{"id":2882,"date":"2012-03-23T02:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2012-04-04T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T07:30:51","slug":"homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/03\/homeland-security-2882.html","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Tracking Preppers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Survivalist and Prepper websites have been reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has been paying them a visit – for example Off Grid Survival<\/a>:<\/p>\n

That makes sense because the last site contains this blog, so there’s lots more new content to look at. I’m both proud and scared that they find my writing interesting. So I checked DOD and the Navy as well:<\/p>\n

Click on the images for a closer look, but there were also 427 visits from the Department of Defence, and 716 from the Navy Network Information Center. Interestingly, the average page views and time spent on the site were extremely similar to DHS. And the spikes in visits correlated with spikes in general – they visited more on days the site was visited more.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t feel natural – it feels automated. So I check another of my sites that is unlikely to interest the government, searchenginez.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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91 visits. The site certainly doesn’t mention any of the major trigger keywords.<\/p>\n

My initial prognosis is that:<\/p>\n

These visits are automated, and the same system is used by all branches of U.S. intelligence agencies<\/li>\n