[outages] Google 8.8.8.8 Resolution of Route53 domains

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 07:47:36PM -0400, J Kibler via Outages wrote:
> Here is a more detailed analysis of what happened:
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/suspicious-event-hijacks-amazon-traffic-for-2-hours-steals-cryptocurrency/

Maybe that is actually good news.

Financial damages have been done, by a US company, to a US company, due
to neglicience in BGP filtering.  This is going to be an expensive lawsuit,
and hopefully people will start proper BGP filtering afterwards...

gert
-- 
"If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you 
 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted 
 it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
                             Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de