This post is only useful to computer nerds who know how to read email headers. If this post is over your head or causes you to believe conspiracy theories about corporations being in bed with the military of a friendly Western nation, then this post is not for you.
If you wish to skip my view on the topic, then here's the short version without my lengthy sarcasm: Ministry of Defense IP Address on My Phone
However, should you proceed to read what I've written, be warned that I have placed smilies to assure you where I am kidding.
YMMV
Originally I was going to title this post "Arbitrary Use of IP Addresses to Form CIDR Blocks May Be Common to Certain Wireless Carriers", but soon realized using more than seven words in a title would only bore people to death. :p
Even if my discovery confirmed only to me that Big Brother is sniffing our email packets on certain cellular mobile providers, then this isn't news at all. This has been known since the closer ties between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US were ratified with the intelligence agreement between these nations in the UKUSA Community, which has been known since 1973.;)
Also AUSCANNZUKUS is the Command, Control, Communication and Computers (C4) organization for united defense of these five nations (Five Eyes). 0_o
While espionage has two aspects to it, commercial and national security, the inadvertant use of one aspect of computer networking might expose a part of the private network of one corporation to the Internet if safeguards are not in place. :p
So let's take a closer look at what actually happened.
Today I was looking at an old email sent from one of my smartphones registered with a certain Canadian wireless mobility provider (CWMP) in gmail and found out how to access the email headers. What caught my eye was when I checked the IP addresses assigned to one of my smartphone by the CWMP's servers.
According to what I've been able to determine, that CWMP's servers assign two IP addresses to your smartphone.
One address identifies your phone to the world. It is in the range of 74.198.0.0 - 74.198.255.255 and is owned by the CWMP; the other address identifies you to the CWMP's server and is thus the internal IP address. It is in the range of 25.0.0.0 - 25.255.255.255 and was not owned by the CWMP.
Before I get to who owns the IP address range 25.0.0.0 - 25.255.255.255, it's internally used by the CWMP and will be different when your smartphone connects to the data servers for 2G/3G/4G. Usually, private networks consist of the following three ranges 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 to serve 16 million addresses; 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 to serve one million addresses; and 192.168.0.0. - 192.168.255.255 to server 64 thousand addresses. These numbers of addresses are a rough estimate, for the terms describing numbers consisting of "thousand" and "million" may be exchanged with the following numeric equivalents for accuracy, 1024 and 1048576.
If their servers are properly set up, then it will not broadcast to the actual owners of the IP address range 25.0.0.0 - 25.255.255.255 since it uses CIDR addressing and the NAT servers between the devices and the Internet give their public addresses, of which the 74.198.0.0 - 74.198.255.255 range is a subset.
For the actual owner of that address range is DINSA, Ministry of Defense, UK and is the "Computers" part of the C4 architecture, assigning IP addresses within that IP address range.
I'm sure the conspiracy theorists could draw implausible conclusions about this CWMP using UK defence network infrastructure at this point, but I feel that is an oversight the CWMP made in anticipation of having over 16 million customers sometime after 2014. ;)
However, as I have stated earlier, only this CWMP's servers assign each phone an internal IP address in the range 25.64.0.0 - 25.127.255.255 to handle over 4 million subscribers, provided the address mask is 255.192.0.0. However, this was true between June 2012 and August 8, 2012 according to email retained between those dates, and is representative of only one device out of a potential 4 million devices .
This means the CWMP has run out of private addresses in the range of 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 for over 16 million customers. Though, IPv6 provides unique local addresses to solve this problem.
Note also that the private internet IP address in the 25.64.0.0 - 25.127.255.255 range are dynamically assigned, i.e. the mobile servers assign a new number to a registered device everytime data is turned on. A data circuit between my IP address and that of a destination (plus.google.com at the IP address range 173.194.33.32/28) lasts as long as the device is within range of that cell tower. Then the data circuit is passed over to a second cell tower within range of my device. The same IP address for my device is used until I turn data off on my phone. When I again use data, a new IP address is assigned to my device.
FWIW the Bell network uses the private IP address range of 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 and most smartphones registered to them use a unique local address for each device.
Most likely, the CWMP's technicians have found the IPv6 learning curve so steep that they still rely on IPv4 addressing, for now. This is because of our use of the decimal system; not everyone can think in hexadecimal. ;)
This makes the smartphone a great tool to aid in IPv4-to-IPv6 translation. ;p
Update:
IMO the revelation by Edward Snowden tends to validate my analysis of the mentioned cellphone addresses. It may be due to DNS cache poisoning. Most likely, it is a result of a poor programming of a DNS server. If it turned out that the IP adresses in question arose out of DNS cache poisoning, then these IP addresses probably got "reassigned" sometime between now and almost forteen months ago. YMMV
Update 20150108:
DNS cache poisoning also led to IP address ranges originally assigned to Surrey Public Library to be also a part of a hotel in Whistler, probably proving that someone in the IT department adminstering that hotel's ip address range is the culprit.
Update history:
20140225.1921
20121108.2130
20121108.2331
Reference:
ECHR Fast-tracks Court Case on PRISM and TEMPORA (and VERYANGRYBIRDS?)
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/axel/echr-fast-tracks-court-case-on-prism-and-tempora-and-very-angry-birds/
Showing posts with label Five Eyes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Five Eyes. Show all posts
20150108
20140205
The Suppression of Arab Spring (satire)
al-Arsuzi is one of the founding fathers of Arab Baathism, which dominates Syrian government.
Arab Baathism is a mainly secular ideology based on Arab Marxism, due to pan-Arabist ideology. It differs greatly from the pseudo-religious ideology of al Qaeda and the Islamists, who are inspired by Salafi and Wahhabi ideology that dominates Saudi Arabian politics and the Saudi regimes of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as well as Bahrain.
Most Muslims devoted to Salafi and Wahhabi are not fanatics like al Qaeda. Sharia does not promote the killing of a Muslim by another Muslim. A Muslim would call it haram, which means "forbidden" or "taboo".
I would even consider al-Qaeda and the Islamists as well as other related terrorist groups (Chechen, Somalian, and home-grown terrorists seduced by on-line charismatic Muslim jihad rhetoric) to actually be subconscious unbelievers who project their unbelief onto other Muslims outside their small in-group.
When they get the expected outrage from Muslims, these fanatics then play the al Qaeda version of King of the Hill, in which they claim to be the only true believers. Their twisted logic is thus based on a pathological denial of their unbelief combined with the promise that by ridding the world of unbelievers in a holy war of jihad, the al Qaeda jihadi will on his death be carried to Paradise by angels who are sacred virgins.
I consider it likely these angels are actually Valkyries carrying fallen souls to Purgatory to prepare them like gold ore for refinement.
In my opinion, Arab Spring was suppressed in the Arab nations I have mentioned in this article as well being currently suppressed in Syria today.
Though the current situation in Syria is not a civil war but a proxy war by the following list of characters on one side.
This is because money talks as Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia finance the al Qaeda fanatics with covert approval by Canada, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Australia, who are the Five Eyes of the West.
Some of these characters were in the International Security Assistance Force that invaded Afghanistan to replace the repressive regime of the Taleban with the closest thing to a democratic government. A similar coalition known as Multi-National - Iraq also invaded Iraq under the false flag of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Lumping the nations that opted out of this Coalition together, I'll call the ones who may have trade ties with the three Arab nations and the Five Eyes nations, the Friends of the Coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq (FCAI) to make this article readable.
Opposing the Coalition are Russia and China.
Most of the European Union (EU) is neutral but willing to make trade pacts with the newly minted democratic governments of both Afghanistan and Iraq while keeping whatever trade ties they may have with both sides, along with the Coalition.
As well, the FCAI may be considered to be neutral but also willing to do trade with Russia and China.
Some of the EU may also be in the FCAI. Most of the nations in Africa are in the FCAI.
To simply their relationship, let's imagine three circles intersecting each other. On the left is Russia and China and on the right, the Coalition. Intersecting both of these circles is the FCAI.
Moving right along, my reason for presenting a short history lesson of Arab Baathism by introducing one of the founding fathers is because of the current crisis in Syria. My analysis of al Qaeda however is due to their presence in Syria.
By using psychobabble in describing their subconscious projection and conscious denial of it, I am attempting to present humor into the situation. As well, the description of a jihadi's afterlife is presented in terms that a Westerner can understand. I merely paraphrased the al Qaeda political ideology.
As for depicting the angels as being like the Valkyries taking a jihadi to Purgatory, I am parodying an unorthodox mashup of Norse mythology about the Valkyries who were said to take fallen Viking warriors to Valhalla, the Norse Paradise for warriors combined with the Christian ideal of a Purgatory for fallen souls and added a hint of my personally created mythology about Purgatory and subtly implied that fallen souls will redeemed after being purified like gold ore into pure gold, perhaps after being purified in a pit of brimstone and fire. ;)
My opinion about Arab Spring failing in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia implies that it never appeared in those nations.
References:
Zaki al-Arsuzi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaki_al-Arsuzi
Five Eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
International Security Assistance Force: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force
Multi-Nation Force - Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq
Arab Baathism is a mainly secular ideology based on Arab Marxism, due to pan-Arabist ideology. It differs greatly from the pseudo-religious ideology of al Qaeda and the Islamists, who are inspired by Salafi and Wahhabi ideology that dominates Saudi Arabian politics and the Saudi regimes of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as well as Bahrain.
Most Muslims devoted to Salafi and Wahhabi are not fanatics like al Qaeda. Sharia does not promote the killing of a Muslim by another Muslim. A Muslim would call it haram, which means "forbidden" or "taboo".
I would even consider al-Qaeda and the Islamists as well as other related terrorist groups (Chechen, Somalian, and home-grown terrorists seduced by on-line charismatic Muslim jihad rhetoric) to actually be subconscious unbelievers who project their unbelief onto other Muslims outside their small in-group.
When they get the expected outrage from Muslims, these fanatics then play the al Qaeda version of King of the Hill, in which they claim to be the only true believers. Their twisted logic is thus based on a pathological denial of their unbelief combined with the promise that by ridding the world of unbelievers in a holy war of jihad, the al Qaeda jihadi will on his death be carried to Paradise by angels who are sacred virgins.
I consider it likely these angels are actually Valkyries carrying fallen souls to Purgatory to prepare them like gold ore for refinement.
In my opinion, Arab Spring was suppressed in the Arab nations I have mentioned in this article as well being currently suppressed in Syria today.
Though the current situation in Syria is not a civil war but a proxy war by the following list of characters on one side.
This is because money talks as Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia finance the al Qaeda fanatics with covert approval by Canada, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Australia, who are the Five Eyes of the West.
Some of these characters were in the International Security Assistance Force that invaded Afghanistan to replace the repressive regime of the Taleban with the closest thing to a democratic government. A similar coalition known as Multi-National - Iraq also invaded Iraq under the false flag of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Lumping the nations that opted out of this Coalition together, I'll call the ones who may have trade ties with the three Arab nations and the Five Eyes nations, the Friends of the Coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq (FCAI) to make this article readable.
Opposing the Coalition are Russia and China.
Most of the European Union (EU) is neutral but willing to make trade pacts with the newly minted democratic governments of both Afghanistan and Iraq while keeping whatever trade ties they may have with both sides, along with the Coalition.
As well, the FCAI may be considered to be neutral but also willing to do trade with Russia and China.
Some of the EU may also be in the FCAI. Most of the nations in Africa are in the FCAI.
To simply their relationship, let's imagine three circles intersecting each other. On the left is Russia and China and on the right, the Coalition. Intersecting both of these circles is the FCAI.
Moving right along, my reason for presenting a short history lesson of Arab Baathism by introducing one of the founding fathers is because of the current crisis in Syria. My analysis of al Qaeda however is due to their presence in Syria.
By using psychobabble in describing their subconscious projection and conscious denial of it, I am attempting to present humor into the situation. As well, the description of a jihadi's afterlife is presented in terms that a Westerner can understand. I merely paraphrased the al Qaeda political ideology.
As for depicting the angels as being like the Valkyries taking a jihadi to Purgatory, I am parodying an unorthodox mashup of Norse mythology about the Valkyries who were said to take fallen Viking warriors to Valhalla, the Norse Paradise for warriors combined with the Christian ideal of a Purgatory for fallen souls and added a hint of my personally created mythology about Purgatory and subtly implied that fallen souls will redeemed after being purified like gold ore into pure gold, perhaps after being purified in a pit of brimstone and fire. ;)
My opinion about Arab Spring failing in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia implies that it never appeared in those nations.
References:
Zaki al-Arsuzi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaki_al-Arsuzi
Five Eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
International Security Assistance Force: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force
Multi-Nation Force - Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq
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