Fugitive's Website Hard to Trace, Nope Its Not, but...

One of the thorns on the side of the Arroyo Administration is the barrage of PR nightmare brought about by a website allegedly owned by fugitive Marine Captain Nicanor Faeldon. For the past few weeks, Capt. Faeldon had been posting pictures and videos of himself taken from inside various military camps on his website -- a big slap on the face of the "powers that be".

According to the Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team President Lito Averia, tracing the host of Captain Nicanor Faeldon's website would be like searching for a needle in a haystack(?) thus the title of an INQ7.NET news item "Faeldon slippery even in cyberspace". This statement simply made me say "duh". I'm not in computer security (yet) but tracing web hosts is a pretty simple matter and it can be done within a couple of minutes -- that is if you have a decently fast 'net connection.

Anyway, a "breaking news" at INQ7.NET on the same day reports that security researchers from the Philippine Honeynet Project has already traced the host of Capt. Faeldon's website and the lease-holder of the server. This needle is probably the size of my torso or probably the haystack is a pretty small bunch of a less than a dozen hay.

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