A deeper look into DataPasa: BGP Routing, Russian linked upstreams, and a Paraguayan individual

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• TimboJones Member

  July 6

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• darkmaster Member

  August 4 edited August 4

  Fair enough. A few things worth conceding on the record before this wraps up.

  Retracting:

  • Hop 8 (10.101.17.3, +6 ms) does not prove a tunnel. @Alyx is right that RFC1918 in inter provider transfer nets is normal, and latency shows distance, not topology. The tunnel exists, since @datapasa said so himself earlier, but not because of my traceroute.
  • RIPE object remarks are freetext. They are not part of RPKI or BGP filtering. Overstated that one.
  • Passive IX peering with Aeza, Rostelecom, MegaFon, VimpelCom is not the same as being upstream for them, and framing consumer ISP peerings as "high risk pipelines" was wrong. @uk_netshield asked for a single prefix where Netshield is upstream for Aeza. I checked RIS and HE.net myself. There is none visible. Withdrawn.

  What I still think is worth having on the record:

  Russian UBO, Belarusian origin, UK Ltd, prior Honduras "tax optimization" leg, HK acquirer, Paraguayan residency, German metal, single homed via a UK registered LIR. That is structurally the same fingerprint OFAC designated at Aeza International Ltd on 1 July 2025. I am not claiming @datapasa is Aeza. I am saying the shape of the setup is indistinguishable from the shape that got sanctioned, and most of that shape came from @datapasa's own answers in this thread, not from my forensics.

  For a cheap sandbox this is irrelevant. For anyone touching regulated data or long lived production it isn't. Everyone can decide their own risk tolerance.

  Thanks to @uk_netshield, @Alyx, @AS203446, @jsg for the technical corrections, and to @datapasa for actually engaging with the corporate history. That part I do appreciate.

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• Alyx Member, Host Rep

  August 4 edited August 4

  @darkmaster Wow, I did not expect a response like this on LET.
  Credit where credit is due, I highly respect that you where open about the feedback.

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