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On a related note, I wonder if there are/were common patterns in the sting sites set up by Dept. of Homeland Security, such as U of Northern New Jersey [0] and
by danso 7y ago
On a related note, I wonder if there are/were common patterns in the sting sites set up by Dept. of Homeland Security, such as U of Northern New Jersey [0] and U of Farmington [1]. Both of those were initiated during the Obama administration and featured fairly nice modern designs, similar in aesthetic to much of the Obama-era digital overhauls (though a quick skim shows that they don't share similar CSS naming semantics).
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/students-at-fake-university-say-they-were-collateral-damage-in-sting-operation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/students-at-fake...
https://web.archive.org/web/20160327093120/http://unnj.edu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160327093120/http://unnj.edu/
[1] https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/ https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/i...
https://web.archive.org/web/20180414235355/http://universityoffarmington.edu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180414235355/http://university...
http://archive.is/qLrUi http://archive.is/qLrUi
- jcrawfordor 7y agoOn brief review, one (UNNJ) is running WordPress while the other (Farmington) doesn't show any evidence of a dynamic CMS. That suggests to me totally separate provenance. My guess would be that two different contracts were awarded to two different companies to build the websites, which would both be consistent with common federal contracting behavior and a good idea from an OPSEC perspective since it would minimize any similarity in these "sting" websites.