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I was reading a thread on this site about the program and there was speculation that since these IPs are mothballed, lots of people use the address range for in
by betwixthewires 5y ago
I was reading a thread on this site about the program and there was speculation that since these IPs are mothballed, lots of people use the address range for internal networks, particularly in China, and potentially this experiment was to get lots of networks worldwide to accidentally leak internal network traffic to the pentagon. Who knows what this thing was, but that sounds like something a government would do.
- TwoNineFive 5y agoNetwork engineer here with more than a decade of BGP peering experience on a T1 ISP: This theory is stupid for a variety of reasons. Doesn't even make sense if you understand how peering and routing actually works on the internet. This is Q-anon/ivermectin type conspiracy crap that only gets traction amongst the gullible.
- Doxin 5y agoPerhaps you'd care to explain why it's such a silly assumption?
- hacker_newz 5y agoGot a link? I've never heard of network engineers using an IP range because it's "mothballed".
- betwixthewires 5y agoIt was a thread on this site early this year where that was part of the discussion. I don't have one, and I'm not even saying it is true, just that I found that angle interesting.