Just had to block an NSA server....

Fartin around my server today blocking badly behaving bots and what not, I came across this IP 144.51.73.129, with a lot of open connections to port 80, my web server. It wasn't hammering it enough to generate a load issue, but piqued my interest none_the_less due to the number of connections.

So I do a whois on the IP, lo_and_behold, it belongs to the National Computer Security Center in Fort Meade Maryland.... A division of the NSA Just had to block an NSA server....

Naturally I added the IP to my block list, this is for one of 2 reasons:

1) If it's an attack (not likely) on my server, it's probably a spoofed address.

2) If it's a NSA pleeb spankin off on the internet, I want him to get back to work protecting the country (by monitoring my phone calls Just had to block an NSA server....)

I doubt the NSA would have any interest in the content of my server, and if they did they probably would not leave a trail right back to their door, it just struck me as odd to see. Anyone else with a similar experience?

 

 

 

 

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