.100.21.188 has been on the site.

Now, I have enough experience with Cyveillance to recognize a lot of their IP addresses, and this one looked familiar, but I looked it up anyway.

The thing is: I’ve blocked several IP addresses associated with Cyveillance already. In addition, I’ve attempted to block the entire company through my hosting plan. Guess that’s not working so well.

But the other thing is: This 38.100.21.188 IP address came in through a very odd referrer: http://obmil.com/ahalordedun.php.

So I looked up the link on March 29, when I first saw that Cyveillance had been on my site, and at that time, it seemed  - although I am not an IT expert, by any means – that this obmil.com thing enabled an IP address to access a site from which it’s been blocked.

But now – in April – when I check the link, it ties back to pictures of food on the Coppermine Photo Gallery.

Pretty weird. Pretty creepy. May or may not have anything to do with Cyveillance at all.

I have since resolved my issues with Cyveillance. Once I knew the right person to go to – Pete Nappi – I no longer had problems.

In September, I wrote Cyveillance back requesting that they stay off my site, but I didn’t know about Pete, so I kept blocking IP addresses I know that I knew belonged to Cyveillance.

So I on March 29 when I saw the company had once again been on my site – I got pretty ticked.

This time I called.

I talked to Pete, and I admit I was none too pleasant. I asked him what Cyveillance is doing on my sites, and he began to explain what kind of company Cyveillance is. I cut him off and reiterated I just wanted the company off my site.

To which, he responded,  ”Well, if you’re going to take that tone. I need the URLs.”

That was at 8:16. At 8:24, Cyveillance was at it again.

And at 10:32, the company attempted to get on the site but was blocked.

As I mentioned, I have since resolved my issues with Cyveillance primarily because Pete, once I apologized the next day and once I explained why I wanted the company off my site, was terrific.

Still, in my opinion and this is an opinion from a left-wing, former hippie/political activist, Cyveillance is pretty darn creepy. Way too stealthy. Way too invasive.

And, at this point in my life, I’ve got more than enough creeps invading my personal life.

All Four Pretending to be Good.

Cyveillance Ad Nauseum

First up. I admit, I’m going a bit nuts out here in the Land of Enchantment. I’m not a terrorist. I’m not a spy. I don’t give a fuck about Big Business, and still Cyveillance keeps coming after me. Please, Cyveillance, leave me alone. And I’ll leave you alone. (More about this further down.)

So okay okay, I’ve complained bitterly about my rotten animals, right? And I’ve taken pictures to preserve the “evidence” against them should I ever need to go to court. Haha. Like that’ll ever happen.

But I’ve now totally given up. No more pictures. Just bitter ruminations.

I got up this morning and discovered that one of the cats – which one? Come on, cats, give it up. Which one of you was it? – had dumped the Rubbermaid cat food container all over the kitchen floor.

Why?

Why?

Might as well ask why the sun shines. Who the hell knows?

But…

On top of the cat thing, my cable is out. Completely. Kaput. And tomorrow is 24. I am addicted to that show.

Good news:

Last night I saw Enter the Haggis. Check them out. They are my daughter’s favorite band. They are awesome. They were at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque, the last date of their New Mexico tour. They are a Celtic/Rock/Fusion band from Toronto. And they have the best song ever. Told my daughter last night that she’s in charge of seeing that it’s sung at my funeral when I die: One Last Drink.

Awesome song. Awesome sentiment behind it.

Okay. So I’m in a not bad mood. Except…

Well, there’s always something, isn’t there?

Yeah? Yeah.

See I have this other website: mfcooke.com. Nothing on it. I haven’t maintained it or anything. Nothing absolutely nothing of consequence.

Guess who’s been on it?

Yup, you guessed it. First off: J’s whacked-out attorney. And second: Cyveillance. Really, please, please check them out. See what they do. And then tell me what in the hell they want with me.

Keeping an Eye Out

Really. I’m beginning to feel like Sandra Bullock in The Net or Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory.

I didn’t understand why Cyveillance would want anything to do with me or this website.

And now I don’t understand what MarkMonitor http://www.markmonitor.com/ wants with me or this web site.

I’m an old hippie. Having such major cyber intelligence companies on my website is just creepy.