Who is NIPR.mil?

Do you find this ambiguous domain in your referrer logs?  I do, and so does Karen De Coster, evidently.

From one of the links in Karen’s post on this shadowy visitor.

Here’s a two links about NIPR.mil: carnicorn.com & Nipr.mil, as Francisco suspected, is not a single domain a but a hush-hush web proxy that acts as a gateway for hundreds of U.S. military domains in order to hide their identities. It was established by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in response to a memorandum (CM-5 1099, INFOCOM) issued in March 1999 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, calling for “actions to be taken to increase the readiness posture for Information Warfare.” “Uncontrolled Internet connections,” the document says, “pose a significant and unacceptable threat to all Department of Defense information systems and operations.

Hi NIPR.mil.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 02/03 at 07:22 AM

  1. It’s just idle workers on military bases reading blogs.  Check your log and see what domain I’m coming from.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  02/04  at  03:53 PM

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