"Blog Paranoia...and Russia" Topic

This has been going ion for a long time. Perhaps it is the militery terms that draw Russian bots to crawl our sites.

I suspect the newly appointed "special investigator" may want to have a word or three with you, for your obvious collusion…….

"Cold War II" has been ongoing for quite some time now.

Infiltration? Sure. But it's mostly by China, and they're always making it look like it's coming from a North Korean or Russian IP address. :)

Dan
PS. By the way, the Cold War never really ended. It's exactly what they want you to think. The worst enemy is the one who suddenly calls himself friend … but only to your face.

@Queen Catherine,
Beware Russian influence on your polls. Putin's subtle manipulation of dupes, "pinkos and "fellow travelers" could affect your blog's coverage of topics that interest you to ones that interest them. Never drink fluoridated water on any weekday ending in "day".

Russia does hire people to surf blogs and muckrake. They also use scripts/bots for the same reason.

I am sure we do it too.

In a serious answer, it's a technique used by Russian hackers (and probably others too) to try to fool the suspecting blog owner into clicking the link back to their fraudulent websites to either gain apparent "net legitimacy," or collect data from the blogger, or even insert malware on the blogger's device. Ignore them, and you'll be safer.

Pazival +1

If it's serious – maybe just your blog is interesting? In Russia, quite a few people know foreign languages, and Google translator just wipes the boundaries on the Internet. Here, on TMP, there is also no Russian language, which does not prevent me from writing here any ***.

I get exactly the same, lots of hits from Russia then nothing for a while. I get far more from America and nothing on my blog relates to America, this doesn't make me suspicious though. The odd ones are the one I get from Afghanistan and Mongolia although these are pretty few and far between. Personally I just take it as a compliment.

All that said it makes a bit more sense on mine as it is focused on the Great Northern War and also I know my blog is a favourite on a Russian Bloggers site.

Yep. It's always the "Russians". And they love banking and consumer data, as well as detailed info on US government workers.

Dan
PS. Noticed the uniforms?

RE the map: North Dakota should either be happy, or angry that they've been left out… ;-)

Internet slow in North Dakota

If it's anything like this…
Entry Pageviews
Russia 2825
United States 2494
France 420
Venezuela 264
Ukraine 203
United Kingdom 158
Germany 101
Australia 72
Canada 63
China 59

… it's Russian bots. They personally love the pages I set up on Blogger rather than individual posts. I've seen the Ukranian bots attack as well, although this month, the traffic appear much more natural than before.

Oh dear, there go my dreams of having an 'audience'!

Entry Pageviews

United States 9225
Russia 6539
United Kingdom 5480
Australia 4094
Germany 1563
France 1426
Canada 494
Poland 448
Ireland 367
Ukraine 359

Had quite a bit of interest in my blog from Russia a while back, then nothing for a while. Had a recent increase in Russians and my blog post on Nato and Warpac unit frontages has had an uptick in views. Today the Russians are absent.

Doubt I'd reply to "Wang Dong", anyway.