[HN Gopher] Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme ___________________________________________________________________ Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme Author : sandebert Score : 28 points Date : 2022-01-07 22:04 UTC (55 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com) (TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com) | karmanyaahm wrote: | imho ARIN should let these shady companies own IPv4. Only driving | up prices of v4 will promote v6 adoption. | Scoundreller wrote: | If a government was smart, it would create an IPv4 tax and | capture that value for itself. | | Tax the inelastic and all. | onphonenow wrote: | For sure. | | This has the secondary benefit of freeing up unused space. | sebmellen wrote: | The VPN connection here intrigues me. Do these VPN companies know | how their IPs are being procured/by whom? | | > _In a 2020 interview, Golestan told KrebsOnSecurity that Micfo | was at one point responsible for brokering roughly 40 percent of | the IP addresses used by the world's largest VPN providers_ | | This would be an interesting deep dive for a tech-focused | investigative journalist. | walrus01 wrote: | in my opinion almost all VPN companies are shady/gray-market | entities, so yes, they absolutely know. | | the colocation hosts and regional ISPs that will accept VPN | operators as dedicated server and 1U server colocation | customers are towards the more suspicious end of the hosting | segment market spectrum, in my experience. | | dig hard enough on a modern vpn hosting company with a slick | marketing presence and you'll find like, a cypriot corporation | with a cyprus bank account run by a guy who 15 years ago was in | the adult website hosting business, who currently lives and | works remotely from cambodia. Or similar. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-07 23:00 UTC)