The Times article said regarding Usenet,

The existence of fake postings on the two public bulletin boards, rec.games.chess.politics and rec.games.chess.misc, in the name of Mr. Sloan and others had been suspected for some time. But the identity of the impersonator or impersonators has not been revealed. Both bulletin boards are sponsored by Google.

rec.games.chess.politics and rec.games.chess.misc are not “bulletin boards”; they are Usenet newsgroups. They are not sponsored by Google. Would you agree that this part of the Times article was imprecise and inaccurate?

The article on the Times said regarding you,

David Ulevitch, founder and chief executive of OpenDNS, which provides Internet domain name services, said that impersonating someone on the Internet “happens a lot.”

Asked about Mr. Truong’s contention that he could have been framed, Mr. Ulevitch said, “It has been known to happen that someone has impersonated someone else impersonating someone else.”

I will update my blog post above to make it clear that it was you who was referenced by the Times as “founder and chief executive of OpenDNS”.

When you were interviewed for the article, did that interviewer specify that the issue was based on numeric IP addresses and User Agent strings allegedly appearing in the server logs and not upon domain names? Would you agree that spoofing a numeric address is different from spoofing a domain name? Particularly when it comes to > 2400 allegedly fake posts over 18 months apparently from multiple IP addresses?

–scanlyze

Also, the author doesn’t say that Google invented Usenet, just that postings came via google groups, which for most people these days, is the only way they know of usenet.

Anyways, I should have remembered that this is called sock-puppetry. I had heard that term before, but forgot. :-)

-david