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Previous story in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006534 . This article is exaggerating by saying it
by yftsui 5y ago
Previous story in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006534 . This article is exaggerating by saying it happened overnight, which started actually 5 years ago.
- frombody 5y agoGlobal Resource Systems LLC was only created in September of last year. It is very much worth asking who this legal entity is and why a private company is better suited to these efforts than the government.
- yftsui 5y agoI read the article but I believe the key point is since when 11.x.x.x stopped being dormant addresses, instead of these IPs just transferred ownership but not “dormant”. As an interesting fact, when searching “aliyun 11.0.0.0” which is the mentioned Chinese cloud provider I believe, they apparently has been using that as internal IPs since 2015 as well
- jessriedel 5y agoIn practice the US government is constrained from paying market rates for tech talent. It can either hire companies to complete the entire project, or it can hire a consulting service (which skims off a massive overhead) to provide technical talent inside a government agency.
- nexuist 5y agoI would argue that this is obviously a national security operation and the shell company is operated by the FBI or the NSA, not necessarily some random contracting firm.
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- saurik 5y agoThe mailing list archive for this gig reorganized for some reason, so I imagine the URL for it should now be https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-August/078058.html https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-August/078058...