[180179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: gmail security is a joke
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed May 27 13:41:10 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 2015 16:11:19 +0300."
<20150527131119.GA12103@pob.ytti.fi>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 13:41:01 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:11:19 +0300, Saku Ytti said:
> This is second reply to this notion. I don't understand what is attempted to
> communicate. I'm sure no one on nanog thinks BGP hijacks are rare, difficult
> or yield to consequences when called out.
What *is* rare is a BGP hijack done solely to intercept a confirmation e-mail
sent to Joe Sixpack when he's trying to get his Gmail account back. Can anybody
provide a *single* example of that being done?
Now, if it's Joe CEO or Joe Prime Minister, the calculus changes a bit. But
as I said - at that point, you have bigger things to worry about.
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