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The unexplained awakening over the past four months of more than 100 million previously dormant US Department of Defense (DoD) IPv4 addresses now has an explanation.
On January, 20, 2021, as noted over the weekend by Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at network monitoring biz Kentik, a sizable portion of unused IPv4 address space registered to the DoD (GRS-DoD) and referred to as AS8003, began announcing the reachability of millions of previously unreachable addresses via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Coming ten minutes after President Joseph Biden was sworn into office and three minutes prior to the statutory conclusion of Donald Trump s term, the timing of the BGP announcement invited speculation about the motives for lighting up so many previously dark addresses.
Omotosho Benjamin, a human rights activist and a social commentator condemns the activities of faceless groups making allegations of financial infractions against the Clerk of the National Assembly
In 2018, driven by the need for Nigeria’s National Assembly to be at par with what is globally acceptable in parliamentary democracy, in terms of up to date internet connectivity, the then Clerk to the National Assembly, Barr. Ataba Sani-Omolori, hired Helios, Nanocom, and Cosynet as contractors to provide ‘lnternet Bandwidth Connectivity Upgrade’ for the nation’s highest legislative body.
Unknown to the former Clerk, by entrusting the provision of Internet Bandwidth Connectivity to the companies, he was making a costly mistake. The mindless and selfish breach of the contractual agreements that were later perpetrated gave credence to this.