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• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Another example of such an attack

    CW: animals being eaten

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that’s not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it’s packet loss due to infrastructure damage

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      • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Valid. I checked again, and:

        Known risks to the protocol include:

        • Carriers being attacked by birds of prey. RFC2549: “Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”

        So I guess that’s what’s happening here

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