The evidence that Wikileaks is Russian

[BadgerMom]

Honesty first. I'm only a few paragraphs into this article. It was posted on Louise Mensch's blog, patribotics.wordpress.com, a short time ago. I saw it because she announced the article's publication on Twitter.

It shows--for novices and experts--how Wikileaks is tied by IP address to Russia. That address was made Russian in the week before the Podesta leaks.

And that's just the first few paragraphs.

https://patribotics.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/wikileaks-is-connected-to-russia-despite-their-claimswikileaks-is-connected-to-russia-despite-their-claims/

[Warpy]

1. I doubt it started that way

Early on, he managed to embarrass a few Russian bureaucrats and mobsters. However, I think he'd do anything for anyone who promised to get him out of the Ecuadorean embassy. A pleasantly appointed prison is still a prison.

[HoneyBadger]

2. That is actually not how it works

What defines the different classes of IP addresses is the “subnet mask” which is associated with that class. Normally the subnet mask is the same in every device on a single LAN. If we look at the Class B private addresses above, we see that the default subnet mask is 255.255.0.0. The first two octets of this subnet mask with the “255s” indicate that those sections of the IPV4 address must match on all devices that need to communicate with each other. So in a Class C network the default subnet mask says that the first three octets must match exactly.

Public IP addresses will be issued by an Internet Service Provider and will have number ranges from 1 to 191 in the first octet, with the exception of the private address ranges that start at 10.0.0 for Class A private networks and 172.16.0 for the Class B private addresses.

It’s important for technicians to understand that IT personnel can choose to use any of the private address ranges for their LAN devices. It is not at all uncommon for a technician to be confronted with a client’s network where the local addresses are in the range of 10.0.0.1-254, and the subnet mask used is 255.255.255.0. This is an example of using Class A private addresses with a Class C subnet, which makes this a Class C network. It is the subnet mask that defines which “class” a LAN network’s addressing is using.