Comments on: Watching them watching me

By: Steven J. Murdoch

Steven J. Murdoch — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:51:44 +0000

@Matthias

No, I haven’t heard anything. My website did receive a few visits from the BoE, as did this blog post, but there was no contact.

By: Matthias Leisi

Matthias Leisi — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:02:22 +0000

Did you get any reaction or contact from the Bank of England in the meantime (May -> Oct. 2006)?

By: Ameliorations » Watching the Watchers?

Ameliorations » Watching the Watchers? — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:46:54 +0000

[...] Steven Murdoch of Light Blue Touchpaper — a tech blog — has an interesting post about how certain a member of the CBCDG, specifically the Bank of England, had in work he was doing on the subject of counterfeiting and preventing the act of counterfeiting and the like. [...]

By: Joseph A Nagy Jr

Joseph A Nagy Jr — Thu, 25 May 2006 04:16:38 +0000

That is interesting, I only wish the log file stat analyzer used by my webhost was better. Another reason I want to go back to hosting myself, I am in firm belief there is no better log file analyzer then AWSTATS.

By: Ambrand

Ambrand — Mon, 22 May 2006 22:49:14 +0000

Sure, you’ll be switching to the euro some day so who cares

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:00:24 +0000

Well I bet they won’t be contacting you now.

By: Steven J. Murdoch

Steven J. Murdoch — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:38:53 +0000

@Anonymous

I added Javascript which started a timer; then when the page is left an onUnload event handler submits the results to my webserver. In my tests it was not called every time the page was closed, but when it was, the timing was reasonably accurate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:49:49 +0000

after 43 seconds the visitor closed my webpage, without clicking any links.

How do you know about that part? I don’t think it’s something you can guess from the logs.

By: neil k

neil k — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:39:40 +0000

Or perhaps someone at the Bank of England is preparing an inside job counterfeiting scheme!