Comment on News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout

NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• zwerg@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I assume they mean Border Gateway Protocol. Its used to help define what network traffic goes where. This could mean traffic was being redirected to bad actor(s).

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  • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You summed it up perfectly

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bad actors as in the US gov? Suggesting they were using bgp to spy?

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    • zwerg@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not an expert, but if BGP started routing traffic through U.S. services they could MITM traffic ( if it wasn’t properly secured), but they could also just DoS which might have been enough for the purposes at that time.

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I kind of understand what’s the use of BGP, but the article was lacking too many details even for me. cloudflare has a better article, their conclusion is that this was probably an accident and not an attack

  blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/

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