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minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·30 days agoNerds making joke standards is nothing unique. See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·30 days agoAnother example of such an attack CW: animals being eaten
minus-squarethethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-229 days agothat’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
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·29 days agoValid. 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
Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.
See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC
Another example of such an attack
CW: animals being eaten
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
Valid. I checked again, and:
So I guess that’s what’s happening here