First he thought that a /17 got stolen (by creating a company with the same name as the original, now-defunct owner), but he then said he was wrong and actually it either 1) got transferred against ARIN policy or 2) was made to look like it was transferred by altering the whois data.
Peace,
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:54 PM Ronald F. Guilmette
<rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> Corporate identity theft is a simple ploy which may be used to illicitly
> obtain valuable IPv4 address space. Actual use of this fradulent ploy
> was first described publicly in April, 2008 (https://wapo.st/2YLEhlZ).
nostromo:tmp ximaera$ wc guilmette_combined.mbox
249 2122 13695 guilmette_combined.mbox
nostromo:tmp ximaera$
I wish I had enough spare time to read this.
May we have a tl;dr version of this?
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Töma