Coding since 11yo, that makes it over 30 years now ~~~
Have a PhD in Comp Sci ~~~
Love to go on bike tours ~~~
I try to stay as generalist as I can in this crazy wide place coding is at now.
It probably has nothing to do with a rogue dependency, but this has maybe a 5% chance of fitting what happened (Orig xkcd image xkcd.com/2347/ )
Edit: this is the actual thing that happened: blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-f...
It seems that some poor soul at fb issued a bunch of BGP withdrawal updates.
I've updated the pic, bringing it up to maybe a 90% change of being on the money
Interesting. I was looking into the BGP a few years back and I think we realized that that system would allow for massive hacks. It’s an ancient system that is poorly protected yet at the core of everything…
So it could be this was a mistake as they claim.
Or it would also be the first vector of attack a serious actor would use.
It’s exactly like this picture if the internet is a castle with many locks gates and controls then the BGP is the back door that someone left open.
I thought it was DNS at first, too. It's kinda ironic that it ended up being a BGP problem. It's almost as if Facebook forgot how to be an internet company.
It probably has nothing to do with a rogue dependency, but this has maybe a 5% chance of fitting what happened
(Orig xkcd image xkcd.com/2347/ )
Edit: this is the actual thing that happened: blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-f...
It seems that some poor soul at fb issued a bunch of BGP withdrawal updates.
I've updated the pic, bringing it up to maybe a 90% change of being on the money
Interesting. I was looking into the BGP a few years back and I think we realized that that system would allow for massive hacks. It’s an ancient system that is poorly protected yet at the core of everything…
So it could be this was a mistake as they claim.
Or it would also be the first vector of attack a serious actor would use.
It’s exactly like this picture if the internet is a castle with many locks gates and controls then the BGP is the back door that someone left open.
I thought it was DNS at first, too. It's kinda ironic that it ended up being a BGP problem. It's almost as if Facebook forgot how to be an internet company.
I had a similar thought when I heard about what happened:
😂