[194475] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Financial services BGP hijack last week?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Christopher)
Tue May 2 08:15:18 2017
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From: Scott Christopher <s@christoph3r.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 03:21:31 -0700
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On Mon, May 1, 2017, at 10:49 PM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> I didn't see any mention of this here. Any comments?
>
> [...]
>
> https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/russian-controlled-telecom-hijacks-financial-services-internet-traffic/
Governments mopping up signals and data isn't a new concept, and
certainly not unique to the Russian Federation.
Personally I'm more concerned about important people giving up passwords
so easily to spearfishers. . .
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Regards,
S
