https://m.slashdot.org/story/390119
"On Tuesday, the Pentagon made a technical announcement -- visible mainly to network administrators around the world -- saying it was resuming control of the 175 million IP addresses and directing the traffic to its own servers. On Friday the Pentagon told The Post that the pilot program, which it previously had characterized as a cybersecurity measure designed to detect unspecified "vulnerabilities" and "prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space," was over. Parts of the Internet once managed by Global Resource Systems, the Pentagon said, now were being overseen by the Department of Defense Information Network, known by the acronym DODIN and part of U.S. Cyber Command, based at Fort Meade."
Note: Gen. Nakasone is in charge of Cyber Command. I believe he was one of the key people mentioned in the Devolution series.
Are they getting a new internet ready to run parallel to Big Tech?
Don't forget that a couple days after the 175 million IP addresses (something like 11% of the worldwide total!) were transferred, it was announced that Dan Kaminsky, USA’s sole holder of “keys to the Internet” (and one of only seven people worldwide) had died, out of the blue, at age 42. Some people suspected that he didn’t really die, and went into hiding to work on whatever the deal was with this huge chunk of IP addresses.
An interesting guy. No doubt he's been on the radar for a long time. Says he died of diabetes and had been hospitalized with it several times. Who knows? They can fake so much.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky
I remember it now you say it, but that deserves some digging for sure. That guy might be chilling in a DUMB somewhere. I hope so because I'm tired of DS killing our best and brightest who have integrity.