Researchers Probe Dark and Murky Net

umm qasr writes: "Security Focus has an interesting article on blocks of internet space that are hidden from most users, it is based on a survey by Arbor Networks. The most common 'invisible sites' being .mil, which seems is unintentional. The survey suggests others, which seem more sinister...using unused netblock addresses to send spam. It's a bit short on the details but interesting none the less."

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and the Internet came from the military net...

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It's strange to discover that a network born from military efforts is actually badly managed by its originators. This adds to the fact that the initial dream of having a network connected through multiple routes in case of attacks has been never fulfilled, or at least it is no more possible. Apart from those addresses, after the recent WTC attacks the Italian research network has been cut out from US networks because the backbone connection was passing under the towers. Some day was needed to find a backup connection, and we are still on backup at a lower bandwidth than usual.