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Olá de novo<div><br></div><div>Como eu imaginava, tudo indica que a página do Dr. Dabic é aquilo a que se chama usualmente um embuste (ou 'hoax', como preferirem). Ainda assim é um belo embuste (e, provavelmente, o site draganbic.com é apenas uma parte de um embuste maior). É tudo tão simples -- e foi tão rapidamente divulgado pela net -- que acaba por demonstrar, entre outras coisas, como uma ficção pode alimentar os media...</div><div>O post da Nettime que reenvio em baixo pode pode ajudar a esclarecer as coisas (Este t byfield foi mesmo um dos responsáveis pela circulação da informação na internet).</div><div>Repare-se na suposta data de registo do site, que alguém se deu ao trabalho de ir investigar:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Domain Name: DRAGANDABIC.COM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Registrar: ENOM, INC.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Whois Server: whois.enom.com</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Referral URL: <a href="http://www.enom.com">http://www.enom.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Name Server: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Name Server: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Name Server: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Status: clientTransferProhibited</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Updated Date: 22-jul-2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Creation Date: 22-jul-2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Expiration Date: 22-jul-2009</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ab</div><div><br></div><div>ml</div><div><br></div><div>________________</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:tbyfield@panix.com">tbyfield@panix.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: <nettime> Karadzic's website digest [x3: Spaink, Wilson, Young]</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 24, 2008 9:49:29 PM GMT+01:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Resent-To: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org">nettime-l@kein.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org">nettime-l@kein.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">It's good to see the diligence that's gone into 'debunking' the Dabic site,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">but it isn't clear why anyone would assume the site was "real" -- or what</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">that would mean. That the HTML was hand-tweaked by a war criminal? Exciting</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">maybe, but sort of beside the point.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Anyone who grabbed (or wants to grab) the .zip archive I posted will find</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">an extra file that wasn't in the website's file structure -- a text file of</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">whois output for the domain. Since all the registration data is anonymized,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">the record is interesting for one, and only one, thing: the registration</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">date. There's a reason I included it, and there's a reason (several,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">actually) that I didn't advertise my skepticism about the site -- beyond</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">noting that archive.org had never heard of it. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">It's unfortunately that subsequent ~discussion got sucked directly into a</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">real!/fake! dichotomy, which isn't very well suited to navigating the</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">wilderness of mirrors that is Serbian politics -- especially in the context</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">of a public charade like the government trading the declining utility of a</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">war criminal for the inclining utility of EU membership.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">OK, let's go through this. The question isn't whether the site is a hoax --</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">of course it is -- but, rather *whose* hoax?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The chronology so satisfying (I guess) to debunkers has to go something</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">like this: after the arrest, some wag on the internet (1) registered the</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">.com domain for his pseudonym, (2) hunted down remarkably high-res candid</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">snapshots of an obscure Serbian new ager, (3) copied facts and/or text</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">about him from sites that don't actually mention him (and hadn't yet been</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">reported), (4) translated them in order to make the site seem more</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">'credible,' and (5) sorted out hosting details etc. And all of this went so</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">quickly that the DNS entry for the brand-new domain propagated in time for</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">the site to make it into the next news cycle around the world.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The droll facts (domain registration, hosting) are hardly in dispute, but</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">the interesting issues get paved over in the zeal to show that someone's</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">been duped. Where did the images and bio factoids come from? The debunkers</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">assume (I guess) that the Dabic site laundered images available elsewhere,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">but the chronology makes much more sense if you assume the opposite -- that</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">the media laundered images first distributed through the Dabic site. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">I did quite a bit of searching and certainly saw some of these images on</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">the Dabic site first; only later did they appear in mainstram outlets with</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">the laughable credits to "AP" and "AFP/Getty Images." </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">(Hey, and where did AFP get this one?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"><a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23519567-details/Beast+of+Bosnia%27s+secret+life+revealed:+Karadzic+had+a+mistress+and+drank+red+wine+in+The+Madhouse+bar/article.do">http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23519567-details/Beast+of+Bosnia%27s+secret+life+revealed:+Karadzic+had+a+mistress+and+drank+red+wine+in+The+Madhouse+bar/article.do</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">It's in a series with one of the photos on the Dabic site, but aside from</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">that its provenance is unknown.)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">It's good to be leery of post hoc ergo propter hoc arguments, but I'd be</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">equally leery -- moreso, even -- of assuming that the Serbian government</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">completely overlooked how to spin Karadzic's arrest. By which I mean: how</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">to establish a seemingly credible story. It's one thing to merely say that</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">he was hiding in plain sight, but how much more effective to *show* it:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">here's his website (two, actually, the "fake" one and the "real" one --</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">says who? AP! -- registered just a few months before), here's a parade of</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">people duly swearing that if they passed him on the street they'd have NO</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">IDEA who he was, here's the bar where -- it's strongly suggested -- that </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">everyone had a very good idea who he was, etc, etc. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">The official story is awfully hard to swallow: one of the most recognizable</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">people in the region grows a beard and kooky haircut, and suddenly no one</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">-- not even the his far-rightist neighbors -- recognizes him: not his</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">voice, not his mannerisms, not his posture. Pick your favorite political</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">bogey (Bush or Cheney in the US, for example): a beard would totally throw</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">you, right? </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">When reports surfaced that foreign intelligence agencies (US and UK at</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">least) were involved in tracking Karadzic down, the Serbian authorities --</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">which had insisted for years they had no idea where he was -- were quick to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">retort that they hadn't needed any help because "his whereabouts have been</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">known for some time." No doubt. His arrest has been in the works for a long</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">time now, and, like his hiding, many aspects of it were a hoax. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">DNS doesn't lie, but nor does it exactly tell the truth.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Monaco; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">Cheers,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">T</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco">-- </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Monaco"><a href="http://b1ff.org">http://b1ff.org</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></body></html>