Hey, look what you get when you check the IP address of "arab make nukes faster":
inetnum: 195.229.0.0 - 195.229.255.255
netname: AE-EMIRNET-971125
descr: Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
descr: Internet Service provider
country: AE
admin-c: AH1223-RIPE
admin-c: SAS88-RIPE
tech-c: SMA3-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: ETISALAT-MNT
mnt-routes: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 19971125
changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20021230
source: RIPE
person: Sultan Al Shamsi
address: Emirates Telecommunication Corporation
address: P O Box 1150, Dubai, UAE
phone: +971 4 2025510
fax-no: +971 4 2948300
e-mail: sultan@uaenic.ae
nic-hdl: SAS88-RIPE
mnt-by: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20010417
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20020714
source: RIPE
person: Abdulla Hashim
address: Emirates Telecommunication Corporation
address: P.O. Box 1150, Dubai, UAE
phone: +971 4 2025510
fax-no: +971 4 2948300
e-mail: hashim@emirates.net.ae
nic-hdl: AH1223-RIPE
mnt-by: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: fareedak@emirates.net.ae 19981026
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20010428
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20020714
source: RIPE
person: Saleem Mohd Albalooshi
address: Emirates Telecommunications Corporation.
address: P.O. Box 1150, Dubai, UAE
phone: +971 4 2022959
fax-no: +971 4 2228884
e-mail: saleemmb@emirates.net.ae
nic-hdl: SMA3-RIPE
mnt-by: ETISALAT-MNT
changed: fareedak@emirates.net.ae 19981027
changed: sultan@uaenic.ae 20020714
source: RIPE
Hmmmmmm. I thought internet access was strictly controlled in Saudi Arabia. I guess RNS must still be on the "OK to read" list in Dubai. Or else our troll is someone that has access that the "average" UAE citizen doesn't.
So let's see, someone using an anonymous hotmail account, posting from an IP within Saudi Arabia, talking about Arabs making Nukes and threatening the US. Whatever can it all mean? I thought the House of Saud was our friend.........
CORRECTION:
A reader corrects my confusion by pointing out that the UAE and Saudi Arabia are not the same. For some reason I was trying to stick Dubai in Saudi Arabia. But, in the end, it's just a blown call by little ol' Nukevet. It did seem strange that a sight would be available in Saudi Arabia, however, as they have one of the most restrictive IP banning policies around.
Posted by Neal (Nukevet) at May 19, 2003 06:29 PM | TrackBackHey Neal, I just want to point out that the UAE and Saudi Arabia are not the same nation. I've been to the UAE before, but never to Saudi Arabia. I hear it's just a LOT more of that wacky pink-orange sand though. Didn't sound like a place I would really miss seeing.
Posted by: on May 19, 2003 10:43 PMOK now my curiousity is peeked, what, when, where, I can't find his comment, or did he just leave a trail? E-mail?.......
I did an MSN search on the ip and came up with a load of commercial addresses, banks and such. Which would explain the expanded access. A bored clerk feeding his fantasies I guess.
Still I must know more, please please. I tire of the usual victim. I seek more worthy prey. Someone I don't have to hold back on. Yeah, I did shift fire on harm a few times, changed what I was going to say. Not everytime though.
Posted by: puggs on May 20, 2003 01:11 AMPuggs, he could well have been spoofing his ip, it's not too hard to do if you can be bothered.
Posted by: harmonia on May 20, 2003 03:34 AMOoooops, my bad on the Saudi/UAE thing. I think it's a bit of residual heat stroke/tequila intoxication........
Posted by: Nukevet on May 20, 2003 09:59 AMHarm when it comes to IP's and URL's and all the shiney new fangled modes of information I'm a babe in the woods. Your generation is much better equiped. I can use the web, but that's about all. The personal PC hadn't even hit the market yet when I finished school, Hell I don't even like cellphones.
Posted by: puggs on May 20, 2003 12:47 PMOh, he could be IP spoofing, but it's pretty hard to do effectively. Most of the "holes" in TCP/IP protocol that allowed spoofing have been addressed. I bet he's a UAE kinda guy. Or at least his ISP lives there. Sure, he may live in Indiana and have an ISP account routed through Dubai, but I bet he doesn't. And hotmail authenticates the IP address of users of its services, so I bet the IP listed is genuine.
Posted by: Nukevet on May 20, 2003 01:37 PMUAE's & the Arabia of the Sudia are the same...
Posted by: Faisal on July 25, 2003 06:16 PM