Sunday, November 28, 2010

Tonite's quiz question: Why would the Kuwait Ministry of Communications be making an effort to monitor my computer?

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My firewall software indicates 7 efforts by the Kuwait Ministry of Communications to, well, get into my computer:


20:47:43............168.187.16.186:3902
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20:47:25............168.187.16.186:3902

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IP Information - 168.187.16.186

CountryKuwait Kuwait
Country CodeKW
Latitude29.3375
Longitude47.6581

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NetRange: 168.187.0.0 - 168.187.255.255
CIDR: 168.187.0.0/16
OriginAS:
NetName: RIPE-ERX-168-187-0-0
NetHandle: NET-168-187-0-0-1
Parent: NET-168-0-0-0-0
NetType: Early Registrations, Transferred to
RIPE NCC
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois
RegDate:
2003-08-20
Updated: 2003-08-20
Ref:
http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-168-187-0-0-1

OrgName: RIPE
Network
Coordination Centre
OrgId: RIPE
Address: P.O. Box 10096
City:
Amsterdam
StateProv:
PostalCode: 1001EB
Country: NL
RegDate:
Updated: 2004-12-13
Ref:
http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/RIPE

ReferralServer:
whois://whois.ripe.net:43

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Any ideas?

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