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
Comment on News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 months ago
I feel like I need an ELI5
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
zwerg@feddit.org 2 months 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).
kinther@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You summed it up perfectly
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Bad actors as in the US gov? Suggesting they were using bgp to spy?
zwerg@feddit.org 2 months 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.