[outages] Google 8.8.8.8 Resolution of Route53 domains

[Zach Hanna]

That would require 1) the wallet company understanding the technical
details of the outage (a stretch), and 2) understanding that it is
preventable, and 3) how and by whom.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:04 AM Gert Doering via Outages <
outages at outages.org> wrote:

> 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
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