Posted on 04/25/2021 11:36:57 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in.
A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world´s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.
That real estate has since more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses - about 4 percent the size of the entire current internet. It's also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.
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'It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet,' said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network operating company.
The sell off of Internet space sparked theories the Pentagon could be eventually responding to repeated demands to monitise its collections of millions of dormant web pages.
But it now seems officials hope to place the pages on the open market in order to allow them to gather huge amounts of intelligence data about Internet users, including hostile actors.
The military hopes to 'assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,' said a statement issued Friday by Brett Goldstein, chief of the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service, which is running the project.
But it has not answered many basic questions, beginning with why it chose to entrust management of the address space to a company that seems not to have existed until September.
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“What is the “17th letter” ????”
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Shhhh, saying that letter out here beyond the trees causes heart palpitations and rending of garments.
It’s hard to get a figure for how many aliens much less illegal aliens work within our gubamint.
The grays used to rule but the reptilians&minions have certainly emerged into the light of day the last few administrations as well.
If the universe is a hologram as some experts might propose, then how many dimensions are there really?
I know there’s only one twilight zone, we live in it every day. What’s your IP address worth *-?
sounds just like what the CIA would be doing.
“What is the “17th letter” ????”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shhhh, saying that letter out here beyond the trees causes heart palpitations and rending of garments.
———here’s a clue , the 13th letter is M
She's a Ferengi.
“entrust management of the address space to a company that seems not to have existed until September.”
Paging Hunter Biden”.
4 billion dollars! LOL!! They misplace that much and more in any given year.
Ping
Did the Big Guy get his cut?
Seriously? Try going over your alphabet. Hope you can figure it out.
This would have made some sense back when we first were having a really serious IP crunch. A /8 subnet is 16,777,216 addressable IP addresses. If the government actually does find these addresses surplus to needs, they could have split it into /16 blocks, and auctioned off 256 separate networks of 65,536 addresses each. Bet that would have gotten some interest.
Of course, the actual solution to fixing the address shortage is to move to IPv6, but that effort seems to have largely stalled. Also, from what I’ve seen where it has been implemented, it has been done in an extraordinarily wasteful manner. For instance, I’ve seen reports of folks being allocated a /64 of IPv6 space. If I were allocated a block like that, I’d be able assign 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique IP addresses on my local network. I figure that is a bit more than I am likely to need. Even if each location was assigned a /96 subnet, you’d still have more IPv6 addresses available to you (4,294,967,296) than an entire /10 subnet in IPv4.
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