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Coffee ☕ (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.

See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Another example of such an attack

    CW: animals being eatenimage

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    that's not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it's packet loss due to infrastructure damage

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Valid. I checked again, and:

    Known risks to the protocol include:

    • Carriers being attacked by birds of prey. RFC2549: "Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled."

    So I guess that's what's happening here

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