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What happens after a banned user is detected?

The Smack Down:
When a banned user is detected they are shown a brief message window informing them that they are not permitted to view this website and are summarily disconnected from our site within 1.5 seconds. I have coined this process as being a "Smack Down". I have a right to Smack-a-Bruver down because this site is privately owned and operated with private funds...my private funds to be exact. And my private funds pay for the bandwidth used when a page is merely displayed in a users browser, therefore I can choose to display (or to not display) my site to whomever I fucking choose. 

NARC Stopper then appends a "Smacked Down" connection attempt as part of the banned users reflection data. But many users are persistent and will repeatedly attempt to reconnect to the site. Each attempt will result in a Smack Down, and when NARC Stopper detects any banned reflection signature for the fifth time in a specified period (currently 365 days), it then becomes more aggressive with the offending user.

Increased Aggression:
On the 5th attempt, before disconnecting the offending user, it initiates a brute force (loosely based on active-X) control which initiates an entry to the users Windows HOSTS file, entering a numeric IP address entry of (Local Host) 127.0.0.1 for the IP address of marijuana-jokes.com. If an entry already exists, it is overwritten. This basically points future requests from their browser right back to their own PC and not our server. 

After NARC Stopper has completed it's task on a banned user, and this user attempts to access our site in the future, the "Smacked Down" users browser will automatically be directed to the erroneous IP address (Local Machine 127.0.0.1) stored in their Windows HOSTS file and receive a "Cannot Find Server" error message in their browser. Our site will literally be unreachable from ANY browser on the computer, either currently installed or new installs. Nothing short of hand editing of the Windows HOSTS file will allow reconnection to our site from that computer. And even if the user makes this change and returns to our site, NARC Stopper will give their narc-ass yet another Smack Down, alter their Hosts file once again and promptly boot them in just over a second. And it can do this all fucking day and night of they want to keep trying.

A note about the Windows HOSTS file: 
The HOSTS  file is simply a text database of frequently visited websites' numerical IP addresses. When this file is populated with IP #'s the browser does not have to first access a DNS (Domain Name Server) server to retrieve a given www.dot.com's numerical IP address since it is already on the users machine and this process is much faster. This can sometimes speed up surfing, but the file must be constantly updated with new IP addresses changes or websites may appear "not available" or "cannot find server" when requested by the browser. And this is exactly what we want. If no numerical address exists, the browser defaults to doing a fresh DNS look-up for each and every website you wish to visit like normal. However, if an IP number exists in the HOSTS file, the browser attempts to connect to this IP number without first verifying it's correctness through a DNS lookup, which is the whole advantage and purpose of using the HOSTS file. NARC Stopper could put any IP number in there I wanted it to, ( a hard-core gay porn site would be funny), but I just choose to refer it back to the local machine address (their own PC) so they get a quick "cannot find server" error and think we're down or off the air, when in actuality we still live and puffin' it up like usual.

What other technologies are used in NARC Stopper?

Flood Gate technology:
NARC Stopper achieves it's quick response time by incorporating "Flood Gate" technology, which is a sub-software I've developed specifically for NARC Stopper. Upon NARC Stopper's detection of a banned users fifth connection attempt, Flood Gate will allow the NARC Stopper application to seize and use 100% of the users bandwidth to quickly accomplish the Windows Host file changes without detection or chance of intervention by the user. All other bandwidth usage such as uploads, downloads, mail fetching, FTP, HTTP, IRC and the like will be immediately halted and channeled to the NARC Stopper application. I regret that further details of Flood Gate's operation cannot be discussed here. 
 

Flechette Technology:
With the advent of corporate and personal firewalling software, Flood Gate employs a sub technology aptly named "Flechette" which in testing has pierced through every currently available firewall software product with a 100% success rate. Without giving any further details, this technology simply relies upon sheer speed to penetrate systems similar to a pitcher's fast ball going past a batter for a strike. All PC firewalls use some form of software to operate. And just like any other software on a computer, when it gets overwhelmed (can't keep up with Flechette), it can lock up. And if it locks up, it ceases to operate properly/effectively. I regret that further details of Flechette's operation cannot be discussed here.
 
 

More about EMR interpretation:

EMR interpretation technology is not new. Equipment has long been in existence that will allow someone  (i.e. the NSA) to remotely capture this errant monitor EMR and reassemble it to recreate the image displayed on the targets monitor screen from up to several blocks away. But this is not what NARC Stopper does. It does not see, nor read what is displayed on a monitor screen, it only interprets the leaked EMR from individual pixel fluctuations caused by a users presence which it then measures and interprets to form a reflection signature. 

What hardware does NARC Stopper employ?

NARC Stopper is a very CPU intensive system, yet it's relative operations perform extremely fast when coupled with sufficient hardware. NARC Stopper could probably operate effectively from a single 1.5Ghz CPU, but I desired a high level of reliability, redundancy and a generous resources buffer. Therefore, I have installed quad 1.8Ghz Pentium4 processors with over 4Gb of RAM dedicated to processing the server side software. 

Virtual testing has indicated that this arrangement should be reliable and efficient for up to 500k-600k hits/day. Therefore you should see absolutely no noticeable difference with the operation of the site or page load times etc. In the unfortunate event of a total failure or lock-up of the NARC Stopper system, data and page requests will automatically be routed as normal, bypassing the NARC Stopper System entirely.

However, I'd like to note that during testing I did run into complete system lock-up when a test user (who was purposely banned by default for this particular test) connected to the test site from 3 different PC's/connections simultaneously. We used a 56k dial-up, a DSL, and a friends borrowed satellite system, all in the same room. Each and every time we could reproduce the exact same results with the system hanging then defaulting to standard protocol. Although this scenario is highly unlikely under normal usage, we have still to figure out what caused the error. We spent a few days on the problem to no avail, then decided to move onto other areas of debugging, since the likelihood of this specific event was very remote. Yet it still baffles me just the same.

In the event of processor overloading, NARC Stopper will first default to processing every other request (hit) in an attempt to achieve a default efficiency of 70% resources free. If the 70% percent cannot be maintained, it then defaults to processing every 3rd hit, and so forth and so on all the way down to total shut-down, always maintaining the targeted 70% resources free default. This will ensure that no interruptions or delay of any site operations occur whatsoever and that the software will operate transparently as with any other website. This level of efficiency is needed since the site has to first be up and running, to have some punk-ass narc to stop or it defeats the whole fucking purpose, if you know what I'm saying.

Is NARC Stopper available for license and use on other websites?

Yes and No. A full license is not available at this time. However, until we can release the full public version of NARC Stopper, we are seeking to test it even further on other websites (see below). Once further beta testing is concluded and future planned developments, debugging and features are incorporated into the software, it will be made available for retail distribution to the general public. I hope to have this completed within 6-8 months.

How much will NARC Stopper cost?

An exact pricing structure for NARC Stopper has not been worked out yet. But for a ballpark figure, we hope to introduce the software itself at under $180.00. Software and hardware packages should vary from $900-$1700, depending on the scale of your system, and professional installation will also be available at a very resonable price if needed. We intend it to be a very reasonably priced system to implement and maintain by using only brand name, off-the-shelf hardware components. NARC Stopper's potential benefits, security and piece of mind will far outweigh it's costs. In addition, ALL counterculture genre websites will recieve a 25% discount off of NARC Stopper's yet-to-be-determined final retail price.
 
 

Are you interested in participating in the beta testing of NARC Stopper?

Is Your Site Protected?

We are seeking small to medium sized websites of a similar counterculture genre as marijuana-jokes.com who would like to participate in the free beta testing of this product. We will implement the latest and fully-stable version of the NARC Stopper system on your site free of charge in exchange for a brief monthly feedback questionnaire and the use of automatically generated system performance data and bug reports from your website. 

Benefits for participating beta test sites:

• No changes to your existing website structure will be necessary.
• A simple copy-and-paste snippet of code placed on your webpage is all that is required to get NARC Stopper immediately employed on your site!
• Absolutely no processes will be required to run on your server. All NARC Stopper processes will be mirrored from our main system here (one of the reasons I've sized it's hardware with ample resources).
• Your site will be able to utilize the NARC Stopper system without any effect whatsoever on your current website operations.
• You will have complete, password protected and confidential access to your own default Smack Down (banned known users) list where you may add and delete banned users at your discretion. We will not reproduce, nor access your reflection signature data in any way. We have no use for this information whatsoever. We are interested only in the systems performance data and automatically generated bug reports, so that we may further improve NARC Stopper for final release.
• Once beta testing is completed, participating beta test sites will receive a 50% discount on the final retail release of NARC Stopper if they desire to purchase it at that time. Otherwise, there is no further obligation.

• Update: We can now function with sites hosted by free hosting providers.
• Update: Your own domain name is not required. Virtual domains on free hosts are now welcome to participate!
• You must be the owner and/or authorized webmaster of the site submitted for beta testing.
• Your site must be of the counterculture genre.
• Your site must receive less than 60,000 hits/day (so our system resources do not become overloaded).

Ready to see an example of NARC Stopper in action?

What you're about to see:
We are about to show you some actual reflection signatures processed by NARC Stopper.
We are attempting to show you the closest representation of what NARC Stopper actually "sees" after it processes a reflection signature. But since the system "sees" by translating raw data in complex algorithms, it does not create nor look at an actual graphical image. So, for the purposes of this demonstration only, I have written in an additional and rather complex subroutine that will allow NARC Stopper to translate and process a raw reflection signature into a "human readable" (graphical) form. Therefore, the resulting "images" are not digital images, but are the closest approximation of what NARC Stopper is actually "seeing" when it reads a reflection signature. 

Since the re-processing of reflection signature data to generate a human readable image is still very CPU and resource intensive (about 5x more than merely processing reflection data), NARC Stopper is set to graphically process and display a totally random reflection image from recently processed reflection signatures. You may see banned and non-banned signatures in these examples.These reflection signatures are used for demonstration purposes only and are then discarded, unless a match is made. Therefore it is highly unlikely that you will see your own reflection signature (image) in these examples-even if you were on our site for many hours. We simply get far too many hits/hr for the likelihood of this to happen, so please do not keep reclicking this link in hopes of doing so.

While we very much want to show you these graphical representations so that you may get a feel for exactly what this revolutionary system does, if for some reason this demonstration should prove to be overly taxing on the NARC Stopper system resources, it will be discontinued to prevent resource allocation problems.
 
 

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Links to related subjects:

• http://www.kirlian.net/
  Information about Kirlian Photography, and the body's natural electromagnetic field. This site also has some really cool looking Kirlian Photos.
• http://rr.sans.org/encryption/TEMPEST.php
  Learn more about the TEMPEST surveillance technology being used by intelligence agencies.
• http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/faq.html
  Find out more about project Echelon, the gubment's mass surveillance system. Also has other surveillance related material for an interesting read.