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Global Resource Systems LLC, Plantation, Florida • Airman checks network equipment A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world s computer networks that it was now managing
a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.
That real estate has since more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses - about 4 percent the size of the entire current internet. It s also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.
Apr 27 - Before Trump left office millions of the Pentagon s dormant IP addresses sprang t
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4 possible explanations for why a mysterious Florida company is managing a huge chunk of Pentagon internet addresses, according to cybersecurity experts
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A file photo of the Pentagon in Washington. After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the Internet that it owns. Many basic questions remain unanswered, beginning with why it chose for the task a company that seems not to have existed until September. AP
BOSTON: A very strange thing happened on the Internet the day US President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the Internet owned by the US Department of Defense.