• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    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
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      17 hours 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