A Fake Hack Followed by Postscript Therapy
After an apparently faked hack of his own site last Friday night, LittleGeneva.com's Harry Seabrook bid “farewell” to his online presence with a final posting on Sunday labeled “Postscript,” which soon featured many warm notes in the comments thread from Harry's loyal fans.
But now, Harry's time of internet therapy is over. His fan club will have to go somewhere else than LittleGeneva.com to thank him for his years-long contribution to the white separatist cause. Last night, Harry took off LittleGeneva.com all the comments along with his Hacker “X” “Postscript.” Now, visitors to LittleGeneva.com will find that the once-colorful site with its banner of Reformed patriarchs is now nothing but a plain white page.
Please Don't “Cache” Me, Because My Paycheck Will Bounce!
But this action by Seabrook is more significant than it at first appears. He isn't just taking Little Geneva completely offline—he's trying to obliterate any cached record of its existence.
Normally, when a site goes down, the administrator pulls all the files, and visitors to the site get one of those famous “404: Page not found” errors. But by leaving up a blank page with the right meta tags, search engines like Google will still find the site “active” and will remove their cached pages from public view. In short, this action by Seabrook clearly demonstrates that he wants all the evidence of his race-baiting antics gone from the internet. Seabrook is seeking to flush the record of Little Geneva.com down the worldwide web memory hole.
Further proof can be seen when you view the actual HTML code on the page:
This screen capture shows that the only thing on the site is an instruction (the “ROBOTS" tag) to search engines (and archive services like Archive.org) to not archive this site: “NOARCHIVE.”
Oh, to have the courage of one's convictions!
Update: Looks like the once-brash Harry Seabrook has exercised Google's "Automatic URL Removal Service" to force an immediate purge of the Google cache for Little Geneva, breaking all our links to our illustrations of his vile site. Harry has also requested the Wayback Machine to block access to their cache of Little Geneva. We'll be working hard to put up mirrored pages. Obviously, Harry isn't familiar with just how badly his spoliation damages his cause.
"Omnia praesumuntur contra spoliatorem."
