DoD IP Space

Sat Apr 24 23:34:59 UTC 2021

The internet that is subsidized by that same Government....

Logic.

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 18:19 Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> It’s the INTERNET that is civilian, not the IP space. As long as that IP
> space was isolated to the .mil network, it was private space, as far as the
> Internet was concerned. Now DoD has moved it into the civilian Internet,
> and I treat them as potentially malicious as I do any other organization
> that lies, cheats, and steals the public trust.
>
>  -mel
>
> > On Apr 24, 2021, at 3:45 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:26 AM Mel Beckman <mel at 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.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill Herrin
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > William Herrin
> > bill at herrin.us
> > https://bill.herrin.us/
>
> --
Jason
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