From GatewayPundit:
Joffe has started a number of small Internet companies. One of them, Packet Forensics, reportedly landed a recent Pentagon contract to manage a large chunk of Internet domains owned by the military. The bid was awarded the day Biden was inaugurated president. His company also sells federal law enforcement wiretapping equipment that allows authorities to spy on private web-browsing through fake Internet security certificates, instead of real ones that websites employ to verify secure connections. Joffe has worked on cybersecurity cases with federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies for 15 years.
Any anon analysis on this one?
Yeah. All the IP addresses were recently transferred back to the Pentagon. Did the white hats get them back as part of Durham's investigation?
So this IP transfer was after all a black hat operation?
Given devolution, and Durham's ongoing case, and the timing of the transfer (everything I read before this report said the transfer happened before Biden took office), it seems likely that white hats knew this in advance and allowed it to happen. But this definitely changes the previous theories about what it represented.
Tech anons, is it possible this transfer occurred only on paper but not in reality? Like transferring title to a home but with possession never changing? Interesting stuff, especially the timing.
When you sign up for Neustar's service, they assume registration of your IPs and authoritative DNS, plus offer a recursive DNS service. You can use their IP addresses as your advertised IPs as an alternative, if you choose.
Simplistically, hey take in "dirty" Inet traffic and route clean traffic through to your real IPs, regardless of how you've worked the registration. Even though they have visibility on all the traffic, they don't have carte-blanche ability to decrypt everything, but can drop traffic they see as malicious.
The intent is to provide DDoS protection as well as DNS-layer malware filtering and the ability to quickly bounce to different nodes if under attack. Primarily, this is behavioral-based; it's not like a traditional firewall or IPS.
Although Neustar was first on the scene, Cloudflare does a better job with DDoS protection and resilience; Cisco Umbrella is way better for DNS-layer protection- so their star has fallen a bit over the last few years.