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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another example of such an attack

CW: animals being eatenimage

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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