[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

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> On 23 Dec 2020, at 17:07, Emem William <dwizard65 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 

> Dear Ronald,

> 

> Thanks for the information.

> 

> In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name stands out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a lot of route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research about them?

> 

> Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP? As you have rightfully pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 <https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4> , they seem to be the only upstream provider that still routes Afrinic’s stolen IP.

> 

> Cheers,

> Emem William

> 

> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 02:23 Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com <mailto:rfg at tristatelogic.com>> wrote:

> In message <MP9iGyd--3-2 at tuta.io <mailto:MP9iGyd--3-2 at tuta.io>>, libren at tuta.io <mailto:libren at tuta.io> wrote:

> 

> >Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?

> 

> I am a real person and this is my real name.

> 

> Who are YOU?  An what is YOUR real name?

> 

> >You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company?

> 

> That is correct.  I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media.  And

> that is certainly by intent.

> 

> Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my

> personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have

> elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet

> for people I don't know to snoop on.

> 

> If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.

> 

> >I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even

> >part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest

> >in community mailing list?

> 

> I am so glad you asked.

> 

> Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign

> that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The tag line

> contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What

> happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  (The idea being sold is that people

> can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns

> without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)

> 

> Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most

> definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet.  It

> spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.

> 

> Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.

> 

> It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC administered

> IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,

> and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,

> all around the world.

> 

> I am not amused.  And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been effectively

> -foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address

> space.

> 

> I sincerly wish it were otherwise.  And I wish that AFRINIC would clean

> up all of this crap, once and for all, and stop allowing crooks from

> Israel, the Netherlands, India, and the U.S. to make Africans all appear

> to be either corrupt or incompetent or both.  (I know this is not the

> case, but I am still looking for the Africans who will stand up for

> principal and not allow non-African foreigners to effectively defecate

> all over AFRINIC and its global reputation.)

> 

> I started publicly reporting on the skulduggery taking place within the

> AFRINIC region in the summer of 2016.  I have now been waiting for nearly

> four and half years for someone with guts to step forward,  do the Right

> Thing, and clean up this colossal mess.  I am still waiting.

> 

> >There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone

> >with your findings.

> 

> Others may disagree.

> 

> >Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its members.

> 

> See above.  It is *not* just between Afrinic and its members.  What happens

> in Africa DOES NOT stay within Africa.

> 

> The incompetence and corruption within AFRINIC has allowed an entire planet's

> worth of Internet users... several billion people... to get repeatedly

> hacked and spammed.  And it is still doing so even as we speak.

> 

> Who exactly has an interest in preserving that unfortnate status quo?

> 

> You, apparently.

> 

> Which brings me back to the question I raised above... Who are you really?

> 

> 

> Regards,

> rfg

> 

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