Ok so there was this guy Gary McKinnon, he hacked into US federal agencies including NASA. He was caught and his case was reviewed in jury. A pdf file was published with the ip addresses he accessed that lead to the agencies. The pdf file is here: http://files.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/cyberlaw/usmck1102vaind.pdf

However the file contains blank spots were ip address should be. However if you were to use a text selection in adobe, and copy the selected blank spot, and then pasted in any text editor you can find the ip address.

Now... anyones interested into hacking into federal ip address lately? :bugeye:

I think many of these are already public knowledge. ip blocklists use them to prevent the govt (FBI and co) from looking in on shared media and whatnot.

Getting caught after hacking the government doesn't sound fun at all.





Admittedly, I DO thing it would be entertaining if by hacking, I found the schematics/blueprint for something that would be cool to build and play with- IE- some sort of top secret supergun or something.
I could picture myself building a megawatt lazer, and using it to vaporize tin cans in my back yard or impressing girls with my homebrew 'optic camoflage'.

However the file contains blank spots were ip address should be. However if you were to use a text selection in adobe, and copy the selected blank spot, and then pasted in any text editor you can find the ip address.

Haha, what the hell? It works. Nice, uh, security measures there in trying to hide the info.

- N

Well IP addresses are no secret, afterall there is a finite number of them and I've seen a few pages on the internet where people have "spidered" entire ranges. (Interesting to see who's assigned what)

Quite simply if any of you have any daft notion about trying to hit upon any of those listed IP's, please note that the recent changes in law due to "Terrorism" is likely to have you tarred a terrorist, not some spotty youth on a "rebel against my parents" trip.

As for McKinnon's access to their networks, from what I read it wasn't just about IP ranges but protocols. There is also the potential that he might of been used to root where flaws were in their security. Why they would use someone from the UK to enter US networks, simply to flag a threat, they should be glad he wasn't one of the superpowers they usually complain about.

Apparently most of the systems he entered used one default password during installation and hadn't been changed by any administrators.