One possiblity that comes to mind is what *I* would do with a million unused IPs. I'd monitor it for exploit attempts / scans, malware trying spread to new hosts, etc. I'd also watch for responses generated by people spoofing the IPs.
I'd probably save all the traffic for a few months, then spend a year or more digging through the data to see what can be learned.
I can think of something else: it would be possible to monitor inbound traffic for signs that someone is squatting on the IP space in question. The DoD is kinda famous for having tons of "unused" IP space (not really unused, just not used on internet-connected networks) that's "okay" (not really okay) to squat on.
Given that they specifically described this secretive program as being designed to "prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space" I feel reasonably confident I'm not the only one with that idea
Ya, basically they used this company to advertise their space via BGP and siphoned up whatever traffic came their way. They don't care if people "squat" on their space internally, but get pretty pissy if you start leaking routes.
Trump and his crew were placing loyalists in the military and prepping irregulars to riot in the capital to keep him in power. Friends of mine who actually knew some things about the US military were VERY worried at what was happening. In any other country, we would call this for what it actually was: a right-wing coup attempt that had a great deal of support from many Republicans.
It makes total sense that they would be prepping for more internet control and manipulation as well. Part of the toolkit of
Seriously, Slashdot? Do you know where you are? Do you mean "controlled 6% of the IPv4 addresses", because anybody here should know what that means. What do you think a "section of the Internet" is? Is that like, a really big tube or something? I honestly don't know if the editors are trolling on purpose just to get the page views this will generate from people commenting on how silly it sounds.
Dude, relax. 1) the summary quotes the WP article, and 2) they're not going to edit the quoted article -- which is written so rubes can contextualize the number in a way that approaches meaningful.
One possiblity that comes to mind is what *I* would do with a million unused IPs. I'd monitor it for exploit attempts / scans, malware trying spread to new hosts, etc. I'd also watch for responses generated by people spoofing the IPs.
I'd probably save all the traffic for a few months, then spend a year or more digging through the data to see what can be learned.
I can think of something else: it would be possible to monitor inbound traffic for signs that someone is squatting on the IP space in question. The DoD is kinda famous for having tons of "unused" IP space (not really unused, just not used on internet-connected networks) that's "okay" (not really okay) to squat on.
Given that they specifically described this secretive program as being designed to "prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space" I feel reasonably confident I'm not the only one with that idea
It makes total sense that they would be prepping for more internet control and manipulation as well. Part of the toolkit of
Seriously, Slashdot? Do you know where you are? Do you mean "controlled 6% of the IPv4 addresses", because anybody here should know what that means. What do you think a "section of the Internet" is? Is that like, a really big tube or something? I honestly don't know if the editors are trolling on purpose just to get the page views this will generate from people commenting on how silly it sounds.
Dude, relax. 1) the summary quotes the WP article, and 2) they're not going to edit the quoted article -- which is written so rubes can contextualize the number in a way that approaches meaningful.