Team Kimberlin often complained they were the victims of false narrative while being the source of narrative that were not only obviously false but also mind-bogglingly stupid. Consider this Prevarication Du Jour from seven years ago today.
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The Cabin Boy™ has posted what he claims to be the text of an unsolicited comment he allegedly received to one of his posts. He says that he believes that the comment is from [redacted] in Manassas, Virginia. He claims to have traced the IP address back to a cell tower near where [redacted] lives, and he provides a map with the location of the cell tower shown.
According to the several utility databases, there is a cell tower within a few dozen feet of the location shown. However, according to the FCC, [redacted]’s cellular provider is not on that tower. Moreover, why would [redacted] use his cellular connection if he were at home. Even he were using his phone instead of a computer, he would more likely use a wi-fi connection into his landline cable provider to avoid data charges and for higher speed.
This leaves several possibilities. One is that one of the Cabin Boy™ “friends” is pranking him. Another is that the whole thing is a lie. Or perhaps it’s something else.
UPDATE—I’ve just verified how IP addressing works for mobile devices. The IP address seen by the Internet looking back at a mobile device is actually the address of a server at the cellular ISPs point-of-presence. For example, my portable wi-fi hotspot is sitting on our kitchen table in Westminster, Maryland, and I can see the lights on the carrier’s tower out the living room window, but the IP address associated with it on the Internet is in Arlington, Virginia.
In order to determine the address of a connection all the way back to a cell tower, one needs to go through the carrier’s internal connection logs. That requires a subpoena. How many of you think that the Cabin Boy™ was able to get a subpoena for information sent this afternoon, serve the subpoena, and get the response from [redacted]’s cell phone carrier in a matter of a few hours? For that matter, how many think he could get such a subpoena in the first place?
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Schmalfeldt posted a comment which I let through moderation—
To which one of the Gentle Readers replied—
ANNOUNCER: From Westminster, it’s time for—
Res ipsa loquitur.
That’s the whole website so far. I guess The Dread Deadbeat Protector Kimberlin was too busy protecting elections and doing other important stuff to even put a working DONATE button on the site. However, neglecting this site was a mistake. As of last night, treasonisttrump dot org ranked 6,972,797 on the Internet and protectourelections dot org ranked 9,456,252.
While drinking my first cup of coffee this morning, I took a look through the connection log for Hogewash! for the last couple of thousand logins. There were 9 folks still using XP and one connection each from users of Vista, Windows 8, and FreeBSD i686.