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Don’t worry. There is no spying occuring!

July 18, 2012 1 comment

Just a quick post to clear something up.
Site stats have shown lots of interest from this post;
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/usa-department-of-defense-spying-on-infinity-users/td-p/578197

Which seems related to this post;
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/4107499-alert-in-modem-log.html

Just to clear up any confusion, the following address ranges are private;
10.0.0.0/8
172.16.0.0/12
192.168.0.0/16

That is, you can’t use them on ‘The Internet’, they belong only in private home/business/management networks behind a real public IP (such as your home 192.168.0.x network behind one real internet IP).

The network I have discussed is a private network, it’s internal to the Infinity network, it’s directly attached (via the 301 VLAN) to your devices.

The reason it’s registered to the US DoD in ‘Who Is’ lookups is historic and dates back to Arpa-net. It’s the same historic stuff as why your IPv4 reverse DNS PTR records all end in ‘in-addr.arpa’

Further reading;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

It has (and let me be quite clear here before this blog attracts more attention that it ever wanted) NOTHING TO DO with the USA or related parties doing ANYTHING to BT Infinity connections or data.

That is all.
On an unrelated note however, the IPS logs in the second link are quite interesting from the perspective of return SNMP traffic, more later!