exit node "tortila" adds material to www.barnesandnoble.com home page

[Scott Bennett]

     On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:59:34 +0200 Hans Schnehl <torvallenator at gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:49:17AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>      Here's a "heads up" about a German exit that adds material to at least
>> the www.barnesandnoble.com home page.  The culprit node's nickname is "tortila"
>> and has an IP address of 217.172.60.111.  The added material includes a green
>> background block at the top of the page that includes the following text:
>> 
>> 0 zum Ausgangspunkt ihrer überzeugend argumentierenden Studie über Gender und Konflikte. Sie bescheinigt den männlichen Fachkollegen, auf beiden Augen "gender-blind" zu sein (S. 1). Mit zahlreichen Belegen dokumentiert sie, wie androzentrische Grundannahmen den Blick auf die komplexen Probleme in Kriegen und bei Friedensprozessen verzerren.
>> 
>> Gender als Analysekategorie
>> 
>> Demgegenüber veranschaulicht die Autorin in insgesamt sechs Kapiteln, welchen Erkenntnisgewinn die systematische Integration von Gender in theoretische und empirische Friedens- und Konfliktstudien ermöglicht. Während das erste Kapitel die Konzeption dieses Überblickswerks erläutert, konzentriert sich das zweite auf detaillierte Begriffsanalysen. Darauf sinnvoll aufbauend liefert das dritte Kapitel eine theoriegeleitete Reflexion der Interdependenzen zwischen Geschlechterkonzepten, Ethnizität, Nationalismus und Vorstellungen von kollektiver Identität. In
>> 
>> It also appears to try to run some JavaScript, but I have NoScript installed
>> in Firefox, so that didn't do anything.
>>      I don't know German, so I don't really know what it says, but I gather
>> from cognates that it is some sort of politically motivated message that gets
>> added to the home page.  I've now added "tortila" [sic] to my ExcludeNodes
>> list.
>
>This is AFAIK an excerpt of an essay about an article or book of an apparently 
>female author referring to the diversity of attitudes in this world. This work 
>appears to be dealing with gender related stuff. Nothing really smashing, and 
>not very politically motivated (unless you want to see it that way).
>
>The point is, this is written in way that hardly anyone, even native germans,
>would bother to read it, so I'm not 100% convinced someone would deliberately  
>set this up for a broad audience to take notice of this content in that way.

     Weird.  My father used to tell me that his grandmother had a saying that
everyone served some purpose/function in the world, even if only to serve as
the bad example.

>It just doesn't make sense (but you never really now, see diversity of 
>attitudes..).  
>But it definitely shouldn't be there.

     Well, it was certainly a surprise to me. :-(  I quickly gave tor a SIGHUP,
waited 30-40 seconds until I saw that that circuit had been shut down and a
new one built, then tried again.  That time I got the page I expected.

>Added to exclude list. Thx.
>
     De nada.  It's a case of OR-TALK serving as an early warning system, as
I mentioned in another message, though in that one I was really thinking of
early bug warnings, rather than early bad exit warnings. :-}


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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