NIPR: The secret government

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No sooner had I finished reading the NYT article Joanne recommended on the Pentagon’s plans for data mining and electronic surveillance than I noticed on my logs a visitor to my site from bu-wcs1-kelly.nipr.mil. “WTF is this?” I said.

A little digging uncovered that other bloggers seem to have been visited by NIPR, too. And what’s NIPR? It’s something scary-sounding called the National Internet Protocol Router Network run by DOD. The “Kelly” part refers to Kelly AFB, the home of the Air Intelligence Agency, the Air Intelligence School and the Joint Information Operations Center, according to this document.

Apparently this shady military outfit is spidering sites looking for info on Dmitry Sklyarov, the first person arrested on criminal charges under the DMCA. But my site, until now, hasn’t mentioned Sklyarov. Could it be I’m now on a list somewhere for badmouthing the administration as much as I do?

Once the war starts and all goes to hell and FEMA suspends constitutional government and the three branches of government crown Bush emperor, will black helicopters from NIPR come for me? Well, there I go again. But really, what’s a military outfit doing spidering an American citizen’s site? Have you been scanned by NIPR?

UPDATE: Holy crap, some smart guy wrote to NIPR asking them why they were visiting him. Check out their response!

Nov 12, 2002 | Comments

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3 comments posted

  1. Posted by David Garrett - 06/30/2003

    I just got my first visits from the govt. today. My site is visited by NIPR at least once a day and now by the EPA and the FAA. Strange mix.

    http://www.freespeechnews.com

  2. Posted by whywar - 08/09/2003

    we’re getting hits by several .mil, including nipr.mil. on august 7th, we received our first hit from darpa.mil.

    hmm…

    why-war.com

  3. Posted by Donna - 03/17/2004

    I am getting port attacks from NIPR. What does this mean?

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