Very curious hits regarding post about David Codrea being threatened

Well, the hits to the blog spiked yesterday and I found three (3) very curious hits in relation to yesterdays post about David Codrea being threatened. The three hits are direct links without referrer links. Now, a no referrer link is not unusual and fairly easy to turn off in many browsers, but not IE7, which in fact I do not think can be done. You may ask why is this important, and it may not be, but considering the following three (3) hits were ALL done with IE7 and via a direct link with no referrer (which can be done with copy and paste) is usually done to hide originating source. In other words if someone was doing a Google, Yahoo, Dogpile, etc. search and did not want the site hit to record this information.

Take a look at the following three and pay REAL CLOSE ATTENTION to the first image.


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The second is proxied via AOL and the third not, but again, all three are direct links which is a tad unusual.

Yes David, they just may be serious- watch your back.

WP