It’s coming. I’ve got butcher paper on the floor mapping out 2000 ASNs. My wife says I look like one of the detectives tracking down a serial killer with red string. I run my own consulting company, and actually lost my main client due to the above post being interpreted as “anti-China”. That has been an enormous setback.
Anyone can do this research I want to emphasize. Look at any suspicious VPN company. Now look at 10 of them. Now plug some of those names into Shodan.
Bear with me here, but if you then simply Ctrl-F for ASNs with the same name with the same LLCs, you will construct a perfect circle of peering that is an “internet within an internet”. What it seems to be is a poor man’s TOR. While the US gov built a Tor, this is an alternate Dark Web built by someone...you can pass through 1,000 servers on 500 different hosting companies none of which do legitimate business.
(Hope this counts as a mini blog post for now this must be 250 words).
