Secretive Pentagon program that started on Trump's last day in office just ended

[LessAspin]

Last edited Sat Sep 11, 2021, 07:22 PM - Edit history (1)

The mystery has not.

Control of a remarkable 6 percent of the Internet was handed over to a Florida company as part of a cybersecurity pilot project. Now the Pentagon has taken all 175 million IP address spaces back
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/10/pentagon-internet-protocol-addresses-trump/

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I want to know more.....

the timing and the secrecy of this contract makes me wonder what the "official" vs "unofficial reasoning was to do this.

[marybourg]

2. One of his billionaire donors whispered in his ear.

[Budi]

3. Here's what I copied w/o buying WaPo.

The program had drawn scrutiny because of its unusual timing, starting amid a politically charged changeover of federal power, and because of its enormous scale.
At its peak, the company, Global Resource Systems, controlled almost 6 percent of a section of the Internet called IPv4.
The IP addresses had been under Pentagon control for decades but left unused, despite being potentially worth billions of dollars on the open market.

Hmmm

[localroger]

4. Attempted grift blocked

The idea was probably for TFG's buds to monetize the billions of dollars worth of IP4 addresses they controlled, except they found out that while they may have controlled the hosting they didn't have the ability to lease them out to potential end users. Subsequent months have probably been a tug of war between DoD and this contractor over who can do what and in the end they probably capitulated and returned control to DoD because they realized they couldn't complete the last step to make money off the deal.

[onetexan]

5. I think its more like the company relented because

This deal's got shady written all over it & so to save its own skin it had n9 choice. God only knows how much $ went into the Con's & others of his crooked goons' pockets.

[sarcasmo]

6. Who owns Global Resource Systems? Ivanka? Jared?

Snip < "On the unusual timing of the start of the pilot program — which began the transfer of control of IP addresses at 11:57 a.m. on Inauguration Day, three minutes before President Biden took office"


Snip < "In April, Madory, a former Air Force officer, had come to believe the program was intended to collect intelligence. By announcing control of such a large section of the Internet — especially one the Pentagon had left mothballed for years — it likely was possible to reroute information flowing across the Internet to military networks for examination and analysis."




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