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It is not simply cybersquatting.

"Universe Daily" is the spammer/porn-spammer/hacker and all-around internet thug Wayne Smith AKA ProjectOrion, PO, NuclearSpace, etc.

This is his Global Banning from the entire ezBoard network:

http://p216.ezboard.com/uprojectorion.bannedPage

Dr. Zubrin, you have unfortunately somehow pissed him off and he will begin his usual malignant abusive campaign against you.

He will begin impersonating you around the web with that phony link in his postings.

As he implies in his posts above, he is on first-name basis with you. This is Wayne at another board:

" The Mars Society interviewed me last year for their radio show. I've written articles for SpaceDaily.com and other magazines. I've discussed Orion with the likes of Robert Zubrin and Jerry Pournelle. I'm doing all I can but I'm only one man. It's important to stamp out ignorance too. I know I can't persuade you that Orion makes sense as you are obviously too proud to admit being wrong."

At another forum, Wayne is "Nuclearspace" at the beginning post, and at the end post he is pretending to be the science fact and fiction writer Dr. Jerry Pournelle with links going back to his hacker sites:

http://www.netalive.org/topics/2312?find=2312#2312

Wayne will variously link back to one of his websites (where he is rather revealingly using the handle "sock puppet") or to a phish site that will trap users's passwords, or to a porn site. He rotates between various targets.

As he has done to people like Phil Plait, the famous Bad Astronomer, he will begin corrupting your entry in the Wikipedia.

Here is where Wayne Smith (ProjectOrion or PO) is using the New Mars Forum to attack Phil Plait:

http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic … 0144#80144

Another of Wayne's targets is Fraser Cain, of the excellent Universe Today website and forum:
http://www.universetoday.com/

Here Wayne (as the user "Universe Today" and with a bogus link) is using the New Mars forum to subvert Cain's site:

http://www.newmars.com/forums/search.ph … ults=posts

Wayne has a buttload of bogus IDs at New Mars designed to damage his enemies. It is one of the few sites that allow him to post. Most boards block him and his IP addresses.

Many people have learned that ignoring him is the worst thing to do. I advise contacting Australian authorities, and getting your lawyer on him.

A nice overview of some of Wayne Smith's malicious nonsense:

http://www.everything-science.com/index … 5#msg54725

yale

Having security software installed is definitely a very good thing.

It is important to understand ~why~ he puts these links out.

a)  The first is to trick people into unknowingly coming to his site where they will join his crusade to actually launch an atomic-bomb rocket. (That is his fantasy life obsession that controls all his actions)

b)  The second is to cause grievious harm to his enemies. Enemies include anyone who he thinks has endangered or impeded his construction of this spacecraft by disagreeing with him in any way or not allowing him to make every message boards devote all threads to the subject.

The main risk you face clicking on any of Wayne's links are 3-fold.

1) he will sometimes aim his re-directs at  porno sites (which are infested with spyware) or other nasty locations in order to defame a legit site like Bad Astronomy or Everything Science. Think of all the children who have clicked on his links and been directed to a pervert site.

2) He creates a "phish" site looking like the original. When you log in, he now has your user ID and password (which you likely use at other sites, too)

3) If it redirects to one of his own ProjectOrion sites and you foolishly become a member, he again has your ID, password, email address, etc.

So... be careful out there!

If you want I can post a list of some of Wayne's 'doppleganger" clone sites.

However, the mods here prefer to not have this non-New Mars subject matter waste space.

Only if they want more about this will I continue this thread.

Sorry to continue this, but Wayne has just booby-trapped the link in his post.

DO NOT click on the link in Project Orion's (Wayne Smith) post!

He has spammed the phony "Sale of bad astronomy website"  all over the net.

He did this because Phil Plait banned him.

As predicted, Wayne the hacker has now re-directed the link to his hacker/spam site "projectorion.com"

If you wish to protect your personal data and the integrity of your computer - DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK!

BE CAREFUL!

The message board at space.com deleted the thread and banned his sockpuppet ID (for the 100th time) as did Universe Today and others.

If you see ANY links in any posts by Wayne Smith or any variant of ProjectOrion or Nuclearspace DO NOT click them. Please warn the moderators at any site he may be spamming.

"Project Orion" is Wayne Smith, a seriously wacked out rent-a-cop and part-time bar bouncer from Australia.

This is his profile:
http://www.newmars.com/forums/profile.p … ile&u=1072

Any board that does not commit itself to discussing how to promote the use of Project Orion atomic-bomb powered spaceships he must destroy.

He has hacked and crashed message boards and spammed and filled with porno any board he cannot hack.

He always ends up banned and then retaliates with a range of stupid script-kiddy stunts to cripple his "enemy".

Wayne, after acting like a thug at the excellent "Bad Astronomy" board, was banned. The REAL address is badastronomy.com

Wayne, as he has done numerous times in the past, bought a similar sounding domain: badastronomer.com

This is the public domain Internet WHOIS record: (notice that it is NOT Hoagland)

===================================
Domain Name: BADASTRONOMER.COM
Registrar: Spot Domain LLC

Expiration Date: 2005-12-14 01:00:59
Creation Date: 2004-12-13 23:01:57

REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO

Wayne Smith
Poste Restante
GPO
Brisbane, QLD  4000
AU
Phone: 33959876
Phone Code: 61 Australia
Fax:
Email Address: cosmic_disturbance@yahoo.com
======================================

He then uses that to set up "phishing" sites to trap the unwary, or in this case, to re-direct people to other sites, porno sites, or his own pathetic web pages in order to harm the real web site.

This is the HTML re-direct script that Wayne Projectorion Smith uses if you go to his phony badastronomer.com link:

===================================================
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Bad Astronomer</title>
<META name ="keywords" content="bad astronomer, Phil Plait, astronomy">
<META name ="description" content="Phil Plait's bad astronomy"><meta HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<frameset border=0 rows="100%,*" noresize>
<frame marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0 name="TOPFRAME" src="http://www.rael.org/"
noresize>
</frameset>
</html>
=============================================

See the re-direct to hoagland's "http://www.rael.org/" ?

Wayne will change that to different porno sites, pseudoscience sites, or back to his own silly board.

What a complete loozer! 

Didn't you discuss the founding of the Mars Society when you dialoged with Robert Zubrin?:

" I've discussed Orion with the likes of Robert Zubrin and Jerry Pournelle"

In any event, here is a brief history and the founding declaration:

http://www.marssociety.org/about/foundi … ration.asp

http://www.spacefuture.com/lists/sf-dis … 00013.html
http://www.univelt.com/events/fcms98/]h … ts/fcms98/

http://www.newmars.com/archives/000069. … 0069.shtml

http://www.marssociety.org/convention/1 … tion98.asp

Update 2022/07/14 All links above show as no longer working (per Moderator test)