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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Another example of such an attack

    CW: animals being eatenimage

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  • [–] 1 point 7 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 7 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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