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Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by nitrogen »

freedomben wrote: post #36
brianwawok wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For enough dollars you can sample 100k address at random and have a decent guess? Not everyone responds to a ping but I suspect most do

ICMP is blocked by default now in many firewall setups, so unless the admin specifically allows ICMP the packets will likely be dropped. Also, be careful as "host discovery" can be viewed as a type of "hacking" depending on who you are and who is watching/judging you.

Thankfully there are search engines that do that for you, like shodan.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by bigiain »

Johnny555 wrote: post #78
glenneroo wrote: post #57

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Would a propane tank pose any danger to occupants during/after an accident?

Proponents of propane as refrigerant claim that it's not more dangerous than the 10 gallons of gasoline in the gas tank. I'm not sure I agree. Since propane is heavier than air, it doesn't dissipate as quickly as, say, natural gas would. And while its true that you need the right mixture of propane and air for it to ignite, with the right-mixture, you've got a fuel-air explosive formed right next to an ignition sourc…

Like propane, gasoline fumes are also heavier than air. This becomes a problem in boats, where propane and/or gasoline fumes "collect" down in the hull with no natural ventilation path. Boats with propane stoves or gasoline motors need gas detectors and ventilation to ensure dangerous (suffocating or exploding) levels don't build up below decks...

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by bigiain »

alexpotato wrote: post #29
spydum wrote: post #2

I always wondered if someone had created a biz for the purpose of hoarding IPv4 with intent to “sell them”. We talked about this kind of abuse back in the 90s when I worked for a hosting company. Part of my job was filling out ARIN templates and SWIP and all that nonsense. Justification was easy, but it occurred to me how easy it would be to fake requests and just pay the trivial fees. There were already some busines…

This reminds me of a conversation I had with the AC repairman last year. Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon. The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in. I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became chea…

> I would imagine that as the price of IPv4 addresses crosses some threshold, people will just start going to IPv6.

Instead we see "carrier grade NAT" and I end up with IP addresses like 10.X.X.X on some of my cellular devices...

'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.' -- Henry Ford

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by luckydata »

Waterluvian wrote: post #71
luckydata wrote: post #68

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Hopefully we don't all die in wildfires, food and clean water shortages before then.

Millions of people are displaced yearly by war. It'll just be by climate change too. It's not new for us. It's just more of the same awfulness. Humanity will be fine. We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like, like polar bears and butterflies and Amsterdam.

You are in serious denial.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-exti...

What's happening right now is absolutely unprecedented and it will kill a lot of people. It's demoralizing how even within a crowd that's supposed to value science we have people waving away what's happening right now.

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Post by luckydata »

zaroth wrote: post #76
outworlder wrote: post #74

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> We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like Like arable land.

You lose arable land at the equator and gain it closer to the poles. Studies don’t generally see a large net decrease in arable land due to climate change. Erosion is the bigger problem, 1/3rd of all arable land lost over the last 40 years. [1] [1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/earth-has-lost-a-third-of-ar...

In the next 40 we will lose the rest of it. It's going to make a lot of folks very hungry, have you read "the road"? I would rather not live there, thank you very much.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by broknbottle »

Wow, I dealt with this guy / company Micfo LLC at my previous employer a few years back. He had our DC announce a range and all his documents checked out. Some other dude reached out to our ipadmin address saying we were announcing his range. The Micfo guys had forged the documents or something shady and we removed the announcement for his range. He was very upset and claimed the other party was sour over some deal. He ended up leaving when we pushed back on him announcing new ranges. He provided more excuses on why he didn't have things then actual documentation. He tried to come back a couple years later but we told him to kick rocks.

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by broknbottle »

jonawesomegreen wrote: post #7

I've often wondered how much of the IPv4 address space is legacy allocations that are not at all being fully utilized. Perhaps the market for IPv4 addresses has worked this out, and anyone that has such an allocation has cashed in.

Here's one, it's under S-MOS Systems, Inc. (SMOSSY) which was bought by Epson the printer company. Somebody registered the domain when it expired and sold the company + "IPs" to a company I worked at in the Noc. When we went to ARIN to set everything up for rDNS, ARIN pushed back and said you do not own these, Epson own's this range. The company that sold the IPs disappeared with the money. The smos.com registration lapsed and some chinese company immediately registered the domain.

148.130.0.0/16

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by userbinator »

Vendan wrote: post #56
freedomben wrote: post #55

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This might be the most amazing and interesting comment I've ever seen. Thank you :-) What you say makes good sense too since many RVs have propane refrigerators. I've long wondered how it works exactly. Probably time for a DuckDuckGo search.

Propane fridges actually burn the propane for heat, so it's not using it as a "refrigerant", just as a heat source.

Those commonly use ammonia and hydrogen as the actual refrigerant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by rectang »

luckydata wrote: post #86
zaroth wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You lose arable land at the equator and gain it closer to the poles. Studies don’t generally see a large net decrease in arable land due to climate change. Erosion is the bigger problem, 1/3rd of all arable land lost over the last 40 years. [1] [1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/earth-has-lost-a-third-of-ar...

In the next 40 we will lose the rest of it. It's going to make a lot of folks very hungry, have you read "the road"? I would rather not live there, thank you very much.

In idle moments, I daydream of a wager where people who are concerned about climate change bet with those who are unconcerned. If climate change turns out to be mild, the unconcerned get the money. If it's severe, they die.
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