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  • #1

    Cricket Mobile

    I have noticed a couple of things about cricket mobile that I cannot seem to find the answer for.

    The first is are all systems on cricket mobile NATed. Because I keep getting a private IP address every time I connect. (in the 10.104.x.x range) and I have a public facing ip in the 69.171.176.x range.

    It would appear that Cricket Mobile owns the 69.171.176.0/24

    My concern, since I'm getting a private IP address, would be why are they hosting this way? Have they enabled peer-peer communication inside the network? What controls do they implement and do they monitor their subscribers like a private corporation monitors their employees?

    This is a recent wonder since I only got the Cricket card about 2 weeks ago and haven't had much time to "play" around with it.

    Does anyone know if there is any information in the form of whitepapers or has anyone written a paper on the Cricket broadband cards. I haven't found anything as of yet and am curious about the network as a whole.
    Originally posted by Ellen
    Do I wish we could all be like hexjunkie? Heck yes I do. :) That would rock.
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  • #2
    Re: Cricket Mobile

    I don't know about the Cricket cards, but I do know that Blackberries are the same way. They all have a private IP. I'm sure this is probably done so that the provider doesn't have to buy a huge netblock of IPv4 addresses for all their mobile devices. Plus it gives them some control over what is occurring on their network.
    A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.

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    • #3
      Re: Cricket Mobile

      that control is what eats away at me.. exactly what control?

      People are afraid of what Facebook logs or what Twitter keeps track of.. I say beware of your own ISP they have all the dirty details if they like. If I'm inside their network is is separate from their corporate network? (common sense would say yes.. but we all know common sense doesn't kick in all the time)

      I want to watch my Pr0n in peace without the ISP though some shell sending me some SPAM about how its a sin :(
      Originally posted by Ellen
      Do I wish we could all be like hexjunkie? Heck yes I do. :) That would rock.

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      • #4
        Re: Cricket Mobile

        Originally posted by hexjunkie View Post
        that control is what eats away at me.. exactly what control?

        People are afraid of what Facebook logs or what Twitter keeps track of.. I say beware of your own ISP they have all the dirty details if they like. If I'm inside their network is is separate from their corporate network? (common sense would say yes.. but we all know common sense doesn't kick in all the time)

        I want to watch my Pr0n in peace without the ISP though some shell sending me some SPAM about how its a sin :(
        It doesn't matter if you have a public or private IP. Your traffic is traversing their network, they can see anything that you do no matter what.
        A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.

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        • #5
          Re: Cricket Mobile

          This is true...

          It just feels weird to be paying for service and to be behind NAT from the ISP. It just doesn't sit well and I don't really know why.
          Originally posted by Ellen
          Do I wish we could all be like hexjunkie? Heck yes I do. :) That would rock.

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          • #6
            Re: Cricket Mobile

            Originally posted by hexjunkie View Post
            This is true...

            It just feels weird to be paying for service and to be behind NAT from the ISP. It just doesn't sit well and I don't really know why.
            According to the almighty leaders at Google, if you're doing something that you're ashamed of, then you shouldn't be doing it. So stop those deviant tendencies.
            A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.

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            • #7
              Re: Cricket Mobile

              AT&T also uses a 10.* private network.
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              • #8
                Re: Cricket Mobile

                I have never noticed that before. Very interesting.
                Originally posted by Ellen
                Do I wish we could all be like hexjunkie? Heck yes I do. :) That would rock.

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                • #9
                  Re: Cricket Mobile

                  I think you're seeing conspiracy where there is none. First off, as Streaker pointed out..you are on their network. If they wanted to be sinister and monitor your ever move, they can do that regardless of whether or not you are using a RFC1918 address or a routeable one. They control the netblock and all the devices attached to it.

                  It's simply a matter of management and economics. Routeable IP space is a freeking premium these days. They can NAT out the back end of their network with RFC1918 IPs and save their routeable IP space to be used as VIPs/DIPs attached to their load balancers. From a network management standpoint this also makes a lot of sense since you can tie it all together with your entire production network, segment it off, have monitoring (network monitoring, not super sinister watching you fap monitoring) and alerting, and give your admin VLAN access to it for maintenance work.

                  I return whatever i wish . Its called FREEDOWM OF RANDOMNESS IN A HECK . CLUSTERED DEFEATED CORn FORUM . Welcome to me

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                  • #10
                    Re: Cricket Mobile

                    I believe you are correct noid, I retract my previous thought process and concede that it is probably unjust paranoia.

                    TY Noid, Streaker, and Prez
                    Originally posted by Ellen
                    Do I wish we could all be like hexjunkie? Heck yes I do. :) That would rock.

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