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Subject: Re: [OM] Internet Intrusions
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:54:19 +0100
Probably online Ukranian language tuitions - good luck with it all Chris as the 
pronunciation seems somewhat hard to master.

Amities

Philippe



> Le 30 oct. 2019 à 19:47, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
>     This morning I tried to alert my neighbourhood about a police pursuit by 
> way of our Facebook page.  Trying to access that page went beyond futile as I 
> watched it grind to a half while at the same time noticing that my modem was 
> running at full speed.  A quick check with the TCP viewer showed that I was 
> being hijacked by 1e100.net, but not in the usual way.  They were uploading 
> more than 250K of data FROM my laptop INTO their system.  I quickly broke 
> that connection and put the IP address into the firewall.
> 
>     I really wasn't all that surprised.  The other internet intruder, 
> cloudfront.net, recently opened up new blocks of IP addresses, more than a 
> thousand.  I've been putting those addresses into the firewall as they show 
> up, and it's been keeping me pretty busy.
> 
>     Google openly claims that 1e100.net is only validating IP addresses that 
> are connected to THEIR equipment, but that does not justify stealing 250K+ of 
> data from MY laptop(s).  Something else is going on here, and I doubt that it 
> has anything to do with verifying IP addresses.
> 
>     Cloudfront.net is equally sinister.  They periodically intercept internet 
> connections for supposedly marketing purposes.  But, I have found them 
> intercepting connections to such non-market sites as the National Hurricane 
> Center (NHC).  And lately they have been intercepting uplink connections to 
> Facebook, which results in no downloads from the Facebook image server(s).  I 
> learned this by way of experimentation.
> 
>     So what exactly are these internet pirates up to?
> 
> Chris
> 
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
>     - Hunter S. Thompson
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