Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?

65 points by zdw 5 hours ago on hackernews | 12 comments

On-going discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371246

If you're the Qatari royal family, you can just buy the whole white house instead, should you happen to have an extra gaudily furnished 747-800 laying around.

poi3920 | 2 hours ago

This couldn't be far from the truth. USA is not for sale, she is owned by interests that will dethrone anyone who would consider this.

asdff | 2 hours ago

What about the naming rights though?

: walrus01 | 2 hours ago
Brought to you by Carl's Junior.

asdff | 2 hours ago

I wonder if I can colo my private email server under the new ballroom?

jonathanstrange | 2 hours ago

I'd like to know how to reliably detect whether a machine serves as a residential proxy. For example, ipinfo.io flags any ProtonVPN connection from my machine as residential proxy but how do I know it's not a false positive?

: bowmessage | 2 hours ago
It sounds like they paid for proxy services, and phoned home using them, in order to learn from which IPs their requests were proxies through.
: m00dy | 2 hours ago
ASN lookups are so easy...Therefore, detecting VPNs are. Residentials proxies are hard, mobile proxies are harder.
: dewey | 2 hours ago
There's also "residential data center" proxies you can buy, it sound weird but it's ISPs selling some of their regular residential IP space to proxy companies so they don't look like data center IPs.

ycombiredd | 2 hours ago

I can remember as far back as the 1990's working at an ISP in DFW and periodically seeing traffic coming from addresses with IP addresses belonging to netblocks belonging to EOP.GOV, having DNS that round-tripped to some EOP.GOV hostname, and being puzzled by it since if it was some sort of investigatory traffic by a federal agency, that's not the office you'd expect it to come from. As mentioned, this was early Internet (relatively speaking) and back then we hosted the BUGTRAQ mailing list, so I chalked it up to some nerd working there being proactive, keeping up to date but in hindsight I have to wonder if it's been a zombie horde all along.

rob74 | 2 hours ago

I'd like to apply Hanlon's razor here, but I honestly can't tell if it's malicious intent, incompetence or malicious intent disguised as incompetence for plausible deniability?