<div><div dir="auto">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. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:04 AM Gert Doering via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 07:47:36PM -0400, J Kibler via Outages wrote:<br>
> Here is a more detailed analysis of what happened:<br>
> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/suspicious-event-hijacks-amazon-traffic-for-2-hours-steals-cryptocurrency/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/suspicious-event-hijacks-amazon-traffic-for-2-hours-steals-cryptocurrency/</a><br>
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Maybe that is actually good news.<br>
<br>
Financial damages have been done, by a US company, to a US company, due<br>
to neglicience in BGP filtering. This is going to be an expensive lawsuit,<br>
and hopefully people will start proper BGP filtering afterwards...<br>
<br>
gert<br>
-- <br>
"If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you <br>
feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted <br>
it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."<br>
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<br>
<br>
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany <a href="mailto:gert@greenie.muc.de" target="_blank">gert@greenie.muc.de</a><br>
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