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The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved
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BOSTON – A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S.
Department of Defense. That real estate has since more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses — about 1/25th the size of the current internet. ”It is massive.
That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet,” said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network operating company.
It’s also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon. After weeks of wonder by the networking community,
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