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Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Post by MereInterest »

spiritplumber wrote: post #151
MereInterest wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't answer this if it isn't legal to answer, but do you have any examples you can share? I can entirely picture the process, and completely believe that it happens, but I don't have a mental image of what the end result looks like.

There has been a brief period in my life when I did not have the clearance to read code I was writing.

I feel like there's a joke about Perl hiding somewhere in there.

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Post by colinmhayes »

quakeguy wrote: post #168
codeproject wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot, Appreciate. It is not I don't want to pay the washingtonpost.com. I just don't have time to read them.

Great point and totally off-topic, but I wonder if there is someone who reads the NY Times each and everyday in full.

My parents are cover to cover times readers every day since they retired. Obviously they don't read every article, but they look at every page.

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Post by accountofme »

kenniskrag wrote: post #127
ratsmack wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or maybe ask the question regarding why we're not all running ipv6.

why?

Its incompatible with IP v4, has a stupid addressing scheme, it requires new router hardware and software for isps to buy and nobody is using it because of all the aforementioned issues.

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Post by tigershark »

CameronNemo wrote: post #144
kdmdmdmmdmd wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somehow? Money the spent is money in the economy, not in the government. It’s pretty easy to understand, I think.

Alternatively, money is grifted for political patronage.

Are you saying that the most corrupt US president ever (an individual so mentally challenged that managed to bankrupt FOUR casinos, the only money making machines where the customers literally throw money at you) grifted billion of dollars from the most valuable IP4 addresses in the world?

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Post by njharman »

kdmdmdmmdmd wrote: post #137
mattkrause wrote: post #63

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Outsourcing to private companies also (somehow) appeases the "small government" folks, even when it costs more/works worse.

Somehow? Money the spent is money in the economy, not in the government. It’s pretty easy to understand, I think.

How is "the government" not part of the economy? Do you imagine all their employees spend their salary in some secret separate economy? Do you imagine all the toilet paper, pens, plumbing repairs and jet fighters they buy are from some magical not part of the economy source?

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Post by saurik »

yftsui wrote: post #75

Previous story in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006534 . This article is exaggerating by saying it happened overnight, which started actually 5 years ago.

The 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...

Re: Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20

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Post by saurik »

codeproject wrote: post #17
jvdvegt wrote: post #2

Paywall-free link: https://archive.is/tKOOA

Thanks a lot, Appreciate. It is not I don't want to pay the washingtonpost.com. I just don't have time to read them.

Or just not stop after pressing reload, to prevent their paywall from loading.

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Post by nexuist »

jessriedel wrote: post #96
frombody wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Global 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.

In 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.

I 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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