Good morning, Government of Canada employees:
(from the past 100 visitors to the site)
Host: infowebex.acoa-apeca.gc.ca
Host: csc-scc.gc.ca
Host: oci-bec.gc.ca
Host: mail.npb-cnlc.gc.ca
Host: stop.justice.gc.ca
heh.. someone has a sense of humour.. “stop.justice….”
GTIS NETBLK-CDAGOVN-C (NET-198-103-0-0-1)
198.103.0.0 – 198.103.255.255
And you ought to see the output of this
kate@deleted:~/www/deleted.com/logs$ grep 198.103 access.log
Man, oh man… someone doesn’t have enough to do. (No, I’m not going to upload that data file for your befuddlement pleasure – just take my word for it that a lot of government employees are doing a lot of blog surfing on “company” time):
(For the geeks who understand that, here’s a bit of (unrelated) humour that came my way this morning. )
Huh?…I mean I’m shocked! Or, that was really funny!
Kate, check the stop.justice.gc.ca link.
Let’s hope the government bloggers aren’t using that uber-geek hard drive deletion program.
Whoops, a little bit of sloppy cut and pasting on my part. Fixed now.
Government employees aka “Civil Servants”. Oxymoron..
Could some computer techies compile a search for the number of “Government” federal employees drawing short/longterm disability benefits, including CPP benefits? Costs to the taxpayers? Number of applications pending? Etc. Causes of disability, e.eg. stress, alcoholism, drug-addiction, phony claims, etc.
Cost of the gold-plated pensions guaranteed to them all, including MPs, Senators, cabinet Ministers, & of course, for Chretien/Martin, including all Crown agencies & all other tribunals, boards, & etc. Oh, forgot: Judges, & their flunkies.
Staggering sums , more than the GDP of Russia?
P. P. Peetigrew has now outgrew his usefulness; he is off to his reward at OhAyeEs. . Cost to the Canadian taxpayers for his “retirement”? Up to $550,000/year?
Send roses (black).
Here’s a civil servant who’s here on company time. As this is reporting rollup time for the previous year’s projects here at CIDA I’m up for diversions to break the grind, and the Usual Suspects of Canuck political blogdom are certainly providing such lately.
And I might add: yeah, I’m at CIDA but am a Southern Alberta Tory who thinks it’d be great if Harper and Co. would blow up the myth that the 0.7% aid target is even desirable, nevermind feasible…
You don’t like civil servants reading your blog? No problems, I’ll surf elsewhere during my breaks…
Cracking the loopback address! Uber-geek!
TeeHee.
Cheers,
lance
Good point Alex:
Stick around, contribute where you see fit. Oh he’s gone, damn. Oh well one more potential whistle blower gone, shit we need those people in the blogosphere.
Just a suggestion though before ragging on .gc.ca or any other gov addy’s check total time, or for that matter find out just exactly what they are finding out about, Hell it could be a moonbat finally seeing the light that you just scared off. Better they should be looking at your site than surfing for porn, the anarchists cookbook, or jello recipies. (blog joke) 🙂
Daryl
If I were wanting to out people, I’d upload the logfiles showing the times and pages being accessed by Government of Canada computers. It’s huge, though. I mean HUGE. Thousands of hits over the past three weeks.
But, as doing that would provide info to supervisors, etc. obviously, I won’t.
As for the civil servants who have their noses out of joint – keep in mind that bloggers have been threatened with “contempt of court” charges over our coverage of Gomery testimony, and so some of us keep a very close eye on who is accessing our sites and what pages they’re peeking at.
Maybe the visitor from CIDA knows where the $425m for Sri-Lanka tsunami relief went. If he/she knows, then blog it here tonight from home. We’re kinda curious.
Or send me an email and I will.
Kate,
Don’t know about your logs, but the world wide interest is unbelievable. These scandals are really getting big time international attention. I guess when ya got the mob running a country, it makes for a good read.
Unfortunately it’s not the mob running the country – it’s a bunch of politician boobs. The mob is much more efficient and surprisingly, often provides value for the dollar.
You got a good point there Jay.
I don’t think Civie’s are the only slackasses out there. I believe most people rise to the standard set before them and it’s obvious from this government that they don’t have alot of good examples to follow. A few good whistleblowers never hurt anyone… and if they are skimming the blogs to get “info” for the Prime Moron then I hope they are enjoying the “positive” feedback…. lol.
I can tell you firsthand that there is a ton ton ton of waste going on in ALL levels… you would not believe some of the shit … here’s a good example… $35 paid by a gov’t dept. to have a repair person come and “plug in a video display unit because someone had unplugged it”. I’m not kidding you. That’s one of just at least 100 examples I could give you… and that’s just one small dept.
As the “tech” part of “CodeTech”, I can assure you that more than once I have been called to government offices for equally trivial purposes. And they never pay on time, either.
yup and of course not paying on time means paying more, this is the kind of whistle blowing I was talking about Kate. Not that I disagree with you in principle, of sticking the thumb into the eye of slackers on our bill, but these “slackers” aren’t neccisarily all slackers when they visit your blog, some of them are on a well deserved break after a fairly long shift at work. Whatever your opinion of just exactly what constitutes a hard day of work, I still say better they are at your blog, than skiving off in a thousand other ways.
Daryl
Daryl, I’m not sure you’re on the same page here.
I noticed over the last 2 years on my “other” blog that anything critical of the liberals got a large number of hits from government computers. One article even got a lookup of my domain name registration from gc.ca, which I pay a few extra $ to log.
I’m pretty interested in this kind of stuff, too, and it doesn’t surprise me that “we” are being monitored, whether it’s official or not. Freedom, in Canada, is only an illusion.
Whither the $425m? Well, as I’ve got enough problems of my own at work I haven’t followed all the innerworkings of the interministerial working group that was thrown together to deal with tsunami relief, but a lot of the problems can be boiled down to two things, neither of which would be surprising to anyone who follows this government even in passing: (a) the massive gov’t pledges were made without any idea of where the money would be coming from, ultimately leading to a scramble for new funds and reallocations from those already committed, leading to turf-fighting and some strained decision-making; and (b) massive amounts being committed without any firm plan on how they would be used, never mind logistics. This response is about ten times higher than any disaster response I’ve seen, and when you’re dealing with NGOs used to maybe $4 million responses tops, you throw even more $ at them and they just may not have the capacity to effectively use it. I suspect that is part of what’s going on here…
Codetech :
If “they” are monitoring you great, this is one more thing we ultimately can take “them” to task on. I didn’t really think that CSIS was restricted to the activities of the heritage front anyways. This is Canadian McCarthyism? So, tell me something I didn’t already know, If we are to take power in this country away from the Crimerals and all those who would house or feed them, we have got to bloody well act like we’ve got a pair, and a sensible option to graft and theft. That they are merely monitoring you as opposed to tossing you into a gulag, (very plausible here in Canada) is proof that we do still have some freedoms, but we must act fast to preserve those freedoms, and regain those freedoms we have lost. Sure the Crimerals probably do have office towers full of people watching internet activity in the interest of finding out who to target ideologically as evil bad conservative NAZIS. This, when they really ought not to have been ripping off the public, with their byzantine politics internationally and internally. While I am new to the blogosphere I am not new to the idea that I have been getting it in the rear my whole 36 years of life. And I don’t like it. Now I bloody well am not going to hide the fact that I don’t like it to anyone, to do less is without honor and as much beneath me as the actions of the Crimerals and those who would support them.
Daryl
And as a side note to big brother, your new assignment will be arriving in a matter of a few weeks so don’t even bother…
There are federal government employees who are as disgusted by the corruption in our country’s government as you are. Just because we work for the government, doesn’t mean we support it. We have families to support and pay taxes like everyone else and some of us are taking big risks reading the blogs because we could very likely lose our jobs over it. Would that make you happy? Since it is our organization’s mandate to serve business, we are actually encouraged to read articles, reports and newspapers to keep abreast of current trends in business, the marketplace and the world. Now I confess they don’t encourage us to read the blogs, but since I am Conservative-minded, I sometimes wander into the blogs for a “Guess what?” conservative perspective. There are so few Conservatives in government, you should be welcoming them, not trying to rat them out. I have a lot of respect for you and your writing which I have promoted to family and friends. Is the Conservative agenda so narrow that it can’t possibly include a government employee? Or maybe the CPC has enough votes and doesn’t need the likes of us. Or maybe, your just paranoid?! Personally, I think the Conservative party can use all the help they can get. So instead of slamming government workers, try enlightening and encouraging them by including them positively. We are, for the most part, just ordinary people trying to get by and who care deeply about our country and where it is heading.
Government Employee and Proud of It