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@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-hija...
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
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