Sunday, March 30, 2008

How many different users used 66.185.84.204 to visit northern sites in 2002-2003?

ArcticCircle.ca is a web-host and central hub for a variety of northern communities. It has some great photo-albums and attracts a fair bit of traffic from across the country.

Included in its traffic are numerous visits from the mysterious Rogers IP, 66.185.84.204. Indeed, within its logs are 32 separate visits from that IP between January 2002 and April 2003. The logs preserve date, time, site visited, and details about the operating-system and browser of the visitor.

Here are the 32 visits by 66.185.84.204, in chronological order, together with the logged data.

no. date config log
1 20-Jan-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) here
2 23-Jan-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) here
3 31-Jan-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) here
4 03-Feb-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) here
5 28-Feb-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461) here
6 03-Mar-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98) here
7 11-Apr-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Hotbar 3.0) here
8 11-Apr-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; AtHome0107) here
9 25-Apr-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)(R1 1.1) here
10 01-May-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) here
11 02-May-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) here
12 23-May-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) here
13 26-May-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt; AtHome0107) here
14 07-Jun-02 Mozilla/4.78 [en] (Win98; U) here
15 10-Jun-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; MSOCD; AtHome021SI) here
16 17-Jun-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) here
17 20-Jun-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; H010818; Rogers Hi-Speed Internet) here
18 24-Jun-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) here
19 13-Oct-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Q312461; MSOCD; AtHome021SI; YComp 5.0.0.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) here
20 30-Oct-02 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; AtHome0107) here
21 06-Jan-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98) here
22 06-Jan-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98) here
23 11-Jan-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) here
24 02-Feb-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Rogers Hi-Speed Internet) here
25 16-Feb-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; MSOCD; AtHome021SI; (R1 1.1)) here
26 26-Feb-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) here
27 01-Mar-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461; YComp 5.0.2.5) here
28 05-Apr-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.16; Mac_PowerPC) here
29 18-Apr-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Rogers Hi-Speed Internet) here
30 21-Apr-03 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Rogers Hi-Speed Internet) here
These are obviously not all the same individual, though some of these are return visitors. Here are the easier identifications:
  • 1 =2 =3 =4 =11 =12
  • 5 = 29?
  • 6 = 21 =22
  • 7 = 15?
  • 8 (= 20?)
  • 9 = 13?
  • 10 = 17? = 19?
  • 14
  • 16 ?= 23 = 26 29
  • 18 = 20
  • 24 = 30
  • 25
  • 28
A few of these, too, might also be the same individual using a different computer via a wireless network, etc.

But one way or another it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that up to a dozen different individuals visited one of the sites at ArcticCircle.ca using the same IP address.

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