My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Sam 'Half As Interesting' Denby actually did a surprisingly good job explaining this for the average only-vaguely-technical viewer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gnRs33NOk [ For all the bad dad jokes he tells on HAI, he's got really good research skills/staff, and his long-form stuff o

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-08 Thread Matthew Walster
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 17:51, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Sam 'Half As Interesting' Denby actually did a surprisingly good job > explaining > this for the average only-vaguely-technical viewer... > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gnRs33NOk > > [ For all the bad dad jokes he tells on HAI, he's

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Walster" > On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 17:51, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >> Sam 'Half As Interesting' Denby actually did a surprisingly good job >> explaining >> this for the average only-vaguely-technical viewer... >> >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-08 Thread Tom Beecher
Very well done , especially for a layman. His snark level is excellent too. I've definitely shared this around to some people, pointing out that he seems to know BGP better than they do, and they get paid for it. MY snark is going over about as good as you might expect. :) On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-08 Thread Eric Kuhnke
If one follows the social media accounts of the Pakistan version of the FCC, nowadays they're just banning anything they find insulting or illegal in the local legal system, and ordering ISPs to null route big chunks of IP space. As an anecdotal data point, the only effect this has had is teaching

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-08 Thread scott
On 4/8/2021 12:19 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: As an anecdotal data point, the only effect this has had is teaching random 14 year olds how to use ordinary consumer grade VPNs, which work just fine. - That's a silver lining in

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-09 Thread Tom Beecher
> > As an anecdotal data point, the only effect this has had is teaching > random 14 year olds how to use ordinary consumer grade VPNs, which work > just fine. > Or, perhaps some kid watched that and said "Oh that's cool, I want to know more about how that works!" , and planted a seed for a future

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-09 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/9/21 00:19, Eric Kuhnke wrote: As an anecdotal data point, the only effect this has had is teaching random 14 year olds how to use ordinary consumer grade VPNs, which work just fine. One way or the other, you can't keep the kids from what they want :-). Mark.