[Cryptography] Dark Web should really be called the Twilight Web

[Tom Mitchell]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Kevin W. Wall <kevin.w.wall at gmail.com>
wrote:Slightly OT...
>
> On May 28, 2015 1:30 PM, "Tony Arcieri" <tony.arcieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
Oh yeah, that's an authoritative source. The writers on that show don't
> even grok dot notation of IPv4 addresses. Apparently they think each octet
> ranges from 000 to 999. E.g., one week they showed all of these IP
> addresses on the same map.
>
> 129.356.24.399
> 136.269.64.259
> 101.258.10.024
> 64.167.84.259
> 146.378.83.634
>
Given that IPv4 is for all practical purposes fully allocated
these seem to be the moral equivalent of  (201)555-1234.
It is a good thing that they use "bogus" addresses because
a valid address would go someplace real.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/27545/why-do-fake-phone-numbers-start-555

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