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" All the below are FBI controlled Linux servers & IPs/IP-Ranges 207.60.0.0 - 207.60.255.0 "

I have no idea how they verified it* (or perhaps inserted as a prank?) but almost certainly it's no longer current (the list is from 2016) but uhmm yeah - It makes all those 80's movies that had the surveilance teams in grey vans marked 'Joes 24 Hour Plumbers' or 'Billy-Bobs Flowers' kinda funny.

* IIRC one of the US Three Letter Agencies set up a load of dummy websites but used the same html code snippet in all of them. Once the first one was discovered and exposed as being a front it was game over. (meta comment - I think I might have read it as a post here on HN)



You might be talking about the way the CIA reused code to communicate with sources in Iran in its China operations? Then got a ton of people killed by being stupid/lazy - despite internal whistleblowers going to Congress to warn them it was dangerous?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/11/03/dozens-us-...

Something similar happened in Lebanon IIRC. Lazy reuse of tradecraft - a pizzeria and some mobiles I think it was.




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