[Full-disclosure] Why are phone internet operators using UK MoD and US DoD IP ranges in their networks?

2012-02-20 Thread Julius Kivimäki
So, it appears that Sprint and T-Mobile are using 25.*.*.* and 28.*.*.* as their phone network internal IPs. This causes a ton of security issues, why would they do this? ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter:

Re: [Full-disclosure] Why are phone internet operators using UK MoD and US DoD IP ranges in their networks?

2012-02-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:45:20 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Julius_Kivim=E4ki?= said: So, it appears that Sprint and T-Mobile are using 25.*.*.* and 28.*.*.* as their phone network internal IPs. This causes a ton of security issues, why would they do this? They apparently thought that their customers

Re: [Full-disclosure] Why are phone internet operators using UK MoD and US DoD IP ranges in their networks?

2012-02-20 Thread Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)
Hi Julius, Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:45:20 +0200 Julius Kivimäki wrote: So, it appears that Sprint and T-Mobile are using 25.*.*.* and 28.*.*.* as their phone network internal IPs. Not only Sprint and T-Mobile - here is the snip from one recent spam message: Received: from megafonpro.ru

Re: [Full-disclosure] Why are phone internet operators using UK MoD and US DoD IP ranges in their networks?

2012-02-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:22:04 +0400, Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) said: This causes a ton of security issues, why would they do this? Just because some network admins are lazy and dumb and even don't want to read RFC 1918 and other BCPs. Probably lazy. Probably *not* dumb. There was