Buongiorno, mistero, tantissimo mistero... Alberto Cammozzo via nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> writes: [...]
Three months later, the total was nearly 175 million. That’s almost 6 percent of a coveted traditional section of Internet real estate — called IPv4 — where such large chunks are worth billions of dollars on the open market.
Sì e IPv6 venne creato perché IPv4 è un bene (artificialmente più che matematicamente) scarso... ma evidentemente agli USA interessa di più tenere saldamente (e militarmente) in mano un pezzo dell'address space di Internet più che metterli a disposizione "on the open market"... e IPv6 è ancora al palo, chissà perché? [...]
Network administrators began speculating about perhaps the most dramatic shift in IP address space allotment since BGP was introduced in the 1980s.
Ecco, direi che solo questo basta a evidenziare come questo fatto, per Internet, sia di portata storica. [...]
The change is the handiwork of an elite Pentagon unit known as the Defense Digital Service, which reports directly to the secretary of defense.
OK, quindi niente "privatizzazione": è un'operazione militare USA. [...]
Brett Goldstein, the DDS’s director, said in a statement that his unit had authorized a “pilot effort” publicizing the IP space owned by the Pentagon.
Publicizing un cavolo, pare proprio che abbiano "solo" inserito una marea di IP in BGP... chissà cosa significa eh?!?
“This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,”
ROTFL, "unauthorized" da chi visto che sono loro che controllano Internet? [...]
The specifics of what the effort is trying to achieve remain unclear. The Defense Department declined to answer a number of questions about the project,
Ovvio: segreto militare
What is clear, however, is the Global Resource Systems announcements directed a fire hose of Internet traffic toward the Defense Department addresses.
Fuochino...
Madory said such large amounts of data could provide several benefits for those in a position to collect and analyze it for threat intelligence and other purposes.
Quinci Madory ci sta /forse/ dicendo che il flood di BGP sta servendo per dirottare ancora più traffico Internet verso nodi militari statunitensi? No, devo aver capito male. [...]
and could reveal exploitable weaknesses in computer systems. In addition, several Chinese companies use network numbering systems that resemble the U.S. military’s IP addresses in their internal systems, [...] that could cause some of that information to be routed to systems controlled by the U.S. military.
Quindi sperano di aggirare in Great Firewall?!? :-D [...] il mistero si infittisce... -- Giovanni Biscuolo Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché.