[WikiEN-l] Intellipedia

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:36 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Linking to wikipedia pages would be kinda risky. One leak of what CIA
> IPs are and we can then use server logs to track what the CIA and
> simular are interested in.

The IP addresses used by the CIA are not secret.

$ whois 198.81.129.100
ANS Communications, Inc BLK198-15-ANS (NET-198-80-0-0-1)
                                  198.80.0.0 - 198.81.255.255
Central Intelligence Agency OIT-BLK1 (NET-198-81-128-0-1)
                                  198.81.128.0 - 198.81.191.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2009-05-26 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

11.0.0.0/8 is allocated to "DoD Intel Information Systems".  Defense
Information Systems Agency is assigned 22.0.0.0/8, 26.0.0.0/8,
29.0.0.0/8, and 30.0.0.0/8.  DoD Network Information Center gets
55.0.0.0/8.  The CIA assuredly has a variety of ranges assigned to it
through various levels of registrars that anyone with a whois database
could look up.  Even if they tried to keep them secret, they'd be
figured out sooner or later by anyone who cared, if they remained
static.  Get access to one router near a known CIA installation and
watch the traffic.

If the CIA cares about this, they presumably don't permit outgoing
traffic to the public web without some layers of indirection.  If
you're already allowing your employees free access to the unencrypted
public web, letting them link to Wikipedia is not going to worsen
matters.