On 24 Apr 2021, at 6:45 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us<mailto:b...@herrin.us>> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:26 AM Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org<mailto:m...@beckman.org>> wrote: This doesn’t sound good, no matter how you slice it. The lack of transparency with a civilian resource is troubling at a minimum. You do understand that the addresses in question are not and have never been "civilian." They came into DoD's possession when this was all still a military project funded by what's now DARPA. Personally, I think we may have an all time record for the largest honeypot ever constructed. I'd love to be a fly on that wall. Bill - That’s actually a possibility - just join DDS… https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-b26ab809d1e9fdb53314f56299399949 ‘ "The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved” …. After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for what it’s doing. 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. 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<https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/1858615/defense-digital-service-delivers-mission-aligned-tech-for-dod/>, which is running the project. It also hopes to “identify potential vulnerabilities” as part of efforts to defend against cyber-intrusions by global adversaries, who are consistently infiltrating U.S. networks, sometimes operating from unused internet address blocks. ' FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers
