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During the final minutes of the Trump presidency, an obscure company in South Florida announced to the world’s computer networks that it would begin managing a massive swath of the Internet owned by the U.S. military.

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In the months since, the company has claimed control of nearly 175 million IP addresses.

Such huge chunks of traditional Internet real estate amount to almost six percent of usable addresses in the original addressing scheme of the Web. "It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the histor
Brett Goldstein, the director of a Pentagon unit called the Defense Digital Service, said that his team had authorized the activation of the IP addresses as a “pilot effort” to improve cybersecurity. "This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthori
The dramatic shift in IP address space allotment sparked impassioned speculation among network administrators and the Internet industry.

Here’s what you need to know about the Pentagon’s unusual move.

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