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The Mysteries of the Unregulated Internet

livescience.com — Every computer in the world that is connected to the Internet has an address. Those addresses come from the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA). That entity assigns the numbers, but it doesn't police them. "The IANA has been giving out these addresses for a very long time, and people have lost track of where they've gone,"

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