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Spammers Hijacking IP Space

Posted by kdawson on from the open-and-shut-case dept.

Ron Guilmette writes "As reported in the Washington Post's Security Fix blog, a substantial hunk of IP address space has apparently been taken over by notorious mass e-mailing company Media Breakaway, LLC, formerly known as OptInRealBig, via means that are at best questionable. The block in question is 134.17.0.0/16, which I documented in depth in an independent investigation. (Apparently, the President of Media Breakaway has now admitted to the Washington Post that his company has been occupying and using the 134.17.0.0/16 block and that front company JKS Media, which provides routing to the block, is actually owned by Media Breakaway.) Remarkably, the president of Media Breakaway, who happens to be an attorney, is trying to defend his company's apparent snatching of this block based upon his own rather novel legal theory that ARIN doesn't have jurisdiction over any IP address space that was handed out before ARIN was formed, in 1997."

6 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. I say we dust off and nuke the site from orbit by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the only way to be sure...

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  2. If only we could... by Fluffeh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Form an agry mob, arm ourselves with pitchforks and flaming brands, and the chase those rascals way out to the outskirts of town.

    Hell, if there was any trouble, we could even transform into an angry lynch mob - THEN lets see who owns that space eh? EH? Whaddya say?

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  3. To read this comment by lisany · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry but to read this comment you must accept the terms of service of my crappy comment. Please click your back button to accept terms of service.

  4. Set firewalls on shun! by zerofoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Boy, that was a cheezy joke huh?

    -ted

  5. easily fixed...... by Indy1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    " I felt a great disturbance in the internet, as if 65535 ip addresses suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. "

    iptables -A spam -s 134.17.0.0/16 -j DROP

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  6. Re:what's the big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Good FUCKING grief.