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Grad Student's Work Reveals National Infrastructure
CodeHog writes "The WP reports about a student working on a PhD and how it relates to national (US) security. Very interesting that he has been able to get all this information. It raises some very challenging questions, should some of this information be classified?"
I suspect he's using several tricks to discover correlate IP addresses to services providers, to businesses to physical locations and superimposing that data on a traditional map. The geographical info is available from many sources; the trick is tieing all that info together to form a coherent 'big picture'.
Some info on discovering the physical location of a IP address (or multiple IP's in order to form a physical route map) is available here
Interesting that there is an extension to DNS as described in RFC 1876 that allows an owner to identify the location of their host.
I think they are talking about the Eyeball series at http://www.cryptome.org
It seems to be down right now...but is on my daily reading list.
EXACTLY.
It's not really that big a deal, people HAVE to know where the wires are, where the pipelines are, etc, so they DON'T DIG INTO THEM AND DIE!
Ever see a gas pipe explosion because someone dug in the wrong spot and the crew burned to death? Or how about a town losing all of it's emergency and other communication because a cable got accidentally cut?
We have a 2nd amendment for a reason. Try using it and stop living in fear.
The Post article refers to a similar project initiated by John Young, a New York City architect.