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Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses illegally

77 points by ammaristotle 7y ago

neonate 7y ago
https://archive.md/2f9pz https://archive.md/2f9pz
beeschlenker 7y ago
AG Barr will not resign. Not before the President does. AG Barr is the same as Mueller, Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi: feign opposition to cover the true motive of obstruction to keep Trump and in power. Wray and Alito on board also. \\$Download the video-audio file, put on headphones and turn up the volume. You will hear these people committing these crimes. Audio was broadcast into my apartment by outdated surveillance equipment illegally embedded within my walls. This very same technology was being used to broadcast me to the internet for five years without my consent. I own this footage. Please use this to prosecute all found within. Note:: I am obliviously speaking throughout the video, and it can be quite loud at times relative to the desired content. The are dozens more links, including these, that can be found in this 163 page PDF doc, last updated Feb15'20: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W2qxVc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W... All members of the "Illuminati"; "....an underground organization of homosexuals and child rapists..." (page 26: Barack Obama with Jack Dorsey). President Donald Trump: Demands $4 billion dollar bribe here at 10:18am on the 4Jan2019: 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77... 3JanCh2_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24fY0vBB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24f... 3JanCh4_1000-1100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJojHge/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJ... President Trump rapes and kills a 12 boys, including f5 boys in a 'who can rape 5 boys to death the fastest' game: 14JanCh3_600.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj258zB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj... 14JanCh2_600-700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_Lw_gCF/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_L... Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: -Accepts a $3 billion dollar bribe at 10:33am on the 17Jan2019 to ensure Asian boys can get through the border at "Monterrey" undocumented to be raped: 17JanCh3_949-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1CZUvmE/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1C... 17JanCh4_1017-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZNjDmnk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZN... Speaker Nancy Pelosi also "preps" boys with First Lady Melania Trump, defined as in she performs oral sex on the boys’ penis and anus, just as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be raped and then subsequently murdered, for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who apparently decides he would rather just have ten billion dollars instead. US Attorney for Western New York James Kennedy rapes boys also: 12JanCh3_1533-1638.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25kW2Oz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25... Attorney General William Barr with FBI Deputy Director Christopher Wray raped and killed boys for billions in bribes in Buffalo, New York on the 17thJan 2019 7:50 am: 18JanCh4_700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0N0Bp7/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0... 18JanCh2_700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_odB2Um/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_o... 18JanCh3_725-.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKIifGGm/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKI... Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan raped & killed boys on 5Jan2019 17:39 for billions in bribes: 5JanCh3_1600-1800.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36hrhx6S/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36h... 5JanCh2_1721-1818 mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02Mjwrg/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02... Leaders of the "impeachment" effort Jerrold Nadler, Robert Mueller, and also Adam Schiff all rape and kill boys between 11:20pm to 1:10am: 14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 Nadler starts at about twenty mins in. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU66GuU/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU... 14JanCh2_2304-2359mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9WLr1x1/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9W... Mueller at 12:25am, and Schiff starts 12:55-ish: 15JanCh2_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62tgCkj/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62... 15JanCh2_100-200.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_rGSFH/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_... 15JanCh4_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2OQnwZ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2... 15JanCh4_100-200.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw746LeCL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw74... Complete Media Protection: Lester Holt, of NBC Nightly News, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 1980's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo, New York on 14thJan2019 at 5:00 am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00 am. Muir starts around 5:15 am, then Holt about 538 am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp and also Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below: 14JanCh3_500-601.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX3o7UL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX... 14JanCh2_530-600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1RwidV/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1... Adding to the media protection and reason this is not picked up by the media, CBS and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone with Leslie Moonves rape and kill boys following the President. 14JanCh3_700iavi https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXaB4aI0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa... 14JanCh2_700-800.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWYKfRDp/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY... 162pg PDF [last updated on: February|15|2020]: UIYOopjiwncoewcwe. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W2qxVc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W...
johnklos 7y ago
I wish HN had a filter which would block all posts which link to sites which require subscriptions.
- dang 7y ago
  If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread, and did so in this one. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20paywall https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
bitxbitxbitcoin 7y ago
Relevant post by a former Mifco employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642
krebsonsecurity 7y ago
This story looks familiar. Oh wait: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/a-tough-week-for-ip-address-scammers/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/a-tough-week-for-ip-addr...
dang 7y ago
A related thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642.
nmc 7y ago
https://archive.is/2f9pz https://archive.is/2f9pz
checkyoursudo 7y ago
I can come up with at least 3 distinct meanings for “amassed VPN clients” and I’m still not 100% sure which is correct in this context. I take it that clients here refers to “paying customers”?
- nicolaslem 7y ago
  > He said Micfo provides a legitimate service to VPNs, adding that whatever his customers or their users do through Micfo servers is none of his business. From what I understand he was attributed many IPs by creating shell companies and rented these IPs to VPN providers.
  - wut42 7y ago
    Why pursue him? What he's done has been done by many others since years.
    - londons_explore 7y ago
      I'd guess he pissed off some important people... If this prosecution doesn't succeed, you can bet every tax return of his for the last 20 years will suddenly be randomly checked, and he'll be prosecuted for claiming a Starbucks coffee as an expense during a business meeting when he actually took half the coffee away after the meeting making it not an allowable expense, and therefore technically fraud.
      - ganoushoreilly 7y ago
        He picked the fight foolishly by being greedy. He lived well beyond his means too and owes a lot of money to people you don’t want to owe.
    - masayoshis_son 7y ago
      That's what I've been thinking as well. Creating "shell companies" (aka "Special Purpose Entities/Vehicles") is not illegal per se. Perhaps he violated the terms and conditions of his contract with ARIN and should have had the assignments cancelled but where does the criminality come in?
_-___________-_ 7y ago
Hmm. I "obtained" 2^32 IPv4 addresses pretty easily; not sure if it's legitimate or not: for addr in range(2**32): print('.'.join([str(addr >> (i << 3) & 0xFF) for i in range(4)[::-1]])) Edit: Well, this was unpopular. In case it's too subtle, my point is that the title is terrible.
- 0x0 7y ago
  Your script doesn't seem to assign any of the printed IPs to ASNs registered to you, so your joke kind of misses the mark a bit.
  - _-___________-_ 7y ago
    I added an edit to make it more clear, but I was talking about the title.
    - wut42 7y ago
      There's nothing wrong with the title. Obtained means "To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way".
      - _-___________-_ 7y ago
        Which is quite literally what my script does :) Think about if the title said "800K email addresses obtained illegitimately", and what you would interpret the meaning of that to be.
        wut42 7y ago
        For emails, I would think they just got the address. For IPs addresses, I would think they got an assignation as well, because IPs numbers without assignations are worthless. It all depends on the context.
        sbarre 7y ago
        I know pedantry is a HN thing, but I suspect the majority of the audience here understood what "obtained" meant in this context. This seems like a particularly weird hill for you to repeatedly die on.
masayoshis_son 7y ago
The writing is quite confusing in trying to explain things but the gist of it appears to be that the person in question (1) applied for IP addresses through numerous companies created just for this purpose in order to bypass ARIN's restriction on the number of addresses it was willing to allocate to a single entity, and (2) made the obtained IP address ranges available to serve as VPN endpoints, so that "huge amount of traffic—some of it illicit or criminal—passed through its computer servers but wasn't traceable to the true originators." He did keep track though of which VPN operator used which range at any given time, so perhaps the "true originators" could be traceable after all, assuming the VPN owners were willing to co-operate. In any case, he is only being prosecuted for (1), and the immediate reason for this is that a couple of US politicians were hacked with attacks originating from these addresses.
- londons_explore 7y ago
  A prosecution seems a bit over the top for this... Setting up multiple companies to meet some rule isnt against said rule. And anyway, it's a company policy not the law.
  - ganoushoreilly 7y ago
    These companies often times were bought shelf companies with history so as to have credibility. The goal was selling up blocks to prohibited locations and enabling spamming. This guy spent a lot of time in Tunisia with spam Kong’s and accepted up front money to build infrastructure. The publicly discussed components here are but a small piece of a complex and sloppily run scam organization. Look up the judgements under these businesses over the years at various web hosts. These companies would enter long contracts and eventually stop paying.
  - commandersaki 7y ago
    It was done to deceive ARIN which is why it is being considered wire fraud.
    - smnrchrds 7y ago
lmilcin 7y ago
If anybody is interested I have a database of roughly 4B IPv4 addresses for sale:)
- deleted 7y ago
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- qz_ 7y ago
  Would you mind sharing your email address?
- esotericn 7y ago
  Could you please remove mine under article 17 of the GDPR? :D
  - big_chungus 7y ago
    Hmm, GDPR thought experiment: I make a database of public IPv4s by running a couple for-loops and subtracting private spaces. Can an EU guy who owns an IPv4 request to have it removed?
    - rovr138 7y ago
      Regarding GDPR, I think IPs are considered “personal data” if you can identify the user from it. Well, my understanding is any data is ‘personal data’ if you can use it to identify a user, can be combined to identify a user or can be aggregated to an identified user.
      - lmilcin 7y ago
        That is mostly, but not exactly right. For example, list of addresses themselves are not personal data. Everybody has access to addresses, you can get them at the post office for example when you try to look up code for the address. But a list of addresses of creditors (ie. address + some non-identifying context information) is personal data. I do not know GDPR well but given just that example I would say there is some more nuance.
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77 points by ammaristotle 7y ago

https://archive.md/2f9pz https://archive.md/2f9pz

AG Barr will not resign. Not before the President does. AG Barr is the same as Mueller, Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi: feign opposition to cover the true motive of obstruction to keep Trump and in power. Wray and Alito on board also. \\$Download the video-audio file, put on headphones and turn up the volume. You will hear these people committing these crimes. Audio was broadcast into my apartment by outdated surveillance equipment illegally embedded within my walls. This very same technology was being used to broadcast me to the internet for five years without my consent. I own this footage. Please use this to prosecute all found within. Note:: I am obliviously speaking throughout the video, and it can be quite loud at times relative to the desired content. The are dozens more links, including these, that can be found in this 163 page PDF doc, last updated Feb15'20: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W2qxVc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W... All members of the "Illuminati"; "....an underground organization of homosexuals and child rapists..." (page 26: Barack Obama with Jack Dorsey). President Donald Trump: Demands $4 billion dollar bribe here at 10:18am on the 4Jan2019: 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77... 3JanCh2_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24fY0vBB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24f... 3JanCh4_1000-1100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJojHge/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJ... President Trump rapes and kills a 12 boys, including f5 boys in a 'who can rape 5 boys to death the fastest' game: 14JanCh3_600.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj258zB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj... 14JanCh2_600-700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_Lw_gCF/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_L... Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: -Accepts a $3 billion dollar bribe at 10:33am on the 17Jan2019 to ensure Asian boys can get through the border at "Monterrey" undocumented to be raped: 17JanCh3_949-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1CZUvmE/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1C... 17JanCh4_1017-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZNjDmnk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZN... Speaker Nancy Pelosi also "preps" boys with First Lady Melania Trump, defined as in she performs oral sex on the boys’ penis and anus, just as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be raped and then subsequently murdered, for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who apparently decides he would rather just have ten billion dollars instead. US Attorney for Western New York James Kennedy rapes boys also: 12JanCh3_1533-1638.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25kW2Oz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25... Attorney General William Barr with FBI Deputy Director Christopher Wray raped and killed boys for billions in bribes in Buffalo, New York on the 17thJan 2019 7:50 am: 18JanCh4_700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0N0Bp7/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0... 18JanCh2_700.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_odB2Um/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_o... 18JanCh3_725-.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKIifGGm/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKI... Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan raped & killed boys on 5Jan2019 17:39 for billions in bribes: 5JanCh3_1600-1800.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36hrhx6S/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36h... 5JanCh2_1721-1818 mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02Mjwrg/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02... Leaders of the "impeachment" effort Jerrold Nadler, Robert Mueller, and also Adam Schiff all rape and kill boys between 11:20pm to 1:10am: 14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 Nadler starts at about twenty mins in. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU66GuU/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU... 14JanCh2_2304-2359mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9WLr1x1/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9W... Mueller at 12:25am, and Schiff starts 12:55-ish: 15JanCh2_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62tgCkj/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62... 15JanCh2_100-200.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_rGSFH/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_... 15JanCh4_000-100.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2OQnwZ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2... 15JanCh4_100-200.mp3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw746LeCL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw74... Complete Media Protection: Lester Holt, of NBC Nightly News, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 1980's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo, New York on 14thJan2019 at 5:00 am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00 am. Muir starts around 5:15 am, then Holt about 538 am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp and also Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below: 14JanCh3_500-601.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX3o7UL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX... 14JanCh2_530-600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1RwidV/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1... Adding to the media protection and reason this is not picked up by the media, CBS and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone with Leslie Moonves rape and kill boys following the President. 14JanCh3_700iavi https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXaB4aI0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa... 14JanCh2_700-800.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWYKfRDp/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY... 162pg PDF [last updated on: February|15|2020]: UIYOopjiwncoewcwe. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W2qxVc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W...

johnklos 7y ago

I wish HN had a filter which would block all posts which link to sites which require subscriptions.

dang 7y ago
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread, and did so in this one. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20paywall https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

bitxbitxbitcoin 7y ago

Relevant post by a former Mifco employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642

krebsonsecurity 7y ago

This story looks familiar. Oh wait: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/a-tough-week-for-ip-address-scammers/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/a-tough-week-for-ip-addr...

dang 7y ago

A related thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360642.

nmc 7y ago

https://archive.is/2f9pz https://archive.is/2f9pz

checkyoursudo 7y ago

I can come up with at least 3 distinct meanings for “amassed VPN clients” and I’m still not 100% sure which is correct in this context. I take it that clients here refers to “paying customers”?

nicolaslem 7y ago
> He said Micfo provides a legitimate service to VPNs, adding that whatever his customers or their users do through Micfo servers is none of his business. From what I understand he was attributed many IPs by creating shell companies and rented these IPs to VPN providers.
- wut42 7y ago
  Why pursue him? What he's done has been done by many others since years.
  - londons_explore 7y ago
    I'd guess he pissed off some important people... If this prosecution doesn't succeed, you can bet every tax return of his for the last 20 years will suddenly be randomly checked, and he'll be prosecuted for claiming a Starbucks coffee as an expense during a business meeting when he actually took half the coffee away after the meeting making it not an allowable expense, and therefore technically fraud.
    - ganoushoreilly 7y ago
      He picked the fight foolishly by being greedy. He lived well beyond his means too and owes a lot of money to people you don’t want to owe.
  - masayoshis_son 7y ago
    That's what I've been thinking as well. Creating "shell companies" (aka "Special Purpose Entities/Vehicles") is not illegal per se. Perhaps he violated the terms and conditions of his contract with ARIN and should have had the assignments cancelled but where does the criminality come in?

_-___________-_ 7y ago

Hmm. I "obtained" 2^32 IPv4 addresses pretty easily; not sure if it's legitimate or not: for addr in range(2**32): print('.'.join([str(addr >> (i << 3) & 0xFF) for i in range(4)[::-1]])) Edit: Well, this was unpopular. In case it's too subtle, my point is that the title is terrible.

0x0 7y ago
Your script doesn't seem to assign any of the printed IPs to ASNs registered to you, so your joke kind of misses the mark a bit.
- _-___________-_ 7y ago
  I added an edit to make it more clear, but I was talking about the title.
  - wut42 7y ago
    There's nothing wrong with the title. Obtained means "To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way".
    - _-___________-_ 7y ago
      Which is quite literally what my script does :) Think about if the title said "800K email addresses obtained illegitimately", and what you would interpret the meaning of that to be.
      - wut42 7y ago
        For emails, I would think they just got the address. For IPs addresses, I would think they got an assignation as well, because IPs numbers without assignations are worthless. It all depends on the context.
      - sbarre 7y ago
        I know pedantry is a HN thing, but I suspect the majority of the audience here understood what "obtained" meant in this context. This seems like a particularly weird hill for you to repeatedly die on.

masayoshis_son 7y ago

The writing is quite confusing in trying to explain things but the gist of it appears to be that the person in question (1) applied for IP addresses through numerous companies created just for this purpose in order to bypass ARIN's restriction on the number of addresses it was willing to allocate to a single entity, and (2) made the obtained IP address ranges available to serve as VPN endpoints, so that "huge amount of traffic—some of it illicit or criminal—passed through its computer servers but wasn't traceable to the true originators." He did keep track though of which VPN operator used which range at any given time, so perhaps the "true originators" could be traceable after all, assuming the VPN owners were willing to co-operate. In any case, he is only being prosecuted for (1), and the immediate reason for this is that a couple of US politicians were hacked with attacks originating from these addresses.

londons_explore 7y ago
A prosecution seems a bit over the top for this... Setting up multiple companies to meet some rule isnt against said rule. And anyway, it's a company policy not the law.
- ganoushoreilly 7y ago
  These companies often times were bought shelf companies with history so as to have credibility. The goal was selling up blocks to prohibited locations and enabling spamming. This guy spent a lot of time in Tunisia with spam Kong’s and accepted up front money to build infrastructure. The publicly discussed components here are but a small piece of a complex and sloppily run scam organization. Look up the judgements under these businesses over the years at various web hosts. These companies would enter long contracts and eventually stop paying.
- commandersaki 7y ago
  It was done to deceive ARIN which is why it is being considered wire fraud.
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lmilcin 7y ago

If anybody is interested I have a database of roughly 4B IPv4 addresses for sale:)

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qz_ 7y ago
Would you mind sharing your email address?
esotericn 7y ago
Could you please remove mine under article 17 of the GDPR? :D
- big_chungus 7y ago
  Hmm, GDPR thought experiment: I make a database of public IPv4s by running a couple for-loops and subtracting private spaces. Can an EU guy who owns an IPv4 request to have it removed?
  - rovr138 7y ago
    Regarding GDPR, I think IPs are considered “personal data” if you can identify the user from it. Well, my understanding is any data is ‘personal data’ if you can use it to identify a user, can be combined to identify a user or can be aggregated to an identified user.
    - lmilcin 7y ago
      That is mostly, but not exactly right. For example, list of addresses themselves are not personal data. Everybody has access to addresses, you can get them at the post office for example when you try to look up code for the address. But a list of addresses of creditors (ie. address + some non-identifying context information) is personal data. I do not know GDPR well but given just that example I would say there is some more nuance.

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