Newsweek: “Cryptogon, a blog I had never heard of with a penchant for conspiracy theories”

July 12th, 2009

* snort *

Via: Newsweek:

GoldmanGate is certainly bringing out the inner spook in people. Over at Cryptogon, a blog I had never heard of with a penchant for conspiracy theories, the author set up a honey trap to lure web surfers trying to find the top-secret trading algorithm stolen from Goldman Sachs. By cleverly toying with his headlines and text, he set up one of his blog posts so that it would appear in Google results as a link to the stolen trading platform (see image above). When seekers click on the link and visit his site, he finds out a smidgen of information about the seeker, often including the place of employment.

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One Response to “Newsweek: “Cryptogon, a blog I had never heard of with a penchant for conspiracy theories””

  1. tochigi says:
    July 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    Kevin, you’re going to have to tone down these publicity shows!
    the bumbling Penthouse readers from the SIS will be uprooting your garlic plants next, looking for who knows what…

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