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#RoboCon - Cold Poutine? Or are things just starting to heat up?

So the latest buzz on the Poutine trail is that Elections Canada served freeproxyserver.ca with production orders for their logs. Marc Norris, the admin of freeproxyserver.ca complied with the order, but unfortunately his server log records do not go back that far. This is quite understandable since the amount of data that proxy server generates in day can be very large, and in order to store a years worth of log data could require terabytes of storage, and then additional space for the backups. Given that freeproxyserver.ca is a free service I can’t blame him for spending the additional money.

Now the real interesting thing that wasn’t mentioned in most stories is the fact that both Prescott and Poutine used freeproxyserver.ca to connect to the Rack-9 Servers.  From the Montreal Gazette we have this report Pierre Poutine’s trail goes cold in Saskatchewan

The suspect logged onto RackNine using the same IP address used to access an account with RackNine held by Andrew Prescott, a worker on the campaign of Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke. Both Poutine and Prescott’s account were also accessed through freeproxyserver.ca, Elections Canada says.

Now I fully understand why Pierre Poutine need to use a Proxy Server to connect to Rak-9, but why the hell did Andrew Prescott need to use a proxy server to do legitimate work for the Burke Campaign with Rack-9?   When you consider all the thousands of free proxy servers that are available in Canada and across the world, what are the chances that Poutine and Prescott would both use the same one?  Ya, that line that Prescott is using the he “categorically” denies he is Pierre Poutine getting a little stale.

COMING UP NEXT - Nailing Down Poutine’s Time Line and other interesting coincidences between Poutine and the Burke Campaign.


7 Responses to “#RoboCon - Cold Poutine? Or are things just starting to heat up?”

  • [...] would an anonymizing service, the same one Pierre Poutine used, out of hundreds in the world, also be used by Andrew Prescott’s legitimate, password protected, RackNine account?” It’s like wondering this: Mystery Person B, drives a blue snowplane to a bank robbery, [...]

  • Yep, I wondered the exact same thing. Busted, is what we’d say if Prescott were an Internet troll caught coming through the same proxy as another identified ID. Sock Puppet Poutine has been outed with that revelation. The odds are simply not in his favour anymore. The lack of specific logs at the proxy are moot really, it’s the circumstances of it, basically as good as a fingerprint (but not DNA).

    • Things are going to get a lot more interesting with my next article.  The Poutine, Prescott and Burke links are becoming even stronger.  I have some required background research to do to confirm some of my hunches first.  Some of it might be smoking gun evidence, but I need to verify a few things first.

      You think Brian might be willing to share his data, fresh set of eyes and all that good stuff.  I know he doesn’t know me, but you seem to have had some back and forth with him.

  • [...] A Quick Bow Posted at 7:25 on May 10, 2012 by saskboy Here’s where Zorpheus and I take a quick bow to imaginary applause. Postmedia is confirming our suspicion that Poutine [...]

  • [...] A Quick Bow Posted at 7:30 on May 10, 2012 by saskboy Here’s where Zorpheus and I take a quick bow to imaginary applause. Postmedia is confirming our suspicion that Poutine [...]

  • [...] A Quick Bow Posted on May 11, 2012 by saskboy Here’s where Zorpheus and I take a quick bow to imaginary applause. Postmedia is confirming our suspicion that Poutine [...]

  • [...] where Zorpheus and I take a quick bow to imaginary applause. Postmedia is confirming our suspicion that Poutine [...]