Massive prefix theft in AFRINIC - attributed to an insider
Congratulations, Ron Guilmette. You’ve been doing this for years and this is your biggest success yet. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-... tl;dr - The insider is apparently Ernest Byaruhanga, AFRINIC employee #2, and he has now separated from AFRINIC --srs
I am obliged to thank my friend Suresh for his kind words. I have indeed been trying, for lo these past 20+ years now, to chase spammers and other miscreants off the Internet. It has rarely been easy, but there have been occasional gratifications. Today is one such. But this story is not yet complete, and I have miles to go before I sleep. I am also obliged to post one small but important correction to what Suresh said. Suresh said that Ernest Byaruhanga "has now separated from AFRINIC." That's not really entirely accurate. He has resigned, but as noted in the story on mybroadband.co.za, he is currently still employed by AFRINIC and is currently serving out his notice period. Neither I nor my co-pilot on this story, South African journalist Jan Vermeulen, have any information about whether or nor, at this moment, Mr. Byaruhanga still retains unfettered read/write access to the AFRINIC data base. (I think that it is not at all inaccurate to say that multiple AFRINIC officials that we contacted in regards to this story have been rather entirely less than forthcoming with us as we tried to get to the bottom of all of these matters.) Regards, rfg
Let me join Suresh in congratulating you, Ron. It is very hard to obtain meaningful results in this kind of affairs. Yet here, the hard-earned results have been impressive. Hats off. Best regards ________________________________________ De: anti-abuse-wg [anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net] en nombre de Ronald F. Guilmette [rfg@tristatelogic.com] Enviado: jueves, 05 de diciembre de 2019 0:50 Para: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Asunto: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Massive prefix theft in AFRINIC - attributed to an insider I am obliged to thank my friend Suresh for his kind words. I have indeed been trying, for lo these past 20+ years now, to chase spammers and other miscreants off the Internet. It has rarely been easy, but there have been occasional gratifications. Today is one such. But this story is not yet complete, and I have miles to go before I sleep. I am also obliged to post one small but important correction to what Suresh said. Suresh said that Ernest Byaruhanga "has now separated from AFRINIC." That's not really entirely accurate. He has resigned, but as noted in the story on mybroadband.co.za, he is currently still employed by AFRINIC and is currently serving out his notice period. Neither I nor my co-pilot on this story, South African journalist Jan Vermeulen, have any information about whether or nor, at this moment, Mr. Byaruhanga still retains unfettered read/write access to the AFRINIC data base. (I think that it is not at all inaccurate to say that multiple AFRINIC officials that we contacted in regards to this story have been rather entirely less than forthcoming with us as we tried to get to the bottom of all of these matters.) Regards, rfg
On 04/12/2019 21:42, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Congratulations, Ron Guilmette. You’ve been doing this for years and this is your biggest success yet.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-...
tl;dr - The insider is apparently Ernest Byaruhanga, AFRINIC employee #2, and he has now separated from AFRINIC
--srs
Kudos Ron! Just a shame the RIRs themselves don't have each an investigative arm to do this kind of research. -Hank
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Hank Nussbacher -
Ronald F. Guilmette -
Suresh Ramasubramanian -
Ángel González Berdasco