Since the outage is over we should probably take further discussions
off-list.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:35 AM Zach Hanna <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <
> [email protected]> 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
>> [email protected]
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