Pentagon reclaims 6% of the entire internet

 - that was mysteriously handed over to a Florida company on the day Trump left office

  • Transfer of idle DoD IP addresses took place minutes before Trump left office 
  • The Department of Defense reclaimed the large amount of internet from Global Resource Systems LLC, which is headquartered in Plantation, Florida
  • At one point, the company more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses - about 6 percent the size of the entire current internet  
  • The company's address is listed in a co-working space 
  • It is still unclear what exactly the program did or why Global Resource Systems LLC was chosen

Minutes before former President Donald Trump left office, a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank took control over a large chunk of internet space owned by the Pentagon.   

Now the Department of Defense has reclaimed the 175 million IP addresses - about six percent the size of the entire current internet - from Global Resource Systems LLC, which is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, the Washington Post reported Friday.  

'It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet,' said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network operating company.

It's also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon. 

Minutes before President Joe Biden was sworn into office, a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank took control over a large chunk of internet space owned by the Pentagon

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By Sandra Salathe
(Source: dailymail.co.uk; September 13, 2021; https://tinyurl.com/yebdaglt)
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