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Slate article on using BGP hijacking to redirect mined bitcoins from an hour ago. Relevant? http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/bgp_hi
by disbelief 12y ago
Slate article on using BGP hijacking to redirect mined bitcoins from an hour ago. Relevant? http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/bgp_hijacking_cybercriminals_used_internet_architecture_to_mine_bitcoins.html?wpisrc=burger_bar http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...
edit: I'll take it by the downvotes without responses that's a "no"?
- sillysaurus3 12y agoSometimes it's accidental. If you downvote by accident, you can't reverse it.
- ephemeralgomi 12y agoThe downvotes are probably because you didn't explain why you think it's relevant, and therefore didn't actually contribute to the discussion.
- disbelief 12y agoSorry I'm not well versed in BGP (or bitcoin for that matter). I was hoping for someone with more domain knowledge to confirm or set me straight. Probably wasn't very clear by my terse initial comment.
- tempodox 12y agoHow DOES downvoting work? All I see are upward triangles, if that has anything to do with it at all. How much more hidden functionality is there for “privileged members”? And how do you join the club?
- bodski 12y agoDownvotes require a karma threshold (of 500 IIRC). BTW, whatever you do don't overuse the 'flag' feature on stories as it seems when this is revoked it is permanent! I lost mine when trying to encourage news other than the passing of Steve Jobs.
- namecast 12y agoNot really relevant to this current outage, no. But someone could potentially totally take advantage of all the noise in the current BGP route table to pull off a route hijack while NOC people have their eyes elsewhere...