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I don't think you understand how spoofing works. And no, this attack was not spoofed. It was just hundreds of thousands of IoT devices each pushing a small amou
by qeternity 10y ago
I don't think you understand how spoofing works. And no, this attack was not spoofed. It was just hundreds of thousands of IoT devices each pushing a small amount of traffic (0.5-1mbps).
- niij 10y agoI don't believe this Mirai IoT attack is using spoofing. But on the topic of spoofing: if an ISP doesn't follow BCP38 and allows spoofed packets to leave their network, then there is truly no traceability in where a packet came from. See this talk from Strangeloop about how spoofed packets are a problem [0] [0]: https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoofing/ https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoof...