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The "YouHaveDownloaded" webiste had, until a few days ago, a list of downloaded files for impossible addresses like 0.0.0.0 and 192.168.0.1.

Isn't this addresses easy to spoof? I thought they were only suited for scaring friends, not basing investigative articles.



Oh, crap. 192.168.0.1 is my router!


It is known[1] that tracker sites insert random IP addresses.

[1] http://opentracker.blog.h3q.com/2007/02/12/perfect-deniabili...


On clicking one of the random IP addresses it showed me that they had tracked, the right sidebar Facebook comment column had a comment from a developer that stated they tested the application locally, and then pushed the same database live, so many of the 192.168.0.0/16 block (and I could assume other RFC 1918 blocks) are the actual developers traffic.


Those were remains of internal testing.




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