s-orbital Updated +Created
Bitcoin CLI client Updated +Created
On Bitcoin Core snap 26.0, the executable is called bitcoin-core.cli rather than bitcoin-cli.
Bitcoin Core snap Updated +Created
Officially supported installation method on Ubuntu 23.10.
P2PKH Updated +Created
P2SH Updated +Created
Invalid Bitcoin script Updated +Created
They appear to be included, with rationale that you can already include syntactically valid crap in an unprovable way: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/320 Better then have syntactically invalid crap that is provable.
The outputs of this transaction seem to be the first syntactically incorrect scripts of the blockchain: blockchain.info/tx/ebc9fa1196a59e192352d76c0f6e73167046b9d37b8302b6bb6968dfd279b767?format=json, found by parsing everything locally. The transaction was made in 2013 for 0.1 BTC, which then became unspendable.
The first invalid script is just e.g. "script":"01", which says will push one byte into the stack, but then ends prematurely.
C. elegans cell lineage Updated +Created
Exactly 1033 somatic cells on male, 959 on hermaphrodite, every time, counted as of 2020. A beauty.
Exactly 131 commit apoptosis in the hermaphrodite.
www.wormatlas.org/celllineages.html contains the full lineage as some huge and impossible to view images. This image was taken directly from The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans where it is split across many pages, it is a thing of beauty on the PDF.
www.wormatlas.org/celllistsulston.htm contains a non-hierarchical table with the cells and their names.
C. elegans models and databases Updated +Created
Non Reuters ranges Updated +Created
viewdns.info Updated +Created
Accounts used so far: 6 (1500 reverse IP checks).
Their historic DNS and reverse DNS info was very valuable, and served as Ciro's the initial entry point to finding hits in the IP ranges given by Reuters.
Their data is also quite disjoint from the data of the 2013 DNS Census. There is some overlap, but clearly their methodology is very different. Some times they slot into one another almost perfectly.
You can only get about 250 queries on the web interface, then 250 queries per free account via API.
Since this source is so scarce and valuable, we have been quite careful to note down all the domain and IP ranges that have been explored.
They check your IP when you signup, and you can't sign in twice from the same IP. They also state that Tor addresses are blacklisted.
At news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496244, the creator of the viewdns.info, "Hughesey", also stated that he'd able to give some free credits for public research projects such as this one. This would have saved up going to quite a few Cafes to get those sweet extra IPs! But it was more fun in hardmode, no doubt.
They also normalize dots in gmail addresses, so you need more diverse email accounts. But they haven't covered the .gmail vs .googlemail trick.
We do API access to IP ranges with this simple helper: cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/viewdns-info.sh, usage:
./viewdns-info.sh <apikey> <start-ipv-address> <end-ipv-address>
e.g.:
./viewdns-info.sh 8b890b00b17ed2d66bbed878d51200b58d43d014 66.45.179.187 66.45.179.210
For domain to IP queries from the API you should use "iphistory" viewdns.info/api/docs/ip-history.php:
curl 'https://api.viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=todaysengineering.com&apikey=$APIKEY&output=json'
Very curiously, their reverse IP search appears to be somewhat broken, or not to be historic, e.g.
We've contacted viewdns.info support and they replied:
The reverse IP tool will only show a domain if that is it's current IP address.
This is likely not accurate, more precisely it likely only works if it was the last IP address, not necessarily a current one.
securitytrails.com Updated +Created
They appear to piece together data from various sources. As a result, they have a very complete domain -> IP history.
TODO reverse IP? The fact that they don't seem to have it suggests that they are just making historical reverse IP requests to a third party via some API.
Account creation blacklists common email providers such as gmail to force users to use a "corporate" email address. But using random domains like ciro@cirosantilli.com works fine.
Their data seems to date back to 2008 for our searches.
Common Crawl Updated +Created
So far, no new domains have been found with Common Crawl, nor have any existing known domains been found to be present in Common Crawl. Our working theory is that Common Crawl never reached the domains How did Alexa find the domains?
Let's try and do something with Common Crawl.
Unfortunately there's no IP data apparently: github.com/commoncrawl/cc-index-table/issues/30, so let's focus on the URLs.
Hello world:
select * from "ccindex"."ccindex" limit 100;
Data scanned: 11.75 MB
Sample first output line:
#                            2
url_surtkey                  org,whwheelers)/robots.txt
url                          https://whwheelers.org/robots.txt
url_host_name                whwheelers.org
url_host_tld                 org
url_host_2nd_last_part       whwheelers
url_host_3rd_last_part
url_host_4th_last_part
url_host_5th_last_part
url_host_registry_suffix     org
url_host_registered_domain   whwheelers.org
url_host_private_suffix      org
url_host_private_domain      whwheelers.org
url_host_name_reversed
url_protocol                 https
url_port
url_path                     /robots.txt
url_query
fetch_time                   2021-06-22 16:36:50.000
fetch_status                 301
fetch_redirect               https://www.whwheelers.org/robots.txt
content_digest               3I42H3S6NNFQ2MSVX7XZKYAYSCX5QBYJ
content_mime_type            text/html
content_mime_detected        text/html
content_charset
content_languages
content_truncated
warc_filename                crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488519183.85/robotstxt/CC-MAIN-20210622155328-20210622185328-00312.warc.gz
warc_record_offset           1854030
warc_record_length           639
warc_segment                 1623488519183.85
crawl                        CC-MAIN-2021-25
subset                       robotstxt
So url_host_3rd_last_part might be a winner for CGI comms fingerprinting!
Naive one for one index:
select * from "ccindex"."ccindex" where url_host_registered_domain = 'conquermstoday.com' limit 100;
have no results... data scanned: 5.73 GB
Let's see if they have any of the domain hits. Let's also restrict by date to try and reduce the data scanned:
select * from "ccindex"."ccindex" where
  fetch_time < TIMESTAMP '2014-01-01 00:00:00' AND
  url_host_registered_domain IN (
   'activegaminginfo.com',
   'altworldnews.com',
   ...
   'topbillingsite.com',
   'worldwildlifeadventure.com'
 )
Humm, data scanned: 60.59 GB and no hits... weird.
Sanity check:
select * from "ccindex"."ccindex" WHERE
  crawl = 'CC-MAIN-2013-20' AND
  subset = 'warc' AND
  url_host_registered_domain IN (
   'google.com',
   'amazon.com'
 )
has a bunch of hits of course. Also Data scanned: 212.88 MB, WHERE crawl and subset are a must! Should have read the article first.
Let's widen a bit more:
select * from "ccindex"."ccindex" WHERE
  crawl IN (
    'CC-MAIN-2013-20',
    'CC-MAIN-2013-48',
    'CC-MAIN-2014-10'
  ) AND
  subset = 'warc' AND
  url_host_registered_domain IN (
    'activegaminginfo.com',
    'altworldnews.com',
    ...
    'worldnewsandent.com',
    'worldwildlifeadventure.com'
 )
Still nothing found... they don't seem to have any of the URLs of interest?
tb0hdan/domains Updated +Created
Domain list only, no IPs and no dates. We haven't been able to extract anything of interest from this source so far.
Domain hit count when we were at 69 hits: only 9, some of which had been since reused. Likely their data collection did not cover the dates of interest.
ipinf.ru Updated +Created
OK, Oleg Shakirov's findings inspired Ciro Santilli to try Yandexing a bit more...
alljohnny.com had a hit: ipinf.ru/domains/alljohnny.com/, and so Ciro started looking around... and a good number of other things have hits.
Not all of them, definitely less data than viewdns.info.
But they do reverse IP, and they show which nearby reverse IPs have hits on the same page, for free, which is great!
Shame their ordering is purely alphabetical, doesn't properly order the IPs so it is a bit of a pain, but we can handle it.
OMG, Russians!!!
The data here had a little bit of non-overlap from other sources. 4 new confirmed hits were found, plus 4 possible others that were left as candidates.
iraniangoalkicks.com Updated +Created
whoisxmlapi WHOIS history March 23, 2011:
  • Created Date: April 9, 2007 00:00:00 UTC
  • Updated Date: March 2, 2011 00:00:00 UTC
  • Expires Date: April 9, 2011 00:00:00 UTC
  • Registrant Name: domainsbyproxy.com
  • Name servers: dns1.registrar-servers.com|dns2.registrar-servers.com
whoisrequest.com/history/ mentions:
1 May, 2007: Domain created*, nameservers added. Nameservers:
  • ns1.qwknetllc.com
  • ns2.qwknetllc.com
atomworldnews.com Updated +Created
whoisxmlapi WHOIS record on April 17, 2011
  • Created Date: April 9, 2010 00:00:00 UTC
  • Updated Date: April 9, 2010 00:00:00 UTC
  • Expires Date: April 9, 2012 00:00:00 UTC
  • Registrant Name: domainsbyproxy.com
  • Name servers: NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM|NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Hits without nearby IP hits Updated +Created
Here we list domains for which the correct IP was apparently not found since there are no neighbouring hits.
These are suspicious, and suggest either that we didn't obtain the correct reverse IP, or a change in CIA methodology from an older time at which they were not yet using the obscene IP ranges.
For example, in the case of inews-today.com, 2013 DNS Census gave one IP 193.203.49.212, but then viewdns.info gave another one 66.175.106.146 which fit into an existing IP range, and which assumed to be the correct IP of interest.
A similar case happened when we found IP 212.209.74.126 for headlines2day.com with dnshistory.org: dnshistory.org/historical-dns-records/a/headlines2day.com.
It is interesting to note that Reuters seems to have featured disproportionately many hits from that range, one wonders why that happened. It is possible that they chose these because they actually didn't have any nearby hits to give away less obvious information, though they did pick some from the ranges as wel.
In what follows we list the domains with possible reverse IPs and what was explored so far for each. We consider IPs not in a range to be uncertain, and that instead their domains might have been previously in a range which we
dailynewsandsports.com. Found with: 2013 DNS Census virtual host cleanup heuristic keyword searches
  • 216.119.129.94. rdns source: viewdns.info "location": "United States", "owner": "A2 Hosting, Inc.", "lastseen": "2012-04-13". Tested viewdns.info range: 216.119.129.85 - 216.119.129.86, 216.119.129.89 - 216.119.129.99, ran out of queries for 87 and 88
    • 216.119.129.90: eastdairies.com 2011-04-04. Promising name and date, but no archives alas.
    • 216.119.129.97: miideaco.com 2016-02-01
  • 216.119.129.114 Found with: 2013 DNS Census virtual host cleanup heuristic keyword searches, also present on viewdns.info but at a later date from previous "location": "United States", "owner": "A2 Hosting, Inc.", "lastseen": "2013-11-29". Tested viewdns.info range: 216.119.129.109 - 216.119.129.119
    • 216.119.129.110: dommoejmechty.com.ua. Legit.
    • 216.119.129.111: dailybeatz.com: Legit
    • 216.119.129.113:
      • audreygeneve.com
      • reyzheng.com
      • jacintorey.com
    • 216.119.129.114: dailynewsandsports.com. hit.
    • 216.119.129.115: afxchange.com legit/broken
    • 216.119.129.116: danafunkfinancial.com: legit
  • 208.73.33.194 on securitytrails.com
iranfootballsource.com:
  • 34.98.99.30 Kansas City - United States Google LLC 2021-05-24
  • 184.168.221.94 United States GoDaddy.com 2020-07-21
  • 50.63.202.66 United States GoDaddy.com 2020-07-07
  • 50.63.202.86 United States GoDaddy.com 2020-05-28
  • 184.168.221.94 United States GoDaddy.com 2020-05-13
  • 50.63.202.74 United States GoDaddy.com 2020-04-29
  • 50.18.223.191 San Jose - United States Amazon.com 2015-03-23. Sources: 2013 DNS Census and viewdns.info
    • no viewdns.info hits +- 10
  • 85.13.200.108 United Kingdom Coreix Dedicated Customer Allocation 2013-06-30. Source: viewdns.info
    • 85.13.200.108: 1000 hits, so unlikely to be the one
iraniangoalkicks.com:
iraniangoals.com:
football-enthusiast.com:
  • 212.4.18.14: Tested viewdns.info range: 212.4.18.1 - 212.4.18.29. This is a curious case, rather close to 212.4.18.129 sightseeingnews.com, but not quite in the same range apparently. Viewdns.info also agrees on its history with only "212.4.18.14", "location" : "Milan - Italy", "owner" : "MCI Worldcom Italy Spa", "lastseen" : "2013-06-30" of interest.
rastadirect.net:
todaysengineering.com:
  • 208.254.38.39. rdns source: both viewdns.info and 2013 DNS Census. Tested viewdns.info range: 208.254.38.34 - 208.254.38.44. Weirdly empty, doesn't even show the domain iteslf!
  • 68.178.232.100: source: securitytrails.com. 2009-11-24 - 2009-12-11, GoDaddy.com, LLC
worldofonlinenews.com:
mywebofnews.com:
cyhiraeth-intlnews.com:
news-latina.com:
europeannewsflash.com:
outlooknewscast.com:
  • dnshistory.org/historical-dns-records/a/outlooknewscast.com
    • 2009-08-08 -> 2011-02-11 74.53.159.130. Tested viewdns.info range: 74.53.159.120 - 74.53.159.140
      • 74.53.159.130: aeromedhistory.org 2014-11-29
      • 74.53.159.130: mariposahorticultural.com 2022-11-28
      • 74.53.159.130: thewritestuffresume.com 2011-04-04. Legit.
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=outlooknewscast.com
    • 204.93.178.121 Chicago - United States SERVERCENTRAL 2011-09-08. Tested viewdns.info range: 204.93.178.111 - 204.93.178.131. Skimmed through, nothing of great interest.
    • 74.53.159.130 United States SOFTLAYER 2011-04-04. Tested.
24hoursprimenews.com:
farsi-newsandweather.com:
global-view-news.com:
health-men-today.com:
  • dnshistory.org/historical-dns-records/a/health-men-today.com
    • 2009-11-30 -> 2010-05-27 67.220.228.224. New range with global-view-news.com? Tested viewdns.info range: 67.220.228.214 67.220.228.234
      • 67.220.228.223: stagedwithdistinction.com 2011-10-09. One archive of godaddy only.
    • 2009-08-01 -> 2009-09-19 69.42.58.50. Tested viewdns.info range: 69.42.58.40 - 69.42.58.60. Virtuals, canada.
    • 2011-01-07 -> 2011-01-07 69.90.162.165. Tested viewdns.info range: 69.90.162.155 - 69.90.162.175. Virtuals.
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=health-men-today.com
    • 204.11.56.19 British Virgin Islands CONFLUENCE-NETWORK-INC 2014-04-19. Virtuals.
    • 208.91.197.19 British Virgin Islands CONFLUENCE-NETWORK-INC 2013-05-20. Unknown range.
    • 69.90.162.165 Canada COGECO-PEER1 2012-06-29. Tested.
firstnewssource.com:
theworldnewsfeeds.com:
pars-technews.com:
newdaynewsonline.com:
sportsnewsfinder.com:
newsworldsite.com:
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=newsworldsite.com
    • 68.178.232.100 United States AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC 2013-05-20 big virtual
    • 204.93.159.80 Chicago - United States SERVERCENTRAL 2013-04-21. Tested viewdns.info range: 204.93.159.70 204.93.159.90
      • 204.93.159.84: team-merk.com 2011-08-11. No archives.
todaysnewsreports.net:
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=todaysnewsreports.net
    • 208.91.197.132 British Virgin Islands CONFLUENCE-NETWORK-INC 2013-07-01
    • 205.178.189.129 United States NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING 2013-05-20 likely virtual
    • 173.255.131.72 Reno - United States UK-2 Limited 2012-08-27. Tested viewdns.info range: 173.255.131.62 173.255.131.82. Virtual and modern hits only.
    • 67.213.211.232 United States UK-2 Limited 2011-09-07 unknown. Tested viewdns.info range: 67.213.211.222 67.213.211.242
      • 67.213.211.236: icf-finan.com 2015-01-20
      • 67.213.211.237: playinside.me 2016-02-04. Nice domain hack, but no.
      • 67.213.211.239: reality-sexxx.com 2011-09-08
hassannews.net:
weblognewsinfo.com:
newsincirculation.com
  • dnshistory.org/historical-dns-records/a/newsincirculation.com
    • 2010-03-10 -> 2010-08-15 64.120.20.234 virtual with weblognewsinfo.com
    • 2013-11-26 -> 2013-11-26 70.32.43.226
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=newsincirculation.com
    • 70.32.43.226 Lombard - United States LEASEWEB-USA-CHI 2014-01-31
    • 50.63.202.77 United States AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC 2013-10-19. virutal?
    • 70.32.43.226 Lombard - United States LEASEWEB-USA-CHI 2013-09-26 virtual?
    • 69.147.228.5 Chicago - United States LEASEWEB-USA-CHI 2012-11-12 unknown. Tested viewdns.info range: 69.147.228.1 69.147.228.15. Nope.
    • 173.208.81.2 Lombard - United States LEASEWEB-USA-CHI 2011-04-04 virtual
todayoutdoors.com:
esmundonoticias.com:
globaltourist.net:
  • dnshistory.org/historical-dns-records/a/ 2009-07-30 -> 2011-01-01 69.59.20.215 unknown. Tested viewdns.info range: 69.59.20.205 69.59.20.225. Virtuals.
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=globaltourist.net
    • 216.172.170.14 United States NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING 2013-07-08
    • 216.21.239.197 United States NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING 2012-06-25
    • 68.178.232.100 United States AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC 2012-04-09 big virtual
    • 174.136.34.154 United States IHNET 2012-03-12 unknown. Tested viewdns.info range: 174.136.34.144 174.136.34.164
    • 74.119.145.101 Frankfurt am Main - Germany PERFORMIVE 2011-09-07. Tested viewdns.info range: 74.119.145.91 74.119.145.111. One virtual.
    • 69.59.20.215 United States ATLRETAIL 2011-06-22. Tested
all-sport-headlines.com:
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=all-sport-headlines.com
    • 68.178.232.100 United States AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC 2012-11-12 virtual
    • 216.104.38.114 United States SINGLEHOP-LLC 2012-09-21. Tested viewdns.info range: 216.104.38.104 216.104.38.124
      • 216.104.38.110: afterawhilecrocodile.info 2011-07-26. Legit.
technologytodayandtomorrow.com:
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=technologytodayandtomorrow.com
    • 68.178.232.100 United States AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC 2011-11-13 virtual
    • 72.34.53.174 United States IHNET 2011-09-08. Tested viewdns.info range: 72.34.53.164 72.34.53.184
      • 72.34.53.166: bjellaagency.com 2023-03-07
      • 72.34.53.174: businesscardprinternyc.info 2012-04-18
      • 72.34.53.174: dermozamsoe106.com 2011-07-02
      • 72.34.53.174: electronictechreviews.com 2011-09-08. Hit.
      • 72.34.53.174: glialcells2009paris.com 2012-11-12
      • 72.34.53.174: hysfreedom.net 2013-07-08. Legit.
      • 72.34.53.174: integrativetherapiesec.com 2013-06-30
      • 72.34.53.174: intloil.org 2012-04-27. Possible hit, a bit off style, but possibly because too broken. Copyright 2005. Present at pastebin.com/CTXnhjeSp.
      • 72.34.53.174: islamicnewsonline.com 2013-03-23. No archives in date range.
      • 72.34.53.174: larumbaknox.com 2012-01-11. Parked domain girl
      • 72.34.53.174: myonlinegamesource.com 2012-01-11
      • 72.34.53.174: mytravelopian.com 2011-04-04. Feels legit, but there's some chance.
      • 72.34.53.174: recursosdenoticias.com 2012-06-29. Hit.
      • 72.34.53.174: todaysnewsandweather-ru.com 2012-01-11. Hit.
      • 72.34.53.181: theebizguy.com 2022-12-26
      • 72.34.53.183: nofatchics.com 2012-01-11
terrain-news.com:
intlnewsdaily.com
  • dnshistory.org/historical-dns-records/a/intlnewsdaily.com 2010-02-21 -> 2010-08-06 75.126.136.179. unknown range.
  • viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=intlnewsdaily.com
    • 208.91.197.19 British Virgin Islands CONFLUENCE-NETWORK-INC 2013-05-20. Virtual. Tested.
    • 63.247.95.50 Austell - United States NTHL 2012-06-29 unknown. Tested viewdns.info range: 63.247.95.40 63.247.95.60
      • 63.247.95.50: 2b-sports.com 2013-04-21
      • 63.247.95.50: caldentalinsurance.com 2014-07-05
      • 63.247.95.50: cameronbal-photography.com 2012-06-29
      • 63.247.95.50: congbetham.com 2014-07-05
      • 63.247.95.50: essentialintelligenceagency.com 2023-03-07
      • 63.247.95.50: isabellavalentina.com 2014-07-05
      • 63.247.95.50: jhraccounting.com.au 2021-05-03
      • 63.247.95.50: missouribreaks294.com 2012-06-29
      • 63.247.95.50: startorganize.com 2011-08-11
      • 63.247.95.50: tifocus.net 2011-08-11
      • 63.247.95.50: tifocus.org 2011-08-10
      • 63.247.95.50: whitepartyorlando.com 2012-01-11
    • 204.11.56.25 (ipinf.ru)
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