may not be great source but wow people are pissed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4170842/posts
snopes? and i thought my source was bad
175 MILLION CHATGPT BOTS OPERATED BY AN OBSCURE ISRAELI CORP USING DOD SOURCED IPs Anonymous (ID: dD5BDosm) 07/27/23(Thu)12:59:55 No.435964431 [Reply]▶>>435964492 >>435964837
https://archive.is/Rxf2y
>While the world was distracted with President Donald Trump leaving office on Jan. 20, an obscure Florida company discreetly announced to the world’s computer networks a startling development: It now was managing a huge unused swath of the Internet that, for several decades, had been owned by the U.S. military.
>The entities controlling the largest swaths of the Internet generally are telecommunications giants whose names are familiar: AT&T, China Telecom, Verizon. But now at the top of the list was Global Resource Systems — a company founded only in September that has no publicly reported federal contracts and no obvious public-facing website.
>“They are now announcing more address space than anything ever in the history of the Internet,” said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis for Kentik, a network monitoring company, who was among those trying to figure out what was happening.
https://archive.is/2QrSG
https://archive.is/QEXiH
>(((Brett Goldstein))), the DDS’s director, said in a statement that his unit had authorized a “pilot effort” publicizing the IP space owned by the Pentagon.
>“This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,” Goldstein said. “Additionally, this pilot may identify potential vulnerabilities.”
>(((Goldstein))) described the project as one of the Defense Department’s “many efforts focused on continually improving our cyber posture and defense in response to advanced persistent threats. We are partnering throughout DoD to ensure potential vulnerabilities are mitigated.”