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Every IP address in the UK Parliament netblock that has edited Wikipedia
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The houses of parliament netblock is publicly listed:

https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/lookup.html?source=ripe&key=194.60.0.0%20-%20194.60.63.255&type=inetnum

Despite their unwillingness to reveal the UK parliament web proxies in an FOI request, wikipedia allows you to query for /24 blocks. 63 wikipedia queries later, and here's the list of every IP address that has made a wikipedia edit from the UK parliament netblock.

Guess which ones the proxies are (Its not the high numbers, they're the old ones)

For an encore, here's the Prime Ministers office:

And for my final trick, the Government Secure Intranet proxies:

  • 62.25.106.209 7585 found (gateway-101.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 62.25.109.196 2388 found (gateway-103.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 195.92.40.49 7977 found (gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 62.25.109.194 4316 found (gateway-301.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 62.25.109.196 2388 found (gateway-303.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 195.92.206.244 17 found (gateway-403.energis.gsi.gov.uk)
  • 195.92.206.243 92 found (gateway-402.energis.gsi.gov.uk)

Many thanks to @russss, who did a lot of the GSI digging.

PRESS:

This data has been used by Channel 4 to dig up all sorts of things:

Other coverage:

And Channel 4 started a twitter bot using the data:

--@jonty

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