Sprint and the DOD Big Brother is watching us....

[Anonamoose]

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I did not discover this but boy am I ticked it showed right up as DOD for me. Anyone else as ticked as I am? I do nothing illegal to deserve this kind of scrutiny nor do I think anyone would be dumb enough to do illegal activities on a contracted phone (unless it's stolen). I even pulled up my contract to see and I don't see anything like this... this is pretty invasive. Sorry to rant but it ticks me off.

You get ifconfig in the market then type in your address in the whois website. You must be on your data and not on wifi.

 

[cj100570]

Yawn! In other news, water is wet....

 

[robber]

I can certainly understand why this might bother some people but I have nothing to hide so I am not concerned. I'll even go a step further and say we need to be doing this kind of thing since our existance as it is today is relatively fragile.

The second any information obtained is used for enforcement of anything other than a national security threat I have a big problem.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

DoD is used as an Internet hub. You should see Peer Guardian go wild if you're routed through it while downloading something.

 

[jim302]

IPv4 addresses are running short, and since everyone is dragging their feet on IPv6, IPv4 address reassignments between organizations are being used as an interim solution.

In this case, it sounds like the DOD is letting Sprint use some of its IP address space. It is possible to "reassign" a subnet in the network range, but they will likely always show up as being owned by the DoD.

If the reassignment has not been done and there is no reference to Sprint in the WHOIS information, it likely means that someone hasn't gotten around to updating the database, or just forgot.

I have been assigned IP addresses at businesses with incorrect information in WHOIS (still registered to the old owner), and had to call the ISP (owner of the IP addresses) to correct the issue.

If the government were monitoring your usage, they wouldn't make it this obvious. Your traffic can be monitored without giving you a government owned IP address.

 

[McPlot]

du gah vern mint iz outs tah getz ya'll. Butter grab yah scousin (SISTER - COUSIN) N mari err whiles stil cann.

 

[tommymsw]

I am not sure why I am supposed to be upset? I looked up my IP address and there was no personal information about me? It didn't even say what state I was in. But I am ALWAYS baffled that people get upset about this kind of stuff... I think now that technology is in everybody's hands, too many people are confused about it.

Some people are afraid to use a credit card online (as if that is any different than using it over the phone or even at a store).

I know that if you look up my car license plate, you will see my name and address. If you look up my phone number in the phone book, you will get my address. If any authority looked up my lan line phone number they would see where it was coming from. As humans we keep track of things we sell... car sales, gun sales, home sales.... we have tracked this information before there even was a DOD.

What is IN my home, car or phone is MY business.... That would bother me. But just that somebody can tell who bought the phone? I had to fill out a contact with the carrier in the first place, they know I own it, that is how they bill me.

I think now that people are becoming aware of how things work, they are confused by them. There is no conspiracy or invasion of privacy here.

 

[Quis89]

So does this affect my daily porn viewing activities? Hell....the DOD might enjoy it as well....

 

[McPlot]

But it was posted on the internet it must be true. The paranoia nowadays is amazing. I'm gonna find a nice snake oil to sell and I'll make billions.

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