Telephone Updated 2025-07-16
We are at a point in history where the electrical telegraph is well established.
But people don't want to press letters one by one on a switch. They want to talk!
The first phones appear to have used telegraph lines directly.
Also wired phones don't require modulation, which likely made their development much easier than wireless voice transmission. You just send the signal as a voltage differential directly obtained from the air pressure: how the telephone works.
Let's check relevancy of known hits:
grep -e '208.254.40' -e '208.254.42' 208 | tee 208hits
Output:
208.254.40.95	1355564700	unreachable
208.254.40.95	1355622300	unreachable
208.254.40.96	1334537100	alive, 36342
208.254.40.96	1335269700	alive, 17586

..

208.254.40.127	1355562900	alive, 35023
208.254.40.127	1355593500	alive, 59866
208.254.40.128	1334609100	unreachable
208.254.40.128	1334708100	alive from 208.254.32.214, 43358
208.254.40.128	1336596300	unreachable
The rest of 208 is mostly unreachable.
208.254.42.191	1335294900	unreachable
...
208.254.42.191	1344737700	unreachable
208.254.42.191	1345574700	Icmp Error: 0,ICMP Network Unreachable, from 63.111.123.26
208.254.42.191	1346166900	unreachable
...
208.254.42.191	1355665500	unreachable
208.254.42.192	1334625300	alive, 6672
...
208.254.42.192	1355658300	alive, 57412
208.254.42.193	1334677500	alive, 28985
208.254.42.193	1336524300	unreachable
208.254.42.193	1344447900	alive, 8934
208.254.42.193	1344613500	alive, 24037
208.254.42.193	1344806100	alive, 20410
208.254.42.193	1345162500	alive, 10177
...
208.254.42.223	1336590900	alive, 23284
...
208.254.42.223	1355555700	alive, 58841
208.254.42.224	1334607300	Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.142
208.254.42.224	1334681100	Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.142
208.254.42.224	1336563900	Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.142
208.254.42.224	1344451500	Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.138
208.254.42.224	1344566700	unreachable
208.254.42.224	1344762900	unreachable
Let's try with 66. First there way too much data, 9 GB, let's cut it down:
n=66
time awk '$3~/^alive,/ { print $1 }' $n | uniq -c | sed -r 's/^ +//;s/ /,/' | tee $n-up-uniq-c
OK down to 45 MB, now we can work.
grep -e '66.45.179' -e '66.104.169' -e '66.104.173' -e '66.104.175' -e '66.175.106' '66-alive-uniq-c' | tee 66hits
Nah, it's full of holes:
4,66.45.179.187
12,66.45.179.188
2,66.45.179.197
1,66.45.179.202
2,66.45.179.205
2,66.45.179.206
1,66.45.179.207
won't be able to find new ranges here.
Let' see if there's anything in records/mx.xz.
mx.csv is 21GB.
They do have " in the files to escape commas so:
mx.py
import csv
import sys
writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout)
with open('mx.csv', 'r') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    for row in reader:
        writer.writerow([row[0], row[3]])
Would have been better with csvkit: stackoverflow.com/questions/36287982/bash-parse-csv-with-quotes-commas-and-newlines
then:
# uniq not amazing as there are often two or three slightly different records repeated on multiple timestamps, but down to 11 GB
python3 mx.py | uniq > mx-uniq.csv
sqlite3 mx.sqlite 'create table t(d text, m text)'
# 13 GB
time sqlite3 mx.sqlite ".import --csv --skip 1 'mx-uniq.csv' t"

# 41 GB
time sqlite3 mx.sqlite 'create index td on t(d)'
time sqlite3 mx.sqlite 'create index tm on t(m)'
time sqlite3 mx.sqlite 'create index tdm on t(d, m)'

# Remove dupes.
# Rows: 150m
time sqlite3 mx.sqlite <<EOF
delete from t
where rowid not in (
  select min(rowid)
  from t
  group by d, m
)
EOF

# 15 GB
time sqlite3 mx.sqlite vacuum
Let's see what the hits use:
awk -F, 'NR>1{ print $2 }' ../media/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/hits.csv | xargs -I{} sqlite3 mx.sqlite "select distinct * from t where d = '{}'"
At around 267 total hits, only 84 have MX records, and from those that do, almost all of them have exactly:
smtp.secureserver.net
mailstore1.secureserver.net
with only three exceptions:
dailynewsandsports.com|dailynewsandsports.com
inews-today.com|mail.inews-today.com
just-kidding-news.com|just-kidding-news.com
We need to count out of the totals!
sqlite3 mx.sqlite "select count(*) from t where m = 'mailstore1.secureserver.net'"
which gives, ~18M, so nope, it is too much by itself...
Let's try to use that to reduce av.sqlite from 2013 DNS Census virtual host cleanup a bit further:
time sqlite3 mx.sqlite '.mode csv' "attach 'aiddcu.sqlite' as 'av'" '.load ./ip' "select ipi2s(av.t.i), av.t.d from av.t inner join t as mx on av.t.d = mx.d and mx.m = 'mailstore1.secureserver.net' order by av.t.i asc" > avm.csv
where avm stands for av with mx pruning. This leaves us with only ~500k entries left. With one more figerprint we could do a Wayback Machine CDX scanning scan.
Let's check that we still have most our hits in there:
grep -f <(awk -F, 'NR>1{print $2}' /home/ciro/bak/git/media/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/hits.csv) avm.csv
At 267 hits we got 81, so all are still present.
secureserver is a hosting provider, we can see their blank page e.g. at: web.archive.org/web/20110128152204/http://emmano.com/. security.stackexchange.com/questions/12610/why-did-secureserver-net-godaddy-access-my-gmail-account/12616#12616 comments:
secureserver.net is the name GoDaddy use as the reverse DNS for IP addresses used for dedicated/virtual server hosting
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