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I think you're probably overestimating the portability of IP addresses, and underestimating the coercive power of the organization that does the seize. IP addr
by cjbprime 12y ago
I think you're probably overestimating the portability of IP addresses, and underestimating the coercive power of the organization that does the seize.
IP addresses are assigned to a network provider, not a customer. If I'm hosted by a US provider and the FBI seizes my server, is that provider going to say "sure, just spin up a new box on the old IP", or are they going to tell me to get off their network? What if the FBI has an opinion on which decision the provider should take? What if the FBI has an opinion on which action the directory operator should take?
- pizzeys 12y ago> IP addresses are assigned to a network provider, not a customer. Actually, they can be assigned to either. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider-independent_address_space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider-independent_address_sp...
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- geographomics 12y agoI'm not convinced that the FBI has this power. Can they really say to MIT, for example, that port 9131 on IP address 128.31.0.39 is now out of bounds? Or coerce all of Riseup's peers (including any future ones) to cease connecting to their entire 199.254.238.0/24 range, or even just firewall off 199.254.238.52 upstream? As far as I know, there's no precedent for this where the provider - and, crucially, the owner of the IP address block - is hosting the server itself.