Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
by red-iron-pine on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:21PM
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by itself, not telling of anything per se.
like, you could commit a dumb BGP config and break lots of stuff. have done that in the past, actually...
but any time a national-tier ISP has a national-level outage, that warrants a look from multiple orgs. and given the number of threat actors like china, NK, iran, and russia, who are, and have, made aggressive efforts in this space -- and have strong reasons to do so now -- its not crazy for the US fed'gov to want to know a little more, and offer to help. but again, entirely possible it's unrelated.
like, you could commit a dumb BGP config and break lots of stuff. have done that in the past, actually...
but any time a national-tier ISP has a national-level outage, that warrants a look from multiple orgs. and given the number of threat actors like china, NK, iran, and russia, who are, and have, made aggressive efforts in this space -- and have strong reasons to do so now -- its not crazy for the US fed'gov to want to know a little more, and offer to help. but again, entirely possible it's unrelated.