Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
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Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#2Episode n°5933 of our regularly scheduled series: "how Internet still depends on terribly naïve and insecure protocols invented 30 years ago".
Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#3Episode n°5933 of our regularly scheduled series: "how Internet still depends on terribly naïve and insecure protocols invented 30 years ago".
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Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#5Episode n°5933 of our regularly scheduled series: "how Internet still depends on terribly naïve and insecure protocols invented 30 years ago".
Those protocols weren’t designed for privacy or financial transactions. Those things have just been kludged on top.
No one back then designed those protocols for our use cases today.
Ask rather why we haven’t upgraded all the hardware that supports all those old protocols? So that these protocols could also be updated and modernised.
Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#6Episode n°5933 of our regularly scheduled series: "how Internet still depends on terribly naïve and insecure protocols invented 30 years ago".
Much like C.
Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#7Episode n°5933 of our regularly scheduled series: "how Internet still depends on terribly naïve and insecure protocols invented 30 years ago".
Those protocols weren’t designed for privacy or financial transactions. Those things have just been kludged on top. No one back then designed those protocols for our use cases today. Ask rather why we haven’t upgraded all the hardware that supports all those old protocols? So that these protocols could also be updated and modernised.
BGP routers are for the most part replaced often as bandwidth requirements continue to increase, that is not the problem here.
Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#8This is an interception scenario, no?
If issued intentionally, traffic will pass through hardware in… unfriendly territory.
Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#9Episode n°5933 of our regularly scheduled series: "how Internet still depends on terribly naïve and insecure protocols invented 30 years ago".
Much like C.
We won’t replace electricity but we’ll build on top of it. Electricity is fundamentally the same since ever: copper wires transport it and it flows between two poles.
That’s a bit what C is - the basis of other languages and for that it works fine. We abstract up the chain of complexity.
There will always be a fundamental basis for all technology and it will never be perfect. Tesla would have preferred to use DC currents, instead we have AC which is more dangerous.
Re: Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia
#10Episode n°5933 of our regularly scheduled series: "how Internet still depends on terribly naïve and insecure protocols invented 30 years ago".
There are measures to prevent or at least mitigate that, like RPKI. But having a sensible improvement doesn’t mean that everyone is using it, look at IPv6.