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There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)

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[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most efficient routes for delivering Internet traffic.

It was a cyber attack. What the fuck is this title?

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

Made perfect sense to me. Messing with how edge routers would talk to upstream pipes would indicate some attack.

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[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 points 10 months ago

I clarified for people who might not know.

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