= Backlinks
Initial announcements by self on 2023-06-10:
* https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1667532991315230720[]. Follow up when more domains were found: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1717445686214504830
* https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/comments/146185r/i_found_16_new_cia_covert_communication_websites/[]. Marked as SPAM 5 by mods days later. After reaching 92 votes, a very positive reply for that niche sub, and being obviously on topic. Weird. Anyways, did its job and likely kicked off hackernews.
* https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/pfbid04KvRbEXghJakcD4AQz4379L5oVjPZ6vrBF1Eak3p81VnqRSXuXdvvYonCWPhGfQXl
Shared by others soo after:
* 2023-06-11:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279375\#36280220[] (212 points). Shame that this was published when we only had about 20 websites. As of writing we had 240. Might have been a greater hit then.
* <Google Analytics> backlink from https://lms.fh-wedel.de/[] path unknown. Some shitty German university: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachhochschule_Wedel_University_of_Applied_Sciences LMS stands for <Learning management system>, apparently a <Moodle> instance. Maybe they have some <Open educational resources>, but all in <German (language)> so pointless
* https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/14705gp/cia_2010_covert_communication_websites/ failed attempt with bad link unfortunately
* a few days later:
* 2023-06-19 https://www.reddit.com/r/numberstations/comments/14dexiu/after_numbers_stations_vanished/ (30 points) off topic on that sub, but thankfully was not deleted, interesting sub topic
2023-10-26 https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1717445686214504830[]: announcement by self after finding 75 more sites
Second wave:
* 2023-12-01: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492304[] (65 points). Second submission but pointing to <OurBigBook.com> rather than cirosantilli.com: https://ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites We take those. Reached only 65 points as of January 2024.
* 2023-12-02: https://buttondown.email/grugq/archive/december-2-2023/[]. "grugq" is the handle of a zero day dealer whose received some scrutiny in 2012 after a Forbes protile was written about him: https://archive.ph/7mUG5[]. He comments:
\Q[I don’t think anyone anticipated that databases leaked by hackers would enable OSINT researchers to conduct counterintelligence investigations that rival the state security services.]
presumably referring to <DNS Census 2013>.
Some more:
* 2024-01-12: https://twitter.com/jeremy_wokka/status/1745657801584656564 (40k followers, mid of thread)
* 2024-01-15: <Oleg Shakirov's findings>, publication announced by <Ciro Santilli> at: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1747742453778559165[] two days later
* 2024-01-23: <ipinf.ru> gives 4 hits and 4 new suspects, announced at: https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/111807480628392615
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