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Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by cowkingdeluxe on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:01PM (#16915574)
How similar was this to the BGP attack by Russia in late 2017?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/suspi...

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Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by omarforgotpwd on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:24PM (#16915739)
Ostensibly they were the exact same thing?
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Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by ryanlol on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:05PM (#16916065)
>by Russia

Sounds like xenophobic bullshit.

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Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by balls187 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:40PM (#16916352)
More correct to say "Russian Government"
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Re:Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web tra... by ryanlol on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:58PM (#16916504)
The correct thing to say is “ISP in Russia”, could be Norwegian hackers using their routers for all you know.
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