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Re: My HP printer talking to the FBI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Shaw)
Tue Oct 23 20:39:00 2001
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:38:32 -0400
From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20011023134732.J57247-100000@btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>; from dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:51:53PM -0700
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:51:53PM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
>
> This is going to sound strange, but does your printer call the FBI?
>
> I was looking through my firewall logs and found this gem:
>
> Oct 17 03:43:33 btw /kernel: Oct 17 03:41:34 btw /kernel:
> ipfw: 7800 Unreach TCP 12.1.224.109:80 206.129.5.146:1115
> in via xl1
>
> 206.129.5.146 is my HP printer. 12.1.224.109 is:
>
> Name: origin.ifccfbi.gov
> Address: 12.1.224.109
> Aliases: 109.224.1.12.in-addr.arpa
>
> Looking through the config I don't see anything for 12.1.224.109.
FWIW, the IP address is in a block owned by the "National White Collar
Crime Center" (www.nw3c.org), who runs the Internet Fraud Complaint
Center for the FBI.
David
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