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There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout

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Re: There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout

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Post by mywittyname »

What would be the result of this? I think it would route data through Sparkle as a way of potentially spying on internet traffic without having compromised the network equipment within Venezuela, but I'm not familiar enough with network architecture to really understand what happened.

Re: There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout

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Post by eastbound »

kachapopopow wrote: post #2

I wonder what kind of capabilities the US army didn't use during this operation.

Let’s be honest, that was a crazy operation. I wonder whether they really secured all chances of success, or just winged it with chances of not depositing the leader, and him being able to summon his diplomatic relations into 50 countries declaring war to the USA.

While on their way out, if the USA could set everything back to IPv6, that would be nice.

Re: There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout

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Post by bakies »

subzidion wrote: post #3

There were reports they had considered Christmas Day and New Year's Day. I wonder if it was far enough along that you could see similar BGP anomalies around those times.

Not from the cloudflare dashboard, you can zoom out. The night of the attack doesnt even really stand out as abnormal when zooming out that far.
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