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<\/a><\/p>\nWell, that looks “Legit!” click Accurate, and move on. If you can’t trust Dean, Frank and Sammy, who is left to trust?<\/p>\n
Hold the phone. Hold on – the frequency of the station is 900 and the logo says 1160.<\/p>\n
While not listening to talk radio, I’m adding more “smarts” to the station editor – looking up the IP address of the web server, and then seeing if it is located in an unexpected \/ unsafe place. Well, look here:<\/p>\n
This web site is actually registered in Europe – and if you spend a few more seconds looking at the page, you’ll see it is written in German and seems to be a web site to get you to sign up for a hotel in Germany. In addition to hijacking the domain, they also grabbed an image <\/p>\n Right now that’s just annoying. But who controls that fake website? It would only take a minute to replace it with a rogue web site to launch an “internet terrorist attack”.<\/p>\n Looking deeper, the web server is located in a data center in England. However, the “owner” of those IP addresses is an entity called Future Hosting with this Business Address:<\/p>\n 39555 Orchard Hill Place, Suite 600 which is this company Future hosting seems to have moved to Southfield, MI and not updated their RIPE records. The Novi address was a mail drop place. The Southfield address matches this company: So who actually controls the web server with the German hotel videos?<\/p>\n The Great American Firewall is coming. To some degree Google is already in that role, actively filtering out rogue web sites from their search results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine that you’re a volunteer and trying to determine if this is the real web site for WABY-AM, which last we knew was a nostalgia music station on AM 900 in the Saratoga area called Saratoga Moon, but for some … Continue reading <\/a> <\/p>\n
\nNovi, MI 48375, US<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.futurehosting.com\/<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/vpsdatacenter.com<\/p>\n