[HN Gopher] Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme
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       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.
        
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