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There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)

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[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most efficient routes for delivering Internet traffic.

It was a cyber attack. What the fuck is this title?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Made perfect sense to me. Messing with how edge routers would talk to upstream pipes would indicate some attack.

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

I clarified for people who might not know.