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While the conclusions in the article may not stand on their own, I think he may be implying the common usage of web browsers in the DPRK. Rather than using DNS,
by brianshaler 10y ago
While the conclusions in the article may not stand on their own, I think he may be implying the common usage of web browsers in the DPRK. Rather than using DNS, users connect directly to 10.* IP addresses.
Here are a couple of pics I took of IP addresses printed on the walls in a school's computer lab:
Portal: http://i.imgur.com/MTYlNVo.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MTYlNVo.jpg
Bookmarks: http://i.imgur.com/QWEooy5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QWEooy5.jpg
- duskwuff 10y agoAre you sure those are bookmarks in the second image and not some examples of IP addresses? It seems unlikely that they'd be visiting addresses in all three of the RFC1918 spaces.
- inopinatus 10y agoFar from unlikely, I have seen government-operated metropolitan-scale networks that allocated extravagantly in their early days and ended up using all of RFC1918 space, being unable to renumber (because change in government systems is Too Hard) and moving on to more esoteric non-globally-routable space. For those intrigued as to what those addresses might've been, have a read of Bill Manning's roll up of the special case IP allocations: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-manning-dsua-08 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-manning-dsua-08
- brianshaler 10y agoIt's hard to be sure of anything there.
- nucleardog 10y agoCould just as easily be 10/8 nationally, 172.16/16 within the school board, 192.168/16 within the school or something equally innocuous.
- kozak 10y agoThe second one is not even printed, it's hand-drawn.