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You (I) can't make this shit up. Fine, p(doom) += epsilon (p(hilarious) += lots more tho?)

That is.... Interesting.... How did the ipv6 socket address originally get decided?

summary: it wrote some hacky code to look at both /proc/net/tcp4 and /proc/net/tcp6 (but was only written to properly parse ipv4 addresses!) which magically turned out, out of all the 32bit ints it could get, to be owned by the pentagon. of all the timelines...

was the ipv6 address chosen randomly?? seems really unlikely for anything / anyone to pick a random bitstream that just so happens to be parsed as a Government IP when mangled into IPv4...

It is random but not “chosen”: it peeked at its own VM’s ipv6, passed it through its own ipv4 parser, which grabbed bytes and int()’d it (truncating to last 4 bytes) which when turned into octets was by sheer dumb luck the pentagon