I did a job which involved configuration and migration of a key piece of infrastructure the week after 911 in D.C. for an entity that managed all IP addresses for a large segment of the internet backbone.
I can remember getting in the cab at Dulles and discovering the cab driver was Afghan. Oh Joy!
All information provided to me was on a need to know basis. Determining workloads as necessary to make performance and capacity configuration decisions was difficult.
Incidentally, the day before I flew up to DC, I got into a bar fight, and had two black eyes. I looked like Rocky Racoon. Before you ask, let me just say, you should have seen the other guy.
I remember a discussion around potential need to setup ICM, (Internet Cluster Manager) for mail server, and was told they could not provide me key information I needed to make model that out against infrastructure capacity , and I can remember telling them something like , "look, I have the admin passwords for the servers, if I wanted to I could destroy them. Don't you think it's a bit ridiculous that your withholding information I need to do my job. They lamented and gave me what I needed.
The most unusual thing was that I had to work in a fishbowl like room surrounded by armed guards who never took their eyes off of me. When I had to go to the bathroom, an armed guard escorted me to the bathroom and stood there while I did my thing.
When I got to site, I was searched, and when I left I was searched, and I mean searched like that dude where the cop ask, "what is this", and the searched said, "That's my penis man."
Essentially 8chan was using CloudFlare fkr CDN service to protect against DDoS etc. I have connections to CloudFlare. When CF claimed they were terminating their arrangement with 8Chan they cited racism etc. in truth CF was unable to handle the DDoS activities. 8chan was so attacked that it was taking down the CloudFlare infrastructure and causing issues with their other clients. They terminated because of risk of vital functional insolvency.
Now came in VanwaTech. A small no name CDN managed to mitigate these same DDoS attacks in stride.
I have made numberous contacts with VanwaTech. Every time a single person. Their network also routed through 11.11.18.x several times.
Keep in mind in this same timeline was when 8chan/8kun owner was summoned to Congress and spoke behind closed doors - and nobody talked.
During a time of leaks the owner of 8chan speaks to congress and nobody says shit? That’s telling. You would expect leaks, abuse, whatever - instead nothing like they were terrified of what they heard.
If I’m not mistaken when those Q posts broke looking-up Global Resource Systems showed that company’s address just a few blocks from Mar-a-Lago?
Correct.
Also remember that VanwaTech and 8Kun had a block of 11.11.18.x and routed through 17 hops for awhile.
We were freaking about that one.
8kun literally routed through the DoD for a bit.
Was around the time some really crazy posts were dropping that we postulated were machine learning related
I did a job which involved configuration and migration of a key piece of infrastructure the week after 911 in D.C. for an entity that managed all IP addresses for a large segment of the internet backbone.
I can remember getting in the cab at Dulles and discovering the cab driver was Afghan. Oh Joy!
All information provided to me was on a need to know basis. Determining workloads as necessary to make performance and capacity configuration decisions was difficult.
Incidentally, the day before I flew up to DC, I got into a bar fight, and had two black eyes. I looked like Rocky Racoon. Before you ask, let me just say, you should have seen the other guy.
I remember a discussion around potential need to setup ICM, (Internet Cluster Manager) for mail server, and was told they could not provide me key information I needed to make model that out against infrastructure capacity , and I can remember telling them something like , "look, I have the admin passwords for the servers, if I wanted to I could destroy them. Don't you think it's a bit ridiculous that your withholding information I need to do my job. They lamented and gave me what I needed.
The most unusual thing was that I had to work in a fishbowl like room surrounded by armed guards who never took their eyes off of me. When I had to go to the bathroom, an armed guard escorted me to the bathroom and stood there while I did my thing.
When I got to site, I was searched, and when I left I was searched, and I mean searched like that dude where the cop ask, "what is this", and the searched said, "That's my penis man."
Who else here reads "correct" and hears it in Trump's voice? I love that word now.
I missed this. Roughly what timeframe was this?
It was during the de-platform From CloudLinux.
VanwaTech is a very very very interesting dig.
Essentially 8chan was using CloudFlare fkr CDN service to protect against DDoS etc. I have connections to CloudFlare. When CF claimed they were terminating their arrangement with 8Chan they cited racism etc. in truth CF was unable to handle the DDoS activities. 8chan was so attacked that it was taking down the CloudFlare infrastructure and causing issues with their other clients. They terminated because of risk of vital functional insolvency.
Now came in VanwaTech. A small no name CDN managed to mitigate these same DDoS attacks in stride.
I have made numberous contacts with VanwaTech. Every time a single person. Their network also routed through 11.11.18.x several times.
Keep in mind in this same timeline was when 8chan/8kun owner was summoned to Congress and spoke behind closed doors - and nobody talked.
During a time of leaks the owner of 8chan speaks to congress and nobody says shit? That’s telling. You would expect leaks, abuse, whatever - instead nothing like they were terrified of what they heard.
But all the 11.11.18.* IPs show Columbus Ohio as the physical location
I’m sure the corporate location/office listing near Mar-a-Lago wasn’t where the computer equipment is.