Shadowy DARPA-Linked Company Took Over 'Chunk' Of Pentagon's Internet In Inauguration Day Mystery

A shadowy company set up last September linked to a DARPA / FBI contractor who peddled a 'lawful intercept' internet spy device to government agencies and law enforcement a decade ago, took over a massive portion of the Pentagon's idle internet addresses on the day of President Biden's inauguration, according to an in-depth investigation by the Associated Press.

The valuable internet real estate has since quadrupled to 175 million IP addresses which were previously owned by the US Department of Defense - about 1/25th the size of the current internet, and over twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.

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

AP. And now a company linked to Saulino, which didn't exist before September, took control of a massive chunk of the Pentagon's internet space on inauguration day for unknown reasons.

Why did the Pentagon choose Global Resource Systems - a company linked to a 'spooky' individual - on inauguration day? "As to why the DoD would have done that I'm a little mystified, same as you," internet pioneer Paul Vixie told AP. More via AP:.Deepening the mystery is Global Resource Systems' name.

Mike Leber, who owns Hurricane Electric, the internet backbone company handling the address blocks' traffic, didn't return emails or phone messages.

Despite an internet address crunch, the Pentagon - which created the internet - has shown no interest in selling any of its address space, and a Defense Department spokesman, Russell Goemaere, told the AP on Saturday that none of the newly announced space has been sold.

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