themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 天前Coffee ☕imagemessage-square87linkfedilinkarrow-up1967arrow-down16
arrow-up1961arrow-down1imageCoffee ☕themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 天前message-square87linkfedilink
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 天前Another example of such an attack CW: animals being eaten
minus-squarethethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 天前that’s not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it’s packet loss due to infrastructure damage
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 天前Valid. I checked again, and: Known risks to the protocol include: Carriers being attacked by birds of prey. RFC2549: “Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.” So I guess that’s what’s happening here
Another example of such an attack
CW: animals being eaten
that’s not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it’s packet loss due to infrastructure damage
Valid. I checked again, and:
So I guess that’s what’s happening here